I just have to share about Dinner tonight…I was having a great time checking out a lot of different people’s Pins on Pinterest this morning and found some great ideas for dinner…
It was just a 2 course dinner but we had something very different.
Slow Cooked BBQ Meatballs…
We had an amazing slow cooked BBQ Meatballs which I found just a small bit about on the pin because the original page has disappeared.
It had a Picture.
And simply said 1 jar of Grape Jelly, 1 bottle of Ketchup and a pack of frozen meatballs in the slow cooker. Because we live in Australia and finding Grape Jelly would be very difficult, I imagined it was a Jam kind of thing and chose Plum jam…and of course we call it tomato sauce not ketchup… so I put ¾ of a 600ml bottle of regular tomato sauce, 1 whole 500g jar of Cottees Plum Jam and 2 packs of the Coles variety fresh meatballs (approx 24 meatballs) into the crock pot and cooked it for about 5 hours…Oh My they were the tastiest meatballs I ever had, the flavour was just divine.
Cheesy Cauliflower Puree…
We also had some vegetables and a great idea I saw on " I Breathe...I'm Hungry..." having cheesy cauliflower puree, instead of potato’s.
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| The original Picture and recipe are the sole property of Melissa of "I Breathe...I'm Hungry..." and used with her permission. |
What a hit that was, I have been wanting to use my new food processor so this was the perfect opportunity.
The reasoning behind using cauliflower instead of potato is simply because it is much lower in carbohydrates, Awesome…
I have to say that my food processor was a bit big and the puree may have been a better consistency if I did it in smaller portions, but boy it tasted great and the Kids loved it.
Pots De Crème…
(Sorry no Photo)
For dessert we had the most amazing Pots De Crème from over at “the Pioneer Woman” blog… I just used vanilla instead of Grand Marnier and it was deliscious…I used the most amazing ground coffee from here in Australia from a gorgeous little place at Montville in the north coast hinterland of Queensland. You can find them here…
This dessert is so Yummy, but be warned it is very rich...I may have been better off making smaller servings and just savouring every mouthful.
What a divine dinner we had, if you get the chance to visit the blogs I have mentioned I promise you won't be disappointed.
How awesome is it that you can so easily find many amazing recipes and ideas for meals online...thank you, thank you, thank you to all those wonderful people who share their amazing talents and ideas with us all...it certainly made our family meal a delicious experience.
until next time...
Sounds good Amanda...I was wondering when you wrote grape jelly what you would use...agghhh. I hate grape flavoured things...had them in the States when we visited and it tastes like medicine we had as kids...agghhhh....gross. Plum jam sounds perfect for that dish though. Good thinking 99...I do the cauliflower a lot of times in the whizzer to use instead of rice....you whizz it up raw and it turns out like grains of rice.
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Sounds yummy! Not too good for me though being diabetic. I miss all the good stuff!
ReplyDeletehugs Karen
Wow, that sounds wonderful Amanda, and different, which I think all of us are looking for at times. Will have to give it a go.
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Yum! I love mashed cauliflower and cauliflower fried rice.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness it all sounds and looks so yum Amanda, wish I would of read this before we went to Montville on the weekend, would of grabbed some of that coffee, will ask my SIL to pick some up next time they go up.
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Oh my goodness it all sounds and looks so yum Amanda, wish I would of read this before we went to Montville on the weekend, would of grabbed some of that coffee, will ask my SIL to pick some up next time they go up.
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