Jac cooked me a delicious meal on Sunday: minchee (pork mince and cubes of potato flavoured with onion, garlic, oyster and soy sauce), steamed bok choy and rice. Steamed or blanched bok choy is my current favourite vegetable. This time, Jac cooked the bok choy in our bamboo steamer and then topped it with oyster […]
I reminded my siblings and mum via email on Monday that it was the 20th anniversary of our family’s arrival in Australia. My sisters have since written about the anniversary – see here and here. Back then, the 16th of January 1986, I was ten years old. My memories are all over the place, some […]
Jac’s family came over for a birthday dinner of cold meat and salad, probably Jac’s favourite meal. We started with a couple of rounds of nibblies. Jac made her famous savoury eggs, which we served up in her special savoury egg dish. We didn’t have enough eggs to fill up all the space, so I […]
The condiments. Behind the menu there is a big-ass bottle of malt vinegar. We shared a small plate of chips. Jac is very partial to offal, and so she ordered liver ‘n’ bacon with veggies (AU$11.50). The only organ I eat is skin. Anyway, Jac said her dish was very good. I ordered toad in […]
It was Jac’s 40th birthday yesterday. We both took the day off work. We went to the Britannia Coffee Lounge & Restaurant for lunch. We’ve been meaning to check it out for some time, and yesterday was the perfect opportunity. The Britannia serves British meals and sells a variety of British pies, meat products and […]
Yesterday, I received a box of books from Amazon that I had ordered on the 29th of November last year. I’ve already read one of them, but wanted my own copy (Constructing the Little House). I’ve wanted The Little House Cookbook for aaaaaaaaages. Drooooooooooool (thank goodness I’ve already covered them with my special plastic book…
Jac’s mum and I bought Jac’s birthday pressie yesterday. Thank you again to everyone who contributed! I’ve stashed it in our spare room. It is one of these. Jac is very good about not peeping, as long as she is told and reminded, hence the sign on the doorknob. Pixel is just bursting to get […]
Last night we went to KO’s house for a quick party meeting. On the way, Jac and I dropped by at Singapore Hawkers Food for dinner. SHF is located in the same block of shops as another of our favourite places, Taurus Hawker Foods (we may have gone to Taurus, if it were open – […]
This is my new favourite way to eat Indomie (original fried noodles flavour). I cook the Indomie in boiling water on the stove as usual (when it’s for lunch or dinner, I cook two packets of Indomie for myself; if it’s just a snack, I cook one packet). When there’s just around 40 seconds to […]
Last night, around 9:15pm while I was in the middle of posting, we had a power failure. Our whole street was affected. Since there wasn’t much to do other than sit around with torches or candles (Jac had been relaxing on the couch watching X-Files on dvd; I had been in my study sitting at […]