After my last weekly recipe, I realised that I'd skipped a week! So, I did another one today. #12 is a potato bake with butter, cheese and cream. It's also supposed to have onion in it, but after chopping it up nicely and having it ready to go I completely forgot that it existed or was even part of the recipe, so the recipe now no longer involves ( Read more... )

This week's recipe (#11) is a pasta carbonara bake. I used pasta bows, sour cream, parmesan cheese, spring onion and prosciutto. I also added some Coon tasty cheese on the top, and cheated by only baking it for half the recommended time.

Should be tasty! =D

Well enough to cycle today! Hooray!

This week's recipe (#10) was beef and brandy pies, courtesy of my fiance's mum's Sunbeam pie maker. That thing kinda rocks :-)

I didn't get any cooking done last week, so for #9 I'm calling in one of these recipes that I had in reserve :-p

Well, I made it with the guidance of my fiancé's mum :-) We made a mini apple crumble that we made up on the spot ( Read more... )

Saturday led me to the decision that I need to never sleep in under any circumstances. I slept in and spent the rest of the morning and early afternoon feeling dreadful, and for an hour or two I thought I'd lost my car key which ultimately turned out to be in a pocket of my bag which I'd forgotten existed. So, from now on, I will get up at my usual ( Read more... )

So yesterday, Phil and I found our dream home. It's this one, and it's SO PRETTY. It's also almost perfect, but we can modify it to what we want, which is slightly smaller. The house starts at around $385,000 without the land, so this is definitely a long-term goal to save for :-p

Had an awesome day today. Caught up with a friend who is visiting ( Read more... )

This week's recipe (#6) is from the Australian Women's Weekly cook book of slow cooker meals. I'm not sure what the copyright is regarding this (given it's not one I found online), so I won't be putting up the whole thing.

It basically consists of beef, tomato, mushrooms, onion, and Italian herbs, and about 8hrs of cooking. I'll edid this entry to ( Read more... )

This week's new recipe (#5) was Beef Wellington. I could technically count it as 2 recipes because I also made the tepenade to go with it. I may well decide to do that, depending on how next week goes at work. Or I might keep it in reserve for a busier time ;-)

It turned out reasonably good, the only issues being that we made the mistake of covering ( Read more... )

So, this week's new recipe is a pasta sauce recipe which I found at Closet Cooking , which I think is an excellent blog :-)

#4: Tuna Caper and Tomato Pasta

Ingredients:
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 small onion (diced)
2 cloves garlic (chopped)
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1/4 cup white wine (optional)
1 (28 ounce) can plum tomatoes (crushed)
2 tablespoons ( Read more... )