Pork Chipolata Recipe

Red Curry Sausages

2 tablespoons vegetable or peanut oil
12 pork chipolatas
1 small brown onion, halved, thinly sliced
1/3 cup bought red curry paste
400ml can coconut milk
350g kumara, cut into 2cm pieces
150g beans, trimmed, halved crosswise
coriander leaves and steamed jasmine rice, to serve

Heat half the oil in a large frying pan over moderate heat. Add chipolatas: cook and turn for 5-8 minutes or until browned and cooked. Remove sausages from pan; slice thickly diagonally.

Add remining oil to pan. Add onion; cook and stir for 3 minutes or until soft. Add curry paste; cook and stir for 1 minute or until fragrant.

Stir in coconut milk, 1/2 cup water and kumara. Simmer, covered, for 8-10 minutes or until kumara is just tender. Return sausages to pan with beans; cook for 5 mnutes or until beans are tender. Spoon into serving bowls; sprinkle with coriander. Serve with rice.

From: recipes+ magazine July 2010

Smooth & Creamy Menu

I am still tying to keep things with little chewing.

Tuesday ~ Vegetable Macaroni & Cheese
Wednesday ~ Sausage Stroganoff
Thursday ~ Meatball Stroganoff
Friday ~ Pasta & Pumpkin Bake
Saturday ~ Easy Chicken Chow Mein (uses Singapore styled noodles I have already, still cleaning out that pantry and chicken mince)
Sunday ~ Tuna and Potato Salad (uses cherry tomatoes & spinach)
Monday ~ Creamy Roast Pumpkin Pasta
Tuesday ~ Pesto Pasta with Zucchini, Feta & Tomato
Wednesday ~ Pumpkin & Silverbeet Penne
Thursday ~ Spiced Beans with Roast Pumpkin Wedges
Friday ~ Creamy Chicken & Cheese Pasta
Saturday ~ Lentil & Spinach Lasagne
Sunday ~ Thai Sweet Potato & Lentil Soup
Monday ~ Japanese Pancakes with extra mince I have in the freezer

Emergency swap recipe:
Left-over Sausage Chili

Interesting recipe:
Ham Reuben Sandwiches (I love sauerkraut)
Penne with Chorizo & Creamy Tomato Sauce
Paella Recipes
Green Eggs & Ham

What Else Is There?

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Recipes for one person

I was on the Simply Great Meals site, which I have found nice recipes in the past, looking for recipes for sushi. I found these great recipes for one person using tuna tempters.

Tuna & Corn Quesadilla For One

Salmon, Olive & Caper Penne for One

Pasta Pronto for One

They have other recipes too here. They are not all tuna recipes.

Our Family Recipes Series

Veal Campagnola

Serves 4

5 stalks silverbeet
4 veal crumbed schnitzel
30g butter
flour
salt, pepper
30g butter, extra
1 tablespoon oil
4 slices mozzarella cheese

Tomato Sauce:

400g can whole tomatoes
30g butter
2 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1/4 cup dry white wine (riesling we use)
1/4 cup water
1 teaspoon sugar
salt, pepper

Tomato Sauce:

Push tomatoes, with their liquid through sieve. Heat butter in suacepan, add the crushed garlic, cook 1 minute. Add pureed tomato and tomato paste, stir to combine. Add combined wine and water, bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer uncovered 5 minutes, season with sugar, salt and pepper.

Wash spinach leaves, remove stalks. Roll up leaves tightly, shred finely. Put silverbeet in saucepan with enough water just to cover bottom of the saucepan. Cook covered 5 minutes, drain well. Toss with butter. Trim veal steaks, pound out thinly. (Shop has usually done this already if it is crumbed.) Season flour with salt and pepper, lightly dust each veal steak with seasoned flour (if it hasn't been done already).

Heat extra butter and oil in frying pan, add veal steaks, cook. Top each piece of veal with one quarter of the cooked silverbeet. Place a slice of cheese on top of silverbeet.

Pour prepared tomato sauce around veal but do not cover the cheese. Cover frying pan, simmer gently 10 minutes or until cheese has melted. Serve with chips.

Adapted from Italian Cooking Class Cookbook AWW p68

Keep On Keeping On

Beautiful song.

A Simple Living Movie

I had the joy of watching the Hannah Montana movie last night. My husband has been to Tennessee so that is part of the appeal I suppose. Recently I was talking to my daughter about ferrets. She wanted to get one. I am wondering now if it was because of the movie.

Anyway, I loved the theme of the movie, not so much Life Wasn't Meant To Be Easy of our former Prime Minister, but

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes I'm gonna to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

The struggles I'm facing,
The chances I'm taking
Sometimes might knock me down but
No I'm not breaking
I may not know it
But these are the moments that
I'm going to remember most yeah
Just got to keep going
And I,
I got to be strong
Just keep pushing on, cause


I was impressed by the canning jars in a carrier unceremoniously dropped by Miley's Granma. There were lots of things I liked even the reference to Hip Hop in the following video, since I love Justin Bieber's song, which I think is hip hop and play it in the car, all related to seeing dance concerts and competitions. I think the trailers don't do this movie justice.



Anyway, the ferret in the movie did exactly as expected from my experience with ferrets and what I told the girls they were like!

Lets Talk About Menu Planning

I was reading Mum's copy of Australian Good Taste July 2010 and came across an article called It pays to plan which you can read by pdf on the link. It had at the start of the article "Those who do it swear by it, but those who don't see it as a bizarre ritual..."

My immediate thoughts were that the same people probably collect tax receipts? What do you think? Anyway maybe it is hard for us to do all the rituals we are supposed to be doing. I definitely fall down on keeping receipts, or throwing out excess paper, but love menu planning or writing down a rough budget. I used to love recording things online, like blessings and stuff like that. It all depends how much energy we have I suppose.

There are a few parts to these articles and Part 2 which I have linked to has some good ideas on menu planning, that also fit in with my recent menu plans and their themes.

Review Recipes+ Magazine

When I went to Melbourne early this week, we stopped by my Mum's to drop off the girls as I was having surgery. On the way home Mum gave me a magazine stack including three copies of Recipes+. If the recipes are as good as the ones we usually use, these are a gold mine! They are similar to the recipes I used before our vegetarian super budget kick, which were budget already. Familiar ingredients are chorizo, chipolatas and different sausages. Also my favourite types of dishes, but different to the ones we already have, which I am getting sick of really because I like to find new exciting recipes with those ingredients, as they are a limited set of ingredients in some ways.

You can have a look at what it looks like here.

You all know I am very dependent on the Taste site and love it as well. I love the magazine too. But I find the recipes+ magazine better in that it is less offensive by the way of materialism. Also everything is very positive and doesn't favour any particular type of people. Very practical, helpful, and uplifting, and cute. The ads are even nice. As I said, they are not materialisic, they are for everyday things, not too many and entertaining in a nice way. Thank you recipes+ for brightening up my week. Only trouble is that when I take all my favourite recipes out, I may as well just put the whole magazine in the marbig, there won't be much left, or much room left in my marbig.

New Menu with Soft Food

I don't know where my brain was when I made up the menu except I didn't want to be having to do it after surgery. I had surgery yesterday and I am supposed to be doing the fruit and vege order now. Well I won't order yet, I am going to make up a new menu tomorrow. It should be OK, my internet is fast, though it seems like my girls seem bent of fixing that lol. I know what we are having tonight, as I have pesto which was bought for a rainy day, and left over pumpkin. I just hope it is soft enough. Really I just don't want food stuck on my teeth, hopefully if I avoid greens and some meats?

Wednesday ~ Roast Pumpkin & Pesto Risotto
Thursday ~ Savoury Mince with Soft Polenta (maybe we can puree the sauce)
Friday ~ left-over risotto for me, and Bacon & Cheese Burgers for those who are home this Friday night
Saturday ~ Chili Con Carne
Sunday ~ Spaghetti Bolognaise (maybe I could have mine with cous cous?) or Savoury Mince & Potato Wedges
Monday ~ Cauliflower Soup
Tuesday ~ Curried Sweet Potato Soup
Wednesday ~ Spicy Pumpkin Soup
Thursday ~ Smoked Cod & Mashed Potatoes
Friday ~ Thai Sweet Potato & Lentil Soup
Saturday ~ Pumpkin & Asparagus Risotto
Sunday ~ Smoked Fish Risotto with Poached Eggs
Monday ~ Oven Baked Tuna & Tomato Risotto

Swap recipe: Tuna Mornay with Cherry Tomatoes
Cherry Tomato Bologanise with Tagliatelle
Tomato Soup with Parmesan Meatballs

Interesting recipes: Mushroom Rosemary Polenta Bake
Perfect Pumpkin Soup (includes homemade pesto)
Tray backed Sausages with Potatoes & Cherry Tomatoes (uses pork sausages)
Potato & Egg Bake (uses pancetta)
Tunarani an Indian meal made from tuna and cherry tomatoes!

I can see there are lots of fantastic new recipes using ingredients I haven't bought for awhile on the Taste site.

Cleaning Out the Pantry Menu

You will notice some repeats from last week. One night we had left-overs and another night Mushroom Burgers as we got mixed up with the list and didn't get ingredients for what we had planned. This came about by the late night my husband was working and couldn't get to the shop, to plan out work for someone else to take his classes while we are away, which we had tea out.

My menu seems very heavy on feta, three recipes.

Tuesday ~ Japanese Pancakes (another new recipe with BBQ chicken & canned prawns)
Wednesday ~ Turkish Pizza
Thursday ~ Sausage & Egg Muffin Burgers
Friday ~ Bacon & Cheese Burgers (uses stuffing mix)
Saturday ~ Easy Chicken Chow Mein (uses Singapore styled noodles I have already, still cleaning out that pantry and chicken mince)
Sunday ~ Zucchini & Bacon Slice with Chips
Monday ~ Zucchini Burgers and maybe Savoury Mince & Potato Wedges
Tuesday ~ Pesto Pasta with Zucchini, Feta & Tomato
Wednesday ~ Pumpkin & Silverbeet Penne
Thursday ~ Spiced Beans with Roast Pumpkin Wedges
Friday ~ Tuna & Corn Burgers with Olive & Parsley Salad
Saturday ~ Lentil & Spinach Lasagne
Sunday ~ Thai Sweet Potato & Lentil Soup
Monday ~ Spicy Meatlovers Pizza with Salad

Possibly next pay I can shop in Coles and try something different, if I feel I can lift things.

Success from last week:

Polenta with White Bean Salad I can't say enough good things about this recipe, great if you love basil fresh from the garden!

Japanese Pancake (with bacon) gorgeous like going to a cafe (an old-fashioned one)