Light and delicious, this meal evolved out of leftover smoked salmon, a few stray cubes of goats feta and 150g leftover chevre. Smoked Salmon and Goat Cheese Filo Quiche 150g goat chevre a few cubes of leftover marinated goat feta 5 slices leftover smoked salmon, roughly torn, 8 eggs lightly beaten 2 teaspoons capers 1 […]
I cooked a lovely roast chook the other night and padded it out with lots of salad and baked potato. It was a great big one so I intended to leave myself enough leftovers for a couple of meals. I can justify paying around the $20 mark for an organic chook if I can get […]
The pantry raid (phew, lucky I didn’t leave that ‘r’ out), continues tonight with a recipe I’ve been meaning to try for ages plus a sauce cobbled together out of leftovers. I generally do my supermarket shopping at a wonderful IGA, Leo’s. Apart from not belonging to Coles or Woolworths which is a major plus […]
I did my supermarket Christmas shopping tonight. Just have the fruit and veg to go now. I seem to have spent a small fortune on food lately and the house really is very well stocked, Christmas notwithstanding. So I have decided that I am only allowed to restock on fruit and veg for the next […]
OK so we know that Vietnamese food is my favourite. Real, authentic Vietnamese food. Tonight though, I have proven the incredible perfection of Vietnamese flavour combinations. I threw a few things together and ended up writhing in culinary ecstasy. How does one cuisine manage to get it so damn right? Admittedly the Ankle Biters were […]
This week got away from me a bit in the kitchen department which meant I had a selection of vegetables that really needed to be cooked today. Plus I had some odd remnants of cheese. Cheese and Vegetable Strudel A few stray snow peas A few stray green beans 1 head broccoli 1 potato wedge […]
I vaguely remember doing something similar to this last summer and really enjoying it. So I recreated as best I could remember. It’s a lovely summer meal served with a salad and leftovers are perfect for lunch boxes. Tuna & Cream Cheese Rolls. 485g tin tuna in springwater 250g block cream cheese 1/2 red onion, […]
This was actually a quick throw together of some chicken breasts with leftover Morrocan Style Vegetables and Couscous. Very quick and easy and it tasted completely different to it’s previous incarnation. Truth be told, it could have done with a splash of white wine but I didn’t have any. Creamy chicken, Chickpea and Couscous Leftover […]
I did the food shopping today so that makes it clean out the fridge day. I love cleaning out the fridge and making something of all the little leftover odds and ends. Very satisfying. Waste is an extremely dirty word in this house. There weren’t many fridge scraps to be had today though, I must […]
It’s a beautiful warm day in Melbourne today and we spent the better part of it over in Ferntree Gully at a kids party. By the time we got home I had a scant hour to go for a run before dinner. So I threw a piece of topside in the oven before I left […]