Category: Food
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Chicken, Tomato & Cheese Baked Goodness
This is a perfect meal for a couple {like us} or a crowd {like the one I had here during the footy last month}. You see you just keep buying chicken pieces until you have enough for one per person. Two if you use little thighs or your guts are big eaters. The cooking time barely…
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Thai Chicken and Pumpkin Noodle Soup
This one is a family favourite. We make it by the large pot full and freeze it when we just can’t eat any more of it. It’s a simple chicken soap base with lots of Thai flavours added. I do this usually by using the Gourmet Garden Thai herb mix as a base and…
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Thermomix Egg Custard with Lemon
Now the Thermomix has become pretty darn essential to me. And when it comes to desserts, it’s the boss. Hands down. And this creamy, thick custard takes the cake. Or makes the cake as the case may be. So this recipe is one that gets a work out around here as a stop-gap to Hubby’s…
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Red Lentil and Tomato Dahl {Thermomix}
This vegetarian Dahl is all kinds of amazing. I add that wondering if ALL Dahl is vegetarian anyway? Maybe it is. I don’t know. moving on however I’m going to share it with you. It’s from the Thermomix everyday cookbook but if you’re a little savvy in the kitchen I’m sure you’ll be able to…
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Beef, Sun-dried Tomato & Spinach Frittata
Sometimes dinner needs to be easy. Really easy. Let’s face it. Dinner pretty much always needs to be easy around here. Especially in the last days before the fortnightly shop. On days like those I go frittata. The recipe for this one is easy. So easy I didn’t have cheese to top it with…
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Egg and Bacon Pies
Now I make a mean lazy bacon and egg pie. You know the one where you just wind the bacon around and crack some eggs on it? Yeah, that. But I was flipping through the April 16th New Idea magazine and they had a full blown recipe for bacon and egg pies. So how could…
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Brisbane Times Good Food Guide
The Brisbane Times Good Food Guide is about exactly what it says it is. It’s a guide, to food. good food, in Queensland. Basically it’s a resource of dining locations and recommendations. you can sort them by hats {like stars but more cheffy, don’t you think?}. Basically anything. At the moment there are some great posts about…
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Salmon, Broccoli & Brown Rice Warm Salad
OMG, Yes. This is all kinds of awesome. You are NOT going to regret this one. Make it in advance. It seems to just let the flavours or soak through the rice and makes it super delicious. It also means that you can give the brown rice as long as it needs. I put mine…
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Carrot Almond & Poppyseed Cake
So, I lost the photos of my cake, so I grabbed this one from a cool recipe blog I found called Spicy Icecream. This blog is SO worth a look. Click here to go there. This pic is of their lemon and poppyseed cake. Oh yes, YUM. but, where were we, oh yes, what you’ll…
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Fructose Free Shortbread
150g Rice Flour 50g Ground Rice 50g Dextrose 150g Butter Method; Put the rice flour, ground rice and dextrose into a bowl. Add the butter and work them into a smooth, stiff dough. roll out the dough to 1cm thick and shape as you like. Cookie cutter, slice into fingers… You know, go nuts. Place…
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