Cooking With Mumsy

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Days 280 to 283

On Friday we drove to Bryan and Kathy's. When we arrived she had made lentil soup with chorizo sausage plus damper.

Saturday was Nigel's 60th birthday at Forrester's Hotel in Sydney...great night, great finger food!

On Sunday Kathy cooked a roast leg of lamb and veges, plus self-saucing caramel pudding for dessert...delicious!

Monday was ANZAC Day holiday, so we stayed with Bryan and Kathy an extra day before settin out on holidays. Kathy cooked curry and rice for dinner plus rhubarb and plums and some left-over caramel pudding with custard.

Tomorrow we hit the road and I'll be cooking again.

Days 276 to 279

This afternoon we drove to Wally with Rosie on the back, ready for our trip to Adelaide.

We stopped off at Bi-Lo in Tenterfield on the way and bought a cooked chook to have for dinner along with baked potatoes, sour cream and tomatoes.

The chillies at Wally were ready to be picked, so I picked them ,

char grilled them and bottled them in olive oil.

They will go to Adelaide too!

Bottled and ready to go!

Thses veges were baked in the oven with a little olive oil,
when cooked cream, salt and pepper were added,
then served with penne pasta.

Dinner's ready!

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Days 265 to 275

On Thursday we had 1/2 baked marinated chicken with baked potatoes, sour cream and salad.

The next day was my birthday.

Dave surprised me with lunch upstairs at the pub at South Grafton.

Flowers were waiting on the table.

That night, Tessa and John paid a surprise visit, and cooked dinner as well! John cooked the main course...steaks on bed of pumpkin, spinack leaves, pine nuts,grapes, with red wine jus.

Tessa bakes the beautiful chocolate birthday cake! Yum!
On saturday we had BBQ steaks with salad for lunch with Tessa and John.

For dinner we had eggs benedict and salad on toast.

Today we celebrated putting kent Street on the rental market.
Along with bottle of Moet we were given by Ray White on the purchase of the house,
we had marinated Greek-style buttereflied lamb on BBQ with roasted veges.

Tuesday night we had salmon and vegetables with penne pasta.

For mainly Music I made a banana coconut cake...

.recipe from "Like Grandma used to make".

On Thursday we had home-made pizza, with mango chutney, grilled eggplant, left-over potato, sauted onion, capsicum and pumpkin, roast lamb slices, olives, cheese,

and guacamole and sour cream to top it off.

On Thursday we had a couple of shed packs for dinner, as I was late home

after a car service in Lismore.

On Friday we had battered pearl perch fillets with salad.

Fresh mango in the salad was yummy...

we has lots of mangoes this year for a change.

Today I harvested lots of chillies from our backyard.

I put them on a tray in the oven at a very low temp,

with a wooden spoon keeping the oven door ajar,

for a few hours until they were crisp.

The dried chillies were then ground and put into jars.

I use them frequently in various dishes,

plus in a shaker to add a hot touch to a finished meal.

For dinner we had marinated chicken cutlets with cous cous.

Sunday night we had left-overs of Tapas sausages with salad and shed pack.

Days 260 to 264

Fettucine Boscaola

Sausage rolls and salad on Sunday.

Today we went to Toormina for Zac's 3rd birthday. I made a frittata to take with us.

Tuesday night we had a Mexican flavoured tajine with rice,

and guacamole and sour cream on the side.

Wednesday night we had penne pasta with chicken mince and veges with coconut cream.

Days 253 to 259

For dinner on Good Friday we had crumbed fish with salad and chips.

Saturday today...I made sausage rolls using chicken rissoles and frozen pastry.

The saussage rolls were served with mashed potato and kumara and peas,

with chilli sauce and sour cream.

On Sunday Dave was on a low-residue diet prior to a procedure in a couple of days, so we had jewfish baked in foil with mashed potato...rice and salad for me.

On Monday the low residue diet was still on...except it was now clear fluids.

I had a toasted chicken, cheese and tomato sandwich.

For mainly Music this week I made the good old 6 cup slice with dates and walnuts.

Dinner on Wednesday was lasagne and salad.

On wednesday we had left-over lasagne with salad.
On Thursday tessa was home for dinner. We had stuffed chicken rolls with veges.

Today I made hot cross buns as it was Good Friday.
I used the bread machine, and a wholemeal bread mix,
( added sultanas, cinnamon, nutmeg and rice bran oil,)
to make the dough, then shaped it into rolls.

Days 246 to 252

Corned silverside with potatoes,sweet potato,broccoli and white sauce.

Friands with cocoa and chocolate buttons....to take to Anth and Serena's tomorrow

for lunch on their new deck.

I made a couple of carrot cakes, one to take to Toormina and one for mainly Music.
They were iced with Philly cheese icing.

Had a lovely day at Toormina. BBQ on the new back deck with all the family.

For dinner we kept it simple...bread rolls with cold silverside and salad, with coffee.

Tonight we had steaks on the baby Q with cous cous.

Tonight we had marinated chicken with cashews and salad.

Wednesday for dinner, we cooked Portuguese chicken on the baby Q

with baked mediterranean veges.

For dinner on Thursday we had crumbed chicken pieces with macaroni bake.

Days 238 to 245

Today I used the wonderful tajine again...Moroccan style chicken, chick peas and veges.

Sunday dinner was home-made pizza.

Monday we enjoyed roast boned leg of pork....cooked in the baby Q, with roast veges, peas and apple, plus gravy flavoured with left-over syrup from stewed nectarines.