The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Lunch, Salads & Vegetables, Vegetarian on Jan 10th, 2008
Yesterday I knew two things about today. Firstly that I was going to Mt Martha which is an hour and a half drive each way. Secondly that it was going to be 41 degrees. Both of those things meant that I was not going to have the time to cook and that it would be [...]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Budget, Salads & Vegetables, Seafood on Jan 4th, 2008
The amount of minutes entirely depends on soft or hard boiled eggs. No lettuce in this one. I want it dense and meal like, no arguments, it’s hot, I cleaned the house, mowed the lawn and did the ironing. I’m done in the kitchen for today.
Tuna Salad
1 - 2 eggs per person, boil’em as [...]
Posted in Budget, Carnivorous, Leftovers, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Poultry, Salads & Vegetables on Dec 30th, 2007
I cooked a lovely roast chook the other night and padded it out with lots of salad and baked potato. It was a great big one so I intended to leave myself enough leftovers for a couple of meals. I can justify paying around the $20 mark for an organic chook if I can get [...]
Posted in Budget, Christmas, Leftovers, Ramblings on Dec 26th, 2007
The beauty of dividing up Christmas cooking is the dividing up of leftovers. Which in our case this year means some salads and that is it. Well there was a sliver of pavlova left but I bequeathed that to my brother. Better it go on his butt than mine.
So here we are, lunchtime Boxing Day [...]
Posted in Christmas, Dessert, Drinks, Salads & Vegetables on Dec 25th, 2007
We are having Christmas lunch at my brother and his wife’s house this year. We all pitch in and bring food so no one has to work too hard. I was quick to bags dessert because a wonderful recipe sprang to mind courtesy of the lovely Jan. I also volunteered a couple of salads [...]
Posted in Budget, Salads & Vegetables on Dec 13th, 2007
This is not a salad to eat if you are on a diet!
Pumpkin, Bacon and Blue Cheese Salad with Hazelnuts
1 large piece of pumpkin cut into small cubes
150g Danish blue cheese, cut into small cubes
4 rashers free range bacon
1/4 cup hazelnuts
baby spinach leaves
olive oil
white balsamic vinegar
1 clove garlic finely chopped
Oven roast pumpkin, drizzled with olive [...]
Posted in Lunch, Salads & Vegetables, Seafood on Nov 29th, 2007
A divine big steak of yellow fin tuna caught my roving eye at the market this morning. Fresh in off the boat too. I had dreams of it being good enough to make a carpaccio. I brought it home and froze it for half an hour so as to slice it more easily, sliced off [...]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Salads & Vegetables, Seafood on Nov 19th, 2007
Today was the first of the days that are too hot to cook and almost too hot to eat. Beautiful weather but not really suited to the tagine I had planned to cook. Luckily though, I had some gorgeous prawns in the freezer so a salad came to mind. Almost a 10 minute meal. In [...]
Posted in Salads & Vegetables, Seafood on Nov 17th, 2007
Not that it’s summer yet but with the weather we’re having it may as well be! Sorry there’s no pictures but I forgot to charge the camera. Which is a pity, it was a pretty meal
Coriander Pesto Crusted Swordfish with Shredded Tzatziki Salad
2 pieces of swordfish (serves 4, it’s a big meaty ocean fish)
2 bunches [...]
Posted in 10 minute meals, Carnivorous, Leftovers, Lunch, Salads & Vegetables on Nov 10th, 2007
It’s a beautiful warm day in Melbourne today and we spent the better part of it over in Ferntree Gully at a kids party. By the time we got home I had a scant hour to go for a run before dinner. So I threw a piece of topside in the oven before I left [...]
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