The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Leftovers, Lunch, Vegetarian on Mar 22nd, 2008
I made a baked risotto with pumpkin, cauliflower and fennel the other night. I found the leftovers this morning. Which was fortunate because I needed to leave lunch for Lil Miss and the Bread Winner. Son and Heir and I were off to a birthday party.
Press mounds of risotto firmly in to a greased muffin [...]
Posted in Budget, Carnivorous, Leftovers, Lunch on Mar 6th, 2008
Do you know what I love about not being typically Western in the way we eat meat? I love that 3 lonely lamb chops that didn’t get cooked at a barbecue the other day will easily make a meal for 4 of us.
I also have half a dish of leftover vegetable gratin and some large [...]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Ankle Biter Cooking, Leftovers, Pasta, Noodles & Rice on Feb 25th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Budget, Carnivorous, Leftovers, Lunch, Poultry on Feb 17th, 2008
My Father in Law is in town for a month. That’s a good thing in case you were wondering. It does mean lots of impromptu family gatherings. Which is also a good thing. A little difficult to manage on a Sunday night though. Difficult because I have one extra, maybe three. I won’t know how [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Budget, Vegetarian on Jan 27th, 2008
Day Nine in Sydney and a continuation of Holiday Meal Planning.
Today is all about cleaning out the fridge, using everything up and making sure we have snacks for the car. We’re leaving early tomorrow morning to drive home. I miss my dog, my thermomix and my sewing machine but with the exception of Bronte, [...]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Breakfast, Budget, Leftovers, Lunch, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Poultry on Jan 22nd, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Budget, Carnivorous, Leftovers, Lunch, Salads & Vegetables on Jan 21st, 2008
Day Three in Sydney and a continuation of Holiday Meal Planning.
I had to do a small shopping top up last night, I bought more bread, eggs, rocket and a massive bunch of coriander. Most of which is already gone. I’m going to have to hit the supermarket again in the next day or so.
Meal [...]
Posted in Budget, Carnivorous, Leftovers, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Poultry, Salads & Vegetables on Dec 30th, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Budget, Christmas, Leftovers, Ramblings on Dec 26th, 2007
The beauty of dividing up Christmas cooking is the dividing up of leftovers. Which in our case this year means some salads and that is it. Well there was a sliver of pavlova left but I bequeathed that to my brother. Better it go on his butt than mine.
So here we are, lunchtime Boxing Day [...]
Posted in Leftovers, Pasta, Noodles & Rice on Dec 22nd, 2007
The pantry raid (phew, lucky I didn’t leave that ‘r’ out), continues tonight with a recipe I’ve been meaning to try for ages plus a sauce cobbled together out of leftovers.
I generally do my supermarket shopping at a wonderful IGA, Leo’s. Apart from not belonging to Coles or Woolworths which is a major plus in [...]
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