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Warm Sausage Couscous Salad
This is the delicious result of using stuff that needed using in the fridge and pantry.
Warm Sausage and Couscous Salad
Serves 2
Method
- Make couscous according to packet. I used one cup which makes two serves. Use a large bowl that you can later add everything else to.
- Heat a frying pan and fry a teaspoon of taco seasoning for a couple of minutes until fragrant.
- Slice a couple of sausages and half a capsicum, add to pan and fry on high heat to get a nice caramelisation going.
- Chuck in some chopped baby bak choy (Shanghai) and cook until wilted. Other greens like broccoli, beans or asparagus would work too but you probably would want to blanch those first.
- Drain a can of chickpeas (or other beans), and rinse.
- Use a fork to fluff up cooked couscous, add in a tablespoon of chutney, then throw everything else in and combine.
Make me a sandwich, of sorts
I fear that Abby has developed what I will call “SSS”, or “Strange Sandwich Syndrome”.
I believe it may be be hereditary, skipping a generation. Let me explain…
My dad once made himself a cake sub with the leftover Domo-kun cake I made. He doesn’t like sweet things much but was hungry, so he stuffed cake inside a bit of French bread and voilà – a cake sub.
After the cake sub, he invented the trifle sandwich: Vogels bread with trifle from the previous night’s dessert. Seriously, that man should just admit he likes cake.
My dad also decided he needed more fibre with his meal, and could only bother with making toast with peanut butter. So he had his peanut butter toast with a side of mesculin.
Look what I made
And now it appears that Abby has SSS. The other day I made her pikelets (small pancakes), and she loved them. But that was not enough – she needed a sandwich…
Is it a pancake? Is it a sandwich? No, it's a pandwich!
So she decided to make one with a pancake. And what would one put inside a pancake sandwich? Rice cracker snacks of course.
Step 1: Put crackers on pancake
Step 2: Fold pancake in half over rice crackers
Step 3: Devour pandwich
Let’s hope this is a positive sign of an imaginative chef in the making. That, or she’ll just make weird sandwiches and call it cooking! (As foodie parents, I hope it’s not the latter, but if so, we will try not to judge – until we try it that is.)
What have we hair
So I gave Cameron a haircut this weekend – well not a proper one because I only trimmed off the long bits out the front that hadn’t fallen off when everything else there did. Makes him look less old-man-with-alopecia.
I thought Cameron had a lot of hair but after comparing him with Abby at four months old he doesn’t look like he has enough!
We have hairy babies
Banoffee Tart
Being a busy mum, I have bugger all time to do anything else these days, like blogging for instance… But I can still pretend I can bake dessert (which is still quite mumsy really).
You can do wonders with just puff pastry, caramel (premade stuff in a jar or can) and bananas – well, you can do one wonderful thing: Banoffee Tart.
Looking good already
Cut, slice, spread, assemble and bake at something like 210° C for 20 minutes… I can’t remember but they should be puffy and crisp, and delicious. A sprinkling of cinnamon and/or chocolate before baking makes it look and taste a little fancy.
Busy-mum banoffee tarts
Here you kiddies – now mummy needs a drink.
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