It was three degrees here this morning and I’m a summer person. So the last thing I felt like doing at 8am was heading out to the farmer’s market. Yet what is more appealing in cold weather than food? Hearty, warming comfort food. Does one stay home in the warm, or venture out and procure […]
Or so the saying goes. Marble run lost it’s glory when The Cook and The Chef came on. The Ankle Biters share my love for Maggie and Simon it seems. I found them watching very intently and sagely discussing the various ingredients required for a king fish carpaccio and salmon tartare.
Now I do realise that Brussel Sprouts are neither a herb nor particularly uncommon or exotic. They are an interesting plant though and a very cheap vegetable when in season. They are also very nutritious. The trick is making the most of them while they are in season. Personally, I love them. I will happily […]
Oh my heavens I love cheese. Bugger chocolate (nice though it can be), I’ll take cheese any day. So for a cold winter evening, I made this combination of cheeses with some pasta, pumpkin and sage thrown in to flesh it out. Tortellini with Pumpkin, sage and three cheese sauce adapted from yet another Super […]
I found some stewed apple and rhubarb lurking in the freezer, I had half a large punnet of strawberries in the fridge. I had 50g of organic dark chocolate in the pantry. Inspiration struck. Rhubarb and Strawberry Chocolate Crumble 300g stewed rhubarb and apple (or just rhubarb) 300g sliced strawberries 50g grated fair trade dark […]
Meat flesh as defined by FSANZ (Food Safety Australia and New Zealand) “skeletal muscle of any slaughtered animal, and any attached – animal rind; and fat; and connective tissue; and nerve; and blood; and blood vessel; and skin, in the case of poultry.” Following on from that, the new standard for meat pies is that […]
Obviously, one of the best breakfasts a mother of young Ankle Biters can have is one eaten in the absence of Ankle Biters. So on Sunday, in celebration of my lovely SIL Karen’s birthday, 8 such mothers descended on Apte for a leisurely breakfast. Not the first time I have breakfasted there and I have […]
Another old pre-Ankle Biters resurfaced at Chez KP this evening. The baked potato in all it’s awesomeness. A big old tatie, rubbed with a little oil and baked in a moderate oven for an hour to an hour and a half depending on size. Then cut her open, season, slip in some butter, some panfried […]
It’s been quite a while since I posted a 10 minute meal. Today I needed it. I was missing a vital ingredient for my planned meal and got buried deep in laundry. So this is what I came up with. Seafood and Goat Cheese Pasta. pasta of choice (with 10 minutes or less cooking time) […]
Son and Heir saw a big paella cooking on the box the other day and declared it his favourite. Upon further quizzing, the only ingredient he correctly identified was prawns, that was enough to make it a favourite. So I promised to cook it for him. Which of course I was happy to do as […]