Day 66 - Sunday Night Eggs on Tuesday

With dubious worthiness of yesterday's post, I have returned to a safer subject matter today.  Another recipe from Delicious Magazine, tonight's meal titled Sunday Night Eggs is all cooked in a frypan.  All the ingredients are chopped so Dani and I set to chop up the spanish onions, tomatoes and red capsicums - all mixed with garlic, chilli and tomato paste.  Once this mixture was cooked through small divots were created for the five eggs.  They were poured in raw and cooked on top of the mixture, followed by the fried chorizo and garnished with oregano.  Easy to make, tasted great and the washing up count was low to boot!

Day 31 - For the time poor

I am forever being caught out by the phrase "marinate overnight" when cooking and yes, I took another hit tonight.  As I scan the recipes for the week I look for all sorts of signs of a late meal such as oven duration, number of ingredients and of course the old marinade chestnut.  To overcome this bump in the road I resort to basting the meat instead which works really well.  This dish is the Sweet Soy Beef with Noodles from this month's Delicious Magazine and apart from the aforementioned gotcha was very easy to make as it has only 7 ingredients and was served up in record time despite my close shave.

Day 20 - A long 30 minutes

With both Dani and I working during the week we look for ways to speed up the meal preparation without compromising on the taste.  So when I'm in a hurry I often use the 30 minute meal collection on www.taste.com.au and this week the Sweet & Sour Sesame Pork appeared in the search results.  There were three main components - the meat and batter, the sweet and sour sauce and rice.  The rice was easy, in the rice cooker, add water, press a few buttons and done.  The meat prepartion wasn't too hard, dicing the meat and adding the batter mix.  The sauce was simple too, throwing all the ingredients in a pot and simmer.  The meat was then deep fried, the food arranged on the plates and ready to eat 60 minutes after starting!  Whatever happened to the timing we'll probably never know, but the meal tasted great!

http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/26894/sweet+sour+sesame+pork