Tag: thrifty cooking
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PK’s Dried Citrus Slices
I love preserving food as much as I like growing it (and talking about it). So I did some googling on ways to preserve citrus after my lemon tree decided to try and bury me in fruit :). My lime tree is a heavy cropper too but in Perth it is not hard to find…
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Crumbed Baked Chicken Sticks
As a kid, one of my favourite treat meals was a large serve of Ingham’s Chicken Chippies doused in tomato sauce. Chicken chippies were chip shaped slices of chicken coated in breadcrumbs and then snap-frozen for retail sale. The advert was hilarious: I am not sure if you can still buy them but I now…
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Bish’s Basil Pesto Experiment 1
I have two large planter boxes at the edge of our patio that are where I grow my herbs, along with a long thin veggie patch against a fence. Luckily this space is enough for me to play around with some different herbs and veggies. Giving the long thin veggie patch a bit of a…
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PK’s Baked Mashed Potato, Bacon and Cheese Balls
I normally have enough leftovers for at least one lunch when I cook dinner for my family. So you can imagine how good these potato balls are if I had to buy lunch at work the next day :). Really easy to make ahead of time and sort of healthy as they are baked and not shallow fried,…
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PK’s Thrifty Soft Wraps
My family loves any meal where you prepare fillings in advance and then you build your own meal as you go. I have posted about our tacos, nachos, tasting plates and now……soft wraps :). Here we have leftover roast chicken, char-grilled corn, boiled eggs, cheddar cheese and coriander plus leafy vegetables from my kitchen garden:…
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Ben’s Beef Jerky
Beef jerky is a great snack. Its healthy, flavoursome, and gives you a little burst of energy. I never follow a recipe, so everything is quantity based and taste based. I use a dehydrator to dry the beef, however a light box will be just as good (if not better), it just takes longer. If…
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Ben’s Windfall Lime Pickle
This windfall lime pickle is a prime example of preserving your harvests. I encourage you to eat fresh produce during their particular growing season and then their (hopefully made by you) preserved cousins off season. The mass produced commercial versions just don’t compare. It’s important to use very ripe limes. I use the ones that…
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KT’s Bush Walker Cookies
My wife has been using this cookie recipe for as long as she can remember. She calls it one of her no fuss recipes. Now we are parents my wife uses less sugar, allegedly but they still come out tasting amazing. My picky toddler never says no to them and he calls them “mummy bi’cuts:” :). STEPS:…
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Bish’s Chicken Congee for the Soul
The health benefits of your favourite comfort foods should not be underrated. Traditional recipes especially because they have been handed down from generation to generation for a reason. Special guest blogger Bish writes: I’ve been crook most of the week, and as a result I ended up cooking one of my “comfort” foods, congee, or…
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KT’s Dippy Eggs and Soldiers
My toddler loves a soft boiled egg and soldiers and when he wants them for breakfast he asks for ‘dippy eggs’. The name has stuck I am happy to say :). The problem was that I had always cooked hard boiled eggs, using this method, growing up. So I had to ask my wife if…
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