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my favourites

We know what the Hungry One’s favourite things are.We know what Maria’s are.I have no intention of ever dancing around wearing curtain fabric but I do know what I like. These are a few of my favourite things: High tea sandwiches. I get very excited about good roast chicken sandwiches with the crusts cut off. […]

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Mexican

There are a few things that The Hungry One won’t eat. He won’t eat tinned fish. He won’t eat smoked salmon. I’m fairly sure if the opportunity arose he wouldn’t eat dog. But he’s better than he used to be. He does now eat cheese. Particularly baby bocconcini which get sucked down like the little […]

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Happy Chicken

My sister has always maintained that chicken is a waste of a meal. I’m not exactly sure what that means but I think it has something to do with it being bland and boring. And true, if I go to one more wedding and see as my alternate drop main a stringy chicken breast with […]

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Chickpeas

I never grew up with chickpeas. They just didn’t make it into the shopping trolley. In fact, I’m not sure we even went down that aisle of the supermarket. There were frozen peas in the magical tinned salmon casserole that Mum made with noodles. There were tinned tomatoes in the bolognaise and there was plenty […]

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Tuesday night at Dads

Chicken filo rolls. Not chicko rolls , but Chicken Filo Rolls. It’s classic Tuesday night at Dad’s fare. What do you do when it’s 1995, you’ve got two hungry teenage girls who spend the front half of the week with you, a collective date with “Mad about You” at 8pm on Channel 10 and you […]