The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Cooking basics, Pasta, Noodles & Rice on Jun 11th, 2009
Risotto is so quick and easy in the thermomix that it has become my fall back meal when all other plans disintegrate around my ears. Or when I’m feeling extremely lazy. This little beastie was inspired by a poorly stocked fridge, a late afternoon arrival home from a weekend away and the flavours of colconnon. [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Cooking basics on Jul 22nd, 2008
It’s possible that I often mention scrambled eggs. Or maybe not. What is certain is that I eat them a lot. They’re my staple weekend breakfast and I often make myself a serving for lunch too. Perfect after a cold morning in the pool. In fact, Lil Miss and I had scrambled eggs with feta [...]
Posted in Cooking basics, Ramblings on Mar 23rd, 2008
A friend told me last week that a new supermarket that has opened in our local area was selling spring onions tagged as shallots. A pet hate for both of us. The confusion is exacerbated when talking across international lines as the names will change (not to protect the innocent). So I thought it worthwhile [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Christmas, Cooking basics, Dessert on Mar 22nd, 2008
If we are actually going to be home in an actual house for Easter rather than waking up in our tent like we usually do, I suppose it would be nice to make a special breakfast.
We had breakfast at Apte a few weeks ago and they served a dish similar to this. I’ve been inspired [...]
Posted in Cooking basics, thermomix on Mar 20th, 2008
I adapted my old tried and true short crust pastry recipe to suit the thermomix. So if you don’t have a thermomix, just manually crumb the dry ingredients and butter together and then slowly mix in the wet and knead lightly.
Shortcrust Pastry
2 cups plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
125g butter
just over 1/4 cup water
Mix dry ingredients [...]
Posted in Cooking basics on Mar 5th, 2008
This recipe is from Nourishing Traditions. It’s nice and basic. I’ve converted to metric. This tends to be a little thinner than commercial yoghurt. You will need a candy thermometer.
Stove Top Yoghurt
1 litre full cream milk
1/2 cup good quality yoghurt (when you get it going, save the last half cup of each batch to make [...]
Posted in Cooking basics on Mar 5th, 2008
I just found a truly fascinating article on stock making via a link on forty dollar gourmet. Well worth a read if you mke your own stock and have any interest in food science.
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