I work four days a week (i recently dropped the 5th day to spend more time at home). On those four days Kev does the cooking, he's pretty good at it too, everything we eat is fresh and homemade and my dinner is waiting for me when i get home. I'm a lucky girl!
On my days off i like to cook (Kev's likes this too!) and i try to make something new and interesting or we have one of our favourite dishes. I was out most of the day yesterday having my first machine knitting lesson so last night we had a simple fish stir fry with rice, sometimes simple is best. Before bed Esme and I mixed together the ingredients for the 'No Knead Bread' recipe and left it overnight. Esme loves food and has told us she wants to have a restaurant in the village when she grows up, failing that she'd like to work as a check out chick at Coles ;)
This is my first time using this recipe and it's a good one! The waiting time is a pain which means i won't be able to make this on the days i work (proving overnight then two hours rising and forty minutes cooking in the morning) but i can see i'll be mixing the ingredients together the night before days off.
This loaf came out of the oven and was devoured within ten minutes along with eggs benedict. Next time i might need to make two! It was freezing in our house this morning when we got up so i left the dough to rise next to the fire. I think in warmer weather the loaf would be larger and lighter. I'll wrap the bowl in a blanket or towel overnight during colder weather to aid the proving.
Tonight we had homemade gyoza and edamame tossed in garlic and salt, Yum! This dish is always a favourite with the family. Other current favourites are fish & chips (always the girls choice when asked what they'd like for dinner), arancini, ricotta gnocchi and we've been enjoying quite a bit of Thai food recently too (thanks to Suzie's influence). What are your favourite homemade dishes and recipes? What do your kids like to eat? Mine will eat almost anything and will try everything we give them.
This week i'll be cooking up some quince given to me by a friend with a tree in her garden. I poached some a few weeks ago which we've been enjoying at breakfast time (see Jorth's recipe), this time i'm thinking quince jelly. I also have a bag full of lemons from our neighbours tree that need to be used up. Lemon curd may be on the cards as well as lemon cake maybe?
* God i'm so freakin' funny i crack myself up sometimes!...or maybe not?
