The challenge: To cook all 124 recipes from the Brave New Meal cookbook by Bad Manners in 365 days (aka one year)15 recipes down, with 109 recipes to go. (and I’m waaaaay behind.) Today it’s two recipes in one. Blueberry-Thyme Marble Rolls page 27, Brave New Meal cookbook A whole lot of time (and thyme)…
Category: Good Shit
Stress-Relieving Pineapple Fried Rice
Don’t get stressed, don’t get stressed, don’t get STRESSED! I chanted these words over and over again through gritted teeth, like some demented mantra, as I ran around the kitchen with very little time on my hands. Even though I’m usually very good at managing my time, the time had got away from me and…
Bad Mannered Plum-Side-Down Cake
Challenge: To cook all 124 recipes from the brand spanking new Brave New Meal cook book in one year.10 recipes down, 114 to go…. and God only knows how many days left. I think I am behind on this challenge. Am I the only one who’s been stressed and busy as fuck recently? When all…
Did you just say I could Go Grapefruit Myself?! WTF dude.
Brave New Meal: Cooking 124 recipes in a 365 days. 2 down, 122 to go. Grapefruits get a bad rap, and I just don’t see why. The slightly rotund cousin of the perfectly sized orange, is it any wonder that it’s a bit bitter? The orange gets all the attention, while grapefruit almost always gets…
A Mushroom a Day Keeps Your Hostile Prostate at Bay
Stuffed Mushrooms from the Party Grub book. (page 55) Want less prostate cancer in your life?! ME TOO! Dr. Michael Greger said white button mushrooms could help with prostate cancer. So I though HELL NO, I DON’T WANT PROSTATE CANCER! Fuck that shit. Feeling a strong sense of urgency, because I feared that prostate cancer…
Jasmine Rice Pudding: Eat Flowers! Be weird!
When you wake up in the morning do you let your day decide what sort of mood you’re going to be in? Or do you decide what sort of day YOU want to have? Like, before you get up, you know pre-coffee, pre-anything…do you lay there thinking Fuck My Life, I’ve gotta drag myself out…
We fought the slaw and the slaw won.
So anyone who’s a parent will know that multitasking is essential to the job. You cannot parent without having at least 5 things going at once. This is the road to stressville for sure – and one stop further along that bumpy train ride lays burnout town, but somehow we all get on that goddamned…
Fuck You Quarantine I’m Having Thug Kitchen Bean Burritos – And You Can’t Stop Me.
When you can’t dine out, because everyone’s shouting about corona virus from the rooftops, you gotta eat in. (And maybe wear ear plugs because you can still hear those mo fos shouting on the roof) I’d had it up to here with tinned soup, and baked beans and freezer foods so I decided to say…
Eat Like You Give a Fuck: Coconut Pancakes with Mango Coulis
Life is too short to not fill with joy. Joy and pancakes. And delicious mango coulis. We can’t forget that shit, either! My kid had a friend over for a sleepover. They woke up at 5am the morning after (or still the same night depending on how you look at the situation) and were…
Slightly Schizophrenic Thug Kitchen Piña Colada Crumble
This time of year is known either for its peace, love and togetherness, or its stress, drama and aggressive clashes with relatives. If that’s not the most confusing schizophrenic holiday of the year then I don’t know what is. So I thought I’d make this schizophrenic-seeming dessert too. On one hand it’s a crumble, so…
Dine Like a Lazy Thug: Pasta Piselli
Sometimes dinner has got to be easy. Easy for those days where you haven’t stopped and your head feels like it’s going to explode. Or the days where you’ve barely got food in the house because you haven’t shopped. Or for those days where you’ve put your back out and you’re forced to walk around like…
Party Like a Pirate with this Thug Kitchen Rum Banana Bread
Ahoy there matey. Pirates are a not-so-distant cousin of the modern day Thug, so what better way to rock the rum banana bread than pirate style? .So my little landlubber, join me for some Thug Kitchen Rum Banana Bread. I got my kid involved in this one because, well…child labour’s cheap, right? So while I was sipping on…