Archive for May, 2009

Panfried barramundi with salad

This was barramundi, bought frozen and cooked to perfection by Jac. She panfried the fish pieces in olive oil with a little butter so they had just a hint of a crispy crust on the outside. The flesh was delicate, moist and sweet. Initially, I didn’t think I’d want to eat so much salad, but […]

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Pork ribs, salad and baked potato

Jac had a craving for pork ribs recently but didn’t have the time to make a marinade, so she just used a bottled smokey barbecue sauce instead, rubbing the pork ribs generously in the sauce before baking them in the oven with a few potatoes. We ate the potatoes with butter, salt and pepper. Jac […]

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New job, new food

So this is what I ate for lunch in my first week at my new job: Monday – a chicken kebab with tomato, lettuce, mayonnaise and barbecue sauceAll kebabs come with your choice of two sauces – I really wanted garlic sauce as one of them, but as I had a meeting in the afternoon, […]

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Mini pies

These were frozen mini pies I oven-baked when Juji, Jay and A came over for afternoon tea. There were three varieties of pie: chunky beef, chicken and mushroom, and lamb and rosemary. Sorry, no innards shot – I did take a few photos of the pies’ innards, but they didn’t turn out so well. The […]

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Zoe’s Full Moon Celebration

In early April, my family held a “full moon” celebration for the newest member of the family, my niece Zoe, the second child of my brother and my sister-in-law. Regular and long-time readers will remember the full moon celebration we held for Ruby about a year and a half ago. Zoe’s full moon followed the […]

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