The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Budget, Sauces, Vegetarian, thermomix on Nov 10th, 2008
Here we all are back at Chez KP safe and sound. The Bread Winner and I had a lovely weekend of togetherness in Sydney and the Ankle Biters had a terrific time being spoilt by their grandparents. I’m pleased to report that Son and Heir missed me. It’s nice to feel loved. Lil Miss, on […]
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, 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, […]
I found a bunch of these bromeliads behind my garage. I moved this one out front, just near my front door last year. It seems happy there.
Pan fried snapper was on the menu at Chez KP tonight. I love fish. I could eat a lot more fish than we actually do…and we generally eat it […]
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 […]
Don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned it, but if you’re making the hollandaise recipe in the thermomix book, just omit the water.
Over and out.
Posted in Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Poultry, Sauces, Starters & Snacks, thermomix on Jun 7th, 2008
Sometimes I just feel like making the Bread Winner something special. His best something specials are pretty much always Mexican. The success of this meal indicated that Son and Heir has inherited his father’s predilection for south of the border flavours. South of the border in the colloquial sense, not literal, as that would […]
Posted in Salads & Vegetables, Sauces, Vegetarian on May 11th, 2008
Sounds gross doesn’t it? Son and Heir was very excited to hear toe food was on the menu. Perhaps I should clean his ears because if toe food sounds good, imagine how exciting tofu would be!
I found this recipe floating around in a folder of cut out recipes. Judging by the lack of notations on […]
Posted in Carnivorous, Leftovers, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Sauces, thermomix on Apr 14th, 2008
I made pho for dinner on the weekend. It was delicious. Must post about it. Not now though. It presented me with somewhat of a dilemma. The stock calls for 3 kg beef spare ribs. The meat does not get used in the actual dish. So I was left with all the meat that had […]
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