The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Carnivorous, Salads & Vegetables, Sauces, thermomix on Dec 21st, 2008
This Last week’s book has been patiently sitting in the kitchen waiting for my attention all week. My attention, however, has been elsewhere. In terms of my food planning, the week has actually finished but unfinished business bothers me, so I will use Food To Go from the AWWs home library tonight whilst perusing this [...]
Posted in Salads & Vegetables on Nov 5th, 2008
I mentioned yesterday that I whipped up a potato salad for our Cup Day BBQ. I thought I’d share the recipe with you. There are so many wonderful versions of potato salad and this is one of my favourites
Potato and Olive Salad
8 - 10 small potatoes
1/3 cup homemade mayonnaise
1/4 cup roughly chopped stuffed olives
2 rashers [...]
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 wonderful [...]
Posted in Budget, Carnivorous, Salads & Vegetables, thermomix on Aug 13th, 2008
My potato plants all died off. So I went digging about to see what I could see. What I saw were lot’s of very small potatoes. I think the problem is the soil. It’s the second crop of potatoes in that tub in a row and they haven’t had a huge amount of compost. So [...]
Posted in Food Challenge, Salads & Vegetables, Seafood on Nov 9th, 2007
In response too Maria’s food challenge.
Spring Filo Tart
1 Zucchini
1 bunch asaparagus
2 - 3 tomatoes
1 tin salmon
4 sheets filo pastry
Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
Chop tomato into small pieces, drain salmon and thinly slice zucchini. Gently heat together in a small saucepan and drain off excess liquid.
Brush sheets of pastry lightly with butter, olive oil or orange [...]
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