My youngest son visits with his great grandma every Teusday after his swimming lesson and I often go off and do stuff (grocery shopping, work, etc) and she always has the ABC Delicious Magazine.

I normally flick through it when I pick my youngest up and this week I saw a few recipes (in the March 2010 edition) that I thought I'd try.  So I wrote a quick menu plan for the week, whipped up a quick shopping list and headed to the shops while Kyle visited with his great grandma.

The Menu Planner

Tuesday: Chicken mince paties and vegies (this was one of great grandmas recipes)
Wednesday: Sizzling beef with capsicum and broccolini p.94
Thursday: Pancetta, pea & cheddar deep-pan tart p.118
Friday: Nonya chicken curry with roti pg. 112

So this was the plan....and the best plans are always flexible...So everything went to plan until Thursday when I realised I hadn't left enough time to allow the pastry to cool for the tart. So we had takeout and tonight we are having the tart.

The reviews

Tuesday: Chicken mince paties and vegies (this was one of great grandmas recipes)

Yum, yum, yum....added some grated vegies and some


Wednesday: Sizzling beef with capsicum and broccolini p.94

Oh my god!  The sauce, the flavour was divine!  I will deffinatley be making this again, everyone loved it.
I added lettuce to mine to turn it into a salad and hubby and kids had it with wraps, lettuce, diced tomatoe etc.

Thursday: Pancetta, pea & cheddar deep-pan tart p.118


It wasn't that hard to make pastry and it looks so good, I was a bit pleased with myself last night when this came out of the oven. : )

Adults loved it, kids didn't.  It was much creamier than my standard quiche.  I normally make a weight watchers quiche (no pastry). The quiche I normally make doesn't use cream or as many eggs (8 in this recipe)...which meant I didn't need a very big slice which is probably a good thing.  So the kids didn't like it, but they still had to eat it, and they did.  : )



Friday: Nonya chicken curry with roti pg. 112

Review: TBC

Hope you enjoyed my post,

Paula

P.S I am not going to do a Julia style blog, I cant commit to that as I have work and a family, plus I like making cards and scrapbooking.  But when I'm in the mood for trying something new and I have the energy to post about it, I will.