The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in 10 minute meals, Budget, Light Meals, Salads & Vegetables, Seafood on Jan 28th, 2009
Melbourne is not a place to cook this week. It reached 43.4 degrees in the city today and 44 degrees i my neck of the woods. That’s around 110 in Farenheit. Admittedly I did get up at 6am to cook some chickpeas I’d had soaking but as it is still 37.4 degrees at 9.30pm, I [...]
‘Twas hot and sunny in my little corner of the world today. Much as I love the hot weather, when combined with a boot load of lovely thick wood donated by my brother and my dad, it makes for a hot and somewhat grumpy Dani.
Only grumpy until the job is completed. Then we have a [...]
Posted in Budget, Salads & Vegetables, Vegetarian on Jan 14th, 2009
Dinner invented itself as i was staring at the vegetable tray of the fridge tonight. I saw several summer vegetables that just begged to be chargrilled. I had no meat defrosted or beans soaked so lentils were an obvious choice. I wouldn’t go so far as to say this is an actual recipe. More just [...]
Posted in Budget, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Slow cooker/crock pot, Vegetarian on Dec 19th, 2008
Melbourne is a crazy town. Early spring was hot and dry. Early summer, cold and wet. Much as I prefer the heat, it’s much cheerier to embrace what you’ve got rather than pine for what you lack. So I whipped up a comforting, super cheap, super easy slow cooker beans and rice dinner. Hearty and [...]
Posted in Budget, Garden, Leftovers, Light Meals, Vegetarian on Dec 10th, 2008
One word. Fritters.
Working last weekend thrwe my week into complete havoc. Not being able to get to the farmer’s market meant going to a green grocers on Thursday after the supermarket. Aside from the horridness of the greengrocer when I am used to the greengrocers, I’ve had to stretch my fruit and vegetables further as [...]
Posted in Budget, Carnivorous, Party Food, thermomix on Dec 9th, 2008
Glorious rain kept me from my planned tasks this afternoon. Instead, I opted for fun with food. I stumbled upon this idea a few nights ago and it tickled my fancy.
I didn’t follow the recipe, I just made a meatloaf mix of a little beef, a little lamb, breadcrumbs, an egg, onion, garlic, a diced [...]
Posted in Budget, Leftovers, Vegetarian on Dec 3rd, 2008
Good old December knows how to throw her weight aound doesn’t she? Its only the third and my schedule is in complete disarray. So much so in fact that the entire concet of dinner did not enter my mind until after 4pm this afternoon. We generally eat at 5 (Anke Biter time) so this was [...]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Ankle Biter Cooking, Budget, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Vegetarian on Dec 1st, 2008
The rhythmic ebb and flow of my days is currently absent. Many factors are involved and must simply be borne for the present. Havoc is being wrought upon my meal planning as a result. A most unpleasant result.
Tonight in a mad dash to serve hungry, over tired Ankle BIters a meal in a [...]
Posted in Budget, Salads & Vegetables, Vegetarian on Nov 18th, 2008
Brazen has inspired me with her cook book challenge. So I’ve decided to do a similar thing. In the interests of variety, I am aiming to choose a cook book each week and make at least one thing from it. I will attempt to keep interested in this challenge until I have worked my way [...]
Posted in Baking, Budget, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Vegetarian, thermomix on Nov 16th, 2008
Today is a day of absolutely no originality at Chez KP. It has however, been a day of delicious food. Sunday is my sleep in day which leaves the Bread Winner on morning duty. So the less said about breakfast the better. Or in my case, I could simply say ‘what breakfast?’.
By lunchtime, things have [...]
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