The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Baking, Carnivorous, Dessert, Salads & Vegetables, Starters & Snacks, thermomix on Nov 20th, 2008
It was apt that I started my cook book challenge with Women’s Weekly Dinner Party Cook Book No. 3 as we had dinner guests last night. As it was a mid-week affair, I forwent the full degustation catastrophe and settled for appetisers, sorbet, main meal and dessert. The main meal was the featured cook book […]
Posted in Baking, Budget, Starters & Snacks, Vegetarian, thermomix on Nov 12th, 2008
It seems I am still somewhat discombobulated. It didn’t occur to me until I received a late agenda that I had a kinder committee meeting last night. Pretty silly of me considering it was clearly written on the calendar. Furthermore, I had no idea at all that it was my turn to bring food.
A quick […]
Posted in Budget, Garden, Leftovers, Light Meals, Salads & Vegetables, Starters & Snacks, thermomix on Nov 2nd, 2008
Broad Beans would be so tiresome if they were in season all year round. Removing the pods, cooking, skinning. It’s a fair bit of work. Something I’m more than happy to do in spring when they’re in season to experience their fleeting deliciousness.
Joy of joy, despite my poor broad bean plants this year (almost certainly […]
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 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 Starters & Snacks, thermomix on Jul 28th, 2008
Frankly, I’m a summer girl. Cold totally sucks in my opinion. Unless you’re doing something productive with it like skiing and our budget never stretches that far. Pretty much the only things that excite me about winter are food related. Sad but true. Comfort food is all about cold weather.
One of my favourites has come […]
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 Starters & Snacks on May 22nd, 2008
It’s been more years than I can remember since I had any form of muesli bar or product bearing resemblance to a museli bar in the house. This week I decided to make them. Guess what one of the forbidden foods for those with braces is? What’s that? Did I hear you say […]
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