The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
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 […]
Posted in Carnivorous, Lunch, Salads & Vegetables, thermomix on Mar 24th, 2008
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 […]
Posted in Carnivorous, Salads & Vegetables, thermomix on Mar 23rd, 2008
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Posted in Breakfast, Budget, Carnivorous, Leftovers, Lunch, Salads & Vegetables on Jan 21st, 2008
Day Three in Sydney and a continuation of Holiday Meal Planning.
I had to do a small shopping top up last night, I bought more bread, eggs, rocket and a massive bunch of coriander. Most of which is already gone. I’m going to have to hit the supermarket again in the next day or so.
Meal […]
Posted in Breakfast, Budget, Carnivorous, Lunch, Salads & Vegetables on Jan 20th, 2008
Day Two in Sydney and a continuation of Holiday Meal Planning
Meal Plan Day Two
Breakfast - bacon, poached eggs and toast
Lunch - ham/salami/salad sandwiches
Dinner - BBQ’d rissoles on lentil salad
Poached Eggs
It seems that there are many methods for making perfect poached eggs. I thought I’d share mine. I use a large saucepan 2/3 full of boiling […]
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