Cooking With Mumsy: November 2009

Day 55

DINNER: Spaghetti and meat balls.
Meat balls- mince, grated carrot,zucchini, shallots,oats, sauce. Place meatballs on tray and bake in oven.
Cook spaghetti, add meatballs and tomato sauce.
At same time I baked 1/2 chicken to take on picnic tomorrow for Dave's birthday.

Day 54

DINNER: Prawns with cous cous.
Prawns- fry off garlic, ginger and chilli pdr in olive oil. At the last minute cook the prawns in same pan. COUs cous- lightly cook spinach, boil eggs, chop shallots, parsley and coriander, add squeeze of lemon juice. Add olives and fetta cheese.

Day 53

LUNCH: King prawn sandwiches with mayo and salad.

DINNER: Whole snapper in BBQ with baked potatoes and sour crea, guacamole ( avocadoes, garlic, tabasco and lemon juice).
Garnish with chives, thin slices of capsicum.

Day 52

DINNER: Chicken with Penne Pasta.

Cook chicken pieces in BBQ. Cook penne.

In frying pan, cook mustard seeds, garlic, bacon, kumara, zucchini and shallots with a little olive oil. Add cream then pasta.

Day 51

Went to Yamba today. Had a picnic lunch on the headland near the lighthouse, then went to the movies and saw Coco Avant Chanel.

DINNER: BBQ T-bones with warm potato salad ( diced potatoes and sweet potatoes, dressing, shallots, mint) and garden salad (lettuce, rocket, tomato, cucumber and avocado).

Day 50

MAINLY MUSIC: Chocolate Brownies

Melt 125g butter, add 1/2 cup cocoa and few drops vanilla. Beat 3 eggs and 1 cup sugar together until light and frothy.Add choc mix to egg mix.Add 1 cup SR flour, pinch salt and 1 cup chopped walnuts. Cook in slice tin for about 30 mins at 180c.

DINNER: Apricot chicken and rice.

Chicken drumsticks, can apricot nectar, packet French onion soup and few dried apricots.

Bake at about 180c until cooked. Serve with rice, garnish with chopped parsley.

Day 49

CANDIED PEEL: using cumquats we grew in the courtyard.

Slice cumquats finely, remove seeds. Place in bowl. Dissolve 1 teasp. bi-carb soda in 1 cup boiling water- pour onto fruit. Leave for 2 days, drain. Dissolve 1 cup sugar in 1 cup water, pour over fruit and cover. leave for 2 weeks. Dry in single layer in oven, then dip into syrup again and dry again in oven.

DINNER: Crumbed fish with mashed potato and pumpkin, carrot and zucchini.

Day 48

DINNER: Portuguese Chicken with baked potato and salad.

Coat chicken pieces with Portuguese seasoning and cook in BBQ. Put potatoes in BBQ also. When potatoes are cooked add caramelised onions, diced tomato and cucumber, fried egg and grated cheese on top wit dollop of sour cream.

Day 47

DINNER: Mini quiches

...made in muffin tin using frozen puff pastry and filled with beaten eggs, bacon and cheese.

Day 46

Spicy Tomato Sauce:

2.5 kg veges (ie tomatoes, 2 capsicum,2 big pieces ginger,1 onion), 5 cups white sugar,5 cups white vinegar, 1/2 a bulb of garlic, few hot chillies, paprika.
Put all vegetables into blender and blend, put into pan with rest of ingredients. Simmer till consistency of jam.

DINNER: Pork Pasta...cold roast pork cubed, spinach, coriander, parsley, coconut cream, zucchini, shallots and a scoop of spicy tomato relish. Serve with fettucine.

Days 44 and 45

On day 44 we went to Yamba and had a picnic lunch, then went to the movies and saw Samson and Delilah. That night I cooked fritata and salad for dinner. The fritata had 6 eggs, cream, chopped onion, spinach, grated carrot with slices of tomato and grated cheese on top.

The next day for dinner, we hadroast pork in the BBQ with roast potatoes, onion, pumpkin and sweet potato, with peas, beans and gravy.

Day 43

DINNER: BBQ'd sausages

with baked potatoes, topped with onion, garlic tomatoes, mushrooms fried in olive oil, with dollop of sour cream, coriander and grated cheese on top.

Day 42

DINNER: Lasagne and salad

MAINLY MUSIC: Caramel Slice:

Base- 1 cup SR flour, 1 cup coconut, 1/2 cup caster sugar, 125g butter. melt butter, add to dry ingredients. Press into slice tin, cook 12 mins then cool.

Filling- Can condensed milk, 20g butter, 2T golden syrup,1 passionfruit. Cook all together few mins, spread onto base...cook further 10 mins.