… so I sat down and wrote down some of the most common meals I make that my family enjoy and wrote down how I can take a basic and change it up, the list went something like this. Spaghetti bolognaise :- don’t just use spaghetti pasta use any shape pasta. Throw in any cooked …
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That ‘what’s for dinner’ rut
I love summer because once the weather heats up it means salads are on the menu and I love salads but as summer goes on you start thinking what salad tonight, you decide then say oh no I had that the other night and for some reason you get in a rut as to what’s …
Shallots
We call shallots the long thin skinny ones and the long thin skinny ones with the small onion like bulb on the bottom a spring onion. One of those foods that has more than one name world wide. I’m talking about what I call shallots this time. Shallots are something I grow from seedlings, I …
Christmas ham
I was lucky enough when I went shopping the other day to get a 5kg portion of leg ham at half price, yes! I guess the grocery stores don’t sell many hams if it’s not Christmas time. My gain. So I bought my leg of ham, brought it home, sliced it up and popped it …
Mixed Herbs Italian style
I have a good stash of dried herbs in my pantry. When I ran out of the mixed herbs I use for my spaghetti bolognaise the other day I decided I’d have a look on the back of the jar to see what the manufacturer puts in that jar that I had bought. So after …
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