Bacon & Green Onion Guacamole

bacon guacamole

I’m going to start off here with the Captain Obvious of sentences: bacon is an amazing wonderfood. Fact. Now if bacon is a wonderfood, then it can clearly be deduced that bacon makes everything better. Well, almost always. At least when it comes to food. Now, when I make brunch at the weekend, my two […]

Baked Halibut with Lemon & Thai Chili

Baked Halibut with Lemon & Thai Chili

Baking fish in foil was probably one of the first “grown up” meals I learned to cook on my own. This was, of course, after I had mastered the ubiquitous pasta plus sauce combo of college youth everywhere. Then I moved on to the fine art of inadvertently frying the contents of a stir fry mix that […]

Stir Fried Pork with Cabbage Noodles

Stir Fried Pork with Cabbage Noodles

This has been a week of contrasts, that’s for sure! First our house was almost completely without running water and then the hosting provider for this site decided to have a few issues. By a few, I mean that they stopped displaying the site at all, which some of you may have seen. But I […]

Cilantro & Green Onion Pork Burgers

Cilantro & Green Onion Pork Burgers

I’m still in the throes of emptying out my winter chest freezer. I found a larger-than-expected cache of pork we ground ourselves and figured it needed using up – this is what I came up with. Really simple and delicious flavors but these patties only take ten minutes or so to put together. Yay! First […]

Thai Chicken Soup

“You can make this again in a big batch and freeze it for if we get sick!” Umm, I guess that’s a compliment! Mr M isn’t wrong in that this Thai chicken soup is ultimate comfort food. Lots of veggies, soothingly creamy and a nice little tang of Thai basil and chilis. On top of […]