The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Budget, Salads & Vegetables, Vegetarian on Sep 26th, 2008
We like to mix things up a little round here. So I took a salad, added some grated cheese, sour cream and freshly made corn tortillas. Yum. Although perhaps serving beans for both lunch and dinner was overkill. Maybe we should stay out of the public arena for awhile.
Southwestern Black Bean Salad
from Tossed, Jane Lawson
3/4 [...]
Posted in Budget, Light Meals, Salads & Vegetables, Vegetarian on Sep 25th, 2008
Parental brag first. So and Heir rode over 10km today in two separate stetches. LIttle champ. I bet he sleeps well tonight. The way home was harder than the way there but he made it!
Now that’s out of the way, let’s move on to food shall we? You may not be surprised to hear that [...]
Posted in Budget, Salads & Vegetables, Vegetarian on Sep 18th, 2008
It may not be as warm as I would like just yet but salads can still be just right. They just need a bit of warmth to them. I served this with freshly baked pain de campagne. A perfect combination.
Eggplant and Lentil Salad
adapted from Tossed by Jane Lawson
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup green lentils
2 cups [...]
Posted in Budget, Carnivorous, Salads & Vegetables on Sep 17th, 2008
Salad Fever continues at Chez KP with ongoing inspiration from ‘Tossed‘.
Warm potato and sausage salad
8 small potatoes, unpeeled
olive oil
sea salt
6 sausages (I used Cornish, spicy would work well too)
rocket (arugula)
300g semi dried cherry tomatoes
Dressing
1 head garlic, cloves separated but unpeeled
1 tablespoon dijon mustard
2 tablespoons tarragon white wine vinegar
Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Place potatoes [...]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Budget, Garden, Light Meals, Salads & Vegetables, Vegetarian on Sep 13th, 2008
Today was another wonderful, warm Melbourne spring day. Complete with somewhat annoying trademark Melbourne gale force winds. The Ankle Biters and I were out the door by 7.45am and on our way to the farmers market at Collingwood Children’s Farm. As were half the inhabitants on Melbourne (or so it seemed).
photo by pinkcocoa, some rights [...]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Light Meals, Salads & Vegetables, Seafood, Uncategorized on Sep 12th, 2008
Today was officially the first short sleeve and sandal day of spring in Melbourne. Utter bliss. Made even more enjoyable by my freshly spring cleaned windows. I’m in my happy place.
Just as at the start of the colder weather, soup is a fabulous meal that it seems impossible to tire of, the advent of warmer [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Budget, Salads & Vegetables, Vegetarian, thermomix on Apr 2nd, 2008
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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