Woot! Domestic Goddess mode : On.

Once again, I’m trying to get the kids excited to eat. It’s darn hard mind you, when all they want is rice! lol So in my attempt to tempt them…I made hamburgers for dinner.

They say homemade patties are the best – they weren’t kidding!!

I made these with pork mince and they turned out way, way better than I expected!! So that I dont forget, this was how I made it :

500g pork mince
Oyester sauce
1 small onion
Salt & pepper to taste
Parmesan & herb breadcrumbs (store bought)

Mixed the lot up and make into patties, refridgerate for 1hr then cook on slow until thoroughly cooked through. Try to make the patties thin or else like me, ended up having to chuck it into the oven for about 10mins at 180 deg to cook it right through. Top patties with cheese just before they are cooked (if cooking on pan) and remove from pan when cheese is melt then placed into burger roll.

Then chomp and enjoy! And if you want to feel less guilty, a side salad would do it.

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It’s the end of the week and it’s bloody cold!! Didn’t feel like salad and then MIL suggested veggie soup and I thought why the hell not?? Being the end of the week before we go veg and meat shopping, it’s always hard to come up with something so if you’re ever in a rut and you only have veggies in the fridge, well…this is an excellent way to make a budget but wholesome meal for the family.

My All In A Pot Veggie Goodness

I was asked for the recipe and to be absolutely honest, there is none. All I did was use stock cubes to make up the soup and tossed it whatever veggies I had in the fridge and in this instance, it was corn on the cob, carrots, potatoes and Chinese cabbage, and a 1/2 cup of rice to bulk it up. My MIL uses barley but to each their own. And towards the end, I dumped in some frozen peas for color.

While the kids had the soup with noodles, I had a huge bowl on its own. Very filling and satisfying if I might add.

Taa-dah!!

Have a steaming one on me!

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Ever since we moved in, I’ve been trying to cook a variety of foods to tempt the kids to eat. Since we now have a working oven (YAY!), baking, roasting and the lot have become more interesting to me and has motivated me on somedays to turn on my domestic goddess mode. Like today.

We bought some gourmet wholemeal pizza bases and this is what I came up with.

I was so surprise at how good this really tasted!! And all it was was cheese, ham and bacon. I guess the base sause of leftover savoury mince made the difference! lol Must make more mince next time and freeze it for our future pizzas. Needless to say, the kids were more excited about the IDEA than the actual dish. More for Mum and Dad!!

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I bough Granny Smith apples just to make this coz its my absolute favourite but as I suck at organizing myself, it took awhile before this came to be and from 6 apples, it dwindled down to 2! lol So I had to make do with 2 green apples, a red and some frozen

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I am happy to announce that my lunch date with salads is still on-going. I am surprise that I’m still loving it. Even though its tuna almost everyday! lol

Some more pix of my salads….you may get bored with this but love how sometimes its just so colorful and pretty.

Extra tuna in this one

Started adding avocado

Instead of tuna, its ham here

Absolutely bland in color but was yummy all the same. Funny how a bit of salt and pepper can make such a difference. In here, there is only avocado, lettuce and raw mushrooms. Yup, RAW!

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Ok, this is just an excuse to use up some over ripe bananas….after all, why throw them out right? So wasteful!! Plus the kids and I personally love banana cake/muffins. It’s a lot tastier than the premix one too. Heh.

So here it is, my simply bantai banana with oats and raisin muffin!!

Got me a tick of approval too.

Easy-peasy lemon-squeasy!! If you want the recipe, please dont ask me. lol Anything I bake or cook is mostly a one-off success as I create the recipe as I go along…. But the bottom line is for the recipe, it’s just mainly your own banana cake recipe then just add in some raisins and rolled oats. You might want to reduce the sugar but I didnt. Whats a muffin if it aint sweet???

Bon appetit!

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