Minestrone
What better lunch on a cold Autumn day than a nutritious minestrone? I like to make a big pot of soup on the weekend so we can have soups for lunch throughout the week. A hot bowl of soup warms your bones when the weather is bleak outside. This is my basic minestrone recipe, but […]
Mushrooms: cooking for kids
BBQ chicken breast with salad and mushrooms á la Georgia, made with Nina’s fresh cream Georgia is totally keen to help in the kitchen (especially when it’s a fun job like cooking, instead of washing dishes). We’re keen to have her help too! We’ve started to get her to do small cooking jobs (eg cook […]
Banana cake
Hello! Do you like banana cake? I do. As we were growing up, my mother made banana cake for us – often. It was a treasure in the lunchbox, alongside a granny smith apple and a ham and cheese (or cheese and pickles) bread roll. I’ve played around with the recipe. This cake is like […]
Fish Molee
Fish Molee I used 3 large Ling fillets to make this succulent fish curry. I really like fish curry. Fish is wonderful, and in curries it tends to soak up the flavours; it goes particularly nicely with coconut milk! Another bonus is that it cooks quickly! This meal will take, maybe, 20 minutes to cook. […]
More pumpkin
pumpkin muffins I know. It’s exciting. I have finally cooked up the rest of my 6+kg pumpkin. Pumpkin bread, pumpkin muffins and roasted pumpkin with our roast beef dinner. pumpkin bread pumpkin muffins Mix 2 cups SRF, 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup dried fruit (eg chopped dates, sultanas, cranberries) or choc chips (or both) […]
Pumpkin!
We grew this whopper in our garden. Now I am wondering what to do with it. So far I have used half of it in soups. I made a pumpkin, zucchini and chickpea soup. We served it with homegrown, homemade zucchini relish. I actually intended to make a curry based around one of Sally Wise’s […]
Cooking
I try to make a habit of cooking lots on Sundays. I always bake for school lunches, but now that I’m working more, I try to make meals to store in the fridge and freezer, as well as getting food organized and planning the weekly menu. Menu planning is something we have done for about […]
29/1/12
One enormous zucchini was put to good use in some relish. It was such an easy thing to cook in the slowcooker.
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