I make many meals from scratch but had never really thought about taking it one step further by making my own ingredients. At least, not until I stumbled across this recipe for Worcestershire sauce on Simple Savings. It is really simple to make and once you have made it you will never go back to […]
Apologies for my absence but more about that in another blog post. I generally make all of our own jam and today GMan and I were discussing what we had on hand. The inevitable consequence of our discussion was that he pulled out all of my unlabelled jars from their storage spot in the back […]
Do you remember my recent post about making lentil wraps? You can read it here. We have used these predominantly for lunches filled with a variety of spreads and salads. Last night I decided to use them as a main meal. I made a filling, rolled the wraps and lay them in an ovenproof dish […]
Our dinner last night was a previously untested creation. GMan hailed it as a real success. While there are recipes for Eggplant and Mushroom Stroganoff online, mine is a variation on the beef version I used to make a number of years ago. Eggplant and Mushroom Stroganoff 1 onion, diced 1 clove of garlic, crushed […]
We had mushroom risotto for dinner but this post is not about a recipe. As I was beginning to prepare the meal, I went to the pantry for arborio rice and stock powder and discovered…………..ants! They seemed to be everywhere on one particular shelf and I quickly traced the source to a sticky patch near […]
Some years ago I first heard this mentioned in an online forum. Carol, who is sadly no longer with us, described a meal served by their French hosts which was essentially an upside-down shepherd’s pie but with much less meat than we traditionally use and with the addition of ratatouille. I did not really take […]
It is hard to believe that I have been writing this blog for over 7 years now. A couple of years after I began I had a hiccup and lost all of the photos. I had be able to reinstate most of them but a few seemed to have been lost forever. One post that […]
The impending ban on regular plastic carry bags in Queensland has created a definite upswing in interest in alternatives. There will be heavy duty plastic bags for sale, however, these are really no better as very few people seriously reuse them and the inherent problems still exist – the use of non-renewable resources to create […]
Sometimes I think food is over-rated. Thanks to shows like Masterchef and others in the same vein, we have been conned into thinking that every meal needs to be a creation and cooking is a competition. Cooking for your family is actually providing fuel for their bodies to perform the necessary tasks – nothing more, […]
When I mentioned in a Facebook group that I was preparing some meals for later in the week this one caught some attention and I have been asked for the recipe. Well, like many of my meals, recipe is a bit of a joke but I will do my best to explain my method. 2 […]
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