Follow my blog with Bloglovin Dry Coleslaw Recipe I can’t believe a month has passed, Christmas is over, and so is January. I blinked and they were just gone. Must be the downside to getting older. Time flies. When all the other food bloggers are busy posting food for Australia day and ramping up for mother’s day and Easter, I am just over here thinking, I have so much work on and I am going to be out on
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Bean Salad This salad is made from one of the best pantry staples around. Dried beans, frugal, long lasting. I always keep stock of dried beans, so handy for soups and salads and dips and meals on their own. I find the best places in Australia is to purchase them from is whole food shops, health food stores and the likes. These places usually have a good variety of beans. When using beans for any meal it is necessary
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Easy herb Vinaigrette, you will never want to buy a store bought pre packaged vinaigrette again after making this. Vinaigrettes are incredibly easy to make and very cost effective. I personally like to use a flavorless oil such rice bran/sunflower/safflower or extra -virgin olive oil. You can use either a powdered mustard or ready made. A flavorless oil allows for the flavors of the herbs and garlic to really come through. And of course you can use any herbs
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Baked Beans Traditionally beans were slowly baked, cooked overnight in hot coals in a fire pit. Fast forward to present day, not many of us have a fire pit in our yards. Some of us don’t even have yards. So you want beans fast, and you want them easy. Break out the pressure pot/cooker, a marvelous invention. They were invented in1679, the French physicist Denis Papin. Bet you did not know they were that old. Cooking under pressure with
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A chip is not a chip unless it has tomato sauce on it. Unless you are my mother who always had to put vinegar on her chips. But she was English…….
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