Cheap Therapy

After having a nap until 5:30, Jamie wakes up and realises it’s time to start cooking the fish lasagne recipe from my bestselling cookbook (Hint, This is the wrong decision to make
After 2 hours of prep, Jamie is out in the backyard knocking lemons out of the tree with a rake by torchlight in the freezing cold. This is preferable to being in the kitchen to the chorus of “I’m hungry” (or the alternate chorus of “I want to be in the kitchen”).
At around 9pm he gets to eat dinner (the upside being, alone with his partner as his child had to be put to bed earlier with an alternate dinner).
On the plus side, the bechamel sauce did turn out well, even if it did involve boiling prawn heads, bacon and vegetables.

For Christmas I got a copy of Mark Olive’s “Outback Café” cookbook, which includes native ingredients in the recipes. Today I noticed the URL for mail ordering the spices. So check it out if you’re after Kutjera powder, Lemon Myrtle, Native Basil or pepperberry. Or you can buy the cookbook bundled with 6 native ingredients.