Patty & Selma Eat Your Heart Out

I've been into Macgyver cooking lately (yes, what a great term!).

It's basically what our mothers did nearly every night for dinner - they took ingredients from the fridge and pantry and threw them together to concoct a great or 'interesting' meal, using a good dash of trial and error (is that even allowed these days?).

It feels insanely liberating to cook without a recipe. Almost rebellious. The process is creative and inspiring and makes me think about flavours, the matching of flavours, all those new possibilities and the herbs that sit in our pantry waiting to be more frequently used (bay leaves, corriander seeds, etc).

In this experimental frenzy we've had grilled peri peri chicken with delicious salt & pepper sweet potato chips; quinoa & polenta with garlic tomato lentils and roasted herbed vegetables; and a yummy garlic, parmesan, white wine and lemon risotto with grilled chicken breast. And it's only been three days!

Anyone have any other homemade suggestions?

In other headlines.... we met with another au-pair today and I reeeeally like her. I hope she likes us too. I will suffer from immense issues of rejection if not! Unfortunately the two we met before her didn't work out. I did a little bit of snooping and know that this new au-pair has met with two other families, one of which she doesn't like, so we have a 50% chance... I should find out tomorrow :)

Also read this article, which presented a great point about last week's abandoned baby drama that I blogged about earlier in the week.

And hello... I'm soooo onto the global village vibe of things - came across the term 'word of blog' today and it reminded me of this blog entry....

SO, what's new with you?