Day 15

MAINLY MUSIC: I made sausage rolls today for Mainly Music.
Cut each sheet of frozen pastry into 9 pieces.
Place a piece of sausage diagonally onto each square.
Brush edges with egg and roll up.
Brush with egg and sprinkle herbs on top.
Bake in hot oven until golden.






DINNER: Salmon/ Pasta Mornay
Cook pasta.
Fry onions, shallots, broccoli, spinach.
Add chick peas ( canned)
Make white sauce
Mix all ingredients, along with a can of salmon, and place in casserole dish.
Put slices of tomato on top followed by grated cheese and parmesan.
Bake about 25 mins @ 180C

Day 14

LUNCH: Freshly baked bread rolls with tuna and salad.

DINNER: Brown rice with roasted pumpkin, onions, olives, crumbed chicken pieces and a dollop of sour cream on top.

Day 13

LUNCH: Egg and Bacon Rolls

DINNER: BBQ'd Pork Steaks with garlic seasoning, and Potato Bake (with potato, pumpkin, sweet potato, cream, salt and pepper, nutmeg and cheese on top), and beans.

Day 12

Today I was at a Mainly Music Conference in Coffs Harbour. Kirsty supplied the lunch. One dish I was most impressed with was polenta with roasted vegetables...I must get her recipe!

DINNER: Green Prawns on Skewers

Marinate prawns in olive oil, garlic, ginger, chilli soy sauce and fish sauce.

Put prawns on skewers with Halloumi cheese and cook on BBQ 1-2 mins each side till they change colour.

Serve with salad and rice.

Day 11

LUNCH: Freshly baked bread rolls with king prawns, lettuce, avocado and seafood dressing.

DINNER: Fish cubes (Flake) in lemon pepper seasoning with Cous Cous.

Coat cubes of fish with lemon pepper seasoning and shallow fry.

Make cous cous..I use the packets that you just put into boiling water for a couple of minutes.

Add olives, fetta cheese, fried onions, shallots, tomato, sultanas, almond slithers, olive oil, lemon juice and avocado.

Day 10

LUNCH: Sandwiches..avocado, Tasmanian Brie and apple/chilli jam, with a cup of green tea.

DINNER:Crumbed Chicken with Creamy Pumpkin Sauce and Penne

Fry garlic, onion, cubed pumpkin until soft

Add cream, salt and pepper, chilli powder,shallots, slithered almonds

Cook pasta

Shallow fry crumbed chicken, cut into strips

Mix sauce with pasta and put in bowl

Put strips of chicken over pasta

Garnish with coriander

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).