The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Once the weather warms up, the Ankle Biters consume vast quantities of watermelon. Both in chunks and whizzed up in the thermomix and frozen as icy poles. They can’t get enough of the stuff.
photo by kurisurokku, some rights reserved
Growing up I read and reread the ‘Little House’ books and ‘Farmer Boy’ by Laura Ingalls Wilder. […]
My recent mastery of bread baking has led to an outpouring of pane toscane, pain de campagne, ciabatta and baguettes. Which has of course been lovely but there’s been nary a whole grain in sight. The odd seeded spelt baton notwithstanding. So I decided to fiddle around with my pane toscane recipe this morning and […]
Posted in Budget, Vegetarian, thermomix on Oct 2nd, 2008
I love it when the state of the garden dictates our meal choices. Today simply had to be about silver beet (swiss chard).
photo by MG Shelton, some rights reserved
I rather fancied quesadillas. Much as I love my usual masa harina tortilla recipe, I felt like something more malleable. I still wanted to retain the corn […]
Posted in Baking, Budget, Carnivorous, Dessert, Salads & Vegetables, thermomix on Sep 30th, 2008
I’m fairly sure mine is different every time I make it. It’s the most wonderful meal in a bowl. The dressing for tonight’s version was inspired by Jane Lawson’s Tossed’. The love affair continues.
As the Bread Winner waltzed out the door tonight he threw a final comment at me, “W’s coming over tonight”. The man […]
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, […]
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 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 […]
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?
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 […]
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