Happy Father's Day

I hope your father's all have a lovely day today too - this is a photo of my father and me back when his hair was all black and he could manage to fit me all on his lap! I don't think we will try for a renactment. We're off to church soon and then going to my parent's place for lunch - as we do most Sundays. Dad (or Pappy as we all call him) is part of the singing group at church and he is very entertaining especially when he forgets the words! Mum is cooking a lamb roast - don't all mums do the best roast? And I have made the caramel almond tarts (below) for dessert.
I made these last week for a function too, except I used cashews. The recipe is from one of the newer Australian Women's Weekly recipe books "Little Pies & Cakes". The recipe has that you make your own pastry which I did do, but I have discovered that I actually prefer shortcrust pastry, it doesn't compete with the nuts/caramel as much. It is the cinnamon cream that makes these absolutely delicious. In fact when I took the cream to the function last week some people thought it was a cinnamon mousse and were eating it by itself.

Easy to make - 300ml cream, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 tb icing sugar - whip all together.

Strawberries would be lovely dipped in it as well .

I will be calling into Marion's place after lunch and collecting a couple of things - might show some sneak peaks later today.

Christina