One night, the hubby and I were watching Better Homes and Gardens where Fast Ed was making meatloaf. The hubby was pretty impressed with it, maybe the fact it was wrapped in bacon had something to do with it, and I talked about making it for him. Well, a million years later it finally happened.
The nights have started getting quite cool in our neck of the woods, after all that is generally the effect winter has, which makes it perfect for a nice, hot, comforting meal. Our friend J was coming over for dinner and it was a good opportunity to make the meatloaf so the hubby had someone to share it with. Now it ended up being a little bit of a mess when it came time to serve it, but the flavour was there and that’s really what matters at the end of the day.
One of my favourite things in this world is pasta. And it is a good thing too because apparently a lot of restaurants think that if your vegetarian you must love pasta as that is usually the default vegetarian dish on the menu. I am not whining too much about it, I would just like another choice or two sometimes.
Another man who is responsible for a lot of cooking in our house is Jamie Oliver. You may have heard of him, he is the chap from England who has a few cooking shows, some cook books (a copy of each of them resides on our bookshelf), a couple of restaurants and does some wonderful things through his foundation.
On the way home from our honeymoon last year the husband and I spent a few days in Melbourne and one night we had dinner with his Aunt and Uncle. We got talking about cooking and Aunt T shared some cookbooks that she had gathered on her travels. One of these books was 
