Posted in Cook Books, Cooking, Family Food, Food, Food magazines, Recipes, tagged Donna Hay, Ottolenghi, roasted red pepper sauce, spring cous cous, turkey and sweetcorn meatballs on Thursday, 18 November, 2010| 14 Comments »
After having read about, and drooled over, recipes from the Ottolenghi cookbooks on various of my favourite blogs I finally ordered a copy of their first book from The Book Depository and it arrived last week. This is the first recipe I have made from the book and it was utterly delicious.
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Posted in Cook Books, Cooking, Food, herbs, Recipes, tagged asparagus, chargrilled salmon, CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet, parsley relish, pumpkin, roast pumpkin on Saturday, 23 October, 2010| 22 Comments »
Some of you may remember a post I did on the CSIRO diet and cook books a little while back. Now that spring is here I’ve remembered my number one dish from this book and one that I’ve returned to many times. This was the last thing I made using my oven before we started camp cooking while waiting for the new kitchen to be installed (seems like a distant memory now but was actually only a few weeks ago).
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Posted in Cooking, Food, Home cooking, Recipes, tagged pasta, Pasta Primavera, spring vegetables on Friday, 15 October, 2010| 12 Comments »
When spring comes around I am put in mind of a little rhyme that my Dad taught me when I was little. I thought it was hilarious and would repeat it ad nauseum. I recited it to my little one yesterday and she obviously also has the sophisticated sense of humour I possessed at her age…
Spring is sprung, the grass is riz. I wonder where the birdies is? Some say the bird is on the wing, but that’s absurd! The wing is on the bird 🙂
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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 Cook Books, Cooking, desserts, Food, Food with Friends, Markets, Recipes, tagged A Taste of Morroco, lamb, lamb shoulder with prunes and almonds, middle eastern, sweet potato on Sunday, 12 September, 2010| 14 Comments »
I’m so lucky! Can you believe that in the same weekend that we were treated with so many delectable goodies at Lucy’s I was also spoiled rotten by another fabulous friend? Middle Eastern cooking is obviously the cuisine of the moment as we all seem to be so taken with cooking, eating and reading about it!
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Posted in Cooking, Food, Food with Friends, Recipes, tagged middle eastern, Persian Roast Duck with date and pomegranate sauce on Saturday, 28 August, 2010| 12 Comments »
This is a brief post in response to the requests for the gorgeous duck recipe by my friend Lucy from our lovely lunch at her place last weekend. Lucy has generously shared the recipe. I know what I’ll be doing with duck the next time I cook it…
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Posted in Food, Food with Friends, Recipes, tagged duck, Jagger Fine Foods, Mantu dumplings, Spice Road spice blends on Saturday, 21 August, 2010| 19 Comments »
Last Sunday we wended our way down to Willunga on the south coast for an afternoon spent with great friends, eating sensational food made by our resident duck expert and foodie friend extraordinaire, Lucy.
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Posted in Celebrations, desserts, Food, Recipes, tagged cakes, chocolate cupcakes, cupcake, cupcakes recipe, frosting cupcake, playdough on Friday, 13 August, 2010| 14 Comments »
Did you have homemade play-dough when you were little? I can’t remember if I did nor not but I remember making ‘pies’ and other delights, with all manner of found ingredients cooked up in a bucket in the back garden, offered to my stuffed toys, the dog, my next door neighbours and occasionally to my siblings or parents.
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Posted in Cooking, Family Food, Food, Food magazines, Home cooking, Recipes, tagged dumpling crust, lamb, lamb shanks, pasta, pot pies on Tuesday, 10 August, 2010| 14 Comments »
I’ve been dying to do this post – waiting until I’d had all three dishes before I could reveal to the world this neat little idea. A couple of weeks ago I came across a recipe to cook up a stack of lamb shanks which I then made into three different meals. I really liked the idea and it was a great success.
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Posted in Cooking, Food, Recipes, tagged Mapo Tofu on Friday, 6 August, 2010| 10 Comments »
Tofu – it’s not generally the ingredient that makes me think of the word delicious. However, used for its texture and ability to soak up both flavours and juices (thinking especially of the fried tofu used in laksa) it has unique properties that can’t be matched.
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I hope you enjoy this Adelaide bloggers adventures with food. Yum!
