Cooking With Mumsy: 07/30/09

Day 9

Today is Wednesday. After porridge for brecky, Dave's esky was packed and he headed for the Men's Shed.

I went down the street and bought a fresh loaf of country grain loaf and had sandwiches for lunch. Avocado, brie and Kashmir chutney.

This afternoon I made a batch of Apricot Coconut Cookies, as I needed to take a plate to a meeting this evening.

For the cookies...

3 eggs

1 cup caster sugar

60g butter

1Tblsp grated lemon rind

1 Tblsp lemon juice

1/2 cup chopped dried apricots

2 cups rolled oats

1/4 cup SR flour

1 cup coconut

Beat eggs, sugar, butter, lemon rind and juice until light and fluffy. Fold in apricots, rolled oats, flour and coconut. Drop teaspoonsful onto tray and cook for 12-15 mins at 180C.

Cool on trays a couple of minutes, then put on wire rack.

DINNER: Pork steaks with garlic seasoning cooked on the Weber Baby Q, with mashed potatoes, butternut pumpkin (from our garden) and thin beans ( frozen from Aldi).

We're back to porridge with sultanas for brecky.
Today is Tuesday and the first day back this term for Mainly Music. Today I'm making savoury muffins to take with me. I used the same muffin recipe as the other day, but added leeks and grated cheese instead of olives.
When I go to Mainly Music, Dave usually gets his own lunch which is often left-overs and toast.

DINNNER: Jill and her boys called around so stayed for tea. I had mince out ready to make something for tea, so decided to make a meat and vege bolognaise. I just cooked the meat and added fried onion and garlic, carrot, leeks, corn,spinach, pasta sauce salt and pepper and mixed herbs. It was served with fettucine and grated cheese on top.

Day 7

It's Monday morning, and we've had Weet Bix for brecky the same as yesterday.

After cleaning up and packing the car, we start for home.

We have a favourite bakery at Deepwater, where we often stop for lunch. I rang ahead to get some pies put aside for us. We had a beef and potato pie, a beef steak tomato and onion, a plain pie, a pineapple tart, and a pull-apart for later.

DINNER: Having just driven home, dinner was a quick
and easy one.
We had crumbed fish pieces that just had to be baked
in a hot oven, with tomato, avocado, sour cream and
some of the pull-apart we bought at the bakery on the way home.

Day 6

BRECKY: This morning we had Weet Bix with bananas, strawberries, yoghurt, soy milk and honey.

LUNCH: Curried Sausage Pie

I had some left-over BBQd sausages in the freezer,

so decided to make a pie. I always have frozen pastry

in the freezer, which is very handy.

Fry onion, garlic chopped carrot. Add flour and curry powder, salt and pepper, stir a couple of minutes, add water, cook until thick...add frozen peas and corn.

Line pie dish with pastry. Spoon filling in. Brush with egg and sprinkle with thyme. Bake in hot oven until golden,

only about 15 mins.

Serve with tomatoes, avocado and chilli jam.

DINNER: was UFO ( unidentified frozen object) from freezer.

It was a meat and veg pasta dish.

I heated it up in a saucepan and served it on toast with grated cheese on top.

We accompanied it with a bottle of Pinot Noir.

Day 5

Today is Saturday. After going to garage sales we decided to go to Wally for a couple of days.
Often for lunch on the way to Wally, we go to Hanks bakery and get chicken, avocado and cranberry toasted Turkish breads.

For dinner we just had left-over chicken/vegetable lasagne from yesterday.

Day 4

LUNCH: Lunch with Nigel and Pam was a simple dish of tomato, onion, cheese and bacon melts on country grain bread, accompanied by a pot of coffee.

AFTERNOON TEA: Made 6 cup slice recipe. This recipe came from a recipe book given to me by my mother-in-law several years a go. I have used it heaps. You can vary the recipe just by changing a couple of the ingredients. Today the ingredients used were...
1 cup SR flour

1 cup sugar

1 cup sultanas

1 cup coconut

1 cup (soy) milk

2 Tblsp cocoa

1/2 cup chopped crystalised ginger

Mix all ingredients, pour into slice tin and bake about 30 mins @ 180C.

Ice with chocolate/lemon icing.

DINNER: Chicken and vegetable lasagne

Fry onions, garlic and sliced chicken pieces. Add can of tomatoes, salt and pepper.

Make white sauce...melt butter, add plain flour, saltand pepper and cook a couple of mins. Add milk....cook until thickened.( I do the sauce in the microwave, it's quicker, less mess. Just whisk every couple of mins.)

Chop any other vegetables, eg carrots, broccoli, corn, mushrooms.

Make layers of chicken mix, veges, lasagne sheets and white sauce. Finish with layer of lasagne with white sauce on top. Sprinkle with cheese. Bake in oven at 180C until cooked through and golden on top...about an hour.