Mike doesn’t mind me making this casserole often. I found it in our church cookbook and I know the lady that submitted it quite well. If I have some ham, I will usually have the other ingredients on hand and it’s fast to put together. Put it in the oven and continue with other household tasks while it’s cooking! It’s really scrumptious! I add about an extra ½ to ¾ cup extra of ham and maybe around 5 ounces of noodles. It’s all up to the cook!

A year or two ago, I discovered and tried Google-style cooking. It began by having very little in the refridgerator and no desire to go grocery shopping. The first set of ingredients were: tofu, orange juice, bananas, yogurt, cold cereal and a few others which didn’t show up on “relevant” Google-recipe results. The result was a tofu smoothie, which was more like soy grit with a delicate citrus undertone.

So I went grocery shopping. A week later, my perishables became an odd family again. I Google-fu’d spinach and cod. It wasn’t as dire—I knew they went together, but didn’t know how I could avoid a similar result. I did not want fishy greens. Feh kaka.

One of the results was this dish. It was Catalana style. Exotic. Sultanas! Yum. Trouble is, I had to find sultanas. I didn’t know what they were and I didn’t want to go grocery shopping, so I used golden raisins instead. Faith brings divinity, I always say.

There is nothing like yummy chinese dumplings, unfortunately it is very hard to recreate them as good as a yum cha restaurant but these are pretty damn good!

Enjoy!

This is a recent favourite. I prepare 2 loaves each week so B and I can have morning tea for the week. Highly recommend it, its lovely, moist and delicously bananery.