Tag: cooking
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Tzatziki for another ranga.
It’s easy for us chefs to think that a recipe like this is simple… second nature… like talking or not soiling your bed. But the fact is it may just be seasoned yoghurt with cucumber mixed through it to us, but for someone who hasn’t made it before it is as foreign as a red…
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Camp food (cooking with wood) part 2
BREAKFAST Wake up to the pretty birdies, get that fire burning again cos we need some coffee and a big breakfast. We always have a big breakfast when we’re camping because there’s much relaxing to do and you certainly wouldn’t want to be trying that out on an empty stomach. Baked beans, a bit of…
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Camp food (cooking with wood) part 1…
Camp oven roast lamb with cannelini beans, tomato and olives Camp food? Cooking with wood? Oh my how the images flow into my head… Cooking with wood (hehem) is something I am a fan of, in more ways then one. Hey, I’ve told you before, food excites me, yeah. If I may indulge myself (going…
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Boys Night… Roast Pork in the Camp Oven
I know we’ve given you a bit of an amusingly-witty-great-food-cooking-blog overload today but… you’re just gonna have to deal with it. Write your local member of Parliament or something. Cookingfoodwithyourkidsisthebestshitever This evening the boys spent a fair while trying to decide if he said, “honey, don’t play with your food” or “Ted, don’t play with…
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One Ingredient – Sweet and Savoury… The Choko
Extra language of the salty old sea dog alert. So I got my theme ingredient for the sweet and savoury challenge from my sister in law Liz. She is clearly trying to prove that in-laws are the nasty evil new-family-member-hating peeps they are made out to be. CHOKOS. I hate fucking chokos. I don’t mean…
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My Nana Rose’s Pea and Ham Soup
I can remember the days when it seamed that everyone thought it was cool to throw rubbish from your car window (not at the drive through skip bin), and really cool to smoke cigarettes in the car with the kids in the back. A baby could be nursed in the front seat and even breastfed…
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…and then cheeses loves you again
…and then cheeses loves you again. It’s nice when you can get a second meal out of your cheeses. It’s rewarding. Satisfying. It’s like getting sex again in the morning before your last nights’ one night stand can sneak out… When you have cheese dinner (re: the post a couple back about cheese dinner) more…
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Your face… an essential item when cooking food
Even if cooking food is a new adventure for you, learn to trust your face. Along with a few good ingredients, it will see you through… Eyes… start with your eyes. Every step of way, from preparation to serving can be monitored by these puppies. Does it look appealing? Is it asthetically pleasing? There’s not…
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it’s gonna flood
it’s bloody wet in my neck of the woods at the mo’ and there’s a definite chance of being flooded in, and abandoned by the outside world…. just the way i like it! i truly enjoy it. so it’s time to load the fridge with beer, and maybe a little whiskey for later on, illegally…
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pickled cuke
Friends had a few to many cucumbers in their vege patch and asked me if I would pickle some. Heck yes! Pickled cucumbers are great shit to have in your fridge for ploughmans lunches or antipasto type things, to accompany a thai curry, with smoked sausage, cheese, rye bread and beer… mmm. So grow some…