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 […]
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Posted in Baking, Budget, Carnivorous on Aug 16th, 2008
However you like to spell it, I love the stuff. You can pretty much shove anything inside a bit of filo and it tastes fantastic and looks good.
What else could you do with 300g mince, one serve leftover kale risotto, 1 small bunch kale, 6 Brussel sprouts, starting to look spotty, 1 small carrot, 1 […]
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My potato plants all died off. So I went digging about to see what I could see. What I saw were lot’s of very small potatoes. I think the problem is the soil. It’s the second crop of potatoes in that tub in a row and they haven’t had a huge amount of compost. So […]
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It’s always been my plan to have the Ankle BIters cook a meal a week each as they become old enough. It gives me a break, is a valid sharing of chores and teaches them an invaluable skill. With that end in mind, I’ve been checking out children’s cookbooks pretty much since Son and Heir […]
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Posted in Carnivorous on Aug 5th, 2008
‘Twas a long day in the kitchen. Lil Miss, Jacques Pepin and me.
What we made:
tomato soup
tomato balls (boules de tomates)
potatoes Anna (pommes Anna)
broccoli and cauliflower with lemon butter (choux panaches au beurre de citron
stuffed pork chops with sour sauce (cotelettes de proc farcies charcutiere)
and it was nice to break away from the usual more functional […]
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Posted in Carnivorous on Jul 27th, 2008
I do wish that didn’t make me think of Nicole and Keith’s baby. Really, did they not test the name out from every angle or did they just not care?
Anyhoo, ‘nough ’bout that. Sunday roast can be a variable thing in our house. No firm favourites, no set tradition. Tonight, it’s roast chook. One thing […]
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I ordered half an animal today. A 9 - 10 month old grass fed vealer. That’s 60 odd kilograms of dead animal I need to store. So the next couple of weeks whilst waiting for delivery, I will be cleaning out the contents of the freezer. I sorted the contents today and wrote a list […]
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Posted in Budget, Carnivorous, thermomix on Jul 18th, 2008
Whilst conducting some research for tonight’s dinner, I discovered that one should NEVER check the meaning of steaming sausage in urban dictionary. Really. Never. Just trust me on this one OK?
Friday night I don’t dig cooking. Friday is cleaning day at Chez KP and often supermarket day as well. Plus swimming lesson day just to […]
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Posted in Budget, Carnivorous on Jul 16th, 2008
Roast dinner tonight. For some reason I decided to make a roast with the world’s smallest piece of meat. I felt justified because I had two little butternut pumpkins which I decided to halve and use as bowls of a sort. Nice chunky little pumpkins with small balls of pips and lots of flesh. Everyone […]
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Posted in Carnivorous on Jul 12th, 2008
After the week of ‘food re-engineering’ we’ve had at Chez KP, I was determined to have completely hoggett free, colcannon free Saturday night dinner. Well the colcannon is long gone but there are a good three meals worth of hoggett still lurking in the freezer.
So tonight’s fare was mashed potato with caramelised witlof (chicory for […]
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