The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in 10 minute meals, Budget, Dessert, Light Meals, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Soup, Vegetarian, thermomix on Nov 1st, 2008
Market day makes me want to stuff as much of that freshly picked vegetable goodness into my gob as humanly possible in one day. As each day of the week passes by, they are that little bit less fresh, that little bit less nutritious. Always good until the end though.
This morning, I got caught up [...]
Posted in Budget, Poultry, Soup, thermomix on Oct 15th, 2008
If I was asked (or even if I wasn’t) to name my favourite cook book author, I’m fairly sure the answer is Charmaine Solomon. Which provided for a happy moment within a rotten task.
Lil Miss has finally grown long enough legs to enable her to climb on to the ladderless top bunk. Which means that [...]
Posted in Competitions, Soup on Sep 1st, 2008
Congratulations Liz!
That’s one mighty fine looking chowder. Thermomix version will be coming to a kitchen near me. Soon.
Black beans, coriander, milk. Good things. Well done Liz and thanks for the wild ride PW!
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 [...]
Seriously, at least 4kg. I’m sure that’s the weight of the stress I was carrying in regards to finding a school for Son and Heir. I found out that he definitely has a place at a school I’m happy with. Which is not to say that is where he will go, it will depend on [...]
Posted in Budget, Soup, Vegetarian, thermomix on Jun 13th, 2008
Without a doubt it’s a winter thing. But nothing beats a good root. Vegetable. Personally, I love parsnips. So I got all excited when Brazen mentioned this parsnip soup. I got even more excited at the market today when I found a box of gorgeous little local parsnips. Here’s a hint. Don’t buy big [...]
Posted in Salads & Vegetables, Soup, Vegetarian on May 20th, 2008
Feel free to point and laugh at the Bread Winner if you see him. Because of course it’s terribly mature to point and laugh at people with the GDP of a medium African nations worth of metal on their teeth. He informed when he got back from signing our retirement away the orthodontist that some [...]
Posted in Soup, Vegetarian on May 17th, 2008
I’m not looking forward to the day when my Ankle Biters learn to speak properly. Such a large source of amusement will be gone forever. The Bread Winner took the AB’s out to a cafe this afternoon to guzzle beer catch up with a friend and give me some rest. He’s a man in a [...]
Posted in Budget, Soup, Vegetarian on Apr 28th, 2008
Did someone say minestrone? Actually Son and Heir has been begging me to make “pasta soup” for a couple of weeks now. This week is the week. I have no intention of us eating it until the end of the week but I like to make it when the vegetables are market fresh. Not [...]
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