Steak with steamed veg

Porterhouse with steamed peas and corn



Nothing special here and no photo, this meal was simply body maintenance food. As an aside there's a reason that Aldi's meat is cheaper, anything that needs to be packed in a special gas is suspect in my book.



Ingredients

• Porterhouse steak
• Salt
• Pepper
• Olive oil
• Peas'n'corn frozen mix.

Method

Let the steak come to room temperature (or least lose the fridge chill) then salt, pepper and oil it. Stick it on a hot as you can get it griddle pan and turn it just once. Use your thumb to figure out how cooked it is, don't be tempted to cut into it. Let it rest under some loose foil for 5 minutes. Whack on warmed plate. Veg was stuck in a bowl and microwaved.

Time to prepare: 15 minutes
Number of serves: 3
Cost of ingredients: $12.80
Recipe inspiration: Distinct lack of it.

Risotto with Corn, Mushrooms and Chicken Sausages with baby veg salad

Corn, Mushroom and Chicken Sausage Risotto, with a baby veg salad











Sorry about the lack of posting, the family has been ill again. You didn't miss much, cheese and tomato on toast and miscellaneous deep-fried frozen things (fish fillets, fingers, chips) and steamed veg were as exciting as it got. Today we had risotto and in an effort to get the 3 year old to eat without help I snuck some rice around his sausages. It turned out a little salty, which is a change from my normal insipid, oh well live and learn.

Ingredients:

• Arborio rice
• Chicken stock
• White wine
  
• Swiss brown mushrooms
• Corn
• Coriander
• Chicken sausages
• Onion
• Olive oil
• Salt
• Pepper
• Parmesan cheese
• Baby vegetable salad
  

Fairly standard risotto method, heat the stock to a simmer. Fry the mushrooms in a hot pan with butter and then add the snags to the pan and fry until nicely cooked and crispy. Then Chuck some onion and oil in the pan on low heat and sweat until translucent. Then toss in the rice and swirl about until the rice just begins to catch and lets off a nice smell. Then dump in some white white and stir until it's gone. Gradually add the stock whilst stirring until the rice is basically done. When it's done add the corn, coriander, mushrooms, cheese and season.

Baby veg salad is simple chop vegies, toss with a little olive oil, lemon and salt.

Time to prepare: About 45 minutes
Cost of ingredients: About $30
Number of serves: 6
Recipe inspiration: none

Restaurant Meal: Rye Hotel Bistro

Seafood platter and banana split

Rye Hotel is at 2415 Pt Nepean Road, Rye 03 5985 2277

This is a restaurant that positively encourages you to bring kids, it has an indoor playground that has been carefully planned for little and big kids alike.

The menu is pub bistro standard, order at the bistro counter type stuff, covering a vast array of things with chips and salad. I ordered the seafood platter which consists of several gourdons of battered and deep fried fish, a battered and deep fried scallop (with coral, yum!), a couple of deep fried calamari rings, a spring roll filled with prawns, a beautifully cooked piece of squid, a chilli prawn on a skewer, a couple of battered and deep fried prawns, chips and a green salad with a lemon vinegarette. The squid was just perfect, tender and tasty but the rest were fish'n'chips shop standard; a bit of a disappointment.

The banana split however was another story altogether, it was simply divine if completely oversized (it was americanesque in it's enormonity). The deserts at the Rye Hotel are prepared by the person taking your order at the bar and in my case the order taker was a frustrated desert chef, she literally took 10 minutes to make this masterpiece and it consisted of banana (carefully sliced into 3 pieces, two bananas were discarded after peeling as less than perfect), vanila ice-cream carefully formed into quinelles, a tasteful smear of chocolate sauce, an artful sprinkling of crushed peanuts (which she crushed on the spot from a jar of pre-roasted nuts) and the only grating item was the addition of those premade tublar wafers. All in all the masterpiece was a joy to consume, except for the guilt of leaving some behind due to gastro-intestinal fatigue.


Cost of meal: $30 (25 for the seafood platter, 5 for the divine split)
Time to serve: About 10 minutes (how long can it take to pull something from the freezer, deep fry it and then whack it on a plate prepared with salad)
Rating: 8/10 if you have kids, 6/10 if you don't.

Tagliatelle With Pesto, Beans, Potatoes and Sausage

Taglietelle With Pesto, Beans, Potatoes and Sausage












Bit of a comedown from last nights dinner, but tasty all the same and wonder upon wonder the three year old cleared his plate without the normal pleading, cajoling and threatening. The wife also cleared the plate and proclaimed can you please give me smaller serves in the future, I clear the plate cos it's tasty not cos I want to eat it all.

Ingredients:

• Tagliatelle
• Pesto
• Green beans
• Potatoes
• Sausage
  
• Parmesan cheese
• Olive oil
• Salt

Fry sausage, blanch beans, boil spuds (I used the pinenut pan for the sausage well actually I used the sausage pan for the pine nuts, and the pasta pot for the spuds and beans). Stuff in pan with a little oil and then add cooked pasta. Stir through pesto. Season, taste smile.

Tagliatelle

• '00' flour
• Eggs
• Salt

I still haven't figured out portion control yet, how much does a person eat in fresh pasta. I've been whittling it down from 200g to 150 to 100g and it still seems I have leftovers. That aside making pasta is a dodle. 100g flour to 1 large egg to 1 pinch of salt dumped in the kitchen aid with the dough hook and left on slow until it forms a smooth shiny mass. Run that through the pasta rolling machine thingy and you are done.

Pesto

• Basil
• Garlic
• Pine nuts
• Parmesan cheese
• Salt
• Pepper
• Olive oil

Toast the pine nuts in a dry pan and then apply more machinery, bung all ingredients in food processor and blitz adding enough oil at end to make 'wet enough'

Cost of ingredients: $30 ( I stupidly bought a kg of pine nuts which jacked the price as I include the cost of the pine nuts that hit the floor when I tried to pour them into my pinenut jar.)
Time to prepare: 45 minutes
Number of serves: 4
Recipe inspiration: Tagliatelle genovese in one of Jamie Oliver's cookbooks

Restaurant Meal: Water and Grass

Char grilled boned quail, crisp polenta, shaved fennel, orange and parsley salad; aged porterhouse, potato fondant, roasted shallots and red wine jus; and chocolate, banana and cardamom beignets with vanilla bean anglaise

Water and Grass Restaurant is at 32 Bourke Street in Melbourne, 03 9650 7020Just as well I didn't get any photo's of this meal, there is no way I could fit that title in the layout I use. This restaurant was really sad, it was well presented with a nice ambience, it is well sited with a really nice menu and it still couldn't seem to get a customer. I went in there with a group of 17 and the commis told me they did 25 covers for the night. That's rough for a 200 ish seat restaurant on a Friday night, even more so when it's extremely handy to the theatre district in Melbourne.

The food itself was tasty and well sized, but it seemed to be missing that zing that a great restaurant manages to add to every meal. The guy that organised our event tells me it used to be a Crotian themed restaurant and changed owners a couple of months ago. Perhaps they just haven't managed to tune up the menu yet, *shrug*.

Unfortunately I have trouble recommending this restaurant to people as it was on the medium to high side for prices, but just didn't return the value I'd expect.

The title covers the ingredients so I won't bother to cover them again, but they did have a malee root fired char grill to cook the steaks on and it did a pretty good job, even if the dude driving it had trouble with what rare means.

Cost of meal: $70 ex drinks
Time to prepare: As you can expect in an empty restaurant the response from the kitchen was fantastic.

Takeaway: Thai Rosy

Massaman curry, pad thai, basil beef stir fry, ginger and chilli prawn stir fry and coconut rice


Thai Rosy is at 1659 Point Nepean Rd Rosebud, 03 5982 1400


This is a medium size shop front, in fact it's two shops joined together, thai restaurant in a little shopping strip in Rosebud, lots of handy parking.
This place has about 10 tables and despite doing a fairish chunk of takeaway trade, seems to offer a reasonable place to eat as well. Wait staff consists of local teenagers so don't expect too much, but it's reasonably priced and they have taken the time to ensure that there is nothing to distract you from the meal. The room is muted, adequately lit and tastefully decorated (modulo the required buddha shrine)


The food itself was pretty good, we had a massaman chicken curry, pad thai with chicken, a stir fried beef with thai basil and cashew nuts, stir fried prawns with a ginger chilli sauce, some pork spring rolls, chicken satay sticks and coconut rice. The prawn stir fry was fantastic, the beef stir fry was deliciously picant and went extremely well with the creamy coconut rice. The pad thai was a bit of a disappointment, but I guess that's to be expected after it's been crammed in a plastic container for 10 minutes. All in all the meal was extremely tasty, it wasn't particularly cheap but it was overall worth the money.

Cost of meal: $80
Number of serves: 6
Overall rating: 6/10

Steak with Bernaise Sauce, Fried New Potatoes and Corn

Steak with bernaise sauce, fried new potatoes and corn.











Going to start a new trend tonight, I'll include a brief method along with the list of ingredients for the meal. This one was very tasty although the bernaise was thicker than I would have liked. The steak was so tasty that I even got my wife (who's a "I've have it on the shoeleather side of well done kinda gal) to eat it medium rare.


Ingredients:

• Steak
• Bernaise sauce
• New potatoes
• Corn
• Salt
  
• Pepper
• Canola oil

Season then oil and say 4 minutes each side on the grill to make a pretty (and tasty) pattern.
Potatoes are soaked in brine for a while and then thrown straight into another pan and left to go crunchy on one side. Then shake the pan and crunch up the other side.
Corn simply steam.


Bernaise sauce

• white wine
• tarragon vinegar
• tarragon, chopped
• shallots
• butter
• egg yolks
• lemon juice
• salt
• pepper

Boil wine, vinegar tarragon, shallots and pepper until almost all gone
In a bowl over boiling water whisk the egg yolks until starting to thicken, add the butter bit by bit ensuring its incorporated fully. Dump in herbs and lemon juice and whisk until suitably thick.

Time to prepare: About 30 minutes
Number of serves: 4
Cost of ingredients: $40
Recipe inspiration: Many bistro meals eaten over the years, well except for the corn.

Bangers and mash

Bangers, mash and steamed vegetables




Sorry, I completely forgot to take a photo which is probably just as well as I made the bangers and they weren't the prettiest things you have ever seen. Anyone that tells you it's tough to make sausages is lying, it's a snap, all you need is the right skin (I bought my from the butcher, he told me not to ask what they were made from), no soaking, stretching or hassle required. Simply mince up the sausage ingredients and squirt them into the skins. Much yum. Didn't have any butter tonight for the mash and it _really_ shows.

Ingredients

• Lamb sausages
• Mashed potato
• Carrot
• Sugar snap peas
• Baby corn

Lamb sausages

• Lamb shoulder
• Lamb fat
• Sausage skins (no idea what they were)
  
• Rosemary
• Salt
• Pepper

Mashed Potato

• Pontiac potatoes
• Salt
• Milk
• Nutmeg

Time to prepare: 60 minutes
Cost of ingredients: $25
Number of serves: 10 (cooked 4)
Recipe inspiration: Those over priced "gourmet" sausages (70% meat! Hah!) in the supermarket meat locker.

Pappardelle with Swiss Brown Mushrooms and Poached Chicken in Cream Parmesan Sauce.

Pappardelle with poached chicken and swiss brown mushrooms in creamy parmesan Sauce











This one was just a tasty delight, the 3 year old liked it, the wife liked it, the mother outlaw liked it. I earned a good load of brownie points tonight.

Ingredients

• Pappardelle
• Swiss brown mushrooms
• Poached chicken
• Cream
• Parmesan cheese
• Salt
• Parsley
• Butter
• Olive oil

Pappardelle

• '00' flour
• eggs

Poached chicken

• White wine
• Salt
• Coriander seeds
  
• Cumin seeds
• Bay leaves
  
• Water
• Chicken stock

Time to prepare: About 25 minutes
Number of serves: 5
Cost of ingredients: $28
Recipe inspiration: This one was all mine baby, it's been tried in many many variations up to now.

Fajitas again

Same bat channel, same bat tortillas, same bat result.







I think I'll try wrapping up other food in tortillas and see if the three year old will come at that. Failing that I'm headed back to the bad old days of different dinners for the kids and grownups.


Refer to the previous posts for more information.

Lamb Racks with Steam Vegetables

Lamb rack with steamed vegetables.












Meals are mostly back to normal after a steady diet of white toast and floppy white protein masquerading as chicken. The rack of lamb was great and a very very simple recipe. Although I did have to bribe/threaten/cajole the three year old into eating it. But he did like chewing on the ribs. It even got the thumbs up from the mother out law.

Ingredients

• Lamb racks
• Garlic
• Dijon mustard
• Salt
• Pepper
• Olive oil
• Corn
• Broccoli
• Carrots
• Beans
• Butter

Time to prepare: 20 minutes
Cost of ingredients: $30
Number of serves: 4
Recipe inspiration: The 18/5/2007 episode of Better Homes and Gardens on tv.

Risotto with Pork Sausage, Corn and Coriander

Risotto with Pork Sausage, Corn and Coriander











Apologies for the delay in posting this, the family hasn't been well and I've been on baby/wife caring duties rather than blog posting. This was fairly tasty and again I think it was down to correct seasoning. Didn't have any trouble getting anyone to eat it.



Ingredients

• Arborio rice
• Chicken stock (purchased)
• Onion
• Garlic
• Butter
  
• White wine
• Pork sausage
• Corn
• Coriander
• Salt
• Pepper
• Reduced balsamic vinegar

Time to prepare: 25 minutes
Number of serves: 4
Cost of ingredients: approx $20
Recipe inspiration: none

Takeway: Bayview Pizza and Pasta

Cappriciosa and Meat Lovers half and half, medium garlic pizza


Bayview Pizza and Pasta is at 2359 Pt Nepean Road in Rye, 03 5985 7800.

This is another pizza shop that you wouldn't consider for an instant eating in at, despite the tables and chairs set up for that reason. It has all the ambiance of a cell in the remand centre, with it's corrugated iron internal feature walls, funny yellow colour and 70db+ fans.

Good thing I had no intention of eating in. The pizza itself wasn't too bad, although the crust was a little doughy for my tastes, I'm a firm fan of crispy crusts. The cheese and ham used were of reasonable quality as the pizza wasn't very oily and I saw no evidence of the "draining" that Ocean's pizza did. The pizza had a reasonable amount of toppings and was all in all pretty good value for money. There are cheaper pizzas to be had, but you get what you pay for when you buy a 5.95 large special.


Time to prepare: 12 minutes
Cost of meal: $24
Number of serves: 4
Rating: 3/5

Lasagne with Spinach Salad and Poached Pear with Shiraz Sauce and Marscapone

Lasagne with Spinach Salad
Poached pear with Shiraz sauce and Marscapone


























I had the urge to make a lasagne today, it turned out pretty good. The three year declared, "The prosciutto (he pronounced it prosuita) makes it even yummier". So I must have done something right. The contrast of the luscious mince sauce and the salty, stringy texture of the prosciutto was great. The spinach salad with a standard lemon/olive oil dressing was tasty too, even if my wife insisted on using a prepared dressing instead. That aside, I'm firmly a convert to salting my salads now, it makes a noticable difference to the taste. I also made a desert for a change, and a very tasty one at that. Although the three year old, wouldn't have a bar of it.


Ingredients

Lasagna

• Mince Sauce
• Mozzarella
• Lasagna sheets
• Prosciutto

Mince Sauce

• Veal mince (supermarket, so I doubt it was veal)
• Pork mince
• Onions
• Garlic
• Tomatoes, tinned
• Tomato paste
• Carrot
• Salt
• Pepper
  

Lasagna sheets

• 'oo' strength flour
• Egg
  

Spinach Salad

• Spinach
• Cucumber
• Tomatoes
• Capsicum
• Lemon juice
• Olive oil
• Salt

Poached pears

• Beurre Bosc pears
• Shiraz
  
• Caster sugar
• Star Anise
• Shiraz sauce
• Marscapone

Shiraz sauce was just the poaching liquor reduced to syrup consistency.

Time to prepare: About 2 hours
Cost of ingredients: About $40
Number of serves: 8 (lasagna) 3 (pears)
Recipe inspiration: The lasagna needs no inspiration, the pears originally came from an issue of gourmet traveller.

Chorizo, Chicken and Cannelini Beans in Tomato Broth

Chorizo, Chicken and Cannelini Beans in Tomato Broth












This was a fantastic, tasty quick meal and for once in my life I almost got portion control right to boot (no huge ass plastic tub full of leftovers in the fridge; just a small one this time). I think some crusty bread would have finished this off nicely, but that would have broken the one starch rule.

Ingredients

• Chorizo
• Chicken tenderloins
• Cannelini beans
• Tomatoes, tinned
• White wine
• Salt
• Coriander
• Pepper
• Olive Oil

Time to prepare: 15 minutes
Cost of ingredients: $23
Number of serves: 2.5
Recipe inspiration: Nothing in particular, but it was all mine.

Takeaway: Rosebud Nando's

Mild Chicken Wrap


No photo as I'm a twit, I figured they would have something on their website, but it seems not. However, I'm sure you can all picture a soft orangish tortilla wrapped around mildly spicey chicken tenderloins with lettuce and tomato. They seem to have learned from Maccas' as they had very natty and effective packaging. The meal itself was very nice, tender juicy chicken slathered in a mild chili flavoured sauce. The lettuce was crisp and fresh and the tomato, whilst flavourless, was at least firm.


Ingredients:

• Tortilla (they told me it was corn, I'm not so sure)
• Chicken tenderloins
• Mild peri-peri sauce
• Lettuce
• Tomato
• Mayonaise

Time to prepare: About 8 minutes
Cost of ingredients: $6.75
Number of serves: 1.2 (my three year old decided he needed some and I was still full)
Recipe inspiration: No idea, check out their website perhaps

Fajitas again

Fajitas

No need to say more really is there? This is what you get when the 3 year old is given free range to choose what he would like for dinner. To be fair he eats very well when he gets his way, in fact he ate more than his generously fleshed father.

Beef StirFry with Oyster Sauce, Veg and Noodles

Beef Stir Fry with Oyster Sauce, Veg and Noodles












I used to stirfry all the time, I stopped, dunno why. They are quicky tasty and cheap. Eaten with gusto by the wife, less so by the 3 year old and I was more than satisfied.

Ingredients:

• Beef fillet
• Noodles, hokkien
• Oyster sauce (bottled)
• Spring onions
• Snow peas
• Celery
• Baby corn
  
• Bean sprouts
• Coriander
• Salt
• Cashews

Time to prepare: 15 minutes
Cost of ingredients: approx $20
Number of serves: 5
Recipe inspiration: Particularly uninspired, but I guess the million and one serves of noodles I've consumed to date.

Chicken, Apple, Potato and Cashew Curry with Rice

Chicken, Apple, Potato and Cashew Curry with Rice












Not nearly enough ommph to this one, was almost insipid. I'm still very partial to the combination of curry with the sweet apple and the tender chicken. The three year old turned it into finger food with the help of some Naan so he scoffed the lot (the offer of an icecream if he finished probably didn't hurt either).


Ingredients:

• Chicken thighs
• Golden delicious apples
• Potato
• Coriander
• Cashews
  
• Curry paste
• Coconut cream
  
• Chicken stock
• Salt
• Pepper
  

Curry paste:

• Onion
• Shredded coconut
• Tomato paste
• Sugar
• Curry powder
• Garlic
• Ginger
• Tumeric
• Garam masala
• Cashews
• Almonds

Naan:

• No idea it was store bought.
  

Time to prepare: 40 minutes
Cost of ingredients: $15
Number of serves: 5
Recipe inspiration: Nothing in particular

Risoni with Chorizo and Eggplant

Risoni with Chorizo and Eggplant, with Rocket and Parmesan Garnish












This turned out very tasty, however I discovered that my three year old hasn't really learned to chew properly and the pieces of eggplant with skin triggered his gag reflex with spectacular results.

Ingredients

• Risoni
• Chorizo
• Eggplant
• Onion
• Diced tomato, canned
• Chicken stock
• Garlic
• Olive oil
• Salt
• Pepper
• Rocket
• Parmesan

Time to prepare: About 30 minutes
Cost of ingredients: About $15
Number of serves: 6
Recipe inspiration: Subliminally probably the Donna Hay chorizo special in the paper's sunday magazine, but I didn't reference them when creating.

Steak Chips and Veg

Porterhouse Steak, Home Made Chips Peas and Corn












I had a hankering for some real honest to goodness (well honest to badness if you take HDL into account) hand cut home fried chips. It was pure serendipity when I paid a visit to Nepean Bulk Meats and discovered they stock a large range of bulk supplies of King Island beef. I took home a 2kg piece of porterhouse for $30, tough to complain. It portioned up nicely into 9 2cm thick steaks. The chips I lusted after were not as good as they could have been, perhaps I blanched them for too long in the first cook? *shrug* but the steak more than made up for it. The veg were there to make me feel a little virtuous and the corn to be fair was extremely sweet, something to be said for picking and snap freezing in the peak of the season I guess.


Ingredients

• Porterhouse steak
• Salt
• Pepper
• Olive oil
• Potatoes - golden delight if you care. Greengrocer swore you couldn't make a chip out them that wasn't crunchy. He lied.
• Canola oil
• Corn
• Peas

Time to prepare: About 25 minutes
Cost of ingredients: $18
Number of serves: 3
Recipe inspiration: I could lie and say bifteck et pomme frites in some fancy french restaurant, but really just my childhood where this (sans the KI beef) was standard fare

Takeaway: Ocean's Pizza

American and Vegetarian Half and Half Pizza

Little bit of a change here, I thought I'd do a mini-review of restaurants and take-aways now when I visit them, with the view to visiting as diverse a batch of them as possible, rather than just going to the same old takeway chinese joint.

Ocean's Pizza is at 366 Dundas Street in Rye, 03 5985 7752

Ambiance is everything you'd expect from a pizza shop near a couple of surf beaches, piles of little grommits running about all going through the preening and display rituals required to find a member of the opposite sex to exchange fluids with, but they are pretty well behaved and don't intrude uninvited. What does intrude uninvited is the noise from the industrial venting fan that drowns out conversation to same degree as an enthusiastic rock band does in a pub. Don't consider eating here inside, however a table outside in summer could be very pleasant. The place is painted in beachy colours and has a limited menu, but the pizza is not too expensive ($18 for a family, no extra charge for 1/2 and 1/2) and fantastic. They have got the bases just right, and in fact I would go so far as to say besides Ladro it's the best pizza base I've ever eaten. The toppings are fairly standard, but they are well balanced and tasty. Interestingly enough it's standard practice for them to "drain" any pizza deemed too wet, I'd never seen that before.

Menu items consumed: Family 1/2 and 1/2 American and Vegetarian
Cost of meal: $24 including drinks
Number of serves: 3
Website: They don't appear to have one

Citrus Lamb Cutlets with Polenta and Mini Veg Salad

Citrus Lamb Cutlets with Polenta and Mini Veg Salad













I'd never made polenta before so I thought I'd give it a go, I really shouldn't have bothered. It wasn't worth the effort, I might have to visit an Italian restaurant to see if The Real Thing(tm) is any better. The lamb was extremely tender and had a nice zang to it, the salad was just like an ordinary salad except cuter.

Ingredients:

• Lamb cutlets
• Citrus marinade
• Salt
• Parmesan polenta
• Mini veg salad

Citrus Marinade

• Lime zest
• Lemon zest
• Orange zest
• Lemon juice
• Lime juice
• Olive oil
• Salt

Parmesan Polenta

• Polenta
• Chicken stock
• Salt
• Butter
• Water
• Parmesan cheese

Mini Veg Salad

• Baby cucumbers
• Red cherry tomatoes
• Yellow cherry tomatoes
• Roast capsicum

Time to prepare: About 45 minutes
Cost of ingredients: $40
Number of serves: 3
Recipe inspiration: A recipe magazine I found in the supermarket

Cannellini Beans Cooked in White Wine With Roast Capsicum, Rocket and Chicken Sausage

Cannellini Beans Cooked in White Wine with Roast Capsicum, Rocket and Chicken Sausage











For a fancy pants looking dish this was really quick to cook and very tasty (I think it was down to getting the seasoning right, and beans need a lot of salt.) Eaten with gusto by all and sundry, except the 3 year old turned his nose up at the rocket. The 6 month old did a little better tonight with his rice gruel (red bowl in the background of the photo), perhaps on 50% of it came straight out again rather than the previous 75%. I think he's holding out for real food, instead of his gruel, as he watches most intently when people eat around him.

Ingredients

• Chicken sausage
• Cannellini beans (canned)
  
• Capsicum
• Rocket
• White wine
• Onion
• Salt
• Pepper
• Parmesan cheese
• Olive Oil

Time to prepare: 15 minutes
Cost of ingredients: $15
Number of serves: 4
Recipe inspiration: June issue of Delicious magazine
Current weight: 105.1kg

Chicken and Fennel Sausages with Honey Mustard Pan Sauce and Steamed Veg

Chicken and Fennel sausages with Honey Mustard Pan Sauce and Steamed Veg
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Rice Cereal







Very exciting night tonight, my 6 month old son had his first "solid" meal. Rice gruel effectively and he was confused by the concept of food you don't drink but he did pretty well just the same. The chicken sausages were very nice, but I put a little much honey in the sauce so it was a little sweet.

Ingredients:

• Chicken and Fennel sausages (purchased from Nepean Bulk Meats)
• Honey mustard pan sauce
• Corn
• Broccoli
• Cauliflower
• Carrot

Honey Mustard Pan Sauce

• Juice from cooking sausages, fat drained off.
• Honey
• Seeded mustard
• Salt

Rice Cereal

• Rice
• Vitamin C
• Mineral (iron)
• Water

Time to prepare: About 15 minutes and 2 minutes
Cost of ingredients: $18 and $1.98
Number of serves: 2 and about 500 at current consumption rates
Recipe inspiration: Very little and What to expect the first year