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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The Dinner Party Recipes
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 […]
A dinner party for six … Ankle Biters excluded
Posted in Baking, Carnivorous, Dessert, Drinks, Light Meals, Party Food, Poultry, Salads & Vegetables, Sauces, Seafood, Soup, Starters & Snacks, Uncategorized, Vegetarian, thermomix on Aug 24th, 2008
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 […]
Weird potatoes
Posted in Budget, Carnivorous, Salads & Vegetables, thermomix on Aug 13th, 2008
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 […]
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?
Despite the finger incident, dinner is served.
Posted in Budget on Aug 12th, 2008
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 […]
Winter delights
Posted in Starters & Snacks, thermomix on Jul 28th, 2008
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 […]
Sunday morning in the kitchen
Posted in Baking, Breakfast, Budget, thermomix on Jul 26th, 2008
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 […]
Freezer Fun and other odds and ends
Posted in Baking, Budget, Carnivorous, Ramblings, thermomix on Jul 25th, 2008
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 […]
Plain as plain can be.
Posted in Budget, Carnivorous, thermomix on Jul 18th, 2008
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 […]


