The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Baking, Budget, Dessert, thermomix on Nov 23rd, 2009
I’m going through one of my frenzies of cleaning out the fridge and pantry. Every now and again I seem to get a build up of obscure ingredients and just before Christmas when I’m trying to save money is a great time to use them all up. Not only does it tidy up the cupboards [...]
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Party Food on Nov 20th, 2009
Shocking though this seems to me, First Born is SIX years old. Really. I’ve been doing this parenting gig for six years. Crazy. In fact, I think this is the third of his birthdays that I’ve blogged about. Which must mean that this blog has recently had a birthday too.
This year, the boy had a [...]
Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Baking, Dessert on Sep 6th, 2009
In our part of the world, today is Father’s Day. In the interests of serving up a decent Eggs Benedict for breakfast, as it is the Bread Winner’s favourite, the Ankle Biters and I struck a deal. I would cook breakfast, First Born would cook dinner and Lil Miss would make dessert. Everyone was [...]
Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Baking, Budget on Jul 15th, 2009
School holidays have finished and the Ankle Biters have returned to their term time routines. One thing I have noticed about school holidays is that they could easily become very expensive propositions. Not in this house. I’m not wired that way. Poor Ankle Biters.
Instead, we have movie days at home with popcorn and biscuits. Or [...]
Posted in Baking, Budget, Soup, Vegetarian, thermomix on Jul 3rd, 2009
It’s school holidays here at the moment. Glorious school holidays. Today, the Ankle Biters had some friends over and I got to enjoy the adult company of their respective mothers. One of the mums has coeliac disease so I took the easy way and made soup for the grown up lunch. The tricky part was [...]
Posted in Baking, Carnivorous, Dessert, Poultry, Slow cooker/crock pot, thermomix on Jun 14th, 2009
A while back I compiled a document full of slow cooker recipes from a variety of sources. Unfortunately, I didn’t note the original sources. Which was not very bright of me. I think they largely came from cooking forums. Tonight’s meal was an adaptation of one of those recipes and it is absolutely superb. We [...]
Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Baking, Carnivorous, Cooking basics, Dessert, Slow cooker/crock pot, Soup, thermomix on Jun 3rd, 2009
Poor old First Born has one of the myriad of lurgies floating around Melbourne and took today off school. He still felt up to his regular cooking night and decided to use the extra time wisely. He made two courses.
First on the menu was chicken noodle soup. In true Kitchen Playground fashion, I’m teaching him [...]
Artisan Bread in Five Minutes is a wonder. I know I’ve said that before. Combined with the thermomix, it is a marriage made in heaven. To combine to the two to best effect, I begin with supplies. The grains I always have on hand are milled bread four, barley grain, rye grain, spelt grain and [...]
Posted in Baking on Feb 4th, 2009
Before I get to the bread, a brief glimpse of the bundle of cute that is my mini me. In full mini me mode.
Now that I have that short outburst of parental pride out of the way, I’ll get back to the bread. I had decided that I would manage bread production within my busier [...]
Happy Australia Day people!
Whilst tradition dictates that I should have spent the day having a barbecue, drinking beer and watching the cricket, practicality reared her ugly head. Which is not to say I didn’t watch the cricket. What I did do however, was to take advantage of the 28 degree weather to bake for the [...]
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