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.
This was actually a quick throw together of some chicken breasts with leftover Morrocan Style Vegetables and Couscous. Very quick and easy and it tasted completely different to it’s previous incarnation. Truth be told, it could have done with a splash of white wine but I didn’t have any. Creamy chicken, Chickpea and Couscous Leftover […]
This is a quick and easy dish I threw together tonight when I suddenly realised I was running very late. Not a true 10 minute meal as it takes a little longer to cook but certainly less than 10 minutes work in the thermomix. Moroccan Style Vegetable and Couscous 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 onions […]
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 […]
I made a curd and dill loaf today from World Breads but I decided to get decorative and cut it into an epi. Stupidly I took a photo of it upside down so stand on your head to get the proper picture of wheat into your mind. Pretty isn’t it? Delicious too, we had ours […]
This is a lovely spring dish but it would be lovely in winter too. I used the lovely long thin asian eggplants. I find they don’t have the bitterness of the big egg shaped eggplants so don’t need to be salted before cooking. I was considering making a straight eggplant and olive caponata to go […]
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 […]
After last night’s disasters, the stuffed mushrooms are back on track. First, make the faux ricotta. Not ricotta as it’s not made of whey. Really just soft cheese curds. Once you’ve tasted this you will never want to eat supermarket ricotta again. Faux Ricotta. 4 lites milk pinch sea salt 1.3 cup white vinegar Heat […]
I did the food shopping today so that makes it clean out the fridge day. I love cleaning out the fridge and making something of all the little leftover odds and ends. Very satisfying. Waste is an extremely dirty word in this house. There weren’t many fridge scraps to be had today though, I must […]
I adore brown lentil salad, particularly with lamb cutlets. It’s a little meal of mine I haven’t shared with you as yet. We had a variation on it tonight. Lentil, Pea, Broad Bean & Chicken Salad 1 cup brown lentils, soaked over night (or use tinned if you must) 6 – 8 pods of broad […]
Mexican is always a big hit around here. Using black beans however requires forethought and planning. Unless of course you use the tinned variety but I prefer to use dried. Semi-Refried Black Bean Tacos 1 cup black beans 1 banana chilli, sliced 1 small red chilli, finely chopped 1 clove garlic, finely chopped 1/2 400g […]