http://www.corridorkitchen.com Necessity is the mother of invention. Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:46:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/12/how-to-donate-to-the-2012-35-challenge/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/12/how-to-donate-to-the-2012-35-challenge/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:37:19 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=4889 This week, I will donate the money I would’ve wasted on eating my way out of boredom to Foodbank. This week, my household will donate $449. Add $70 to that and you get the amount on money we spent on food the week before. And not only that, that is $100 MORE than we donated last year. I just want to say a massive thankyou to everyone who blogged, tweeted, commented and participated in the $35 Challenge this year. The Challenge is all about raising money, raising awareness, and raising hope that perhaps, some day soon, there won't be so many Australians for whom the next meal will be from a charity, serverely nutrionally deficient or no meal at all. ]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/12/how-to-donate-to-the-2012-35-challenge/feed/ 2 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/10/the-35-challenge-in-the-media-abc-702-sydney/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/10/the-35-challenge-in-the-media-abc-702-sydney/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2012 06:48:58 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=4611 here. I want to thank Carrie and the ABC for the article, and also a big thanks to Foodbank CEO John Webster and Anti-Poverty Week National Liaison Officer with Katheine McCallum for their supportive comments. ]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/10/the-35-challenge-in-the-media-abc-702-sydney/feed/ 0 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/10/the-potluck-club-thank-you/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/10/the-potluck-club-thank-you/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:39:11 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=4590 Foodbank, Australia’s largest food relief organisation. The book retails for just $5.95 and comes in both mobile device-friendly portrait and a pc/printer-friendly landscape formats. You get both when you purchase the book. But more importantly, each copy sold will fund a dozen meals for those in need. Today I just want to take a moment to thank all the bloggers who have donated their work and their time so that Elise, Amy and I could put together a 50 page e-cookbook of fantastic recipes. We each brought what we could to the table; a recipe, a photo or two and after seven whirlwind weeks from start to finish, it’s done. So thank you. ]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/10/the-potluck-club-thank-you/feed/ 8 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/10/the-big-spend-and-the-big-shop/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/10/the-big-spend-and-the-big-shop/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:11:57 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=4570 spanikopita filling layer (half a portion), the pasta again and a layer of bechemal. It was fine, but it was 9:00pm by the time we ate it and I have to admit I was pretty over it by then. That’s a recipe which needs some work, maybe it’ll make an appearance here once it’s fixed. We’re eating a lot of veg, but we’re also eating a lot of carbs, more than usual. We started off with pizza, we’ve had three days of porridge breakfasts, and dinner leftovers for every lunch. Shopping at the Markets To be honest, after all the veg we bought, I’m doing a worse job of cooking balanced meals than I expected. The big shop at Paddy’s Markets was relatively stress free; the two of us had $70, we’d spent $10 on pizza ingredients and bought a steak at the butcher, so we went into the markets with about $55 in our pockets. Putting aside $20 for the non-fruit-and-veg items (and inspired idea on the part of my beau), we roved the markets that Sunday arvo and we were ruthless. Brocollini $3.50? Tell ‘em they’re dreaming. Hard tofu $2.30 for 500g? Well, silken firm is $3 for 900g, so that’s the one we’ll get. We came out with everything we were after (or substitutions) and money to spare.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/10/the-big-spend-and-the-big-shop/feed/ 9 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/10/dinner-guests-during-the-35-challenge/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/10/dinner-guests-during-the-35-challenge/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2012 07:06:11 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=4509 The other night, Elise was coming round to finalise the launch of our The Potluck Club (you can read more about it here) and offered to bring some takeaway, and also her husband, Chris. But the $35 Food Challenge had just begun, so this was out of the question. So I offered for them to have some pizza with us, as last week, we’d bought a ton of toppings for a pizza that never eventuated. They agreed and offered to bring salad, so basically it was a mini potluck. Since I still had the receipt from Aldi I figured I could subtract the pepperoni, olives and cheese from our big shop the next morning. And then I looked in the cupboard. And there was no flour. We’d done the exact opposite of what I always advise people - be prepared and do one big shop. So I popped out to our much-loathed local IGA for some flour, only to find black and gold products have been discontinued. My 1 kilo of plain white flour suddenly jumped in price from $1.59 to $2.39. Shit. My stomach dropped. Oh yes, The $35 Food Challenge really has begun.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/10/dinner-guests-during-the-35-challenge/feed/ 2