Cooking Fresh Food - breaking the jar/can/bottle habit...

[suse]

2. When transporting a frozen pig across town, think twice before sitting it in the passenger seat of the car and putting a seatbelt on it....think a third time before driving past an active RBT site!

:-)

A friend of mine had exactly the same problem, except that he'd pulled up at the lights next to a police car. He'd tried to make the pig incognito by putting sunglasses on it, but it didn't work for some strange reason...

[alioops]

PMSL Suse and Bear!!! I am sure they would just have a bit of a laugh about it, they see worse!!

Bear I SSOOOO Hope you didn't put it in the bathtub!! Pixie I would be as peeved as you!!, It does look like a good night though, and I bet it tasted great!!

[Astrid]

ooh spit - nice one Bear. We have a couple goats out back that are looking rather nice, just need to find a spit. For our Viking feasts we would always do a lamb on a spit. Amazing the number of people at the Vic Markets who freaked out at a whole lamb being carried to the car, some people must be very disconnected to where their cut up meat comes from.

[TheBear]

The pig didn't seem to bother people that much, but a few of the neighbours did get a bit funny about the Xmas geese - Don't click if squeamish

[Sair]

I will forever bookmark those photos to try and remind myself how gross meat is. I was vegetarian but for some reason started eating meat again, lets see if the photos can change me back.

Slowly starting to get back into the swing of cooking fresh again, I didn't realise how long it would take to get the energy after giving birth. I have delegated a night of cooking a week to Juz, he is an expert at the Old El Paso kits I plan the meals for the next fortnight which makes things so much easier as I can get the kitchen set up the night before for things like perogies or a slow cooker meal. So hopefully I can start poking my head in here more often now.

Tonight is chicken strips with curried rice, not very fresh cooking considering aside from the chicken and rice the only other ingredients are cornflakes, egg and spices from a jar. I am making perogies on Thursday so that is fresh food

[Danni]

would love some recipes for fresh food. I have an abundance of flour atm...so flour recipes would be good?

I have been making something called "monkey bread" lately. Basically you put all the normal loaf ingredients into a bread maker, with a bit of garlic.

Put it onto dough setting, take it out, divide the dough into small balls, dip in melted butter mixed with garlic and herbs, then place in a kugelhopf(sp). (you know the tins with a hole in the middle?)

let it rise again, then bake for 20 mins. All the butter seeps through, and it is amazing. Serve with dinner, and all the small pieces get picked off with ease.

[Michelle71]

Danni - that sounds fabulous!!! If you are trying to use up flour what about pasta, pikelets, fritters etc??

Pasta you can mix in your breadmaker and then roll out yourself or put through a roller. I have one that attaches to the bench but I also have one which attaches to the front of the Kitchenaid which is pretty good You can then make lasagna, fettucini, ravioli, canneloni and more with the pasta. If you have the extra bits you can also make macaroni and spaghetti too.

Fritters are basically savoury pikelets. You can add meat and vegetables of your choice and they are great finger food for the kids.