Posts tagged with ‘budget meal’

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Slow Cooker. Cheese and Two Potato Soup

by Dani

The Kitchen Playground method of surviving the school term with a working mother is to use school holidays to do some bulk cooking. The idea is that I will end up wit lots of baked goods for lunches and enough precooked meals to get me through the nights that we get home late. These school […]

Frugal sandwich mix and almost take away for a hot night

by Dani

Summer has come to Melbourne this week with another scorcher today. The sort of day that makes one reluctant to cook for fear of unnecessarily heating up the house. To add another challenge to the day’s meal provision, chez KP is drastically short of fruit and veg. Lil Miss’s birthday extravaganza made the farmers market […]

Is fish + potato ever wrong?

by Dani

One of my favourite types of meal, particularly during the week, is the one pot meal. Minimal mess, minimal preparation, all good ideals. I picked up 4 lovely flathead fillets for the crazy low, low price of $4.20. Flathead is one of my favourite fish. A real flavour of my childhood. My maternal grandfather (Pappy) […]

quick, cheap, good

by Dani

What more do you want? Snappy post titles? Still battling the brain funk but desperately trying to move my way through the massive pile of assorted papers that accumulated during the computerless days. Really, it was less than a week. How could such a large pile with such a broad variety of tasks gather so […]

Javanese beef curry

by Dani

Javanese Beef Curry adapted from Super Food Ideas 5 green onions, roughly chopped 5 cloves garlic 3cm piece ginger 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1 teaspoon white pepper 2 tablespoons grapeseed oil 500g beef (any cut is fine) 1/2 cup ketcap manis 2 cinnamon sticks 3 medium tomatoes juice 2 limes Grind first 5 ingredients into […]

Eggplant, Zucchini and Rice Bake

by Dani

Eggplant, Zucchini and Rice Bake 1 eggplant, sliced 1 zucchini, sliced lengthways olive oil 1 1/2 cups cooked rice 400g tin tomatoes and sliced olives thinly sliced or grated cheese. Sprinkle eggplant with salt. Leave for 10 minutes. Wash and pat dry. Char grill eggplant and zucchini slices. Grease a casserole dish and layer the […]

Man Flu

by Dani

A conversation. Me: You know you’re dying of nothing more than patheticness don’t you? BW: Don’t cry for me, I’m already dead. Yep, man flu. It’s highly symptomatic, lingering, debilitating and potentially fatal. Or so the Bread Winner would have you believe. Me, I like to call it a well deserved head cold developed after […]

Vegetable and Hazelnut Loaf

by Dani

It really helps the budget when you get free food sent to you. Tonight’s meal featured a 150g packet of hazelnut meal that I was sent (along with a couple of others) as a ‘gesture of good will’ as I had emailed the company who sells it to report that a packet I had bought […]

Curry in a Hurry

by Dani

Kinder meeting tonight, work tomorrow morning and night, a trillion jobs to do. No time to cook a time consuming meal. One thing is for sure though, the Bread Winner had a nasty take on last week’s cold and I want the house to have a big vegetable infusion. The result, vegetable curry. Less than […]