Archive for February, 2008

Saturday food

Back to my whinge about weekends not being long enough, we ended up spending most of last Saturday shopping. And not even fun shopping, like for DVDs, books, electrical appliances or gadgets (well, that’s fun shopping to me!). It was all groceries and household item (toilet paper, laundry detergent) shopping. Needing some food to give [&helli…

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TFP in the news

TFP got a mention recently at news.com.au in an article about Aussies nominated for the Bloggies. Click here to read the article. A special thanks to Rhonda, for alerting the article’s author of his initial *oversight* (see the comments at the bottom of the article)! :)

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Work food

It was short working week last week, thanks to the Australia Day Long Weekend. Tuesday – I had lunch on my own at Toraya Sushi. I tried the teriyaki salmon sushi (AU$4.00, 4 pcs) for the first time. The fish had coating of batter, which was soggy from teriyaki sauce and being wrapped in sushi […]

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Dinners at home

Vegetable soup, made with celery, cabbage, tomato, pumpkin, onions and carrot. I think Jac adapted this recipe from the Cabbage Soup Diet. We don’t actually do that diet, but we really like the cabbage soup. It’s a great way to use up all the vegies. We also had snapper fillets sprinkled with dried herbs, wrapped […]

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Mango ice cream

Last weekend, Jac also made mango ice cream. We bought a tray of mangoes so Jac could put her plan into action – to make ice cream and freeze the rest of the mango flesh ready for smoothies. We got ice cream recipe from her Margaret Fulton’s Book of Ices and Desserts (published 1983 by […]

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No need for gravy!

Last weekend, we had a turkey thigh roast for Saturday night’s dinner. There were a whole pile of these as well as turkey breast roasts on sale at the frozen foods section at the supermarket – surplus stock from Christmas time, no doubt. We love dark poultry meat, and thigh is my absolute favourite. I […]

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