Are you baking brownies in there?
The other day my boyfriend said
something along the lines of “Bake me a cake bitch”. Now, I don’t
react particularly well to threats or name-calling so I stubbornly
refused to bake him a cake. I made brownies instead. That’ll show
him.
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Poppy Seed Bagel and Cream Cheese Egg Salad
On a lazy Sunday afternoon you just
need something simple for lunch and this is one of my favourite
light snacks. It can’t get any simpler with just a toasted bagel
and a boiled egg mashed with a table spoon of cream cheese and
topped with a bit of greenery, in this case some snow pea sprouts.
From start to finish this takes less than five minutes...
What other bagel toppings do you like?
What other bagel toppings do you like?
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Gingerbread and Champagne Marshmallows
Every year the residents of the street
that I live on get together, put up some christmas lights and catch
up on the year parts or in the case of new people to the street,
meet everyone else. We all bought a plate or two. Given how my
marshmallows went over at my housewarming earlier in the year and
that the neighbors that I did invite liked them I thought I’d make
some more. Something a bit more festive than last time though;
gingerbread and champagne.
They both went down quite well amongst the people in the street with no real clear favorite. The champagne flavour was quite subtle but there nonetheless and the gingerbread tasted just like you’d expect, just more fluffy in texture.
They both went down quite well amongst the people in the street with no real clear favorite. The champagne flavour was quite subtle but there nonetheless and the gingerbread tasted just like you’d expect, just more fluffy in texture.
Real Men Make Their Own Quiche
Food maxims are great aren’t they?
Okay, may be not but I couldn’t think of anything else to call this
except Zucchini and Fennel Quiche and that’s hardly original either
so take it or leave it.
Originally I was going to make this for lunch but when I realised it was already midday it turned into a dinner instead and I’m sorry it’s another zucchini recipe but they’re in season.
Originally I was going to make this for lunch but when I realised it was already midday it turned into a dinner instead and I’m sorry it’s another zucchini recipe but they’re in season.
Spanish Goat and Asparagus Risotto
Today I picked up a side of goat, like
a side of lamb it’s all the edible bits down one side of a goat,
all 7.5kg of it for $30 from Woolworth’s of all places.
If you haven’t had goat before it’s very similar to lamb in both how you cook it and how it tastes although it’s a lot leaner and sweeter meat than lamb, cheaper too. The recipe I made with one of the steaks is a quick marinade with a spanish twist to it with some lemon. It only needs an hour in the fridge too. I wanted to make a pilaf to go with this but I only had arborio rice so a quick risotto it was. I’ve made that here before so I won’t go into it again today and obviously, if you can’t find goat, just use lamb.
If you haven’t had goat before it’s very similar to lamb in both how you cook it and how it tastes although it’s a lot leaner and sweeter meat than lamb, cheaper too. The recipe I made with one of the steaks is a quick marinade with a spanish twist to it with some lemon. It only needs an hour in the fridge too. I wanted to make a pilaf to go with this but I only had arborio rice so a quick risotto it was. I’ve made that here before so I won’t go into it again today and obviously, if you can’t find goat, just use lamb.
Pasta Salad with Broad Beans, Pancetta and Fetta
Without a
fridge for a day or two I had to think of some things that I
could make pretty easily and since it was a hot day I wanted
something cold. Typical, you want cold food the day you can’t chill
anything.
I ended up with a pasta salad, a quick trip to The Deli for some pancetta and everything was go. Straight forward and only taking 15 minutes I had dinner. Coming into summer it’s great the next day for a picnic once the flavours have mingled even more.
I ended up with a pasta salad, a quick trip to The Deli for some pancetta and everything was go. Straight forward and only taking 15 minutes I had dinner. Coming into summer it’s great the next day for a picnic once the flavours have mingled even more.
My fridge went on a diet
10 Nov 2008 11:07 PM Cooked in:
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So I finally sold
my old fridge. At the time of purchase it fit perfectly in my
brand new apartment’s fridge cavity. However, when I moved into a
turn of the century terrace house in Newtown the kitchen was not
only on the small side, the fridge cavity was built for something
more akin to an old ice box than any modern piece of refrigeration
equipment and as such, it had to sit in the dining room, just
outside the kitchen.
The original cost $2400 and the new one cost $2100. I sold the old one for $1800, so that means I paid $600 to loose 60 cm of my fridges waistline and move it to the other side of a 10 cm thick wall. Am I mad? Perhaps. Perfectionist? Definitley. Just to give you an idea on what I’m talking about here’s a picture of each of them side by side.
The original cost $2400 and the new one cost $2100. I sold the old one for $1800, so that means I paid $600 to loose 60 cm of my fridges waistline and move it to the other side of a 10 cm thick wall. Am I mad? Perhaps. Perfectionist? Definitley. Just to give you an idea on what I’m talking about here’s a picture of each of them side by side.
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Bacon and Egg Slice
This is a pretty simple dinner or a
great picnic lunch since it can be left overnight to go cold and
tastes just as nice; it travels pretty well too. I had it straight
from the oven with some of Donna Hay’s Caramelized Onion.
My mum used to make this with puff pastry and no spinach. Puff pastry would have been nice for the flaky top but the short-crust I used still worked.
My mum used to make this with puff pastry and no spinach. Puff pastry would have been nice for the flaky top but the short-crust I used still worked.