Bulk buying fresh food means lot’s of cooking when you get home. Particularly when the Bread Winner has not made lunch for the Ankle Biters and dinner also needs to be prepared. So, today the Kitchen Playground produced leftover coriander pesto burger and cheese in sandwiches for lunch. Adzuki bean soup with cheese and thyme […]
Today, it’s the Bread Winner and my anniversary. Our wedding anniversary that is. We celebrate both our wedding anniversary and our original anniversary. Because we can and because it seems kind of strange to discount the years we were shacked up before we decided to go all traditional. Anyway, organising a baby sitter and a […]
If we are actually going to be home in an actual house for Easter rather than waking up in our tent like we usually do, I suppose it would be nice to make a special breakfast. We had breakfast at Apte a few weeks ago and they served a dish similar to this. I’ve been […]
Just because we’ve lost our Easter virginity doesn’t mean we have to succumb to the whole chocolate conspiracy. So I adapted a thermomix Vitality Truffle recipe and made these little dried fruit eggs for the kids. I put them inside 2 gold Lindt bunny tins that I was given by swimming students. Don’t ask what […]
The last couple of days have been hot, hot, hot in Melbourne. Which I love but no one else seems too jiggy with it. Having this sudden heat wave in March is, for me, a delicious reprieve from the cooler weather that surely approaches. I don’t do cold. Yesterday was 42 degrees I believe, so […]
Because he loves cheesecake and I love him. Mixed Chocolate Cheesecake 175g packet shortbread biscuits, crushed 75g butter, melted 500g cream cheese, softened 3/4 cup light muscovado 2 teaspoon gelatine, dissolved in 14 cup boiling water, cooled 100g fairtrade orange flavoured chocolate 100g fairtrade white chocolate with scorched almonds 1 cup pure cream 8 seconds […]
In response to Maria’s food challenge. Firstly, I don’t think you could successfully use applesauce as a sugar substitute. You can use apple concentrate but it’s pretty much as bad as sugar. Too much concentrated fructose. One thing that you might like is that it can be used as an oil/butter substitute in baking. You’ll […]
I’m off to yum cha tomorrow for a friend’s birthday. I wanted to take her a little birthday treat and figured a small cake was somewhat apt. Only thing is, my house is rather devoid of sweet things right now as I still have two rogue Christmas kilos to banish from my nether region. I […]
We had lunch today to celebrate the birthday’s of my father and Second Born. Just a simple BBQ. I was on cake duty. So I made the same spice cake from Nourishing Traditions that I made for First Born’s fourth. This time though I made it a photo of the two birthday people. An idea […]
With this from our garden, some form of peach dessert was a necessity. I didn’t really feel like an actual peach pie and the thermomix was too busy with bolognaise sauce for dinner to make pastry. So once again, filo to the rescue and pie becomes strudel. I preface this recipe by saying that I […]