Saturday 5th January

The last few days I have made:
- Baked Meatballs and penne (steamed the meatballs in the varoma, whilst cooking the sauce, then poured over cooked pasta and baked for 20 minutes). The kids loved this one, it certainly will be a regular on our list.

- Strawberry fruity dream from the EDC (which turns out like strawberry icecream). I hadn't tried fruity dream before, but one of our camping companions recommended it, and the kids loved it. 3 ingredients - frozen strawberries, egg white and sugar (which we will reduce next time as it was a little sweeter than necessary). So nice to know exactly what is in the dessert the kids are eating!

- Focaccia (from EDC), topped with mozzarella and sun dried tomato. This was great1 Needed to put a bit of salt on top, and a few more tomatoes, but the texture of the bread was perfect.

- Garlic and herb dip, with herbs straight from our garden. Yummo!
   (parsley. garlic, shallots, cream cheese= Love.)

Wednesday 4th January

For dinner tonight we had Spiced chicken and sweet potato with rice and green beans.

I used diced tomatoes instead of crushed, so the sauce dried out a little more than I think it should have, but it was so yummy! Probably the yummiest and best-received meal we have made to date. This will definetly be going on the repeat list!

Tuesday 3rd January 2012

Wow - I really missed thermie last week. We had 2 thermie meals whilst camping which I had frozen and just reheated.

Today I made pizza dough (EDC), and Zucchini Brownies with zucchini's that we picked from our garden.

Friday 23 December 2011

Gee, I am getting a bit slack - already - at this blogging business! Its been such a busy week I can hardly remember what we have cooked...

Let's see...
- Lasagne with my own bolognaise recipe and the bechamel sauce from EDC. Very yummy!
- Pizza dough (from EDC) with home made pizza sauce. I used some of the dough to make pizza pockets for the kids and they LOVED them!. I think this will become a staple in our house!
- Frozen Mango bars with the leftover mangoes from the tray I had bought. These were awesome.

The cookies and cream fudge was great too - just very very rich.

Yesterday I adapted my fav slow cooker satay chicken recipe, and have made that and frozen for when we go camping. I also used thermie to do all the prep work for the apricot chicken which I cooked in the slow cooker. I made my 3rd batch of EDC yoghurt, which turned out perfectly, and last night we had EDC Quiche Lorraine, which was really good too.

R made Christmas Shortbread mix, which I am baking today.

For Christmas Eve festivities I am going to make the vegetarian sausage rolls, EDC sundried tomato dip, and oreo cheescake balls. And possible something lemon...

Going camping for a week after Christmas. What am I going to do for a whole week without thermie? Not sure we will cope!

Merry Christmas and safe and happy holidays for everyone!

Sunday 18th December 2011

It's been a busy week finishing off last minute Christmas tasks!

This week R has been busy using Thermie! We had the creamy salami pasta with spaghetti, which R made when he got home from work. 20 minutes later, we had dinner on the table.

We also tried a more traditional apricot chicken recipe, but it was quite flavourless and bland, so back to the drawing board for that one.

Last night we had Chicken in Yoghurt from the Indian cookbook (made by R). It was really yummy! The boys wouldn't even try it, but they had had a big day of party food. E ate half a bowl, but her stomach told her she was too full to have anymore :)

Yesterday the kids polished off 2 iceblocks each which I had made using leftover mixed berry sorbet. This was certainly a good idea, and they loved it. I think I will be doing the same thing today with all the mangoes we have to eat this weekend!

Got a few things planned for today - Butternut Snap tarts with chocolate ganache, and Cookies n Cream fudge.

Sunday 11 December

Today we had Honey & Soy Chicken for dinner. It was quick, easy, and tasty! Will probably make a bit less sauce next time as it was quite rich and there was a fair bit leftover.

Leftover mango sorbet for dessert!

Saturday 10 December

Today we tried a couple of new things:
- Cupcakes, which Ella (pretty much) made herself
- Sundried tomato and Capsicum dip from EDC and
- Raw Beetroot Salad from EDC

We also made mango sorbet..yummmm.....