It’s school holidays here at the moment. Glorious school holidays. Today, the Ankle Biters had some friends over and I got to enjoy the adult company of their respective mothers. One of the mums has coeliac disease so I took the easy way and made soup for the grown up lunch. The tricky part was […]
The Bread Winner is a dessert lover. Which is unfortunate for him because I am not much of a dessert maker. Not something I grew up with so not something that often occurs to me to make. On the bright side, he does love a crumble and they are super quick and easy to make. […]
Poor old First Born is a bit under the weather but we still had slow cooker night even without swimming. He just has a cold but I’m worried that his hearing may be affected. After all he did tell me that at assembly the Principal announced ‘come to school naked’ day. It wasn’t mentioned in […]
So much for swine flu, there’s a head cold doing the rounds of Melbourne which is intensely irritating. It’s swept though chez KP leaving a trail of snot and grumpiness behind it. I decided to chase it away tonight with a very vegetable soup. I made it in the thermomix but it could easily be […]
Recently, First Born staged a large and rather noisy protest that he never gets to choose what we have for dinner and he never gets to make dinner. My boy loves a superlative. So we struck a deal that Wednesday night would be his night for cooking. We get home from swimming Tuesday nights and […]
Despite Tuesday not being a work day, I spend an awful lot of it at work. Lil Miss has her swimming lesson in the morning and First Born has his in the evening. By the time we get home from the evening session, it is already well past dinner time for little Ankle Biters and […]
A few people have asked me lately if I’ve quit blogging. Which is a fair question. No I haven’t. I just lost my blogging mojo, got out of the routine and have struggled to slot it back into my daily tasks. In fact daily is really just asking too much these days but I would […]
Well. Melbourne is a land of extremes lately. From the seemingly unending drought, the searing heat and the dreadful, heartbreaking burning, today was both chilly and wet. Yes, wet. Joyful rain, real rain. A wonderful excuse to pull out the slow cooker again as panacea to my current painfully hectic schedule. I headed over to […]
By the end of every season, the food and flavours of the incoming season are so appealing. Some cooler days in Melbourne have given way to Autumnal flavours. Last night, we had a cauliflower and date curry served on a Tunisian pilaf. Recipe from the thermomix blog. Delicious, budget friendy quick and easy. All boxes […]
I’m not entirely sure that calling this a salad is the right thing to do. I will though, for want of a better idea. Salad being a concept that has been on my mind today. My original plan was to have grlic calamari and prawns with a green salad. Then I discovered shortly before dinner […]