Posts filed under Good & Tasty Tuesday
Baked Onion Rings
The other night I had a couple of drinks and I wanted something breaded, fried, salty; all of the things that make something tasty, but not necessarily good for me. I went to my kitchen and set to work making Good & Tasty Tuesday-worthy onion rings. I took a slice of my seeded, whole grain, buckwheat and poppyseed bread and stuck it in my food processor until it was breadcrumbs. I whisked up one of my eggs from my free-range organic hens out back and I sliced an onion. If you’ve never breaded anything, you just dredge it through the… { read more }
Vegetable Stew… with or without meat.
My daughter doesn’t grow… for months at a time. She’s on her third pair of shoes, ever. She’s three. She still wears 18-24 month clothes. She is small but mighty. Every so often she goes through a growth spurt… well, like three times now (remember the three pairs of shoes?)… and she sleeps 16 hours a night and eats everything that isn’t nailed down for about two weeks, then she wakes up inches taller and nothing fits. During these two weeks, I am a 24 hour a day short-order cook. I am on call to produce the healthiest, high-calorie, belly-filling… { read more }
Cod and Avocado, Shockingly Good
Okay, so Good & Tasty Tuesday. No pressure when two of my four food idols read my blog on Sunday! Eeek. I mean, it’s not like they read one of my little ol’ recipe posts. Which is kind of a relief to be honest. It would be like my kid handing me a diaper full of poo and telling me they’d made supper. So, you know, Richard Blais & Fabio Viviani are well-versed on my philosophy on love, sex & orgasms… but whatever. They read my blog. I can cling to that for at least another ten years. So, moving… { read more }
Halloween Detox Lunch
How’s your belly feeling? A bit full of high fructose corn syrup? Well, if you’re anything like me, you absolutely didn’t raid your kids’ candy after they went to bed… except you totally did. What better time to make something yummy and good for you for lunch or supper? Enter the humble chickpea. The sadly over-looked, often neglected chickpea. Until I moved over here, the only thing I thought they were good for was hummus. And I have to admit, if your only purpose in life is to make hummus then your life has a good purpose indeed. But that’s… { read more }
Whole Fish Without the Yuck Factor
I crazy-love eating fish. But damn it’s expensive. You know what I hate? Expensive food that I can’t live without. It’s why I started making so much stuff from scratch. The best way to get around the price tag on a piece of fish is to buy a whole fish. It’s like half price. Then you can have sea bass with mushrooms, broccoli and herbs and not feel like you spent your life’s savings on lunch. How yummy does that look? I’m not gonna lie, whole fish creep me out. It was mostly to prove something to myself that I… { read more }
No Recipe, Just My Story
Good and Tasty Tuesday is going to take a little bit of a different turn this week. I’m going to have the link-up below as usual, but I want to get a bit more narrative this week rather than posting a recipe and a picture of a meal. My camera battery has died and I can’t find my charger. I am taking this as the universe telling me to do something different… except not really because I don’t buy into the whole signs from the universe thing, but it sounds nice. So I’m gonna roll with it. Please don’t throw… { read more }
Asparagus, Broccoli, Parmesan Soup
Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch? Let me tell you how to make a free lunch that looks this good: The answer is: save your scraps. That is a bowl of broccoli/asparagus/parmesan soup and I made it with things most people throw away. When you prep asparagus and broccoli, you hack off the ends and throw them away because they’re dry and fibrous, right? Well, if you put them in a Ziploc baggie with a little bit of water and stick them in the freezer (I do the same with my parmesan rinds, minus the water.),… { read more }
Homemade Pumpkin Spice Latte
I’m gonna go ahead and get the obvious out of the way and say that they don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK. If that doesn’t make sense to you, just think about what Thanksgiving is celebrating, feel really dumb and then don’t ever admit to anyone that you had to spend this much time trying to figure out the conundrum. Anyway, since they don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, they also don’t really understand pumpkin pie. You have to admit, if you didn’t grow up eating it every year as part of a holiday memory then it kind of is a weird/gross concoction…. { read more }
Best Use of Asparagus, Ever
I had some asparagus in the fridge which was calling out to be used. We’ve always got eggs, thanks to our four lovely hens out back, and I keep the cupboard stocked with quinoa and the freezer stocked with king prawns (jumbo shrimp). Who wouldn’t make this? So, everything in it: eggs, prawns, smoked paprika, garlic, onion, dried oregano, lemon juice, loads of fresh herbs (flat leaf parsley, oregano), mushrooms, asparagus, quinoa, salt, and lots of black pepper. Have the quinoa (or you could use cous cous) cooked and make the eggs into a plain omelet in advance and cut… { read more }
Best Pasta Ever
This lunch took about fifteen minutes to make and it was so good I could have eaten it every meal from then until the day I die. I made this lemon/pepper/herb chicken the other night for supper and had reserved all the yummy cooking liquid that had collected in the roasting pan. I’m all about no food waste; not just because it’s economical, but a lot of times when you throw stuff out it would have made something really YUMMY. So was the case with these cooking juices. The broth that collected in the bottom of the pan had all… { read more }
