Its been about 5 years since I posted here! I can't believe this site still exists! The beginning of a new year brings new motivation and enthusiasm and hopefully I can maintain that through 2017. There will be more food, more pictures (probably of food), and more exercise. Undoubtably there will be more politics as 2017 is an election year here in Perth, WA and I have a bit to say about that!
A month ago I replied to an email from Epicurious online to join the #cook90 challenge. It seemed like a fine idea in November! Today is the beginning of the challenge and I stumbled over breakfast. Oops. #cook90 challenges participants to cook 90 meals in January. Its a big task. Breakfast, lunch and dinner for a month, with only 3 slip up meals/eat out meals. I really don't think I can do it, unless I count morning and afternoon teas that include home baked or home prepped things. Skipping over the Panettone we ate for breakfast, we ate a variety of leftovers for lunch. T and E ate left over wood -fired pizza from my birthday party two nights ago. DH ate left over carrot tarte tatin with left over lemon and curry leaf baked rice, also from the other day. I ate the last piece of zucchini slice with aforementioned rice. Sorry, no pics but I assure you it was delicious!
DH and I are heading out to the tennis tonight so I thought I would make a ton of Vietnamese rice paper rolls; some to smuggle into Perth Arena, the rest to leave with the kids and the babysitter. The fridge provided the inspiration in the form of garlic tofu, purple cabbage, red capsicum, carrots, mint, coriander and some hoisin sauce. The pantry provided the rice noodles and rice paper.
As today feels like a good prep day, I also turned some pizza dough into bread rolls. Sounds easy, right? While the oven was heating I started kneading and rolling the dough into knot rolls like I have done a hundred times. Bang, pop! The oven explodes. Yep. Explodes. Great big orange sparks, billowing black smoke, banging and popping noises. Awesome. Oh well, we had four and a half years out of it and it wasn't new when we bought the house. The fan has been a bit rattle-y for a few days so we thought it might be on the way out. Never fear, it is New Year Sale time so that gives us something to do! Next decision was wether to light the wood fired pizza oven or try the convection microwave. I chose microwave and they seem to have turned out well.
Except for the last two - the microwave shat itself. Just stopped. No lights, no one home. Looks like an expensive shopping day is in my near future.
So cheers to an interesting start to 2017 and lots more food to come!
