Category: Food

Savoury roll in foil

I’m not quite sure how to title this post but after Jennifer’s question on my corned beef roll, I thought I’d also throw out there that it doesn’t have to be just a single serve roll. Having a few people over and need snack or lunch food?  Grab a couple of short french sticks (like …

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Corned beef for lunches

I have a piece of corned beef I bought to cook, slice up and freeze.  Much cheaper than buying from the deli and really the cooking takes care of itself. I cover my meat in water in a large pot.  I tip in about 1 tablespoon of vinegar. Depending on the size of my meat …

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My cream of something soup pasta dinner.

Why cream of something soup? It’s cream of something soup because it’s whatever can of cream soup I have in the pantry at the time.  Usually cream of mushroom or cream of chicken  but works well with what you have. Mix 1 can of soup with half that can of milk. Set aside. (see soup …

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Todays job, cheese grating.

Oh one of the many messier foodie jobs but it is cheaper to do it yourself than to buy store bought. You also know exactly what cheese is used. So today I will get out my food processor and 1.5 kilograms of cheese (2x750g of my favourite cheese blocks, one low fat cheddar and one …

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Coconut choc chip/cherry slice

A recipe revisited… A friend and I were talking about the coconut cherry slice recipe the other day and the sugar content.  I’d said I tried to cut the sugar down but the slice was very anaemic looking, not very appealing at all. This got me to thinking, if it’s only a colour thing, what …

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