pots & vans

Earlier today I say, "Babe, how about we do that chickpea and spinach curry?" "I feel like roast chicken" she says. When we did a roast (yeah I know, 2 roasts in a week) last time I just threw everything in the roasting dish. Today, because we were in the shops in Lismore, I decided to look for a roasting rack. Two major problems, (i) size and weight: its gotta fit in the smallish roasting dish we've got in the van, and (ii) they don't sell them separately.  After poking around for a while I started looking for things I could use instead of the real thing, and found myself pondering the utility of a vegetable steamer. We gave it a crack and it worked great. Nice and light (for the van) and fitted nicely in our square oven dish. Not perfect, I'd say, but it did what I wanted, lifted the food above the base and the juices in the dish.

We had a fillet of deep sea bream which I was going to use last night for dinner but we went out and had burgers instead (!) so had to use for lunch today. It's been raining constantly this morning, so we felt like bunkering down and having something nourishing and warm. Servings 2 Ingredients sesame oil (couple of glugs) dollop of minced ginger decent handful of finely sliced red cabbage decent handful of finely sliced kale 1 litre of miso stock (about a dessert spoon of miso paste) few glugs of soy sauce few dashes of fish oil about 300g of fish (bream), cubed Method sauté the ginger, cabbage and kale in the sesame oil for a few mins add the stock, soy sauce and fish sauce and bring to a simmer add the fish and cook for few mins until the fish is cooked but still tender garnish with sesame seeds and dried shallots

No recipe necessary. Get a roasting dish. Toss the chopped veggies in olive oil, pepper and salt. Bung it all in the oven including the meat with some unpeeled garlic until its cooked.  Make the gravy just like your nanna did at the last minute.  Then, when you thought you were full, mash the left over veggies in the left over gravy and eat some more ...

We were going to make risotto last night with some sausage we had in the freezer, but when it cam time to cook we felt like something lighter, so tonight we had to use the sausage. We paired it with some fresh tomatoes to give us a hearty and good feed. Servings 2 Time about 30 mins  Equipment Saucepan for boiling the pasta Pan to make the sauce knife and chopping board colander Ingredients oil (decent glug) ½  onion (diced) 3 cloves garlic, crushed 500g fresh tomatoes, chopped 2 x pork sausages, cut into pieces ½ bunch flat leaf parsley pepper and salt 200g fettuccini Method bring saucepan of salted water to the boil Sauté onions in the oil until translucent Add sausage pieces and brown Add garlic and tomatoes and simmer until tomatoes break down and form a start to form a sauce Add the pasta to the saucepan and cook until al dente Drain pasta and add to pan (with sauce) along with parsley, stir through and serve