The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Baking, Carnivorous, Dessert, Salads & Vegetables, Starters & Snacks, thermomix on Nov 20th, 2008
It was apt that I started my cook book challenge with Women’s Weekly Dinner Party Cook Book No. 3 as we had dinner guests last night. As it was a mid-week affair, I forwent the full degustation catastrophe and settled for appetisers, sorbet, main meal and dessert. The main meal was the featured cook book […]
Posted in Budget, Salads & Vegetables, Vegetarian on Nov 18th, 2008
Brazen has inspired me with her cook book challenge. So I’ve decided to do a similar thing. In the interests of variety, I am aiming to choose a cook book each week and make at least one thing from it. I will attempt to keep interested in this challenge until I have worked my way […]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Budget, Light Meals, Salads & Vegetables, Seafood on Nov 13th, 2008
Stinking hot night. Tired. Poor meal planning. No proper shop done for the week. Cranky Ankle Biters. Thank goodness for tuna salad.
In our house its something that everyone loves. It’s a quick and easy way to get heaps of vegetables with a good protein punch into everyone (carbs too if served with bread or if […]
Posted in Salads & Vegetables on Nov 5th, 2008
I mentioned yesterday that I whipped up a potato salad for our Cup Day BBQ. I thought I’d share the recipe with you. There are so many wonderful versions of potato salad and this is one of my favourites
Potato and Olive Salad
8 - 10 small potatoes
1/3 cup homemade mayonnaise
1/4 cup roughly chopped stuffed olives
2 rashers […]
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 wonderful […]
Posted in Budget, Garden, Leftovers, Light Meals, Salads & Vegetables, Starters & Snacks, thermomix on Nov 2nd, 2008
Broad Beans would be so tiresome if they were in season all year round. Removing the pods, cooking, skinning. It’s a fair bit of work. Something I’m more than happy to do in spring when they’re in season to experience their fleeting deliciousness.
Joy of joy, despite my poor broad bean plants this year (almost certainly […]
Posted in Budget, Salads & Vegetables, thermomix on Oct 30th, 2008
The Bread Winner works hard for his family. He’s a great provider, a wonderful father and a fabulous husband. Sadly the providing segment of his duties takes him from his loving wife’s side more than is ideal. This week more so than usual. Things reached ridiculous last night when he had a 1am phone meeting […]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Budget, Carnivorous, Leftovers, Light Meals, Salads & Vegetables on Oct 27th, 2008
After the weekend’s birthday celebrations, one thing I did not feel like doing today was cooking. Rare but true. Even so, it’s only just occurred to me as I type this that take away is the common option for nights such as tonight. It’s just not something that occurs to me more than once in […]
Posted in Budget, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Salads & Vegetables, Sauces, Vegetarian, thermomix 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, […]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Budget, Light Meals, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Salads & Vegetables, Vegetarian on Oct 7th, 2008
Just the veg and haloumi alone would be enough for me. The carboholics in the family demanded more so I added some dried Chinese noodles. A squeeze of lemon juice is all this dinner needs.
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