Posted in Celebrations, Cooking, Family Food, Food, Home cooking, Kids Food, Recipes, tagged 3 year old cake, asparagus wrapped in prosciutto, cake, cake for 3 year old, number 3 birthday cake on Friday, 8 October, 2010| 14 Comments »
It was a bit last minute as we weren’t going to have a party for Lola’s 3rd birthday due to kitchen renovations taking over our house and lives at the moment. However I had mother guilt at 4 in the morning just before her birthday so I hastily invited the extended family over for cake and bubbles in the afternoon of the Monday public holiday.
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Posted in Cooking, Family Food, Food, Kids Food, Recipes, Soups, tagged bacon, corn chowder, pea, soup, sweet potato, zucchini on Tuesday, 3 August, 2010| 11 Comments »
On my winter quest for lunch time veggie soups I’ve added three new (to me) soups to my repertoire this week. Two of these aren’t strictly vegetarian (they include a small amount of bacon) but as I’m not strictly worried about that, I’m happy to include them 🙂
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Posted in Cook Books, Cooking, Family Food, Food, Home cooking, Kids Food, Recipes, tagged pasta, Slow Cooking Joanne Glynn, Spaghetti Bolognaise on Tuesday, 20 July, 2010| 10 Comments »
Bolognese – everyone makes it, everyone loves it. Some (traditionally) use milk, some use diced beef, ragu style. Here’s my version that I’ve tweaked over many years.
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Posted in Family Food, Food, Food with Friends, Kids Food, Restaurants, tagged broken rice combination, fresh rice noodles, Pho Ba Ria 2, Pho Bo, soup, Vietnamese on Sunday, 6 June, 2010| 8 Comments »
Pho Bo (beef noodle soup)
In today’s information age we know when things happen almost immediately but so often we don’t know or understand why. (Rear Vision, Radio National)
I was listening to a Rear Vision pod-cast the other day, on my way to work, about the history of asylum seekers in Australia and was reminded that Malcolm Fraser was a far sighted, compassionate and sophisticated leader in relation to this issue. It’s thanks to his governments (non-hysterical, unlike today) policies of accepting tens of thousands Vietnamese refugees into Australia in the 1970s, following the Vietnam war, and then allowing family reunifications that I can now scoot around the corner from home for authentic, aromatic, fresh, meaty but light Pho Bo and come away with change in my pocket from $10.
Posted in Cooking, Food, Kids Food, Recipes, tagged apple thyme and pork meatballs, Donna Hay, pasta on Friday, 28 May, 2010| 2 Comments »
Cooking magazines are such a cheap indulgence (depending on the level of your addiction) and I’m just a sucker for a great cover. The autumn Donna Hay magazine drew me in with the gorgeous layered chocolate cake on the cover but the dish that won my heart is the divine pork, apple, and thyme meatballs.
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Posted in Cooking, Family Food, Food, Home cooking, Kids Food, Recipes, Vegetarian, tagged bitter winter green salad, cauliflower, cauliflower macaroni cheese, pasta, salad on Wednesday, 19 May, 2010| 5 Comments »
So I had half a cauliflower in the fridge that I bought on a whim because they are looking so good at the moment, being in season as they are. Whole cauliflowers were actually going out cheaper than halves and I just couldn’t spend more and get less. Naturally I immediately thought of cauliflower cheese which led me to think about macaroni cheese and then I thought – why not combine them! Of course I wasn’t the first person to think of this (even though I felt inspired).
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Posted in Cooking, Cooking Utensils, Family Food, Food, Home cooking, Kids Food, Recipes, Vegetarian, tagged baking, bananas, cake, muffins on Friday, 16 April, 2010| Leave a Comment »
It may be an obvious thing to say but overripe bananas must never be thrown away! Cakes, muffins and smoothies are the best destination for this fruit even once it’s way past the stage you would eat it raw. I just peel and freeze them in a zip lock bag and use them when I’m ready – frozen is best for smoothies anyway.
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Posted in Cooking, Family Food, Food, Home cooking, Kids Food, Recipes, tagged pasta, tuna on Tuesday, 13 April, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Easy Tuna Pasta
Here’s a recipe I made tonight that I concocted while in Spain and one that I and my Mum J have added to over the past couple of years – so this is a joint effort. It’s one that you can probably make from your staples, quick and very tasty – the kind of thing to make when you don’t really feel like cooking but you want something healthy rather than take-away (it’s a good one for kids too if you leave out the chilli).
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Posted in Cooking, Family Food, Food, Holidays, Home cooking, Kids Food, Recipes, Vegetarian, tagged feta, lentils, soup on Monday, 12 April, 2010| 2 Comments »
This is my version of lentil soup, made while on holiday in Tasmania.
Lentil Soup with feta and baby basil
I couldn’t think what to make for dinner one night (feeling a bit bereft without my cookbooks) and so while out on a rainforest walk to a waterfall with L in a backpack on her Daddy’s back I resorted to asking my 2 year old for her opinion. L gave it some consideration and then suggested ‘soup’ which was actually quite a perfect suggestion on a rather wintery day.
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