Rosemary Butter Biscuits 🍪
by sofiaista
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup rosemary
- 1/2 cup raw sugar
- 2/3 cup softened butter
- 1 cup whole meal flour
Steps:
- Finely chop the rosemary, and put into a mixing bowl, as well as the sugar.
- Using your hands, mix the butter into the rosemary sugar. Add flour and mix until thoroughly combined. (If your dough is all crumbly, add a bit of milk to it.)
- Wrap in the dough in baking paper and put in the freezer for 10-20 mins.
- When chilled, take out of the freezer. Using a rolling pin, roll dough until it is 0.5 centimetres thick.
- Cut cookies approximately 7 centimetres with a cookie cutter.
- preheat the oven to 175c.
- Place on a parchment lined baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes or until edge are slightly golden. After removing from oven allow to sit on the baking sheet for another 5 minutes to ensure that the bottom side is set.
- Decorate with coco powder, icing sugar and extra rosemary. (Optional.)
- Enjoy! 🍪😋!
The Basement
by sofiaista
The basement is a scary place.
That’s what I think.
My older sister Jasmine thinks it is not scary in the slightest bit, but then again, Jasmine was probably born on Venus. She’s weird.
The basement is dark and drippy, and full of strange and eery noises.
One time I was in the basement trying to find a tennis ball when A blobby creature started to make odd noises!
Turns out the blobby creature was actually a squeaky chair with an old jacket on it. Mum says I act like a big baby, and that there is no monsters in the basement, but I am determined to prove her wrong.
I HATE the basement.
I always get sent to get something from the basement, no matter how long I hold onto mums leg and have a tantrum. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that I go down there about 75 times a WEEK!
It’s so unfair.
I am in the basement right now, because mum told me to get her old make up mirror.
“THUNK!”
Oh No!
Jasmine locked the basement doors!
This is bad, very bad.
By Sofia,
Tasmania, 2020
Hard Caramel Recipe
by sofiaista
Ingredients:
- 0.5 cup Sugar
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 5 tablespoon thick cream
Steps:
1. Pour the sugar into a pan and turn the stove on medium heat.
2. Keep mixing the sugar until it is liquid. This will take around ten minutes.
3. When melted, turn the stove off. If you like, you can keep the heat on longer for a deeper caramel flavour.
4. Quickly add the butter and cream and stir until combined. (Make sure you add the butter and cream quickly or the sugar will harden.)
5. When fully combined, get a piece of baking paper and pour the caramel into any shapes you like.
6. In a few minutes the caramel will fully harden.
7. Enjoy! You can use this caramel for cake decorations, gifts, eating as candy, or anything you like! And if you want, you can microwave the hard caramel to make a sauce! (Note that the caramel sauce will harden very quickly.)
4 Delicious Ways to Eat Strawberries 🍓
by sofiaista
Strawberries are wonderful to eat by them self, but what do you do when you want to change the way you eat them? Here are a few ways how you can use this delicious berry.
1. Strawberry Butter🍓
Strawberry butter might sound like something ridiculously difficult to make, but really it’s quite simple. All you have to do is put softened butter and strawberries in a blender and blend them until their combined! How simple is that?!
2. Strawberry Icy poles🍓
Don’t we all like a cold, icy treat on a hot day? Well, it really is that simple to make icy poles with out a big fuss. Here is one mouth watering recipe. Put strawberries and a little bit of honey in a blender, and blend until smooth. Mix in some yoghurt and freeze overnight in icy pole moulds. Next time you feel like your a scrambled egg, treat yourself to this frosty delight!❄️
3. Lightly Infused Strawberry Water💧🍓
Infused water is a great way to use leftover berry’s and fruits. It’s super simple to make, and very refreshing. Just cut a handful of strawberry’s into slices and put into a jug of water. If you like you can add other things to the mix, in fact, you don’t need to use strawberries if you don’t want to. Leave it in the fridge for a few hours. If you like, you can add ice cubes, but it is not necessary. Enjoy!
4. Summer Salads🥗
Strawberry’s taste incredible in salads! Juicy strawberries paired with crunchy salad leaves; Yum😋! Even a really bad chef can pull together a strawberry salad!
(Pictures might look different on real life, so don’t worry if yours doesn’t look like the photos:)
How To Clean Your Microwave With Lemons!🍋
by sofiaista
Alas, one of the many annoying things you have to do is cleaning your microwave. When I say clean your microwave, I don’t mean attempting to wipe it down with a tissue.
I mean disinfecting it so that nothing really nasty gets stuck to it. It may be a job that you absolutely HATE, but in reality it is super simple and will only take you minutes.
All you have to do is cut some lemons into slices and place them into a bowl of water. Add a few tablespoons of white vinegar. Put the bowl into the microwave and turn it on for 5-10 mins.
Once the microwave beeps, turn it off but don’t open the microwave door. Leave the lemon mix in the microwave for another 5 mins, so that the warmth can stay in the microwave. The heat will steam the inside and soften the grime and food stains.
After the 5 mins is up, remove the bowl of lemon mix and wipe out the food stains and grime with a damp cloth. Done!
Simple Sponge Cake Recipe
by sofiaista
Ingredients:
- 4 eggs (room temperature)
- 2/3 cup caster sugar
- 1 cup plain flour
Steps:
1. Line a 22cm cake pan with aluminium foil and set aside.
2. Beat eggs and sugar in a bowl of an electric mixer for about 10 mins, or until mixture is thick and pale. Pour into a large bowl.
3. Sift flour two times onto a sheet of baking paper. Sift again over the egg and sugar mix. Using a balloon whisk, gently fold to combine. (Remember not to stir.) Pour in to prepared cake pan.
4. Cook in a moderate oven at 180C for around 25 mins, or until the edges of the sponge have slightly shrunk away from the pan.
5. When done, leave in pan for 5 mins. Put on a wire rack to cool down.
6. If desired, decorate.
7. Enjoy!
The Fairy Tree Poem
by sofiaista
In a tree, not far from me, lives many tiny pixies.
They are small, and no where near the height of a bathroom stall.
In their tree they whisper and chatter, but none of them bothering to tell me the matter.
If only I knew, what they did and what they do, I would be able to gladly tell you.
I wish I could see, what they do in their tree, but I do not, so for my writing, I shall stop.
For no one has any business sticking their nose, into places they do not know, like the tree near me, with many tiny pixies.
The House Next Door
by sofiaista
In the house next door lives a wrinkly, grumpy old man.
He has a cat who looks a lot like him.
Well, if he was covered in mangled orange fluff.
The house next door is frail and wobbly, and whoever built it must of had very bad eyesight, because the it looks more like a rubbish dump than somewhere a person lives.
There are rumours that at night, he dances to classical music with a broom.
Some times I fell sorry for him, it must get very lonely in his house with only a cat to comfort him.
But my sympathy is normally broken when he yells at me for squishing an ant.
Maybe he was once an ant; well, a very grumpy one.
He also is constantly throwing his old junk out of his upstairs window!
One time I was late for school because I nearly got crushed by a BATHTUB!
That guy sure is crazy.
The bad thing is that I have to walk past his house to get to the school bus.
But one day, I walked on to the bus, expecting to see the regular bus driver, but I saw something much worse.
IT WAS MY CRAZY NEIGHBOUR!
There he was.
Evil glint in his eye, cat fur all over his ancient cardigan, yellow teeth, and wispy, grey hair.
“All aboard!” He croaked in a raspy voice.
This was going to be a bad day.
My Sisters Room
by sofiaista
When my big sister is at home, I am not allowed to go in her room, but when she is at the shops, or somewhere else, I always go in and take a good look around.
My big sister Emily has a HUGE bed that I like to bounce on, with enormous fluffy pillows that I take naps on when she is out.
She also has some seriously creepy ceramic dolls that I try to steer clear of. Some times it feels like they are staring into my soul.
Mum does not let my wear lipstick for dress ups, but Emily has tons of makeup that I put on in front of her dresser mirror.
One thing that I love to do in Emily’s room, is to put on her clothes and pretend to be a grown up!
But the best thing of all, is when I pretend to be a hunter, and hunt down her cuddly stuffed toys, which she guards as if they were made of gold!
I am in Emily’s room right now, wearing her clothes and lipstick.
Oh oh.
I think she is coming….
The Chocolate Snatcher
by sofiaista
I am a chocolate snatcher.
Well, not exactly me, but my hands.
My hands cannot resist chocolate.
I always tell them not to steal it, but they won’t listen to me!
And I always get in trouble when my hands sneak chocolate!
Is it really my fault that my hands always share what they steal with me?
The day my evil hands stole the most chocolate, was probably Easter last year, when they stole 3 BIG milk chocolate eggs, and my hands didn’t get in trouble!
Guess who got blamed; ME!
Even though I did eat all the eggs my hands brought, I wasn’t the one who brought them!
Sort of.
Any way, mum just got back from the shops a few minutes ago, and she bought CHOCOLATE!
The thing is, I am not a patient boy; at all.
I do not think I will be able to wait for my chocolate.
“CHOMP!”
That chocolate tasted so good, but now I have to pretend I did not eat it.
Well, I had better go hide now.
Goodbye!
By Sofia
New South Wales, 2020
The Counteville Fair
by sofiaista
It was a sunny day at the Counterville fair.
Family’s with beaming children were every were; eating fairy floss, going on rides, buying ice cream, winning prizes, and so on.
Every child had a grin on their faces; all but one.
Violet Vilson was not a normal child.
Most kids laugh, and smile, and have heaps of fun at fairs, but not Violet.
In one way or another, she was different.
Nothing could make her smile; let alone laugh!
Violet was wandering around the fair, without the slightest hint of excitement, staring at her house.
From the fair, you could get a good look at Violet’s dreary house, that resembled Dracula’s lair.
It was an enormous building, tall and rickety, as if it might collapse at any moment.
A few people had even knocked on the door, thinking it was a haunted house ride!
Violet’s peace was broken when a large woman let out a shriek of horror!
“AHHHHH!”
Oh no. Not again.
Muttered Violet under her breath.
She started to run.
By Sofia
New South Wales, 2020
Slip, Slop, Slap
by sofiaista
SLIP= Slip on hand sanatiser
SLOP= Slop on soap
SLAP= Slap your friend for not doing the same!
By Sofia
New South Wales, 2020
Muddied Waters 
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