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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Posted in Garden, Sauces on Oct 1st, 2008
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Sauces, thermomix on Jul 7th, 2008
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.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Posted in Carnivorous, Sauces, thermomix on Apr 5th, 2008
I found a 1kg Otway free range scotch pork roast reduced to $10. Happy days. Then I threw Lil Miss on the back of my bike and set off for the local farmer’s market. Nashi. Local. $3/kg.
This is something in the realms of died and went to heaven kind of stuff.
So obviously, roast pork and [...]
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Posted in Sauces, Seafood on Nov 27th, 2007
OK, maybe not the exact, precise, traditional beurre blanc but it’s the way I threw it together and served it over lovely firm white fish fillets with a green salad. Lovely hot night dinner.
Thermomix Beurre Blanc Style Sauce Over Fish
4 firm white fish fillets.
40g butter
2 cloves garlic
2 shallots
1/3 cup fish stock
1/2 cup wine (I used [...]
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