Al's Kitchen - Tikka Masala

Al's Kitchen - Chicken Curry

Here we are boxing up a pot of Chicken Curry.

Tomorrow I'll do some Basmati Rice.

Homemade braised steak and onions.

Al's Kitchen - Three cook-ups

Beef Mince Curry

Tikka Masala Beef Curry

Basmati Rice

And in conjunction with ET Beef Mince Curry.

Madras beef curry-

 Also cooked basmati rice

Using for the first time this Kmart stock pot.

Al's Kitchen - what's cooking?

ALDI cast iron cookware, just the lid needs two hands to lift off lol.

Beef Curry Puffs - Follow-up

Cooked some of them tonight in the Philips air fryer along with Birds Eye Golden Crunch chips and server with Trident Sweet Chilli sauce - very nice.

Beef Curry Puffs

Strolling past the freezers came across this!

Tossed two of them into the trolley.

Chicken curry (using beef)

This is based on my mum's Chicken Curry passed down the Mackenzie clan

Kitchen cast iron cookware

Shoppers rush to get their hands on Kmart's stylish new $30 cast iron pot - and it looks JUST like the Le Creuset version that costs $450

I have quite a collection from the ALDI Crofton range, maybe to many and recently gifted my older daughter the Cast Iron French Pan

Meatball Curry

This is much the same as my Chicken Curry but first the balls need to be prepared. Finely dice medium onion and in a bowl mix that into 500G of mince along with curry powder (Mackenzies Clive of India) and a beef cube. Now the fun part; compress and form into balls, put aside and start prepping/cooking the main curry sauce. PM for recipe.

Al's Kitchen - rice cooker

Finally gave in and bought a rice cooker.



What triggered the purchase was that my older daughter could not get one at her local Kmart so I did the walking and managed to do a click & collect at out local Brandon Park Kmart – so I bought two of them.

Al's Kitchen - Nasi goreng

Nasi goreng on the left and a mild madras curry on the right.

That's an ALDI Wok, one of my favorite  cooking utensils.

No recipe - I did my own thing which is always a bit of a gamble; will it turn out all right?

Al's Kitchen - Meatball curry

Mum's recipe which was handed down from her mother which was handed down from...never mind.

It’s the same recipe for chicken curry except for beef stock cube – use chicken.

What’s for tea?

Fresh road kill off the Hume highway with roast potatoes & veggies...yum.

Al's Kitchen

ALDI cast iron pot of chicken curry on simmer.

Podravka Beef Goulash

Always have a couple of these in the pantry and lately bought another four - just in case

Podravka Beef Goulash

Al's Kitchen - Chicken Curry

This morning we are doing Chicken Curry, one of my mums recipes from way back like last century. Also doing a pot of Basmati rice.

Simmer with lid on until potatoes are done.

Philips Air Fryer

From the last post with the chicken done and put aside opened a bag of frozen straight cut chips and tossed into the basket about half the bag. Temp 120° for 20mins and off we go again.

The chips cooked nicely just right on the inside and crispy outside

Steamer glass cover is lost ?

Somehow during the Mackenzie clan Christmas festivities the glass cover for our steamer went missing. A pity…that's been with us for like 40 years.

Happy to report we were able to get a perfect replacement from a 'saucepan lady' at the market today - for $10 bucks.