We took the cats to the vet for a check-up last Tuesday evening after work. They are both healthy, but Billy has one little problem from time to time. I’ll just say two words, and that’s all I’ll say about it: anal glands. We felt we deserved a comforting junky meal after all that. Once […]
For last Tuesday’s bento, Jac grilled us some lamb cutlets, which she flavoured with celery salt and rosemary. This was my bento box: on the right, the lamb cutlets, which I placed on a bed of mixed salad greens, along with some smokey barbecue sauce for dipping; on the left, salad (mixed salad greens, broccolini, […]
Breakfast, an example of great teamwork: garlic mushrooms (cooked by Jac) and scrambled eggs with chives (cooked by me). As usual, I got to eat the pan-roasted whole garlic cloves. Dinner: tender panfried mini pork steaks, bubble and squeak, salad and chilli sauce. The pork steaks were simply rubbed with salt and pepper before being […]
Last Saturday, Jac and I had lunch with my sister Juji and her boyfriend Jay at Makan2 cafe (357 Albany Highway, Victoria Park). I’d walked past this place before and heard about it from friends and other Perth food bloggers. We ordered at the counter and started with a round of drinks – Nescafe tarik […]
There was a farewell and engagement celebration afternoon tea at work last Friday afternoon. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: these morning and afternoon teas are the best and worst things about working in an office. Best if you love food, worst if you’re trying not to put on weight. Overall, worst […]
Jac didn’t need lunch again on Friday, so this is what I packed for myself. The savoury: oven-fried chicken wingettes, blanched broccolini, salad and sauteed mushrooms. The sweet: the same fruit combo of strawberries and papaya (that whole papaya we bought – we used the first of it on the fruit platters we made for […]
Last Thursday night, I met Jac after work and we went to Spencer Village for dinner. Jac was in the mood for Japanese. She got herself a set with salmon sashimi, chicken teriyaki, California roll and salad. If it were me eating Japanese, I’d have needed steamed rice too, to eat with the chicken (for […]
Whenever I haven’t had time to organise any protein for my bento (whether leftovers or prepared specifically for bento), I fall back on good old hard-boiled eggs – this is what I had to do for my Thursday bento. Jac didn’t need lunch on this occasion – here’s the lunch I packed for myself. I […]
Last Wednesday evening, Jac made a sausage, bean and bacon casserole. She fried up onion and bacon pieces and added sliced cooked pork chipolatas we’d saved in the freezer, along with a tin of baked beans, black pepper, Worchestershire sauce and a little maple syrup. (There may have been other ingredients – this isn’t a […]
Last weekend, Jac marinated some chicken wingettes in teriyaki sauce for bento. The chicken sat in the teriyaki sauce for two days in a container in the fridge. Last Tuesday evening, she panfried the chicken so it would be cooled and ready for me to pack for bento on Wednesday morning. The chicken looks a […]