The first peach blossom of spring

A lovely time

Late winter sunset

Early peaches and rocket in flower, almonds and loquat in fruit, a nice 22 degree day. Bring it.

Rocket in flower

Soon these will all be little seed pods. Next year's rocket.

Low fat ground beef

You don't need to spend extra for low fat mince. But you do need to lay it on paper towel after the first fry. Not brain science or rocket surgery, but it does save $8 per kg. Eight dollars I need these days. The chooks love the leftover paper towel, too.

Potato and Leek

I'm sure I did this post last year but when leeks are $1 each (good), potatoes are plentiful and the freezer is full of stock you'd be crazy to not make this.

French onion soup - yeh!

My lovely girl Mia once referred to me as "the user", mhm. Can I rephrase that to "the user upper" although discussion could be entered into.

I use stuff up. These days when I cook a meal I don't serve for myself. I just eat what my family doesn't. We've had the discussion about spit. When there is too much broccoli I cook broccoli dishes. Too many eggs welcome to the quiches.

So I found myself (through too much buying and a really good price deal) with too many brown onions. I wish I could feel different but shit, the French are good at lots of things. So with a freezer full of stock and too many onions I found a use. And it's gourmet!

Technique can turn boring stuff into brilliance.

The one I did was basically a French onion process with a few mushrooms extra..


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Lessons from packaging: put your bread in an airtight bag

Yeh sure. It comes in a bag with holes in it. But that's so that whoever cooked it can throw it straight into a bag while it's hot and steaming.

As soon as the bread is room temperature you're losing value.

Get it into a plain bag.