The Kitchen Playground

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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