I only have a tiny oven in my kitchen, which doesn’t really lend itself to cooking a big roast dinner, even for one person. So when I bought a whole chicken to roast recently I decided to try cooking it in the slow cooker, so I could cook roast veggies in the oven.
It turned out very well – maybe slightly overcooked but that was my fault for being too scared it would be undercooked (because my slow cooker takes longer than others) and cooking it for too long. Continue reading
It’s been a while since I posted about my garden, and there’s a reason for that. Although, I was very happy to be able to bring my garden with me when I moved house, shortly after that we had a month of torrential rain and all of my plants started to die. I think the pots didn’t have enough drainage and the roots were drowning. A few survived, but I had to start from scratch again with some new seeds.
I decided to focus more on greens since you can eat the whole plant, making them more efficient. Here’s what I have in the garden now: Continue reading
My trip to Thailand is on a budget airline. This means that you have to pay extra for checked luggage, food and entertainment. While looking at their menu, I noticed two things, firstly that there is no information about whether their meals are gluten free, and secondly that their meals looked very unappetising.
So I decided to bring my own food for the entire journey. This will be a challenge because I will be leaving home at 4:30AM, and will not arrive in Bangkok until 10pm Brisbane time, meaning I have roughly 18 hours to worry about. I will have a two hour stopover in Singapore, where I can buy food, but the first flight is eight hours long. Since I am travelling internationally, all of my food will have to comply with the liquid restrictions (all liquids under 100ml).
Here is what I came up with: Continue reading
One of the things I love to do when going on holidays is figuring out what to pack. I have lists on my computer from every trip I’ve taken over the past few years and every time I go on holiday I dig out the old ones and put them together to make a new one.
I travel with a backpack rather than a suitcase, so I try and keep it as light as possible. On this trip to Thailand especially, I have a 15kg checked baggage allowance on the way there (20kg on the way back though). Here’s what I packed: Continue reading
This week I went a bit crazy on the fresh veggies after finishing the $21 Challenge. It was a bit of a delicate balance between buying a lot of fresh food and eating it all up before I went on holiday. I roasted a whole chicken on Sunday night, so had leftovers of that to eat all week, in different combinations with lots of veggies.
Monday – Gado gado made with the satay sauce I had in the pantry, potato, broccoli, cucumber, bok choy, mung bean sprouts and a boiled egg.
Tuesday – Leftover gado gado and roast chicken.
Wednesday – Dinner with my landlords, they made barbequed lamb with potatoes and beans.
Thursday – Homemade spring rolls made with rice paper rolls filled with leftover roast chicken, red cabbage, choko, mung bean sprouts and red onion, and served with homemade dipping sauce. I’m still not very good at rolling these, but they still turn out tasty. I usually eat them raw, but this time I brushed them with oil and baked them in the oven and they were good.
Friday – Mexican food out with a friend.
Saturday – Sweet potato and potato fries, with a big salad (to use up fresh veggies) and a fried egg.
Sunday – Who knows? Probably some delicious Thai food 
What was on your menu last week?