The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Budget, Light Meals on Aug 22nd, 2008
It’s totally freaky when you feel yourself actually morphing into your own mother. In fact I think I actually turned into a cariacture of her today.
Dear ol’ Mum loved to throw a dinner party. She was jolly good at it too. The house would be scrubbed. Scrubbed! Ceiling to skirting board, the house would be […]
What more do you want? Snappy post titles?
Still battling the brain funk but desperately trying to move my way through the massive pile of assorted papers that accumulated during the computerless days. Really, it was less than a week. How could such a large pile with such a broad variety of tasks gather so quickly? […]
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 Leftovers, Lunch, Soup, Vegetarian on Jan 15th, 2008
Absolute serendipity once again. A beautifully harmonious blend of things left in the fridge. Made in the thermomix. Could be made almost as quickly using a food processor to chopa nd a saucepan to cook. Messier though. Love my thermomix.
Carrot, Chickpea and Ginger Soup
1 salad onion
1 shallot
3 cloves garlic
6 carrots, roughly chopped
1 1/2 cups chickpeas, […]
Posted in Carnivorous on Jan 15th, 2008
Well that was either a quiick hiatus or a premature announcement. Actually I just found a scrap of paper with a curry on it that I made the other night and forgot to post. I made this entirely in the thermomix, then removed it, cooked the rice in the thermomix and reheated the curry in […]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Seafood on Dec 23rd, 2007
I found two yellow fin tuna steaks in the freezer and 1 small tin of tuna. The Ankle Biters have not been worthy of yellow fin steaks today. So I had yet another delve into Into the Vietnamese Kitchen and found this lovely recipe for pan seared tuna. I served it on top of steamed […]
I did my supermarket Christmas shopping tonight. Just have the fruit and veg to go now. I seem to have spent a small fortune on food lately and the house really is very well stocked, Christmas notwithstanding. So I have decided that I am only allowed to restock on fruit and veg for the next […]
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The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
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