Posts by Dani

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Congratulations are in order

by Dani

Jeff the Thermomixer, congratulations! Your kedegree is a worthy winner. That is all I have for tonight on the grounds that after a somewhat hectic shift at work this morning and a busy afternoon, I am absolutely exhausted. I will have more to say on the morrow.

Cook Book Challenge Week 3

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Once again, my hand reached for the Women’s Weekly section of the cook book shelf. This week’s selection is ‘The Best Seafood Recipes’. I forgot that I hadn’t selected this week’s challenge book after dinner. Which was a shame as we had pan fried barramundi with mash and snow peas for dinner tonight. Perhaps I […]

A fish and salad dinner party

by Dani

It’s been a couple of weeks since this dinner party. Somewhat uncharacteristically, I didn’t take a single photo. It took all my energy to get the food to the table. Little did I know, I was being hit with a nasty virus which took complete control of me sometime around midnight that same evening and […]

Quick, easy Mexican-esque stuffing for baked potatoes

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Good old December knows how to throw her weight aound doesn’t she? Its only the third and my schedule is in complete disarray. So much so in fact that the entire concet of dinner did not enter my mind until after 4pm this afternoon. We generally eat at 5 (Anke Biter time) so this was […]

Super moist chicken and a simple green warm salad

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For weeks now I have been meaning to sample this chicken from Stone Soup. Finally, the night arrived. Let me tell you it was well worth the wait. I made yoghurt cheese rather than the yogurt and cream cheese mix. Deliciously moist and packed with flavour. There’s barely enough left to make a single sandwich […]

Quick dinner emergency. Macaroni with hidden veg

by Dani

The rhythmic ebb and flow of my days is currently absent. Many factors are involved and must simply be borne for the present. Havoc is being wrought upon my meal planning as a result. A most unpleasant result. Tonight in a mad dash to serve hungry, over tired Ankle BIters a meal in a 10 […]

Corned Beef proudly brought to you by the cook book challenge, week 2

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This week’s selection, grabbed from the shelf at random, was Women’s Weekly Country Cooking. It’s  cook book that usually only gets considered in the colder months although it has recipes for all seasons. Today however, was virtually a winter’s day. It was freezing this morning when we went to the farmers market and I went […]

Midweek entertaining inspired by the cook book of the week.

by Dani

It was apt that I started my cook book challenge with Women’s Weekly Dinner Party Cook Book No. 3 as we had dinner guests last night. As it was a mid-week affair, I forwent the full degustation catastrophe and settled for appetisers, sorbet, main meal and dessert. The main meal was the featured cook book […]