Posted in 10 minute meals, Budget, Garden, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Preserves, Salads & Vegetables, Sauces, thermomix, Vegetarian on Jan 3rd, 2009
What could be more satisfying, frustrating, and completely fulfilling as a day spent between vegetable patch and preserving? I’m sure the majority could think of lot’s of things but I’m know I’m not alone in thinking it nigh on the perfect day. From an early trip to the farmer’s market, I launched straight into bottling [...]
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This Last week’s book has been patiently sitting in the kitchen waiting for my attention all week. My attention, however, has been elsewhere. In terms of my food planning, the week has actually finished but unfinished business bothers me, so I will use Food To Go from the AWWs home library tonight whilst perusing this [...]
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The Bread Winner is one clever due. Now with 100% more images! I actually wrote this post yesterday. I couldn’t post it though because upgrading wordpress almost killed my entire blog. The Bread Winner has managed to get the blog back and I exist as a user once more, which is nice. Now the only [...]
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It’s been a couple of weeks since this dinner party. Somewhat uncharacteristically, I didn’t take a single photo. It took all my energy to get the food to the table. Little did I know, I was being hit with a nasty virus which took complete control of me sometime around midnight that same evening and [...]
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Posted in Poultry, Salads & Vegetables on Dec 2nd, 2008
For weeks now I have been meaning to sample this chicken from Stone Soup. Finally, the night arrived. Let me tell you it was well worth the wait. I made yoghurt cheese rather than the yogurt and cream cheese mix. Deliciously moist and packed with flavour. There’s barely enough left to make a single sandwich [...]
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Posted in Carnivorous, Salads & Vegetables on Nov 22nd, 2008
This week’s selection, grabbed from the shelf at random, was Women’s Weekly Country Cooking. It’s cook book that usually only gets considered in the colder months although it has recipes for all seasons. Today however, was virtually a winter’s day. It was freezing this morning when we went to the farmers market and I went [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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