Fritta Pictures

I have had a few emails about the recipe I posted. Here are some pics to clarify.

Step 3: Put all ingredients into a bowl and mix together.


Step 4: Pour into tine lined with baking paper. Push in grape/cherry tomatoes


Final Product: After cooking for 25 mins

Love a Good Fritta

So I have been running on no sleep and zero spare time thanks to my job consuming all. However, this has lead me to be inventive in the kitchen. What do you do when you get home, it is already 7:30pm and you have about 4 hours of marking to do. Opps...forgot about dinner. Look in fridge. Find eggs, basic vegetables and a few rashes of bacon.

FRITTA TIME!

This is a recipe I found online and have adjusted to suit me. It is quick easy and tasty yummy the next day for breakfast and lunch. It is also healthy. Have a go and tell me what you think.

Baked Tomato, Zucchini and Bacon Fritter

Serves: 4
Prep Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

5-6 large eggs lightly beaten
1 onion diced
4 bacon rashes diced
1 sml zucchini grated
1 carrot grated
2 tblsp self raising flour
2 tblsp milk
Clove of garlic crushed
Salt
Black pepper
1/3 cup grated tasty cheese
8 grape tomatoes halved (cherry tomatoes would work)

Method

1. Preheat oven to 175°C. Line a 16 x 26cm baking pan with non-stick baking paper.
2. Pan fry bacon and onion
3. Place the eggs in a large bowl and add the onion, bacon, garlic, zucchini, carrot, flour, milk, salt, pepper and half of the cheese. Stir until well combined.
4.Pour the mixture into the prepared pan. Arrange tomato halves on top, pressing into the mixture slightly (i make random patterns like smilie faces or Pacman). Sprinkle with remaining cheese.
5. Cook for 20-25 mins and serve warm.
6. Put left overs in fridge in a air tight container and eat next day warm or cold.

I may have been very hugrey and didn't get a chance to photograph this one, sorry guys.

Random Weekend

Like the heading suggests...random weekend. Alright exciting news, I picked up my wedding ring. YAY! I love it and it looks great on my child like hands. I also have learned that working two jobs sucks especially around report writing time and on top of that planning a wedding means no sleep for me. Sadly no exciting cooking or crafting this week. To busy trying to work out this national curriculum and getting through my 20 hour professional development I need to do in my own time (sleep????)

On a random side note. We have a Cockatoo in the neighbourhood who has decided I am a good perch. Scott and I put out wild bird seed so we can get a free show each morning. See this post about some of our visitors. However, lately each time I have gone to put food out a 'wild' (I use the term loosely) Sulphur Crested Cockatoo either lands on the fence right next me, lands on the bird feeder as I am filling it OR on me. This scared me half to death the first time. Especially because I was wearing shiny earrings and just had a mental image of one being ripped out. It keeps doing it and I don't know why it thinks landing on a human is a good idea???? For those who don't know this type of cockatoo weighs about 900g and is 50cm long. It is not small animal to have chilling on you. I am hoping it either stops or I learn to get used to it. I have started talking to it. Perhaps it was a tame one that escaped who knows. I shall call it Bob.

Pointy End of Term 4.

With only 3 weeks left until reporting due. This is how I am feeling. No crafting and minimal cooking.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween to everyone. This is the second ever pumpkin that I have carved. Last year I went for cute, this year I went for evil. Hence the John Howard eye brows. Hope you have a great halloween everyone!

Skelebones Ghost Tour Adventure

Righto, made up a second Skelebones for a birthday. She loved him. So much so that for her birthday celebrations we did a birthday tour and brought Skelebones (his new name) with us. Above we are all chillin' before the tour. Myself (in silver), our ghoulish tour guide, birthday girl-holding the slightly scared Skelebones and finally our never speaking door man. It was a great night with a beautiful meal and drinks at the Yongala Lodge. Skelebones needed some liquid courage. We continued through to the upstair section of the restaurant where 2 or more spirits were supposed to be. Armed with EMF detectors (mine kept going off randomly and it seemed to freak a few of our new found buddies out) we checked out the rooms. Heard the back story of how the Yongala was built and stories of sightings on the verandas and in the rooms. We were also warned not to be last down the stairs or we may get a little help...guess who went last down the stairs. No I can not explain it, yes I did get a little help. Creeped me out.



Next, we were off to the West End Cemetery and heard the many stories of sightings from the little girl called Alice to the lady with the black cat. From their we went to the old convent in a building where the current tenant lives out of only one downstairs room. The rest of the old massive 2 storey house he refuses to go in. As we travelled upstairs we found all the bits a pieces that people have left behind over the past 40 years. Clothes, furniture, toys and even companies paperwork. You can see Skelebones sitting in the old 'prayer room' and holding the EMF on the green chair where a nun apparently sits.





To finish off the tour we went to the old morgue and hospital sights which was creepy. But heard the stories my aunties used to tell me from when they worked on both sights. When I was a kid I thought they were making it up. But, pretty much the tour guide said the exact same thing they did. It was a fun night overall and Skelebones enjoyed his adventure.

Slow Cooker Satay Chicken

Finally found a 'Peanut Satay Chicken' Recipe that I can do an tastes amazing. For those who don't know, I LOVE my slow cooker. Chuck food in, mix it around and a few hours later amazing yumminess. This is the first time I have done this recipe and I love it, even Scott has asked that I make it again this week. So here is my new discovery.

Satay Chicken
Serves: 4-6
Cook Time: 3 hours


Ingredients
- 1 kg of chicken breast or thigh
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 2 heaped tbsp smooth peanut butter
- 5 tsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
- 1 tbsp tomato sauce (ketchup)- 1 tbsp sweet chilli sauce
- 3/4 cup of coconut milk
- 3 tsp cornflour (optional)
- steamed rice and seasonal vegetables to serve *

Method
1. Remove any fat from chicken and cut into strips. Peel and crush garlic. Place in slow cooker with the peanut butter, soy suce, Worcestershire sauce, tomato sauce, sweet chilli sauce and coconut milk. Stir and combine.

2. Place lid on slow cooker and cook for 3 hours on High.

3. If necessary, mix cornflour with about 2 tbsp of cold water until paste like. Stir through mixture to thicken sauce. Add salt and pepper to taste.

4. Serve with steamed rice and seasonal vegetables.

*1 hour before serving I added celery, carrot, zucchini and shallots to mixture to let the veggies cook in the sauce. They tasted great.

If you do try this tell me how it goes. I have it all packaged up ready for lunch tomorrow at work :) Happy cooking all.

P.S. Sorry there is no picture of what it looks like. It is just after smelling that for 3 hours I was STARVING