It’s school holidays here at the moment. Glorious school holidays. Today, the Ankle Biters had some friends over and I got to enjoy the adult company of their respective mothers. One of the mums has coeliac disease so I took the easy way and made soup for the grown up lunch. The tricky part was […]
Brazen has inspired me with her cook book challenge. So I’ve decided to do a similar thing. In the interests of variety, I am aiming to choose a cook book each week and make at least one thing from it. I will attempt to keep interested in this challenge until I have worked my way […]
Out there in the ether is a cook book. It’s name escapes me. It’s a vegetarian cook book. It’s appallingly laid out. So much so that it is nearly impossible to browse. Not a photo or illustration to be seen and set out in columns. It does contain some gold if you have the stamina […]
photo by 5k1nnyt1g3r, some rights reserved Silverbeet and Mushroom pasta bake 10 large silverbeet leaves, blanched and chopped 3 large field mushroom, sliced 1 onion, finely chopped 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 tablespoon butter 8 sun dried tomatoes, roughly chopped 1/2 cup cream pasta of your choice (I used […]
I was raised on spanakopita or a variation thereof from a week kiddie. Something that strikes me as a little strange when I think about it, given the lack of multiculturalism in suburban Melbourne in the early 70’s. There was a goodly sized Greek community in Melbourne even then but we didn’t have any personal […]
One of the many things I love about Son and Heir’s kinder is the little vegie patch. Over the school holidays, the silverbeet grew to maturity. So this afternoon, Lil Miss and I joined the kinder kids to harvest and cook some of it. Each of the children picked a leaf and then we headed […]
I love it when the state of the garden dictates our meal choices. Today simply had to be about silver beet (swiss chard). photo by MG Shelton, some rights reserved I rather fancied quesadillas. Much as I love my usual masa harina tortilla recipe, I felt like something more malleable. I still wanted to retain […]