Even if you love to cook you can sometimes feel a little lazy!

Thats where our 5 Minute Meals come into play, you do not have to resort to 2 minute noodles or canned soup all though at times they can be a god send if you are just in that super lazy mode, but these few simple ideas are super quick, super easy, super tasty and best of all super cheap to make!!

The first one is a cheats Stir fry, all you need is:
500g Bag of fresh stir fry vegies. (around $5 from the veg fridge at your local supermarket)
200g  Of  Tofu (any sort will do but Shannon loves the SOYCO Chinese Honey Soy, around $4)  Or any sort of meat for the meat heads will do try and keep the price under $5.

Then all you need to do is throw it in a wok or large pan if you do not have a wok fry it up for a few mins add your favourite stirfry sauce and wallah cheats stirfry  and it only takes you 5 mins!!

This one here is a big favourite of ours, especially in winter as it is just a delicious and incredibly easy to make soup!
You don't have to use the cumin if you want any herbs or spices of your choice will be just as good!

So all you are going to need is:
1 Butternut Pumpkin
2 Leeks
3 Potatos
1l of Vegetable Stock
1Tblsp of Cumin seeds

Method:
Roughly cut the pumpkin, potato and leek and place into a pot. Add the stock along with as much water is needed to fully cover the vegetables, add cumin seeds and a pinch of pepper and bring to the boil, turn stove down and let simmer for around an hour, check that vegies are cooked using a fork and if they are nice and soft blend soup untill thick and creamy and add salt and pepper to taste.
Place soup in a bowl with a dollop of natural yoghurt, throw on a few croutons and a sprinkling of parsley and enjoy!


I made some croutons to go with it which were awesome, super tasty and crunchy and easy as to make as well, all you need is a nice wholegrain sourdough some olive oil and a few herbs to season, all you have to do is cube the bread into roughly 1cm cubes throw in  bowl with whatever herbs you would like to season with, then pour olive oil about 50ml over the bread cubes add salt to taste, mix and then throw in the oven on high for around 20 to 30 minutes and you  will have an amazingly tasty addition to any soup or salad!

Well well well, winter is here and that means salads are out of season right?

WRONG!!! Salads are even better in winter time I think! As you can add a whole new dimension to the humble salad by adding all sorts of awesome hot and cold ingredients so instead of your plain old Garden Salad, you can have something like this!!

Well, I finally figured out how to transfer photos from the memory stick to computer! (turns out it's actually pretty easy!) and I can finally start sharing a few of my homemade recipes.

This is one I have been dying to share with you! It is a MASSIVE favourite of Shan and myself and it's surprisingly cheap for what it is (thanks to Cleo's Deli on Ormond Rd in Elwood) and tastes like heaven! I will call it the Cleo's Best Batard EVER!

This one here is a simple and extremely tasty breakfast treat that goes down really well with a coffee on a cold Melbourne Sunday!

It's my Toast Checkers and it is as easy to make as it is delicious to eat!
All you need is:

Bread
Mushrooms (10-15)
Spinach (about 100g)
2 Cloves of garlic
1 Heaped Tblsp Sesame seeds
200ml Milk
1 Heaped tsp flour
50g butter/nuttalex
Salt & Pepper
1Tblsp Sesame oil

Now, it all started about a week ago when myself and my lovely girlfriend had a week off work and thought, what better way to spend our holiday than to go on a food bender through Melbourne! Unfortunately, we don't actually have any photos of all the delicious food we sampled over the last week as we had not yet planned to start a blog (hence the 'Sudden Urges' in the blog title), but don't worry, we will just have to go back to all the awesome places we visited again and take a few snap shots then! :)

But for now I'm sure I can at least tell you all about the yummy food that we have had, and as soon as I get my memory stick to work in this bloody computer (I'm a good cook but crap on computers) I will have a few lovely home cooked recipes to share with you as well.

Okay, where were we? That's right, I was about to tell you all about our awesome food adventure. It begins after watching Masterchef's New York special when we decided, we MUST have bagels! So off we set to Bagelicious on Glenhuntly Road in Elsternwick.

Admittedly the service was a little poor - even slightly patronising - but the bagels were delicious and the coffee was pretty good too. I had the roast beef with swiss cheese on a parmesan and spinach bagel, while my girlfriend Shannon went for the classic smoked salmon and cream cheese on a rye bagel. Both bagels came with a small container of pickles which went perfectly with both of our bagels, Shannon said that the smoked salmon worked perfectly on the rye and my bagel was undoubtedly the best roast beef "sandwich" I have had in a long time if not ever. I had originally wanted the pastrami, but as we got there about 3pm a lot of the fillings were already gone, so if you would like to check it out yourself make sure you get in early!