Welcome to The Kitchen Playground. Cooking can bring great joy and great despair. I hope that the recipes you find here, many of which are very quick to make with the weeknight in mind, help you to experience more joy than despair. Many recipes have instructions for the Thermomix 31 as well as traditional instructions. The emphasis is on real, fresh food that combines flavour, texture and scent to delight the senses.
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 […]
Yesterday was a sad day. I had to return Into the Vietnamese Kitchen to the library. I tried to extend my loan but someone else had it on hold. Bugger. Double bugger if it was someone putting it on hold because of my raving about it. So I cooked a last meal from it. Today […]
Sometimes, it’s just nice to whip up a quick loaf…
Light and delicious, this meal evolved out of leftover smoked salmon, a few stray cubes of goats feta and 150g leftover chevre. Smoked Salmon and Goat Cheese Filo Quiche 150g goat chevre a few cubes of leftover marinated goat feta 5 slices leftover smoked salmon, roughly torn, 8 eggs lightly beaten 2 teaspoons capers 1 […]
42 degrees for New Year’s Eve does not really incline one towards anything requiring hefty kitchen duty. We had planned to go to a friend’s house for a BBQ/drinks/casual get together. Eve the thought of hot meat was a little overbearing so I decided on the ultimate in simplicity. Individual platters of smoked salmon, prawns, […]
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 […]
The Ankle Biters were given these fabulous little pancake makers for Christmas. A terrific present from an Aunt, Uncle and Cousin. We made little men and heart pancakes for breakfast this morning. Lots of fun. Although beware if you decide to hunt them down (distributed in Australia by Davis and Waddell), the little handle gets […]
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 because […]
We have a Christmas Eve brunch at our house this year with BIL, SIL and Niece. Nice relaxed way to enjoy some family Christmas cheer. So here is my Christmas Eve Brunch for 7. Bircher Muesli (an adaptation) 500g good quality un-toasted muesli (I used Carman’s, you could of course make up your own mix […]
We had this a couple of nights ago and I’ve been meaning to write it up. The steamed egg produced the lightest, fluffiest, omelette style dish imaginable. I’ll be using this method again with different flavour combinations. Of course I found it in Into the Vietnamese Kitchen. Fragrant Steamed Egg, Pork & Cellophane Noodles 1 […]