The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Budget, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Sauces, Seafood on Dec 28th, 2008
The days between Christmas and New Year tend to be such a pleasant interlude. Lot’s of pottering and purging and rearranging. There is a timeless quality of not being exactly sure what day of the week, or even what day it is. Not only a very pleasant time but also strangely productive. After five or [...]
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 10 [...]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Baking, Budget, Carnivorous, Garden, Leftovers, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Salads & Vegetables, Sauces, thermomix on Nov 4th, 2008
I love Cup Day. There is nothing as ludicrous as a public holiday for a horse race and I love it. We totally dropped the ball on organising anything this year but fortunately we have friends who are just as slack. So an impromptu BBQ was planned at 8.30 this morning. I had defrosted some [...]
Posted in Budget, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Salads & Vegetables, Sauces, thermomix, Vegetarian on Oct 7th, 2008
Dinner tonight was eerily like dinner last night. But not. Last night was steamed vegetables on noodles with haloumi. Tonight was steamed vegetables on noodles with tahini dressing. Despite the ingredients being much the same, the flavour was vastly different. I love the versatility of the simplest vegetarian meals. In fact, had I any tamari, [...]
Posted in Budget, Pasta, Noodles & Rice on Sep 11th, 2008
Pasta makes my family happy. Very happy. So last night we had spag bog. While the sauce was simmering, I whipped up a batch of pumpkin gnocchi with some dying pumpkin for tonight. I was a but heavy handed with the flour and the gnocchi was crap not up to its usual standard. The sauce, [...]
Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Budget, Light Meals, Pasta, Noodles & Rice on Aug 14th, 2008
I used almost the same ingredients for both lunch and dinner today. Is that wrong? Bad luck if it is, its the end of the week in terms of food shopping and choices are limited. Both meals were good and it was the Ankle Biters turn to cook dinner so I’m happy. We had our [...]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Seafood on Jun 23rd, 2008
It’s been quite a while since I posted a 10 minute meal. Today I needed it. I was missing a vital ingredient for my planned meal and got buried deep in laundry. So this is what I came up with. Seafood and Goat Cheese Pasta. pasta of choice (with 10 minutes or less cooking time) [...]
Posted in Budget, Carnivorous, Pasta, Noodles & Rice on Jun 17th, 2008
So it would have to have no packaging, no transport miles, no manufacturing waste. It can be achieved. OK, so it’s permanent. Fine by me. Also, in our house, it got inflicted on the male so I feel just fine. I’m not completely heartless though, if my husband is willing to get neutered have a [...]
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