Food Glorious Food!

[horrie hastings]

Some nice mulberries from a tree around the corner. Hopefully will get up to a tree in a side street in Newtown which is laden with fruit over the next couple of days to pick some more.

[horrie hastings]

Tuna patties and salad for dinner tonight.

[horrie hastings]

I like the sound of that casserole Horrie.

Tasty Chicken Casserole-

8 Chicken pieces
1 pack of French Onion Soup mix
400g can tomatoes in juice
400g can tomato puree
2 teaspoon dried basil
1-2 teaspoon minced chilli
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1 chicken stock cube

Remove skin from chicken ( lovely legs are perfect as that job is already done ). Place chicken in a casserole dish. Mix soup mix,tomatoes and juice, tomato puree,basil,chilli,red wine vinegar and crumbled stock cube ( or stock powder ) together. Pour over chicken, cover and cook at 180 c for 50-55 mins or until chicken is cooked.

We serve it with mash potato and steamed veges.

There is usually enough sauce left over to freeze and make a great pasta sauce with.

[mightyrooster]

Tasty Chicken Casserole-

8 Chicken pieces
1 pack of French Onion Soup mix
400g can tomatoes in juice
400g can tomato puree
2 teaspoon dried basil
1-2 teaspoon minced chilli
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1 chicken stock cube

Remove skin from chicken ( lovely legs are perfect as that job is already done ). Place chicken in a casserole dish. Mix soup mix,tomatoes and juice, tomato puree,basil,chilli,red wine vinegar and crumbled stock cube ( or stock powder ) together. Pour over chicken, cover and cook at 180 c for 50-55 mins or until chicken is cooked.

We serve it with mash potato and steamed veges.

There is usually enough sauce left over to freeze and make a great pasta sauce with.

Thanks Horrie. Appreciate that. I’ll add it to my list of new recipes to try.

[Bates]

T Bone steak and potato salad.

Apparently there's a potato shortage and the price of the humble spud is set to skyrocket.

Climate change perhaps?

[redwhiteblue]

I bought sweet potato from IGA on special yesterday. I regularly check all the catalogues and shop around for vegetable specials. I hadn't noticed about the potatoes as I rarely buy them. If I do, it's always the white ones to make home made steamed wedges with no frying needed. Green veges are cheap at my local Harris Farm and every weekend I get specials for around the 99 cent mark. I also bought a bag of 10 Odd Bunch avocados for $4.50 from Woolies Metro.

[horrie hastings]

T Bone steak and potato salad.

Apparently there's a potato shortage and the price of the humble spud is set to skyrocket.

Climate change perhaps?

There is a disease in most of the Tasmanian crops of potatoes, that is why there is a shortage at the moment and prices going up for whats available. I just hope us as the consumer get first chance at buying them while there is a shortage instead of the greedy corporates like McDonalds.

[horrie hastings]

Thanks Horrie. Appreciate that. I’ll add it to my list of new recipes to try.

All good MR, i find with this recipe seeing there is only two of us at home i just use the one pack of lovely legs which usually contain five pieces., the first time i made it years ago i just used normal drumsticks and made it with eight but found the lovely legs are just so much easier now as all the work is done, you could do it with thigh cutlets also, With the tinned tomatoes i use the diced or crushed ones and not the whole tomatoes.

[mightyrooster]

All good MR, i find with this recipe seeing there is only two of us at home i just use the one pack of lovely legs which usually contain five pieces., the first time i made it years ago i just used normal drumsticks and made it with eight but found the lovely legs are just so much easier now as all the work is done, you could do it with thigh cutlets also, With the tinned tomatoes i use the diced or crushed ones and not the whole tomatoes.

I was going to ask you if you used diced tomatoes. Thanks.

[milanja]

Just spent a week in Noosa, highly recommended locale restaurant, the spatchcock,swordfish ragu and spanner crab tagliatelle dishes were excellent.

bistro C, huge portions for every main, and just a level below locale, standout dishes were the duck, and the seafood pasta with bugs,prawns,mussels was huge and delicious.

sails restaurant was the fanciest and had the best position overlooking the beach, but the dishes just missed on the higher price point. Still worth a try, but the other two restaurants were better.

[horrie hastings]

Just spent a week in Noosa, highly recommended locale restaurant, the spatchcock,swordfish ragu and spanner crab tagliatelle dishes were excellent.

bistro C, huge portions for every main, and just a level below locale, standout dishes were the duck, and the seafood pasta with bugs,prawns,mussels was huge and delicious.

sails restaurant was the fanciest and had the best position overlooking the beach, but the dishes just missed on the higher price point. Still worth a try, but the other two restaurants were better.

I would love a week of just mainly eating seafood, the sword fish ragu sounds interesting and i love any seafood pasta with prawns, bugs and mussels. Speaking of Moreton Bay bugs, last Christmas Day i had the best bugs i had ever tasted, it was part of a buffet at the Sofitel Wentworth Hotel in their Delta Rue restaurant, the bugs were full of meat and also full of flavour, the best ones i have ever tasted, so sweet and delicate..

I want to go to the Fish Markets again before they move to their new digs and hunt down some good bugs and also get a few leather jackets as my local fish shop rarely stock jackets. There is actually doubt that the new markets will be up and running by Christmas so still have a bit of time to get down to the old smelly chaotic one before it closes.

[mightyrooster]

There is a disease in most of the Tasmanian crops of potatoes, that is why there is a shortage at the moment and prices going up for whats available. I just hope us as the consumer get first chance at buying them while there is a shortage instead of the greedy corporates like McDonalds.

That would explain why there’s not many potatoes in the supermarket lately. I guess it’s going to start affecting frozen potato items soon too like chips hash browns. Oh and potato chips.

[horrie hastings]

That would explain why there’s not many potatoes in the supermarket lately. I guess it’s going to start affecting frozen potato items soon too like chips hash browns. Oh and potato chips.

Here is a bit about the virus, it seems to have got worse since this article was posted.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-...irus/105740466

[mightyrooster]

Here is a bit about the virus, it seems to have got worse since this article was posted.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-...irus/105740466

Interesting, it says no restrictions in the ACT as yet but strangely I’ve been noticing less stock in the two supermarkets lately especially with the white cream potatoes. It’s a bit of a worry as potatoes are a staple in most Aussie households.

[horrie hastings]

Interesting, it says no restrictions in the ACT as yet but strangely I’ve been noticing less stock in the two supermarkets lately especially with the white cream potatoes. It’s a bit of a worry as potatoes are a staple in most Aussie households.

Yes that article was done on September 5th , it has gotten worse since then.Its funny, my local Coles and Woolworths at Marrickville Metro have had one singular white cream potato on the shelf when i have shopped and today at Woolworths Alexandria the same thing happened, one singular potato, all the shops still have the Royal red potatoes on the shelf but very low stock.