Quicklinks
Posted by kathryn in Salads and Dinners
- The US$7 Dinner Challenge: Sarah’s Cucina Bella has set a challenge: making a two-course dinner for four people for US$7. That’s not a lot of money, about $10 Australian. I’m taking part – are you up to the challenge?
- A selection of salads: I’m new to Food Blogga, but particularly love her salad selection. There are side salads, meal salads, dishes suitable for winter, as well as lighter salads for the summer months. The Food Blogga salad collection can be found here.
- What is fat?: Great round-up on current thinking about fat and obesity: Think fat just hangs around and does nothing? It doesn’t.
- Using up leftovers: One of the recipe collections on the BBC’s GoodFood website centres around using leftovers. Whether it’s a roast dinner, rice, stale bread, vegetables – you can find a way to use it up here.
- Food portions: I’ve been thinking about buying Amanda Clark’s book Portion Perfection for clinic, but in the meantime I’ve found she has a blog. And there’s a summary of the calories in different drinks and how they’ve changed over the years.
- More beetroot: I’ve also just found a whole section of beetroot recipes on the NY Times website, including this glorious looking Mediterranean beetroot and yoghurt salad.
Kookaburra photograph by Iansand. Just because.
10 October, 2008
Comments
What type is that adorable bird!
Thanks for the link re: beetroot recipes. I’ve just pulled up several beets from my garden and was wondering what to do with them.
Jules it’s a kookaburra. They’re a type of kingfisher, native to Australia and I think New Guinea (anyone?). They are a common sight around Sydney and are known for their call, which sounds like a slightly hysterical laugh. They tend to hang around with a few others, so often the calls are repeated by the group. It’s a very funny sound.
Just wanted to add, that I can recommend the beetroot risotto from the link you gave for beetroot recipes. We had it for tea last night. Yum. And there’s plenty left over for a healthy lunch too.
Thanks for some great links Kathryn – although the first one made me laugh because it is funny how if we compare the Aussie dollar to the American dollar it is muh easier to eat on US$7 today than a few weeks ago when the Aussie dollar was stronger – yet our food hasn’t got more expensive – just shows the arbitrariness of comparing our dollars!
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