Posted in Baking, Carnivorous, Christmas, Dessert, Party Food, Poultry, Salads & Vegetables, Sauces, Seafood, Soup, Starters & Snacks, Vegetarian, thermomix on Aug 27th, 2008
Its been a while coming but here are the recipes from our recent dinner party.
chorizo in potatoes
I read about these in a Gourmet Traveller whilst sitting in a cafe in Sydney recently. I didn’t copy the recipe but it’s pretty simple so I probably did the same thing as the original recipe specified.
2 chorizo
1 large […]
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Posted in Poultry, Salads & Vegetables on Apr 28th, 2008
For the last couple of weeks, the pool heater at work has been broken. Fortunately it was fixed today but the air temperature was cold. So after two and a half hours in the water, I was very glad to be finished work and in a hot shower today. Swim teaching in terms two […]
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Posted in Salads & Vegetables on Apr 15th, 2008
Sounds fancy doesn’t it? I picked up some quail eggs at the market, mostly because Son and Heir was fascinated by them. I’ve never cooked them for the kids before. Once up on a time in a world before kids I used to do crazy things like de-bone quail, I can’t imagine ever being motivated […]
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Lately, on a fortnightly basis, I throw meal planning to the wind with reckless abandon and simply buy up enough seasonal fruit and vegetables to get me through the week. Then, on a daily basis I think of a way of combining the fresh fruit and vegetables with something from the freezer or pantry […]
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I have a confession to make. I have been guilty of gluttony. Oh so guilty. Six extra kilos of padding guilty. Gluttony for me is not eating bad food. It’s eating too much. It’s an extra mouthful every time I prepare food for the kids. It’s eatng the kids scraps so they don’t got to […]
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I think I’ve made it perfectly clear that I have a definite thing for Vietnamese food. Malaysian food comes not far behind in my list of favourite cuisines. My favourite of all Malaysian food is Roti Chanai. Which made me very happy to find a great roti recipe on Food Safari.
Naturally I used […]
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Posted in Salads & Vegetables, Vegetarian on Mar 17th, 2008
It’s still very hot in Melbourne. Really hot. It’s unusual to get a heatwave this long lasting here. I’ll miss it when it’s done. Perfect salad weather. Which is lucky because as usual on a Monday, I’m quite rushed between kinder, work, food shopping, laundry and so on. I found some falafel mix in the […]
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Posted in Salads & Vegetables, Seafood on Mar 13th, 2008
The Bread Winner gets back late tonight. I know he doesn’t like fruit in salads. Tough. Tonight he’s getting it. Next time maybe he won’t confuse his flight times and have me believe he’ll be home early. So there.
Garlic prawn and wombok salad
1 baby wombok, shredded
1 carrot, grated
1 red capsicum, julienned
1 cup bean sprouts
handful snow […]
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Posted in Lunch, Salads & Vegetables on Mar 11th, 2008
the mouse is making fruity salad.
The Bread Winner is off winning bread interstate this week. So on one hand that means that I don’t have to worry too much about food as long as the kids will eat it. And let’s face it, my kids eat any old swill you throw at them. On […]
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Posted in Salads & Vegetables on Mar 2nd, 2008
An adaptation of the thermomix beetroot salad.
1 large betroot, peeled and cut into large chunks
1 head broccoli, cut into large chunks
3 apples, quartered and cored
1 red onion, peeled and quartered
3 tablespoons olive oil
6 tablespoons lemon juice
3 tablespoons coriander, chopped
Place beetroot, apples, onion and broccoli in thermomix and using spatula to push around, chop on speed […]
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