The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Budget, Light Meals, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Poultry, Salads & Vegetables, thermomix on Sep 19th, 2008
It’s a proud day at Chez KP. Son and Heir manged to ride his bicycle all the way to (and from) his swimming lesson. Which is of course where I work. So post-school holidays, I won’t have to drive to work on Wednesdays anymore. Because Son and Heir comes with me on Wednesdays.
photo by Edu-Tourist, […]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Budget, Garden, Light Meals, Salads & Vegetables, Vegetarian on Sep 13th, 2008
Today was another wonderful, warm Melbourne spring day. Complete with somewhat annoying trademark Melbourne gale force winds. The Ankle Biters and I were out the door by 7.45am and on our way to the farmers market at Collingwood Children’s Farm. As were half the inhabitants on Melbourne (or so it seemed).
photo by pinkcocoa, some rights […]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Light Meals, Salads & Vegetables, Seafood, Uncategorized on Sep 12th, 2008
Today was officially the first short sleeve and sandal day of spring in Melbourne. Utter bliss. Made even more enjoyable by my freshly spring cleaned windows. I’m in my happy place.
Just as at the start of the colder weather, soup is a fabulous meal that it seems impossible to tire of, the advent of warmer […]
Posted in Carnivorous, Light Meals on Sep 3rd, 2008
photo by Yuppie Nomad some rights reserved
Vietnamese Grilled Beef Banh Mi
how good does that sound? Amazing huh? It was. It really was. Son and Heir practically inhaled his. Even the carroty bits. He usually hates carrot.
Now for the bad news. No recipe. That’s right. I’ve been recipe testing for Jaden’s Steamy Kitchen again. It’s going […]
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 Budget, Light Meals on Aug 22nd, 2008
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 […]
Posted in Baking, Budget, Light Meals, Salads & Vegetables, Uncategorized, Vegetarian on Aug 21st, 2008
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 […]
Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Budget, Light Meals, Pasta, Noodles & Rice on Aug 14th, 2008
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 […]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Budget, Light Meals, Salads & Vegetables on Aug 11th, 2008
When the Ankle Biters insist on rising at 4.30am and I have to spend three hours of the morning in the pool, I tend to run a little short of energy in the afternoon. Even more so when I cut the tip off my finger and bleed like a stuck pig for hours on end. […]
Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Light Meals on Jul 15th, 2008
In response to Alli’s food challenge, here is my current list of packed lunch suggestions for fussy eaters. I know that honey sandwiches are in and cold cuts are out. Other than that I’m winging it so I’m sure many suggestions won’t hit the nail on the head. My Ankle Biters are more of the […]
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