Lemon curd cookies

Image 1: Lemon curd cookies

Corn and zucchini quick bread

Image 1: Corn and Zucchini quick bread

Food synopsis: A bite-sized savoury, wholemeal quick bread.


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Living by yourself isn't an easy thing to do. For example, judging the amount of food to buy and cook.

A colleague brought in her home-grown zucchinis, and one ended up in my fridge at home. On top of my usual fortnightly food shopping, this was another case where I had one zucchini too many and just had to find some way of using it up!

So, getting out my experimenting cap on, this is what I made with 1/2 a large zucchini, some left-over canned corn and a basic quick bread recipe.

Zucchini and onion omelette with rice and veg

Image 1: Zucchini and onion omelette, rice and left over zucchini and onion

Lemon curd butterfly mini cupcakes

Image 1: Lemon curd butterfly mini cupcakes

Food synopsis: A fluffy cupcake filled with fresh lemon curd. The sourness of lemon curd was in harmony with cake, the proportions of curd to cake.


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Being quite a scavenger of food and produce brought in by my colleagues' homes, I thought I should give back a bit of what I take. This week, I had taken a quite a number of lemons - either grown in their backyard, or they'd picked from their neighbour's backyard.

Most of the streets in this town have dusty alleyways between the backyard fences. They're wide enough for a car drive down, but the road isn't

Dinner: Spicy salt and pepper calamari

Image 1: Very spicy salt and pepper calamari with rice and frozen veg

Made a massive mistake with the salt and pepper calamari. When making up the batter, I was sprinkling the chilli powder through the tiny hole I made in the corner of the packet, but was barely getting any through. It wasn't the first time I'd been impatient with the chilli packet, so I decided that the time was ripe to cut a slightly larger hole in the corner.

So I did. But alas! Still feeling very impatient, I used the same rigorous tipping and shaking action. Probably had a heaped teaspoon's worth of chilli powder when 1/8tsp would have adequately tingled my taste buds.

So, pain beyond pain when eating!!! My mouth felt like to was burning, and tears were coming down

Pan fried fish with rice and mixed veg

Image 1: Pan fried fish with vinegar sauce, rice and mixed frozen veg

Mixed berry mini muffins

Image 1: Mixed berry mini muffins