I have been cooking & eating, I've just been either too busy or too slack (or both) to post about it!

But since the last post, I have made the following things that I have really enjoyed:

- strawberry jam and lemon butter - finally learning the family jam secrets from my Mum!
- speaking of the strawberries, last week I got a big tray of "seconds" for ( Read more... )

I know that early last month we were a soup kitchen, but later in the month we changed into a steamed pudding kitchen - mmmmm...

After making the "Brown Pudding No 1" in May, I was talking to my Mum about it, and she said "have you tried Marguerite pudding?".  Apparently this is a steamed pudding where you put jam in the bowl before you put the ( Read more... )

Thursday night we had Roast Chicken (with all the veggies) and Brown Betty with custard for dessert.  I'd not had Brown Betty before, but Peter said I should make an apple pie since apples were only 99c/kg, and I was feeling lazy, so suggested an apple crumble instead (thinking crumble is probably easier to make than pastry).  So I looked up the ( Read more... )

The other week (before all the soups!) I made a Ham & Mushroom Calzone recipe that was in one of those cheap food magazines from the supermarket.  It appealed because I had a bunch of cheese (free from work), basil going berserk in the herb garden and some puff pastry sitting in the freezer that I haven't used for ages since Will is allergic to it ( Read more... )

Our kitchen has been a soup kitchen for the last week or so - we've tried 3 different soups, and they've all been great!  This has been a bit of a revelation for me, as I was of the opinion that I didn't really like soup.  I guess it's a bit like my belief that I didn't like sweet with my savoury - the Moroccan cooking has changed my mind on that ( Read more... )

So, here it is, the recipe for Brown Pudding No1 - which will now be called Ginger Pudding in our house because it sounds more attractive & is actually more descriptive.  Although I can now see why the Golden Wattle cookbook didn't call it that - they have another pudding called Ginger Pudding, that has actual preserved ginger in it (glace ginger I ( Read more... )

I've finally got around to typing up the recipe for the Mexican Bean Pie.  Now I wonder if I can remember all the changes I made to it?

By the way, this is definitely not authentic mexican, but it tastes pretty damn good.  I got this recipe from the Simple Savings $21 Challenge...
( Mexican Bean Pie )

( Mixed Vegetable Curry )

Tonight we had roast lamb followed by Honey-baked Rhubarb.  I would never have thought of doing this with rhubarb - I guess actually my rhubarb repertoire is pretty limited.  About the only thing I ever do with is it Apples & Rhubarb (and custard - yum!).  I also love Rhubarb & Ginger Jam, but I keep not getting around to learning how to make jam ( Read more... )

Here is the other Moroccan recipe.  This was quite good, and I think it would be even better if I'd used more suitable fish.  I was using up some kind of fish cutlets - I can't even remember what they were!  But it means that we didn't have a skin-side up like it suggests, which I imagine gets nice & crispy?  I will try this one again with some ( Read more... )