I’m about to pack my swag and trundle off for the week. My taller half and I are gathering everything we’ll need for a week, piling into Bertha the silver superbus, and heading north for the last rays of summer before daylight savings ends. Keep you fingers and toes crossed the weather man is kind…
Tag: figs
Four course birthday dinner
So I recently reduced my work hours to 4 days a week which means less money to spend on food but more time to cook it. Oh the irony. Having said that it had reinvigorated my creativity through the need to be more thrifty with my purchases and with a plethora of factory shop fronts…
Meals in the madness
The last month has been pretty busy so I thought I’d cheat and pop up some of the on-the-go stuff that I’ve made during this time. My taller half dreamed of having chicken sausages for breakfast. He was actually sleep talking about it and I had a strange sleep-talky conversation with him and decided to…
Stewed figs with sliced almonds, vanilla whipped cream and puff pastry
Now I’m not a big dessert maker, I find baking tedious and I don’t have a major sweet tooth but this effort will definitely go on the ‘fit to serve guests’ list. Not only was it easy but it tasted fantastic. Orange cinnamon syrup 1 orange – juiced 2 teaspoons zest 1/2 a cinnamon stick…
Fresh figs stuffed with goats cheese and wrapped in bacon
This is possibly one of the most divine things you could ever put in your mouth, chew, then swallow. Seriously good. Simply make four cuts into the top of the fig, pop in a nice amount of good quality goats cheese, wrap in bacon, drizzle with honey then bake in the oven until bacon is…
Pork chops with crackling and fresh figs
Sometimes I just really love a nice pork chop cooked as is. Pork has a wonderful flavour on it’s own and savouring that with a good salad is a perfect meal for me. I buy my pork chops with the skin on and remove it, salt it and fry it skin side down with the…
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