The moral of tonight’s dinner is: Do not settle down to a cuppa and a chat with a girlfriend while cooking beans, if your brain has been eroded by five years of breastfeeding, punctuated only by 42 weeks of pregnancy. Yes, I said 42. Which is how old she’ll be before I forgive her for […]
I was just loving the thought of this afternoon. Lot’s of kitchen pottering to do. Dinner to make, lunches to prepare for tomorrow, yoghurt cheese, goats milk yoghurt to make, bread to bake, kombucha to brew. So much fun to be had. One thing I didn’t factor in though…fighting Ankle Biters. I swear the little […]
Lately, on a fortnightly basis, I throw meal planning to the wind with reckless abandon and simply buy up enough seasonal fruit and vegetables to get me through the week. Then, on a daily basis I think of a way of combining the fresh fruit and vegetables with something from the freezer or pantry to […]
I made a baked risotto with pumpkin, cauliflower and fennel the other night. I found the leftovers this morning. Which was fortunate because I needed to leave lunch for Lil Miss and the Bread Winner. Son and Heir and I were off to a birthday party. Press mounds of risotto firmly in to a greased […]
It’s still very hot in Melbourne. Really hot. It’s unusual to get a heatwave this long lasting here. I’ll miss it when it’s done. Perfect salad weather. Which is lucky because as usual on a Monday, I’m quite rushed between kinder, work, food shopping, laundry and so on. I found some falafel mix in the […]
I adapted this one from a recipe in the Australian Gourmet Traveller Annual Cook book that snuck it’s way into my shopping trolley recently. Leave yourself about an 1 1/2 hours to whip this little number up. Gosh it was good. Double Baked Leftover Roast Vegetable Souffle 100g butter plus more for greasing 1 small […]
I really enjoyed the barbecued kebabs I made the other night so I thought I’d whip up a vegetarian version. Vegetarian Kebabs corn on the cob, sliced into small pieces, firm tofu, cut into large cubes eggplant, cut into large cubes, salted for 10 minutes, rinsed and drained, zucchini, cut into think slices, mushrooms, stems […]
There is something akin to meditation in finely hand chopping lots of lovely fresh ingredients, laying them out in little bowls and then cooking them really quickly. When I make a dish like that I rarely use the thermomix. I like to do it all by hand, even mincing meat where necessary. It is a […]
Sometimes I fear I’m going to end up retyping Into the Vietnamese Kitchen in it’s entirety on this blog. So I will suffice to say thast last night I finally made the pantry staple caramel sauce. Used in savoury dishes in Vietnamese cooking it is a bittersweet condiment. This was used in Caramelised Mince Pork […]
Kinder meeting tonight, work tomorrow morning and night, a trillion jobs to do. No time to cook a time consuming meal. One thing is for sure though, the Bread Winner had a nasty take on last week’s cold and I want the house to have a big vegetable infusion. The result, vegetable curry. Less than […]