The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Budget, Garden, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Vegetarian on Oct 16th, 2008
Here is a random nasturtiun from my back yard. Not relevant to anything else I have to say today. Just pretty.
Now that I’ve got that out of my system, I’ll move on to my next random topic. The Junior Landcare Watermelon Challenge. It’s open to Australian children as individuals or as schools. The idea is […]
Posted in Budget, Leftovers, Light Meals, Vegetarian on Oct 12th, 2008
Today was 30 degrees. That’s 86 if you speak Farenheit. It’s going to be a long hot summer.
Which prompted me to make a summery meal. Well that and the fact that I had nothing planned, some scraps that needed using, lunches to make, no bread and not a lot of time on my hands. Want […]
Posted in Budget, Garden, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Vegetarian, thermomix on Oct 11th, 2008
I don’t know if I am just uber passionate about my food loves or that I can’t grow enough of anything to give a glut large enough to actually make me sick of certain foods. Or maybe a little of both.
I let the last batch of asparagus run wild rather than eat it with great […]
Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Baking, Budget, Vegetarian on Oct 9th, 2008
One of the many things I love about Son and Heir’s kinder is the little vegie patch. Over the school holidays, the silverbeet grew to maturity. So this afternoon, Lil Miss and I joined the kinder kids to harvest and cook some of it.
Each of the children picked a leaf and then we headed inside. […]
Posted in Budget, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Salads & Vegetables, Sauces, Vegetarian, thermomix on Oct 7th, 2008
Dinner tonight was eerily like dinner last night. But not. Last night was steamed vegetables on noodles with haloumi. Tonight was steamed vegetables on noodles with tahini dressing. Despite the ingredients being much the same, the flavour was vastly different. I love the versatility of the simplest vegetarian meals. In fact, had I any tamari, […]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Budget, Light Meals, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Salads & Vegetables, Vegetarian on Oct 7th, 2008
Just the veg and haloumi alone would be enough for me. The carboholics in the family demanded more so I added some dried Chinese noodles. A squeeze of lemon juice is all this dinner needs.
Posted in Budget, Vegetarian, thermomix on Oct 2nd, 2008
I love it when the state of the garden dictates our meal choices. Today simply had to be about silver beet (swiss chard).
photo by MG Shelton, some rights reserved
I rather fancied quesadillas. Much as I love my usual masa harina tortilla recipe, I felt like something more malleable. I still wanted to retain the corn […]
Posted in Baking, Breakfast, Vegetarian on Sep 28th, 2008
In my noodlings ’round the net yesterday, I found a picture. I think it was on flickr. It was a breakfast from The Commoner, which I believe is a Melbourne cafe. It tickled my fancy so I thought I’d replicate it for breakfast this morning.
Panfried Gingerbread with Caramelised Banana and Honeyed Yoghurt.
I made the gingerbread […]
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 Budget, Salads & Vegetables, Vegetarian on Sep 26th, 2008
We like to mix things up a little round here. So I took a salad, added some grated cheese, sour cream and freshly made corn tortillas. Yum. Although perhaps serving beans for both lunch and dinner was overkill. Maybe we should stay out of the public arena for awhile.
Southwestern Black Bean Salad
from Tossed, Jane Lawson
3/4 […]
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