The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Breakfast, Budget, Carnivorous, Leftovers, Lunch, Salads & Vegetables on Jan 21st, 2008
Day Three in Sydney and a continuation of Holiday Meal Planning. I had to do a small shopping top up last night, I bought more bread, eggs, rocket and a massive bunch of coriander. Most of which is already gone. I’m going to have to hit the supermarket again in the next day or so. [...]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Carnivorous, Leftovers on Jan 15th, 2008
The fridge is starting to look really bare now. The vegetable bins are actually empty. Gosh, that was possibly premature, I still have 1 or 2 more dinners to cook. Oh well, surely I have something in the freezer, that’s still pretty full. This one is Vietnamese by inspiration and was a genuine 10 minute [...]
Posted in Leftovers, Lunch, Soup, Vegetarian on Jan 15th, 2008
Absolute serendipity once again. A beautifully harmonious blend of things left in the fridge. Made in the thermomix. Could be made almost as quickly using a food processor to chopa nd a saucepan to cook. Messier though. Love my thermomix. Carrot, Chickpea and Ginger Soup 1 salad onion 1 shallot 3 cloves garlic 6 carrots, [...]
A simple meal tonight by request of First Born. Baked potatoes. I popped a bunch of desirees in the oven (180 degrees) before wandering off to a friend’s for a cuppa. Pricked them with a fork and sprayed them with olive oil first. When we got home I sliced some free range bacon and mushrooms [...]
Light and delicious, this meal evolved out of leftover smoked salmon, a few stray cubes of goats feta and 150g leftover chevre. Smoked Salmon and Goat Cheese Filo Quiche 150g goat chevre a few cubes of leftover marinated goat feta 5 slices leftover smoked salmon, roughly torn, 8 eggs lightly beaten 2 teaspoons capers 1 [...]
Posted in Budget, Carnivorous, Leftovers, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Poultry, Salads & Vegetables on Dec 30th, 2007
I cooked a lovely roast chook the other night and padded it out with lots of salad and baked potato. It was a great big one so I intended to leave myself enough leftovers for a couple of meals. I can justify paying around the $20 mark for an organic chook if I can get [...]
Posted in Budget, Christmas, Leftovers, Ramblings on Dec 26th, 2007
The beauty of dividing up Christmas cooking is the dividing up of leftovers. Which in our case this year means some salads and that is it. Well there was a sliver of pavlova left but I bequeathed that to my brother. Better it go on his butt than mine. So here we are, lunchtime Boxing [...]
Posted in Leftovers, Pasta, Noodles & Rice on Dec 22nd, 2007
The pantry raid (phew, lucky I didn’t leave that ‘r’ out), continues tonight with a recipe I’ve been meaning to try for ages plus a sauce cobbled together out of leftovers. I generally do my supermarket shopping at a wonderful IGA, Leo’s. Apart from not belonging to Coles or Woolworths which is a major plus [...]
I did my supermarket Christmas shopping tonight. Just have the fruit and veg to go now. I seem to have spent a small fortune on food lately and the house really is very well stocked, Christmas notwithstanding. So I have decided that I am only allowed to restock on fruit and veg for the next [...]
OK so we know that Vietnamese food is my favourite. Real, authentic Vietnamese food. Tonight though, I have proven the incredible perfection of Vietnamese flavour combinations. I threw a few things together and ended up writhing in culinary ecstasy. How does one cuisine manage to get it so damn right? Admittedly the Ankle Biters were [...]
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