Tag: Cooking

Daily Look | Kids in the Kitchen

Daily Look | Kids in the Kitchen

Oh Bubbydo. You make everything just that little bit more exciting. ‘I help it’ is keeping us on our toes these days. You’re everywhere at once. Waiting for us to let our guard down and leave eggs on the bench unattended. You are an opportunist 

Cook Eat | Try something new – Black Rice

Cook Eat | Try something new – Black Rice

Ok, first things first; black rice is SO hard to photograph, black rice would get in all kinds of trouble as a food model – hard work yo! Secondly; Dave and I ate black rice as a side dish at an event a couple of 

Cook, Eat | Smoked Fish Pie Recipe

Cook, Eat | Smoked Fish Pie Recipe

So many iconic New Zealand brands are participating in New World’s Little Shop promotion but Sealord have taken it one step further this year; they have built two fully functioning Little Boats, complete with engine and rudder which will be given away to two lucky Sealord customers!  All you have to do is buy Sealord at New World and swipe your Fly Buys card to get in the draw.  Check out how cute the Little Boats are: 


 
Our family was treated to a delicious lunch by Sealord including an amazing salmon, smoked mussel, orzo and micro-greens salad {which I’m totally going to try and recreate} but our favourite dish was the smoked Hoki pie and being totally cheeky I asked for the recipe – to share with you of course! {FYI We don’t have a smoker so I’d sub out the Hoki for a 450g tin of Sealord Smoked Fish Fillets}.

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Cook Eat | Tortilla Recipe

Cook Eat | Tortilla Recipe

Making my own tortillas has been on my to-do list since I moved to San Diego in 2003 and became forever addicted to Mexican food. The gauntlet was laid on Friday night as Dave caught a shit-tonne of snapper and fish tacos were calling. There 

Pineapple Coconut Goo Cake Recipe

Pineapple Coconut Goo Cake Recipe

This is a no-good very BAD cake that you shouldn’t make if you are at all concerned with sugar, butter and all of those yummy things. For the rest of you that like to live and eat cake, I give you this recipe that I 

My Beef & Zucchini Lasagna Recipe

My Beef & Zucchini Lasagna Recipe

So everyone has their fail-safe lasagna recipe and mine will be no better than yours, just saying I made my personal best tonight!  Yes, this is the quick-ish working Mum version in which my sauce is made from cans, not fresh.  So shoot me.

You will need;

1 onion

500 grams minced beef

1 diced zucchini

garlic

1 small can tomato paste

1 can diced tomatoes

1 can Watties Pasta sauce

Italian seasonings, or fresh basil, parsley and oregano

Cracked black pepper

salt

1 pack of fresh lasagna sheets or the crispy kind

2 tubs of Ricotta or one if your stingy or dieting I guess

1 egg

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

Parmesan

Grated cheese

  1. Brown mince in pan with diced onion, garlic and zucchini + black pepper, drain excess oil from pan
  2. In a large pot combine all tomatoey ingredients, pepper, salt, fresh herbs or Italian seasoning, add browned meat etc, simmer with lid on for 30min at least.
  3. Dump ricotta into mixing bowl add egg and nutmeg and some grated cheese if you want.  Mix well.
  4. Using some kind of ladle apparatus, scoop sauce so it covers the bottom of your lasagne dish.
  5. Add first layer of pasta
  6. Spread 1/2ish of your ricotta mixture over the top
  7. sprinkle parmesan, then add a layer of grated cheese, sauce, pasta etc
  8. Go as high as your pan can take until you run out of mix, finish with a healthy layer of grated cheese with parmesan over the top.
  9. Bake covered with tinfoil for 25-30, remove tinfoil and bake for another 25-30 until crispy and bubbly and a bit crunchy on top.
Boring-ass Stuff I have Bought that Works Perfectly & Reminds me How Old I am Getting

Boring-ass Stuff I have Bought that Works Perfectly & Reminds me How Old I am Getting

Fact:  I have been in bed since 8.30pm Fact:  I am eating hummus, with nothing, just my finger ::::::GASP:::::: Fact:  I have just finished reading the New Zealand Healthy Food Guide November Edition Fact:  I purchased The Jack Family’s First Freezer today Cumulative total of 

Classic Date Scone Recipe

Classic Date Scone Recipe

Eating Baking always cheers me up and I knew exactly what I wanted to make today.  I have only recently become a fan of dates, they seem to be Abby’s favourite scone variety so whenever we have morning tea she always comes equipped with some 

Glorious Mussel Fritters Recipe

Glorious Mussel Fritters Recipe

This recipe was simple and amazing – a feast in fact!

MUSSEL FRITTERS

Serves: makes 20 fritters
Ingredients
1 teaspoon dried yeast
300mls tepid milk
350g flour
3 eggs, beaten
75 mls fish sauce
4 coriander roots, well washed
4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
2 hot green chillis, thinly sliced
2 tablespoons chopped coriander leaves
1.5 kg mussels, steamed open in a little water, shells discarded,
tongues pulled out, meat thinly sliced.
vegetable oil for frying.
Method
Sprinkle the yeast on the milk and set aside until the yeast has dissolved, mix well. Stir in the flour, eggs and fish sauce.
Process or pound the coriander root, garlic and chillis to a paste and mix well into the batter mix. Stir in the coriander leaves. Set aside in a warm place for about 30 minutes until bubbly.
Just before making the fritters, stir in the mussel meat and fry spoonfuls in hot oil until browned on both sides and well cooked.

Mussel Fritters Recipe

Cook Eat | Fresh Vege Tortellini w/ Carbonara Sauce

Cook Eat | Fresh Vege Tortellini w/ Carbonara Sauce

You will need; 1 pack Signature Range fresh spinach and cheese tortellini 1 x pot of fresh Delmaine Carbonara sauce 1 large tomato 1/2 yellow capsicum / bell pepper 6 mushrooms 1 zucchini 1 head broccoli garlic to taste Sautee zucchini, mushrooms, bell pepper and