The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Baking, Carnivorous, Dessert, Salads & Vegetables, Starters & Snacks, thermomix on Nov 20th, 2008
It was apt that I started my cook book challenge with Women’s Weekly Dinner Party Cook Book No. 3 as we had dinner guests last night. As it was a mid-week affair, I forwent the full degustation catastrophe and settled for appetisers, sorbet, main meal and dessert. The main meal was the featured cook book […]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Budget, Dessert, Light Meals, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Soup, Vegetarian, thermomix on Nov 1st, 2008
Market day makes me want to stuff as much of that freshly picked vegetable goodness into my gob as humanly possible in one day. As each day of the week passes by, they are that little bit less fresh, that little bit less nutritious. Always good until the end though.
This morning, I got caught up […]
Posted in Baking, Budget, Carnivorous, Dessert, Salads & Vegetables, thermomix on Sep 30th, 2008
I’m fairly sure mine is different every time I make it. It’s the most wonderful meal in a bowl. The dressing for tonight’s version was inspired by Jane Lawson’s Tossed’. The love affair continues.
As the Bread Winner waltzed out the door tonight he threw a final comment at me, “W’s coming over tonight”. The man […]
Posted in Dessert on Sep 23rd, 2008
Sometimes, an odd scrap of leftovers leads me in an unusual direction. Today was one of those days. It all began with 6 sheets of leftover spring roll wrapper. I’ll tell you in advance, the gamble paid off. Dessert was delicious.
Strawberry, chocolate and camembert dessert rolls.
makes 4, I only made three because that’s how many […]
Father’s Day didn’t start so well here at Chez KP. First problem, was of course the absence of the Bread WInner. second problem was Son and Heir destroying my knitting at 5.30am. Which I didn’t discover until 6.30 when I decided to start yelling at the Ankle Biters whilst in the same room as them, […]
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 […]
Posted in Baking, Carnivorous, Christmas, Dessert, Party Food, Poultry, Salads & Vegetables, Sauces, Seafood, Soup, Starters & Snacks, Vegetarian, thermomix on Aug 27th, 2008
Its been a while coming but here are the recipes from our recent dinner party.
chorizo in potatoes
I read about these in a Gourmet Traveller whilst sitting in a cafe in Sydney recently. I didn’t copy the recipe but it’s pretty simple so I probably did the same thing as the original recipe specified.
2 chorizo
1 large […]
Posted in Baking, Carnivorous, Dessert, Drinks, Light Meals, Party Food, Poultry, Salads & Vegetables, Sauces, Seafood, Soup, Starters & Snacks, Uncategorized, Vegetarian, thermomix on Aug 24th, 2008
I consider myself very lucky to have Ankle Biters with quite adult palates. Well there is both luck and good management involved in that. However, I have lately been overcome by a burning desire to throw a good old fashioned grown up dinner party. The Bread Winner is about to vanish to far away ports […]
Posted in Carnivorous, Dessert, Leftovers, Salads & Vegetables, thermomix on Jul 5th, 2008
It was three degrees here this morning and I’m a summer person. So the last thing I felt like doing at 8am was heading out to the farmer’s market. Yet what is more appealing in cold weather than food? Hearty, warming comfort food. Does one stay home in the warm, or venture out and procure […]
Posted in Dessert on Jun 26th, 2008
I found some stewed apple and rhubarb lurking in the freezer, I had half a large punnet of strawberries in the fridge. I had 50g of organic dark chocolate in the pantry. Inspiration struck.
Rhubarb and Strawberry Chocolate Crumble
300g stewed rhubarb and apple (or just rhubarb)
300g sliced strawberries
50g grated fair trade dark chocolate
1/4 cup flour
2 tablespoons […]
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