The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Budget, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Sauces, Seafood on Dec 28th, 2008
The days between Christmas and New Year tend to be such a pleasant interlude. Lot’s of pottering and purging and rearranging. There is a timeless quality of not being exactly sure what day of the week, or even what day it is. Not only a very pleasant time but also strangely productive. After five or [...]
Posted in Budget, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Slow cooker/crock pot, Vegetarian on Dec 19th, 2008
Melbourne is a crazy town. Early spring was hot and dry. Early summer, cold and wet. Much as I prefer the heat, it’s much cheerier to embrace what you’ve got rather than pine for what you lack. So I whipped up a comforting, super cheap, super easy slow cooker beans and rice dinner. Hearty and [...]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Ankle Biter Cooking, Budget, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Vegetarian on Dec 1st, 2008
The rhythmic ebb and flow of my days is currently absent. Many factors are involved and must simply be borne for the present. Havoc is being wrought upon my meal planning as a result. A most unpleasant result. Tonight in a mad dash to serve hungry, over tired Ankle BIters a meal in a 10 [...]
Posted in Baking, Budget, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, thermomix, Vegetarian on Nov 16th, 2008
Today is a day of absolutely no originality at Chez KP. It has however, been a day of delicious food. Sunday is my sleep in day which leaves the Bread Winner on morning duty. So the less said about breakfast the better. Or in my case, I could simply say ‘what breakfast?’. By lunchtime, things [...]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Baking, Budget, Carnivorous, Garden, Leftovers, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Salads & Vegetables, Sauces, thermomix on Nov 4th, 2008
I love Cup Day. There is nothing as ludicrous as a public holiday for a horse race and I love it. We totally dropped the ball on organising anything this year but fortunately we have friends who are just as slack. So an impromptu BBQ was planned at 8.30 this morning. I had defrosted some [...]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Budget, Dessert, Light Meals, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Soup, thermomix, Vegetarian on Nov 1st, 2008
Market day makes me want to stuff as much of that freshly picked vegetable goodness into my gob as humanly possible in one day. As each day of the week passes by, they are that little bit less fresh, that little bit less nutritious. Always good until the end though. This morning, I got caught [...]
Posted in Budget, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Vegetarian on Oct 24th, 2008
Well, well, well, haven’t I been the uncharacteristically absent blogger this week! Lil Miss has had gastro so my attention has been on washing bed linen, mopping up, showering and trying to get the poor little pet to keep some fluids down. Just as I was starting to become concerned about her state of dehydration, [...]
Posted in Budget, Garden, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Vegetarian on Oct 16th, 2008
Here is a random nasturtiun from my back yard. Not relevant to anything else I have to say today. Just pretty. Now that I’ve got that out of my system, I’ll move on to my next random topic. The Junior Landcare Watermelon Challenge. It’s open to Australian children as individuals or as schools. The idea [...]
Posted in Budget, Garden, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, thermomix, Vegetarian on Oct 11th, 2008
I don’t know if I am just uber passionate about my food loves or that I can’t grow enough of anything to give a glut large enough to actually make me sick of certain foods. Or maybe a little of both. I let the last batch of asparagus run wild rather than eat it with [...]
Posted in Budget, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Salads & Vegetables, Sauces, thermomix, Vegetarian on Oct 7th, 2008
Dinner tonight was eerily like dinner last night. But not. Last night was steamed vegetables on noodles with haloumi. Tonight was steamed vegetables on noodles with tahini dressing. Despite the ingredients being much the same, the flavour was vastly different. I love the versatility of the simplest vegetarian meals. In fact, had I any tamari, [...]
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