My friend Michelle told me this salad was good. She said it always gets cleaned up if she takes it somewhere. I test drove the recipe the other night, and didn’t even get time to take a photo. It was devoured. So, if you are into your salads, then add this one to your list….
Month: April 2010
Fried rice
Another working mother survival style boring dinner – an oldie but a goodie. This is the sort of meal I often make to tied us over for a few nights. We don’t serve it at dinner parties, unless all of our bogun friends are coming over. But you shouldn’t knock it back just because it…
Special cookies – just like the ones Oma used to make
Anzacs are a great biscuit should you ever want to make ‘special’ cookies – if you know what I mean. Mum has been churning out Anzacs to the same recipe ever since I can remember. When I left home and started carving a life of my own, this recipe was one of those home comforts…
Mum’s Anzac biscuits
Anzac Day was yesterday, so I think it is only fitting to post a blog about the connected food item for said day! Anzac’s are a great biscuit, crunchy on the outside, sometimes a little bit chewy on the inside. Their benefit is that they store well in an airtight container for a long before…
Rose’s Florentines
OK, I admit that Florentines and Sustainability, or living more healthily aren’t words that you would associate together, but let’s face it, if I am going to be bad, then this would have to be my choice of thing to be bad with. What’s more, if you make it yourself, then you know what’s in…
Picking ‘n pickling olives
Last weekend we picked some olives from Uncle Bob and Aunty Marg’s tree. It was so laden with fruit that the 5kgs we took didn’t even make a dent. My olive tree (which I have had for 7 years) only this year fruited for the first time. It must have known I was going to…
Tuna casserole (aka White lasagna)
This meal is one my mum used to make (with a white bechamel sauce), and I have adapted it to make it even easier, as I don’t have the patience for bechamel sauce, nor do I think feeding my family on butter, flour and milk in large quantities is good for you, unless it’s for…
Working mother survival style boring dinners…
As today was back to work day for this chicken, I am devoting a few hours today to getting ahead on this weeks dinners – otherwise I might be tempted by the restaurant strip outside the door, which is not only not good for me, but expensive too. You know the kind of dinners I…
Brandied cumquats
My cousin Freya has left a cumquat tree at her folks place, and it WAS covered in cumquats. But not anymore! That’s what you get coussie bro for not talking all your stuff with you when you leave home! We went over to my Aunty and Uncle’s place today to shake a few olives out…
I LOVE it when I see a change for the better!
In an earlier blog I wrote about how disheartening it is to hear that perfectly good food is wasted by the major supermarket chains as it isn’t deemed to be of the quality they want to be known for (No rotten bananas… the price for being so picky). Can I just say, today I am…
Bad parent of the year award goes to….
When can or should you introduce your baby to chocolate? Well – Amber is 6.5 months old, and she has tried rice cereal, pumpkin, pear, zucchini, porridge, and carrot. So I guess now’s probably not the chronologically ideal time to introduce her to chocolate, but then it’s just been Easter, and everyone in our house…
Lemongrass chilli chicken (aka Ga Xao Xa Ot)
It’s funny how at times I cook dinner and forget to include it in my blogs, like tonight’s dish. This is a Vietnamese dish, and is most probably Australianised, but it is one we cook regularly, and have for years. Tonight I felt really tired (Tom was suggesting take away) and then I got the…
Getting re-rooted 