Sausages and onion are one of my favourite combinations …. and throw in the bonus of minimal prep and washing up, and I’m all in!! Do you have a cabbage hiding in the bottom of your fridge that would just love to be transformed into a tasty meal? And what about that bag of frozen […]
Have you ever invited friends to come for a meal, and didn’t have time to prepare something fancy? Or have you been asked to ‘bring a plate’ to a pot-luck, and then had no idea what to cook? Perhaps you were on a meal roster for someone in need, only to discover they had food […]
Thinking of what to prepare for lunches without resorting to sandwiches can be challenging. Or at least it is for our family. And of all the meals in this house, lunchtime somehow seems to roll around the fastest of all 🙂 I’ve participated in enough forums to know that many Mums whose families are following […]
I’ve recently been contemplating how the weather dictates how we cook and what we eat … particularly meals eaten during hot weather. They’re somewhat ironic, don’t you think? Even though there’s more daylight hours in summer, we tend to want to spend less time in the kitchen preparing meals. Is this because we’d rather be […]
As children, Josh and I both grew up on farms in western NSW with beef and dairy cattle. Being farm kids, we helped muster and draft the cattle, watched the home butchering process with great interest, and helped our mothers clean out our gigantic chest freezers and bag up the meat. Fresh meat from the […]
Weather-wise, this is such a blissful time of year. The mornings and evenings are cool, but there’s enough warmth in the sun to encourage outdoor activities (and soak up the vitamin D!). So in order to take full advantage of this spring weather, we’re continuing to eat the occasional curry and stew. After all, there will […]