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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Posted in Budget, Seafood on Sep 1st, 2008
One of my favourite types of meal, particularly during the week, is the one pot meal. Minimal mess, minimal preparation, all good ideals.
I picked up 4 lovely flathead fillets for the crazy low, low price of $4.20. Flathead is one of my favourite fish. A real flavour of my childhood. My maternal grandfather (Pappy) and [...]
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Posted in Budget, Seafood on May 30th, 2008
What more do you want? Snappy post titles?
Still battling the brain funk but desperately trying to move my way through the massive pile of assorted papers that accumulated during the computerless days. Really, it was less than a week. How could such a large pile with such a broad variety of tasks gather so quickly? [...]
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Posted in Budget, Carnivorous, thermomix on May 29th, 2008
Days off line, piles of paper with things I really want to post about and here I am, sitting down, glass of wine Ankle Biters asleep. Is a frenzy about to start? No. Brain is lying on the floor, energy levels are nil. What’s that about? To be honest, I felt much the same about [...]
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Posted in Budget, Vegetarian on May 8th, 2008
The themes of today.
Lingering man flu. The Bread Winner dragged his carcass through the front door tonight requesting a special cup of tea for a very, super, extremely, stingy sore throat. Poor baby. I dosed him up on a mixture of mint, peppermint, ginger, lemon and honey. That shut him up soothed him.
Loitering in [...]
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Posted in Budget, Carnivorous on May 6th, 2008
A conversation.
Me: You know you’re dying of nothing more than patheticness don’t you?
BW: Don’t cry for me, I’m already dead.
Yep, man flu. It’s highly symptomatic, lingering, debilitating and potentially fatal. Or so the Bread Winner would have you believe. Me, I like to call it a well deserved head cold developed after two nights out [...]
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Posted in Budget, Vegetarian, thermomix on Apr 20th, 2008
It really helps the budget when you get free food sent to you. Tonight’s meal featured a 150g packet of hazelnut meal that I was sent (along with a couple of others) as a ‘gesture of good will’ as I had emailed the company who sells it to report that a packet I had bought [...]
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Posted in Budget, Vegetarian on Feb 12th, 2008
Kinder meeting tonight, work tomorrow morning and night, a trillion jobs to do. No time to cook a time consuming meal. One thing is for sure though, the Bread Winner had a nasty take on last week’s cold and I want the house to have a big vegetable infusion. The result, vegetable curry. Less than [...]
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