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.
I have a confession to make. I have been guilty of gluttony. Oh so guilty. Six extra kilos of padding guilty. Gluttony for me is not eating bad food. It’s eating too much. It’s an extra mouthful every time I prepare food for the kids. It’s eatng the kids scraps so they don’t got to […]
I think I’ve made it perfectly clear that I have a definite thing for Vietnamese food. Malaysian food comes not far behind in my list of favourite cuisines. My favourite of all Malaysian food is Roti Chanai. Which made me very happy to find a great roti recipe on Food Safari. Naturally I used the […]
In a word. Versatility. Perfect for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Throw anything you like in and it’s a whole new meal. Always quick and easy, always delicious. Great for using up leftovers, easy on the budget. This morning, breakfast at Chez Kitchen Playground was scrambled eggs with smoked salmon, spring onions, a few drops of […]
We go camping at Easter. It’s our thing that we do. That we’ve always done. In fact, the Bread Winner and I met at Easter camping 14 years ago. It’s like our personal Mecca. This year though, things fell apart. The trailer has two flat tyres. It needs new rims. Easter is extraordinarily early. We […]
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 […]
Melbourne weather has been downright weird lately. 40 degrees one day and 15 the next. Today was a gorgeous 24. Perfect for a nice hearty warm salad. I didn’t get around to shopping properly for fruit and veg this week for some reason so supplies were a little limited but a great big sweet potato […]
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 […]
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 […]
I adapted my old tried and true short crust pastry recipe to suit the thermomix. So if you don’t have a thermomix, just manually crumb the dry ingredients and butter together and then slowly mix in the wet and knead lightly. Shortcrust Pastry 2 cups plain flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 125g butter just over […]
To celebrate Kitchen Playground’s move to it’s new home, I’ve decided a competition is in order. The prize is a copy of Taste Australia by Richard Bradfield. Despite the URL, this is an Australian blog so the prize needs to reflect that don’t you think? It’s a gorgeous book with delectable recipes and divinely beautiful […]