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...maybe I should start cooking the Bengal's roo meat, maybe he'll get smart enough to get a job and start paying the bills.

Just thought I would give a little update on the veggie fritters I posted about last week. A group of us decided to have a pre-concert picnic on the weekend and I decided it would be the perfect opportunity to make my fritters again. This time I made little mini ones by cooking about a tablespoon of batter at a time and serving them cold with ( Read more... )

Ever since I was old enough to light a stove top and handle a wooden spoon my mum started teaching me to cook and one of the first achievements I had in the kitchen was when I was able to successfully make a white sauce without lumps or bumps or burnt bits. The recipe that she taught me was one that has stuck with me and I use it as the basis for ( Read more... )

I came up with this fantastic way of using up the leftover chunk of homemade cornbread that's been staring at me everytime I open the fridge. Fresh breadcrumbs! I whipped up a bit of a random vegetable bake (recipe will be along soon after a little bit of tweaking, it was good, just not "oh-my-god-this-is-fantastic" good) and threw these on top ( Read more... )

One of the questions I hear time and time again is "will changing to a vegetarian/vegan diet" cost me more money?" My answer to that is "Certainly not...well, as long as you're carfeul!" Living on a plant-based diet has a wonderful potential to save you hundreds of dollars on your grocery bill, it's just important to shop carefully and be selective ( Read more... )

A couple of friends of mine planted a nice bunch of cherry tomato bushes while I was on holidays so we've been rather blessed with an abundance of delicious little fruits for the past couple of weeks. After harvesting only two days worth, we found we had a rather decent pile of these so decided that the only thing for it was roasting! The recipe ( Read more... )