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 [...]
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From time to time the day on which I do my supermarket shopping seems to change. I’m not really sure how or why it happens. It just does. Accept it. Currently it’s Monday. Which kind of sucks because I’m having trouble coming to grips with Mondays. It’s a mad flurry of drop Son and Heir [...]
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Day Four in Sydney and a continuation of Holiday Meal Planning. We actually had a meal today that I didn’t cook so don’t expect a recipe for lunch! It was delicious. Probably a tad to much chilli though. I like it hot but it killed the actual flavour of the laksa. We ate in the [...]
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The fridge is starting to look really bare now. The vegetable bins are actually empty. Gosh, that was possibly premature, I still have 1 or 2 more dinners to cook. Oh well, surely I have something in the freezer, that’s still pretty full. This one is Vietnamese by inspiration and was a genuine 10 minute [...]
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The amount of minutes entirely depends on soft or hard boiled eggs. No lettuce in this one. I want it dense and meal like, no arguments, it’s hot, I cleaned the house, mowed the lawn and did the ironing. I’m done in the kitchen for today. Tuna Salad 1 – 2 eggs per person, boil’em [...]
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I cooked a lovely roast chook the other night and padded it out with lots of salad and baked potato. It was a great big one so I intended to leave myself enough leftovers for a couple of meals. I can justify paying around the $20 mark for an organic chook if I can get [...]
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I was running a bit late tonight so had a quick peek in the fridge to see what I could whip up in a hurry. I found a bit of leftover cured salmon, a couple of mushrooms and a dash of cream on it’s last legs. Brilliant. Not much quicker and easier than pasta. Creamy [...]
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Posted in 10 minute meals, Leftovers, Poultry on Nov 24th, 2007
This was actually a quick throw together of some chicken breasts with leftover Morrocan Style Vegetables and Couscous. Very quick and easy and it tasted completely different to it’s previous incarnation. Truth be told, it could have done with a splash of white wine but I didn’t have any. Creamy chicken, Chickpea and Couscous Leftover [...]
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Today was the first of the days that are too hot to cook and almost too hot to eat. Beautiful weather but not really suited to the tagine I had planned to cook. Luckily though, I had some gorgeous prawns in the freezer so a salad came to mind. Almost a 10 minute meal. In [...]
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Posted in 10 minute meals on Oct 19th, 2007
Let’s lay down some ground rules. It’s OK to hate cooking. It’s OK to lose your cooking mojo. It’s not OK to cook and serve food devoid of nutrients. Let’s simplify matters by assuming that if it comes in a packet and doesn’t look like it was just picked form a garden or cut off [...]
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