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.
All it takes is one Ankle Biter to cause a ruckus at 3.30am and the whole family suffers. By this afternoon, I was completely wilted and the AB’s could have whinged for Australia. Major distraction necessary. The pasta machine always works. They love turning the handle on that thing. A few stirs at various other […]
Breakfast can be such a boring rut. Now the weather has turned colder I seem to have left muesli behind and I need something to break the weekday porridge monotony. So I was a very happy puppy when I was sorting through old cook books and found this little number. I used frozen berries, defrosted […]
When Bob was handing out taste buds and palates and the like, my Dad was curiously absent. Which makes dinner challenging when he comes to visit. It’s a question of balance. Something that Dad will eat and something that won’t make the rest of us actually die of palate induced ennui. That’s a real disease, […]
Sounds gross doesn’t it? Son and Heir was very excited to hear toe food was on the menu. Perhaps I should clean his ears because if toe food sounds good, imagine how exciting tofu would be! I found this recipe floating around in a folder of cut out recipes. Judging by the lack of notations […]
Eggplant, Zucchini and Rice Bake 1 eggplant, sliced 1 zucchini, sliced lengthways olive oil 1 1/2 cups cooked rice 400g tin tomatoes and sliced olives thinly sliced or grated cheese. Sprinkle eggplant with salt. Leave for 10 minutes. Wash and pat dry. Char grill eggplant and zucchini slices. Grease a casserole dish and layer the […]
I whipped these up this afternoon when I realised I still had a lot of carrots left and no baked goods in the freezer. The Ankle Biters proclaim them to be delicious. Rat Girl AKA Lil Miss has made little finger holes in several of them. Bummer she can reach the kitchen bench now. Carrot […]
Downright fruity. That’s what my chilli plants are. It seems that every few days I have another big clump all red and ripe and delectable. I use a lot in day to day cooking but I reached a point of excess today so I decided to make a chilli sauce. Because I totally live on […]
A conversation. Me: You know you’re dying of nothing more than patheticness don’t you? BW: Don’t cry for me, I’m already dead. Yep, man flu. It’s highly symptomatic, lingering, debilitating and potentially fatal. Or so the Bread Winner would have you believe. Me, I like to call it a well deserved head cold developed after […]
Yep, that’s right you heard me. I’ve got the cure. I found it in an old recipe book. The Willow Housewife’s Handbook on Cookery, Fifth Edition, 1930. Can you believe the cure has been floating around that long and isn’t common knowledge yet? Crazy Cure for Cold Break 3 eggs, shells and all, and juice […]
Now I know that it is hard to go wrong with a Sunday roast and a leg of lamb totally rocks in it’s own right. I’m not disputing that. If, however, you really want to take it to the next level, have I got a recipe for you. Yeah baby. Kashmiri Style Leg of Lamb […]