Welcome to The Kitchen Playground. Cooking can bring great joy and great despair. I hope that the recipes you find here, many of which are very quick to make with the weeknight in mind, help you to experience more joy than despair. Many recipes have instructions for the Thermomix 31 as well as traditional instructions. The emphasis is on real, fresh food that combines flavour, texture and scent to delight the senses.
Jeff the Thermomixer, congratulations! Your kedegree is a worthy winner. That is all I have for tonight on the grounds that after a somewhat hectic shift at work this morning and a busy afternoon, I am absolutely exhausted. I will have more to say on the morrow.
Once again, my hand reached for the Women’s Weekly section of the cook book shelf. This week’s selection is ‘The Best Seafood Recipes’. I forgot that I hadn’t selected this week’s challenge book after dinner. Which was a shame as we had pan fried barramundi with mash and snow peas for dinner tonight. Perhaps I […]
It’s been a couple of weeks since this dinner party. Somewhat uncharacteristically, I didn’t take a single photo. It took all my energy to get the food to the table. Little did I know, I was being hit with a nasty virus which took complete control of me sometime around midnight that same evening and […]
Good old December knows how to throw her weight aound doesn’t she? Its only the third and my schedule is in complete disarray. So much so in fact that the entire concet of dinner did not enter my mind until after 4pm this afternoon. We generally eat at 5 (Anke Biter time) so this was […]
For weeks now I have been meaning to sample this chicken from Stone Soup. Finally, the night arrived. Let me tell you it was well worth the wait. I made yoghurt cheese rather than the yogurt and cream cheese mix. Deliciously moist and packed with flavour. There’s barely enough left to make a single sandwich […]
The rhythmic ebb and flow of my days is currently absent. Many factors are involved and must simply be borne for the present. Havoc is being wrought upon my meal planning as a result. A most unpleasant result. Tonight in a mad dash to serve hungry, over tired Ankle BIters a meal in a 10 […]
This week’s selection, grabbed from the shelf at random, was Women’s Weekly Country Cooking. It’s cook book that usually only gets considered in the colder months although it has recipes for all seasons. Today however, was virtually a winter’s day. It was freezing this morning when we went to the farmers market and I went […]
photo by Fabbio, some rights reserved Go on, you know you want to, head on over to Thermomix in Australia and vote for your favourite in a knock down, drag out battle between Jeff’s kedegree and my broad bean bruschetta.
It was apt that I started my cook book challenge with Women’s Weekly Dinner Party Cook Book No. 3 as we had dinner guests last night. As it was a mid-week affair, I forwent the full degustation catastrophe and settled for appetisers, sorbet, main meal and dessert. The main meal was the featured cook book […]
The Jaywalker over at Belgian Waffling has issued a challenge. The challenge is to write a post on a topic assigned to me by gmail. How to sculpt babies. See the relevance? Neither did Jaywalker and I must admit I’m struggling with it myself. But it did occur to me that responding to the challenge […]