The Kitchen Playground

Father’s Day didn’t start so well here at Chez KP. First problem, was of course the absence of the Bread WInner. second problem was Son and Heir destroying my knitting at 5.30am. Which I didn’t discover until 6.30 when I decided to start yelling at the Ankle Biters whilst in the same room as them, […]

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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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I consider myself very lucky to have Ankle Biters with quite adult palates. Well there is both luck and good management involved in that. However, I have lately been overcome by a burning desire to throw a good old fashioned grown up dinner party. The Bread Winner is about to vanish to far away ports […]

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My potato plants all died off. So I went digging about to see what I could see. What I saw were lot’s of very small potatoes. I think the problem is the soil. It’s the second crop of potatoes in that tub in a row and they haven’t had a huge amount of compost. So […]

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Sometimes I’m a little slow. I know that the smaller you make things before composting them, the quicker they decompose. So why did it only occur to me today to throw the compost stuff in the thermomix before throwing it in the bokashi bin?

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I tend to blitz through most days at a fairly hectic pace. Being forced to slow down by two unwell Ankle Biters and a badly cut finger is pure torture. It’s taken me all day to perform tasks that would normally take half that time.
Just the normal day to day tasks of a mum. Post-vomit […]

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Frankly, I’m a summer girl. Cold totally sucks in my opinion. Unless you’re doing something productive with it like skiing and our budget never stretches that far. Pretty much the only things that excite me about winter are food related. Sad but true.  Comfort food is all about cold weather.
One of my favourites has come […]

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It’s super cold and wet in Melbourne this morning. It rained much of the night and it seems to be continuing into the day. Which is a good thing. Let’s hope it’s raining over the catchment areas and not just here. The only issue with this weather is that it means I won’t get the […]

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I ordered half an animal today. A 9 - 10 month old grass fed vealer. That’s 60 odd kilograms of dead animal I need to store. So the next couple of weeks whilst waiting for delivery, I will be cleaning out the contents of the freezer. I sorted the contents today and wrote a list […]

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Whilst conducting some research for tonight’s dinner, I discovered that one should NEVER check the meaning of steaming sausage in urban dictionary. Really. Never. Just trust me on this one OK?
Friday night I don’t dig cooking. Friday is cleaning day at Chez KP and often supermarket day as well. Plus swimming lesson day just to […]

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