The Kitchen Playground

One of my favourite types of meal, particularly during the week, is the one pot meal. Minimal mess, minimal preparation, all good ideals.
I picked up 4 lovely flathead fillets for the crazy low, low price of $4.20. Flathead is one of my favourite fish. A real flavour of my childhood. My maternal grandfather (Pappy) and […]

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Conjunctivitis has confined us to quarters. I lost my tiny little mind last night and threatened the Ankle Biters with mutilation politely asked the Ankle Biters to clean up their mess. It’s too wet to garden. All in all we’re having a slow and lazy Sunday morning. Which is nice.
We’ve been on a pancake frenzy […]

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One would assume, that with the Bread Winner on distant shores, I would purchase less food than is usual this week. Alas that was not to be due to two occurrences.
The first occurrence was running out of butter. A simple little thing you think? Except for the fact that it’s been 12 months since I […]

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The pay offs for getting it right are soooo darn good.

ciabatta dough proving for the second time.

ciabatta loaves proving prior to baking

two freshly baked ciabtta loaves

nothing beats fresh bread

except maybe a blue cheese and salad sandwich on freshly baked bread

Ciabatta
from World Breads by Paul Gayler
For the Biga Starter
350g bread flour
10g yeast
200ml warm water
For the Dough
15g […]

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It’s totally freaky when you feel yourself actually morphing into your own mother. In fact I think I actually turned into a cariacture of her today.
Dear ol’ Mum loved to throw a dinner party. She was jolly good at it too. The house would be scrubbed. Scrubbed! Ceiling to skirting board, the house would be […]

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Every night this week I’ve had all the good posting intentions in the world. Life keeps getting in the way though in one form or another. Today has been no different. I will however assuage my non-posting guilt with a series of random images of things we have been eating this week.

Son and Heir has […]

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However you like to spell it, I love the stuff. You can pretty much shove anything inside a bit of filo and it tastes fantastic and looks good.
What else could you do with 300g mince, one serve leftover kale risotto, 1 small bunch kale, 6 Brussel sprouts, starting to look spotty, 1 small carrot, 1 […]

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I used almost the same ingredients for both lunch and dinner today. Is that wrong? Bad luck if it is, its the end of the week in terms of food shopping and choices are limited. Both meals were good and it was the Ankle Biters turn to cook dinner so I’m happy.

We had our alternate […]

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My potato plants all died off. So I went digging about to see what I could see. What I saw were lot’s of very small potatoes. I think the problem is the soil. It’s the second crop of potatoes in that tub in a row and they haven’t had a huge amount of compost. So […]

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I tend to blitz through most days at a fairly hectic pace. Being forced to slow down by two unwell Ankle Biters and a badly cut finger is pure torture. It’s taken me all day to perform tasks that would normally take half that time.
Just the normal day to day tasks of a mum. Post-vomit […]

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