Plain as plain can be.
Jul 18th, 2008 by Dani
Whilst conducting some research for tonight’s dinner, I discovered that one should NEVER check the meaning of steaming sausage in urban dictionary. Really. Never. Just trust me on this one OK?
Friday night I don’t dig cooking. Friday is cleaning day at Chez KP and often supermarket day as well. Plus swimming lesson day just to make it all harder to achieve. So cooking is pretty much out. Usually I just pull a pre-cooked meal out of the freezer but I didn’t feel like anything tat I had in stock today. So I decided to make a plain old meal in the varoma. Just to see what would happen.
Happily, it worked a treat! In the comforting way of the plainest of meals, we all enjoyed it very much. Little Creek Cattle Company roast beef and mustard sausages, potatoes and Brussel sprouts. Simplicity itself. I don’t believe the sausages lost any flavour at all for nor having been browned.
Small nicola potatoes were peeled and placed in the base of the varoma. The sausages were placed on the top tray. 500ml of water in the thermomix bowl. Twenty five minutes at varoma temperature on speed 2 with the sprouts (ends and coarse outer leaves removed) thrown in with the sausages for the last three minutes. The vegetables were tossed in salt, pepper, butter and grated parmesan. That’s it. Done. As much cooking as I’m prepared to deal with on a Friday night.
Just in case you’re wondering, I’m not on a mission to starve my family. The pictures above only show food for the Ankle Biters and myself. I’ll cook the Bread Winner’s when he gets home. The picture below was my meagre helping. Feral Ankle Biters + sleep deprivation + lingering cold = severe loss of appetite
Approx. cost per serving $1.88
Full disclosure. I also made pesto and have tomatoes roasting but that’s because I have a vision for breakfast in the morning. Neither of those things takes much of my time though so really don’t count as cooking.
looks good dani, hope you’re feeling better soon.
and what has happened to your blog???!
karen aka brazens last blog post..Minestrone & TM31 bread
oh the blog looks fine now, must have been my puter
karen aka brazens last blog post..Minestrone & TM31 bread
As long as it wasn’t the after affects of ignoring my sage advice of the first paragraph.
No matter how basic, at least you can be proud that you didn’t rush off to that place that kids get toys from!!
The French, Germans & Italians have lots of dishes that involve cooking snags in water (steam) rather than on the barbie.
Best to include “recipe” & include ALL the words, when trying that search. I hate to think - hope the kids were at school.
Thermomixers last blog post..Thermomix Jaffa Cake
You know it never even occurs to me to get take away. It’s just not how we live.
Yes, including recipe would definitely have saved me some mental scarring.