Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Budget, Carnivorous, Food Challenge, Leftovers, Light Meals, Lunch, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Salads & Vegetables, Sauces, Seafood, Soup, thermomix on Jan 31st, 2010
Ahh Vietnamese food. It never fails to delight. Never. Every dish was hungrily gobbled and loudly praised this evening.
The soup was magical. My love for pho is not unknown but I simply did not have the time to make the stock. I’ve found my quick substitute soup. The beef and Vietnamese coriander soup is light, [...]
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After a night out of the kitchen last night, today we resumed our world tour. Tonight’s top, Thailand. First Born has identified it on the map, read a book about it, drawn the flag and listed similarities between Japan and Thailand. I hope he always loves learning this much. And in such a self directed [...]
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I’m such a creature of habit in my old age. Changes to my routine, particularly where food is concerned tend leave me a little disoriented. Having to complete a 24 hour training course at work in 2 days and one evening last weekend thoroughly discombobulated me. No farmers market! Fortunately I had stocked up as [...]
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Being Sunday, it’s First Born’s turn to cook. Tonight, he has whipped up a broad bean and feta risotto in the thermomix. I can’t say it often enough, the thermomix is absolutely brilliant for teaching children to cook.
The risotto was fantastic and First Born was very proud of himself. As well he should be. He [...]
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At the very start of winter, I made a massive big pot of minestrone, or what passes for it in this house, I don’t stick to a traditional recipe. This week, we finished it. So today I made another pot. When I say massive, I am referring to my industrial size stock pot, the capacity [...]
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Risotto is so quick and easy in the thermomix that it has become my fall back meal when all other plans disintegrate around my ears. Or when I’m feeling extremely lazy. This little beastie was inspired by a poorly stocked fridge, a late afternoon arrival home from a weekend away and the flavours of colconnon. [...]
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Recently, First Born staged a large and rather noisy protest that he never gets to choose what we have for dinner and he never gets to make dinner. My boy loves a superlative. So we struck a deal that Wednesday night would be his night for cooking.
We get home from swimming Tuesday nights and while [...]
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A few people have asked me lately if I’ve quit blogging. Which is a fair question. No I haven’t. I just lost my blogging mojo, got out of the routine and have struggled to slot it back into my daily tasks. In fact daily is really just asking too much these days but I would [...]
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Due to ongoing time constraints, its another quick linky post from me tonight. I adapted this recipe with the only changes being oyster sauce for bean paste and beef mince for pork. Simply because that was what we had in the house. Served over steamed rice it was a tasty treat.
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Well. Melbourne is a land of extremes lately. From the seemingly unending drought, the searing heat and the dreadful, heartbreaking burning, today was both chilly and wet. Yes, wet. Joyful rain, real rain.
A wonderful excuse to pull out the slow cooker again as panacea to my current painfully hectic schedule. I headed over to A [...]
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