The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Party Food on Nov 20th, 2009
Shocking though this seems to me, First Born is SIX years old. Really. I’ve been doing this parenting gig for six years. Crazy. In fact, I think this is the third of his birthdays that I’ve blogged about. Which must mean that this blog has recently had a birthday too.
This year, the boy had a [...]
Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Baking, Dessert, Drinks, Party Food, thermomix on Jan 20th, 2009
Since October, Lil Miss has had her heart set on a teddy bears ‘nicnic’ for her third birthday. What mother could deny such a humble request? Not this one anyway.
To avoid the whole saga of cleaning the house only to have it destroyed by hyped up preschoolers, we elected to picnic at a wonderful park [...]
Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Party Food on Jan 12th, 2009
Cooking with friends
Son and Heir was invited to a cooking party at Kids in the Kitchen on the weekend. Could there be anything cuter than a little boy in a chefs hat? He had the most wonderful time and has been saying ever since that he wants to be a chef when he grows up. [...]
Posted in Budget, Carnivorous, Party Food, thermomix on Dec 9th, 2008
Glorious rain kept me from my planned tasks this afternoon. Instead, I opted for fun with food. I stumbled upon this idea a few nights ago and it tickled my fancy.
I didn’t follow the recipe, I just made a meatloaf mix of a little beef, a little lamb, breadcrumbs, an egg, onion, garlic, a diced [...]
Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Baking, Breakfast, Party Food on Oct 27th, 2008
How can that be? Where did it go? Surely I’m not grown up enough to be the mother of a five year old. Although in actual fact, after the day we have spent celebrating the auspicious event I feel old enough to be a grandmother. Which I guess technically I am if teen pregnancies were involved [...]
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 10 minute meals, Ankle Biter Cooking, Budget, Carnivorous, Leftovers, Party Food, thermomix on Jun 15th, 2008
Today we had a play day at Son and Heir’s kinder for the Ankle Biters and Dad’s (or other significant male). It was a lovely morning for all involved. The highlight of the morning seemed to be morning tea time. To keep things simple, everyone who came brought a plate to share. At Son and [...]
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Party Food on Feb 27th, 2008
Because he loves cheesecake and I love him.
Mixed Chocolate Cheesecake
175g packet shortbread biscuits, crushed
75g butter, melted
500g cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup light muscovado
2 teaspoon gelatine, dissolved in 14 cup boiling water, cooled
100g fairtrade orange flavoured chocolate
100g fairtrade white chocolate with scorched almonds
1 cup pure cream
8 seconds at speed 5 will crush the biscuits
2 minutes of 100 [...]
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Party Food on Feb 2nd, 2008
I’m off to yum cha tomorrow for a friend’s birthday. I wanted to take her a little birthday treat and figured a small cake was somewhat apt. Only thing is, my house is rather devoid of sweet things right now as I still have two rogue Christmas kilos to banish from my nether region.
I did [...]
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