The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
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 […]
Nothing like a gorgeous sunny day to make a woman neglect her indoor tasks in favour of her outdoor tasks. I arrived home from work at lunchtime and thanked my lucky stars I’d planned a quick and easy meal. The next few hours were spent in productive outdoor activity; building up another layer on the […]
Posted in Baking, Garden, Light Meals, Salads & Vegetables, Seafood, Vegetarian on Sep 27th, 2008
Today in Melbourne it was 28 degrees. That’s my perfect. Warm enough for scanty clothing, cool anough to run. It’s the best of all possible worlds. Pure bliss. Between running and gardening and cooking, I lived life to the full today. I’m too weary too talk about it so here’s a pictorial representation of all […]
Posted in Baking, Budget, Light Meals, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Salads & Vegetables, Seafood, Starters & Snacks, Vegetarian, thermomix on Sep 22nd, 2008
I deserted this little bloglet over the weekend in favour of particpating in real life. It happens sometimes.
On Saturday night, I gussied up, deserted Ankle Biter and the Bread Winner and headed out to a friend’s 40th. Fun, fun, fun! Bubbles, red wine, lots of lovely party food and greta conversation. Not to mention the […]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Light Meals, Salads & Vegetables, Seafood, Uncategorized on Sep 12th, 2008
Today was officially the first short sleeve and sandal day of spring in Melbourne. Utter bliss. Made even more enjoyable by my freshly spring cleaned windows. I’m in my happy place.
Just as at the start of the colder weather, soup is a fabulous meal that it seems impossible to tire of, the advent of warmer […]
One of my favourite types of meal, particularly during the week, is the one pot meal. Minimal mess, minimal preparation, all good ideals.
I picked up 4 lovely flathead fillets for the crazy low, low price of $4.20. Flathead is one of my favourite fish. A real flavour of my childhood. My maternal grandfather (Pappy) and […]
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 […]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Seafood on Jun 23rd, 2008
It’s been quite a while since I posted a 10 minute meal. Today I needed it. I was missing a vital ingredient for my planned meal and got buried deep in laundry. So this is what I came up with.
Seafood and Goat Cheese Pasta.
pasta of choice (with 10 minutes or less cooking time)
3 shallots, finely […]
Posted in Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Seafood on Jun 22nd, 2008
Son and Heir saw a big paella cooking on the box the other day and declared it his favourite. Upon further quizzing, the only ingredient he correctly identified was prawns, that was enough to make it a favourite. So I promised to cook it for him. Which of course I was happy to do as […]
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