Posted in Baking, Carnivorous, Dessert, Drinks, Light Meals, Party Food, Poultry, Salads & Vegetables, Sauces, Seafood, Soup, Starters & Snacks, Uncategorized, Vegetarian, thermomix on Aug 24th, 2008
I consider myself very lucky to have Ankle Biters with quite adult palates. Well there is both luck and good management involved in that. However, I have lately been overcome by a burning desire to throw a good old fashioned grown up dinner party. The Bread Winner is about to vanish to far away ports [...]
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Posted in Pasta, Noodles & Rice on Jun 30th, 2008
Oh my heavens I love cheese. Bugger chocolate (nice though it can be), I’ll take cheese any day. So for a cold winter evening, I made this combination of cheeses with some pasta, pumpkin and sage thrown in to flesh it out.
Tortellini with Pumpkin, sage and three cheese sauce
adapted from yet another Super Food Ideas [...]
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Posted in Reviews on Jun 6th, 2008
Seriously, I just went weak at the knees. I can’t blame three weeks of sustained post-surgery bleeding. I can’t even blame the visually perfect male creation that put a crick in my neck as I walked past him earlier today.
The culprit was Tarago triple cream brie. Get your hands on some. Salty creamy goodness that [...]
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Posted in Vegetarian on Dec 19th, 2007
I found a recipe ages ago and put it aside thinking I might make some as Christmas gifts. I didn’t get around to that but I came across the recipe again last weekend and thought I’d make a batch for Christmas Day nibbles and general snacking.
I won’t re-write the recipe as I made it exactly [...]
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Posted in Budget, Leftovers, Vegetarian on Dec 15th, 2007
This week got away from me a bit in the kitchen department which meant I had a selection of vegetables that really needed to be cooked today. Plus I had some odd remnants of cheese.
Cheese and Vegetable Strudel
A few stray snow peas
A few stray green beans
1 head broccoli
1 potato
wedge pumpkin
8 baby carrots
3 cloves garlic
1 [...]
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Posted in Vegetarian on Nov 28th, 2007
This is a Charmaine Solomon recipe, I’ve just adjusted it for use in the Thermomix. Much easier to make this way. In the pre-Thermomix days, the kneading stage used to drive me to distraction.
Cheese Koftas in Creamy Sauce
2 litres full cream milk
60 ml lemon juice
3 tablespoons coriander, finely chopped
2 tablespoons sultanas, finely chopped
2 tablespoons [...]
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