Mushroom and Brown Rice Casserole Adapted from Family Circle Fast Vegetarian, Murdoch Books, NSW 1998 3 – 4 slices bread olive oil 1 onions, chopped 325g mushrooms, chopped 440g can tomatoes 2 teaspoons paprika 1 teaspoon marjoram 1 teaspoon thyme 1 teaspoon sage ½ teaspoon muscovado 2 cups cooked brown rice 1/3 cup chicken or […]
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 […]
Me and the tofu. Totally stuffed. My craving for stuffed tofu and yet more green vegetables has led to a very messy kitchen today. Which is kind of depressing as I just knew it wasn’t going to taste as good as I wanted it to. I think I left my cooking mojo in the bottom […]
Did someone say minestrone? Actually Son and Heir has been begging me to make “pasta soup” for a couple of weeks now. This week is the week. I have no intention of us eating it until the end of the week but I like to make it when the vegetables are market fresh. Not only […]
It really helps the budget when you get free food sent to you. Tonight’s meal featured a 150g packet of hazelnut meal that I was sent (along with a couple of others) as a ‘gesture of good will’ as I had emailed the company who sells it to report that a packet I had bought […]
Kris of Cheap Healthy Good suggests that Cheesy Eggplant Bake is not a name that does the dish justice. I disagree. It’s a name that screams scrumptious, filling comfort food to me. I don’t need fancy names to be excited by a recipe. A promise of cheesy goodness will never fail. My variations to the […]
The moral of tonight’s dinner is: Do not settle down to a cuppa and a chat with a girlfriend while cooking beans, if your brain has been eroded by five years of breastfeeding, punctuated only by 42 weeks of pregnancy. Yes, I said 42. Which is how old she’ll be before I forgive her for […]
I was just loving the thought of this afternoon. Lot’s of kitchen pottering to do. Dinner to make, lunches to prepare for tomorrow, yoghurt cheese, goats milk yoghurt to make, bread to bake, kombucha to brew. So much fun to be had. One thing I didn’t factor in though…fighting Ankle Biters. I swear the little […]
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 […]
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 […]