New Years Day

Promised the Darling a slap up breakfast, major yum but oh so bad....lots of cheese, chorizo, potato fried in oil.....you get the picture.
Based on a recipe I found on the net but with some changes.
This is my CHORIZO, POTATO, AND EGG STACK.
Heat a good tablespoon of oil in a heavy based frypan over medium heat, grate a medium sized potato into the pan, add 1/4 finely chopped onion.  Fry until potato is cooked through and quite crispy.  The potato will stick, just keep scraping it up and turning it over.
Slice 1 small chorizo sausage into rings, add to pan to crisp.
Scoot potato, onion and sausage to one side of pan, add two eggs and fry.


Toast two slices of good bread, top with mashed avocado if you like it, top with grated sharp cheese, place under a grill to melt.  
Dollop a teaspoon of Greek Yoghurt and a teaspoon of mild chilli sauce onto the melted cheese
Layer the crispy potato and onions then the chorizo sausage, top with the fried egg and serve.  
Big Thumbs Up from the Darling but not something that should be on a diet site...ooops!.
As you can guess, not a pretty dish, and anyway I forgot to take a pic but did better for Lunch.

CRAB AND AVOCADO SALAD with JAPANESE DRESSING 

based on

a Nigella Lawson recipe from her T.V. Show ' Express'

Ingredients I used:

1 tablespoon mirin

1.4 teaspoon wasabi paste

1/2 tablespoon rice vinegar

2 drops sesame oil

good pinch Maldon sea salt

Place all these in a screw top jar and shake well.

Divide dressing between two mixing bowls

To Bowl 1 add:

splash of lime juice

scant 2 cups finely sliced Chinese Cabbage, toss together and plate on serving plates.

To Bowl 2 add

1/2 de-seeded long red chilli, sliced thinly

1/2 cup fresh shredded crab meat

toss well and press crab into a mould, I used a 1/4 cup measure.

Turn out onto shredded cabbage

Garnish with:

1/2 ripe avocado balled using a melon baller around the crab and

a smattering of green onion slices on top of crab.

Well, that worked....not!

I feel a bit like the little chappie above, off colour.  
Bad chest and sinus infections, am just starting on my 4th course of antibiotics, and boy did I have to put on a scene at the Dr.'s to get them.
So along with being so ill I thought it could be rather advantageous to be a horse (they shoot horses, don't they?) there was also Christmas and that schmozzle of waiting to see if any of those who had invited themselves to various meals would actually confirm for one and turn up for two, or would they get a better offer in the meantime.
I worked out a Christmassy Menu, with most of the foods being able to be frozen if not needed, except of course the salads and vegies but I thought I could manage those with just a little wastage.  Wrong!!!!
Another storm and power surges and half our power lines went down, result, only one fridge so lost the vegie side of things anyway!
Not to worry......
Here we go again
Yesterdays Lunch for 4 was from Donna Hays 'the instant cook', this pic scanned from her book.

I used a combo of sweet potato wedges and halved kipfler potatoes.  Instead of the wedges of avocado I used a melon baller to scoop out rounds of avocado.

Served it with a shredded roast chicken, o.k. so it was a take-away chicken, but still nice and moist and quite acceptable.  Leftovers went home with Sis for her daughter.