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otamot
head gardener
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 Posted - 11/10/2008 : 00:50:43
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I was stuck for something to cook tonight so I came up with this really easy recipe for dinner and it was really good!
ingredients:
2 teaspoons of cajun spice
2 teaspoons of Olive Oil
1 teaspoon minced garlic (or 1 garlic clove finely diced)
2 skinless chicken thighs
mix cajun spice, olive oil and garlic together, rub on both sides of chicken thighs (you could probably use chicken breasts but I prefer the thighs because they're more juicy)
Heat 2 teaspoons olive oil in non stick pan and cook chicken thighs on medium to high heat. Serve with boiled vegies (I used potatoes, carrots and cauliflower) but this would go really well with a salad as well.
this was so quick and easy and very tasty
enjoy!
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 11/10/2008 : 06:14:49
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Thanks Ota. I like cajun flavouring and actually have a small bottle of cajun spice that I was given a little while ago but hadn't gotten around to looking up recipes for. Also my sort of meal - quick and easy 
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10810 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2008 : 11:49:36
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I love spicy food, but Tony does not so I never get to eat them..
Sounds delicious Ota..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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otamot
head gardener
1013 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2008 : 12:38:57
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gail Im trying to get really simple with my cooking now, quick and easy and something I can throw together really quick. I used to do things like marinades but Im just not organised enough so Ive been mixing up spices with olive oil and just rubbing them on before cooking instead but this one turned out really good.
that's a shame maryanne, he might like this one, it was spicy but not over the top hot or anything. |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 11/10/2008 : 13:23:42
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I used to be organised once... before kids! It is strange how it is often men that don't like anything spicy or different. My father and both my father-in-laws (2 marriages) never ate anything except straight meat and vegies, even Ian isn't that keen on some 'different' foods though will give them a try. My mother loved it when us kids were old enough to experiment with her, just had to make sure we cooked another plain meal as well. My son loves all food... he has hollow legs... so no worries with him. My girls seem to prefer 'different' to plain.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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otamot
head gardener
1013 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2008 : 15:04:10
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Originally posted by Gail
I used to be organised once... before kids!
LOL, I think the last time I was organised was some time back in the 90s 
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just had to make sure we cooked another plain meal as well.
oh that's a good point and I didnt even think of it. maryanne you could just half the oil and spices and rub one piece of chicken and leave the other plain for tony and cook them together if you wanted to try this.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10810 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2008 : 16:23:16
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Yes I could make it for myself Ota and freeze some too.
Like I do when I make curry for myself eight portions at once..
I had to laugh Gail..
I have no kids here and I am less organized than I ever was.
Its called getting old and slowing down or is that up a bit.
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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otamot
head gardener
1013 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2008 : 17:29:29
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oh maryanne, I think you've hit it on the head. maybe we're just getting slower each year and not enough time left to be organised
I'm going through a decluttering stage at the moment to try and get a bit more organised and scaling down. I'm going through my cupboards and so far have 5 big boxes of stuff for the salvos to collect and I cant believe it, some of this stuff is 20 years old and sitting in the cupboard not being used! why have I been keeping this stuff for all this time! maybe when Im finished I might be able to find things when I look for them
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2008 : 17:55:17
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I've been doing the same - slowly going through everything and getting rid of heaps - especially now the kids are getting older I can get rid of the stuff they're growing out of. Taking me ages though as I only get the odd hour or so to do it - I usually get half way through something and have to leave it to do something else so it ends up only half done 
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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otamot
head gardener
1013 Posts |
Posted - 12/10/2008 : 01:50:41
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| same here kito, Im just doing an hour or two here and there when I can. I find that anything more than that and I start feeling a bit overwhelmed anyway, so I stop and come back to it another day and that way I feel a lot more enthusiastic again and ready to keep sorting. I figure it's taken years to get this cluttered so if it takes several months to sort it all out then I can live with that. Im a major pack rat who thinks everything will be useful one day so this has been a hard thing for me to do but it's been so freeing letting go of some of this stuff |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10810 Posts |
Posted - 12/10/2008 : 08:26:44
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Yes I am getting so much slower.
Tony he is a shocking hoarder *You never know when we are going to need it* is his best saying and to make it worse all the neighbours give him all their junk to me its rubbish saves them a trip to the tip, if it took him longer to pack up the shed than it took me to pack up the entire contents of the house when we left Townsville I dread doing it here, as the shed is four times bigger and more junk in it than our three bedroom house..
Only twenty years old he can beat that...
Cant take that kind of rubbish to a retirement village...
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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otamot
head gardener
1013 Posts |
Posted - 12/10/2008 : 12:39:56
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maryanne I dont envy you living with a hoarder, I think that would be worse than being a hoarder. It's almost like a sickness, there have been so many times in the past when hubby was throwing stuff out and I'd be pulling it out of the bin again saying "well this might be useful" LOL. He'd be standing there saying "just chuck it out!" 
but youre right, you cant take it to a retirement home, or if you move house you'd get rid of most of it anyway. Im not even going to try and sort our garage it would be a nightmare but luckily it's not that big like yours sounds.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10810 Posts |
Posted - 12/10/2008 : 14:48:56
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Our Shed/Garage is 10mts X 10mts OK so it has the car in it and the same amount of space at the back has the firewood in it..
The thing that worries me most is the petrol tank from our VL Commodore SW we used to own we have had the Mazda 323 for five years and he has that old petrol tank tied to the rafters of the shed on top of where the front of the Mazda is, its split as we replaced it about eight years ago so no good at all.
The mind boggles at what he is going to use that for, what happens if the rope breaks
It was a bad idea getting the Garage part in with the shed as the walls and around the car as well as at the back has things hoarded there too.. And if we ever win Lotto I will be transplanting my new DA roses and getting a garage built up the front of the block right near the side of the house..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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tessa
head gardener
Australia
3682 Posts |
Posted - 12/10/2008 : 17:23:28
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oh yes...hoarding house here too. (liz)
i'll bet if i looked...i could even find some cajun spices in the pantry somewhere.
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever!
perth, wa |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10810 Posts |
Posted - 12/10/2008 : 20:08:01
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The only kind of old thing in my pantry is a small bottle of Tabasco Sauce that I am thinking of using with water and spraying the aphids on my roses...
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otamot
head gardener
1013 Posts |
Posted - 13/10/2008 : 00:18:52
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oh maryanne you have my sympathies. now what would you do with an old petrol tank?
LOL tessa, you know I'll bet you do have some. I dont even know when I bought my cajun spice but there it was lurking in the spice rack |
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Quick and easy cajun chicken