Sugar Snapped

Lazy Sunday breakfast – Huevos Rancheros

Leah — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:05:21 +0000

I don’t often publish breakfasts on here, mainly because they don’t really excite me as much as other meals. This dish challenges me to change my mind about breakfast!

It’s the sort of dish you eat a little later (takes a little more effort to prepare) on a Sunday morning, sipping coffee on the deck and [...]

Jamie’s Peach Cobbler

Leah — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:42:03 +0000

I realise I probably mention the weather on here far too much! However, it’s unlikely to change in the immediate future.

I’ve been moping around the house as the most recent bout of continuous (incessent, unceasing, unrelenting, depressing) rain has ground our renovations to a halt while we wait for a dry patch. Instead, ha’ve been [...]

Saturday night sausage and corn pilaf

Leah — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:25:31 +0000

We split 1/8 cow with J’s family (from local supplier Bonnie Beef) and towards the end of my stash I’m always left wondering what to do with the final batch of sausages. On Saturday night I put my powers of Google to work and came upon this recipe from Coles.

Always keen to get some additional [...]

Spinach and ricotta dumplings with tomato salsa

Leah — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:00:14 +0000

These came from a recent edition of Donna Hay magazine, of course with several adaptations based on what I had in stock. The dumplings are quite similar to a ricotta gnocchi recipe I have made previously by Maggie Beer. This is a nice light meal but is still satisfying because of the protein from the [...]

Foodie confessions

Leah — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:46:04 +0000

Sometimes it’s too hot to cook. Brisbane is currently experiencing a heatwave, and with it my desire to cook disappears. I am so sick of ham. It turns out a 10kg ham is far too big. It also takes far far too long to heat through, resulting in burnt glaze But a glaze of [...]

A foray into icecream – vanilla bean

Leah — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:02:32 +0000

It was my birthday last week and it came after a 3 week trial of little/no added sugar. My conclusions from that little experiment was – 1. I was eating way too much sugar. 2. I could never give up sugar for any length of time. 3. However, when I do have sugar it should [...]