The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in 10 minute meals, Budget, Light Meals, Salads & Vegetables, Seafood on Jan 28th, 2009
Melbourne is not a place to cook this week. It reached 43.4 degrees in the city today and 44 degrees i my neck of the woods. That’s around 110 in Farenheit. Admittedly I did get up at 6am to cook some chickpeas I’d had soaking but as it is still 37.4 degrees at 9.30pm, I [...]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Light Meals, Lunch, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Poultry, Salads & Vegetables, Seafood on Jan 19th, 2009
Summer has come to Melbourne this week with another scorcher today. The sort of day that makes one reluctant to cook for fear of unnecessarily heating up the house. To add another challenge to the day’s meal provision, chez KP is drastically short of fruit and veg. Lil Miss’s birthday extravaganza made the farmers market [...]
The past few days have been perfect Melbourne summer days. Bright sunny days, warm nights. My inner gardener is badly lamenting Melbourne weather at the same time as the rest of me revels in it. My water tank has reached critical levels again. I’ll be howling at the moon and rain dancing tonight. The vegetable [...]
So another year passes, more quickly than those that precede it. If you are celebrating the departure of 2008 or welcoming 2009, enjoy and be safe! If you’re not celebrating, also enjoy nd be safe. IT’s a crazy time of year.
I’m ushering out the old with the assistance of the cook book challenge. This week’s [...]
Posted in Budget, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Sauces, Seafood on Dec 28th, 2008
The days between Christmas and New Year tend to be such a pleasant interlude. Lot’s of pottering and purging and rearranging. There is a timeless quality of not being exactly sure what day of the week, or even what day it is. Not only a very pleasant time but also strangely productive.
After five or so [...]
This week’s cook book challenge combined with my lack of culinary energy has produced the somewhat mundane tuna crepe stack. Whilst unremarkable, it was a good honest meal of the comforting variety. Something I would imagine most children would eat happily and reasonably quick to prepare. Budget friendly as well.
The recipe claims to serve 6 [...]
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 [...]
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