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 [...]
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Recently, First Born staged a large and rather noisy protest that he never gets to choose what we have for dinner and he never gets to make dinner. My boy loves a superlative. So we struck a deal that Wednesday night would be his night for cooking.
We get home from swimming Tuesday nights and while [...]
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Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Lunch on Apr 14th, 2009
A friend rang last week several weeks ago (yes I’ve been writing this post for weeks) asking for tips for implementing packaging free days for her daughter’s school. I said I would email her some information and then promptly dropped the ball. Now I’m picking it back up again in the form of a blog [...]
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Posted in 10 minute meals, Ankle Biter Cooking, Baking, Budget, Carnivorous, Leftovers, Light Meals, Lunch, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Poultry, Salads & Vegetables, Soup, Starters & Snacks, Vegetarian, stockpiling, thermomix on Jan 25th, 2009
We have one more week here until Son and Heir is released into the wilds of the school ground. At the same time, Lil Miss is back at creche and I am back at work. It’s going to be busier than ever for our little family this year. In my usual obsessive way, I am [...]
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Since October, Lil Miss has had her heart set on a teddy bears ‘nicnic’ for her third birthday. What mother could deny such a humble request? Not this one anyway.
To avoid the whole saga of cleaning the house only to have it destroyed by hyped up preschoolers, we elected to picnic at a wonderful park [...]
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Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Party Food on Jan 12th, 2009
Cooking with friends
Son and Heir was invited to a cooking party at Kids in the Kitchen on the weekend. Could there be anything cuter than a little boy in a chefs hat? He had the most wonderful time and has been saying ever since that he wants to be a chef when he grows up. [...]
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Not for the first time, when shown my latest creation, the Bread Winner wondered aloud what possesses me to do these things. How does one take that? Is it mere bemusement? Derision? Disgust? I justified this creation with the notion of children and festivities and keeping the Ankle Biters amused in the lead up to [...]
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The rhythmic ebb and flow of my days is currently absent. Many factors are involved and must simply be borne for the present. Havoc is being wrought upon my meal planning as a result. A most unpleasant result.
Tonight in a mad dash to serve hungry, over tired Ankle BIters a meal in a [...]
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How can that be? Where did it go? Surely I’m not grown up enough to be the mother of a five year old. Although in actual fact, after the day we have spent celebrating the auspicious event I feel old enough to be a grandmother. Which I guess technically I am if teen pregnancies were involved [...]
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One of the many things I love about Son and Heir’s kinder is the little vegie patch. Over the school holidays, the silverbeet grew to maturity. So this afternoon, Lil Miss and I joined the kinder kids to harvest and cook some of it.
Each of the children picked a leaf and then we headed inside. [...]
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