The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in 10 minute meals, Breakfast, Light Meals, Sauces, Seafood, thermomix on Feb 28th, 2010
February is the new December. Busy, busy, busy. Not to mention often too hot to cook. This little meal is not only versatile in the time of day that it suits but it’s delicious and can be made in 10 minutes from start to finish. What more could you possibly want?
Poached salmon, egg and asparagus [...]
Posted in Salads & Vegetables, thermomix on Feb 14th, 2010
Due to extreme tiredness, a backlog of knitting for the school fete and a half written emergency plan for the kinder, this week’s post contains a side dish only. But what a side dish it was! A thermomix modification of a classic Spanish tapas dish, which was served with Portuguese steak and Portuguese fried potatoes.
Judias [...]
Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Budget, Carnivorous, Food Challenge, Leftovers, Light Meals, Lunch, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Salads & Vegetables, Sauces, Seafood, Soup, thermomix on Jan 31st, 2010
Ahh Vietnamese food. It never fails to delight. Never. Every dish was hungrily gobbled and loudly praised this evening.
The soup was magical. My love for pho is not unknown but I simply did not have the time to make the stock. I’ve found my quick substitute soup. The beef and Vietnamese coriander soup is light, [...]
Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Light Meals, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Salads & Vegetables, Seafood, thermomix on Jan 30th, 2010
After a night out of the kitchen last night, today we resumed our world tour. Tonight’s top, Thailand. First Born has identified it on the map, read a book about it, drawn the flag and listed similarities between Japan and Thailand. I hope he always loves learning this much. And in such a self directed [...]
Posted in Food Challenge, Light Meals, Poultry, Salads & Vegetables, Seafood, Starters & Snacks, thermomix on Jan 28th, 2010
Warning: International food challenges may cause regular blogging.*
First Born has embraced this project with a passion. We went to the library today and he borrowed books on Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, France, Russia and Germany. Today he read his book on Japan, located Japan in his Atlas and drew the Japanese flag. Things like this give [...]
Posted in Budget, Poultry, Vegetarian, thermomix on Jan 17th, 2010
While I haven’t been blogging, I have been reading blogs. There are so many blogs about frugal food coming out of the US its crazy. Much of it is food I wouldn’t feed my dog but there are some great ideas, based on real food. This recipe for an inexpensive meat substitute for tacos is [...]
Posted in Baking, Budget, Dessert, thermomix on Nov 23rd, 2009
I’m going through one of my frenzies of cleaning out the fridge and pantry. Every now and again I seem to get a build up of obscure ingredients and just before Christmas when I’m trying to save money is a great time to use them all up. Not only does it tidy up the cupboards [...]
Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Budget, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Vegetarian, thermomix on Nov 22nd, 2009
Being Sunday, it’s First Born’s turn to cook. Tonight, he has whipped up a broad bean and feta risotto in the thermomix. I can’t say it often enough, the thermomix is absolutely brilliant for teaching children to cook.
The risotto was fantastic and First Born was very proud of himself. As well he should be. He [...]
Posted in Budget, Light Meals, Salads & Vegetables, Seafood, thermomix on Nov 19th, 2009
The end of spring in Melbourne has been scorchingly hot. Which I am absolutely relishing. I love both the warmth and the complete transformation of our meals into the wonderful world of salads. We’ve had this one twice since I first threw it together a week ago, the second time with the addition of some [...]
Posted in Light Meals, Sauces, Seafood, thermomix on Oct 19th, 2009
The onset of spring has brought about a craving for light but filling meals here at chez KP. As the weather has been relatively cool, salads haven’t made much of an inroad to our table, instead, the varoma has been getting quite the workout. Fish and steamed vegetables, with or without rice has become a [...]
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