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 […]
This little number was born of a medley of things I had been wanting to try, a change in weather and a great deal at the fishmongers. The salt baked fish idea came to me via Stone Soup and the marinara concept from a prawn ceviche recipe in the 2007 Annual Gourmet Traveller Cookbook. Salt […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The last couple of days have been hot, hot, hot in Melbourne. Which I love but no one else seems too jiggy with it. Having this sudden heat wave in March is, for me, a delicious reprieve from the cooler weather that surely approaches. I don’t do cold. Yesterday was 42 degrees I believe, so […]
This is a great way of getting lots of vegies serves into the family with minimum complaints. Good anti-cancer vegetables that practically everyone needs to eat more of too. You could leave the chicken out if you are vegetarian, I’d probably add another leek in that case. Chicken, broccoli and cauliflower soup 1 free range […]