I wrote about Danish butter cookies in the previous post on comfort food (I really must get a tin of butter cookies soon!). Do any of you remember these little beauties? When I was a kid, these were another special treat. I think they’re known to many people as “little gems” or “gem biscuits”. I […]
A dinner at home, of noodle soup with chicken, choy sum and enoki mushrooms, with fried garlic and shallots sprinkled on top. Jac made the chicken broth and steamed the chicken breasts. It was just what I needed at the end of a bad day. The chicken noodle soup was perfect comfort food on this […]
Indian takeaway lunch from Maya Masala at Westfield Carousel: butter chicken, vegetable curry, chicken biryani and crispy onion bhaji. Always while I’m enjoying eating my Indian food I’m also secretly thinking about how awesome the leftovers will be the next day for breakfast. In our family it’s perfectly normal to be planning or …
We recently had dinner with our friends S and D and their kids at their local eatery, Riley’s Wood Fired Cafe in Brentwood. Riley’s is located among shops in the heart of Brentwood, with a bottle shop and butcher next door. You’d never think to go to Brentwood in search of a great meal, but […]
My younger sister Juji was on holiday recently in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. She blogged and tweeted about the food she ate, giving me terrible food envy! One of the meals she enjoyed most was the quinessential Malaysian/Singaporean kopitiam breakfast of soft-boiled eggs and kaya toast. More Juji food envy, featuring durian-flavoured ice cr…
I was home alone on the long weekend last month and found myself craving banana bread. I’ve made a really yummy banana and orange loaf many times before, but we didn’t have any oranges. I looked in a number of Jac’s cook books and found banana bread recipes that looked good, but they all used […]
I’m still a big fan of City Farm Cafe, though lately I’ve been too busy to get lunch from there as often as I’d like. I love their sandwiches but my favourite items hands-down are the homemade pies. There’s a different pie of day every day, served with garden salad in a tangy lemony dressing. […]
My family got together for breakfast a few weeks ago to celebrate my brother and dad’s birthdays. My sister Juji’s birthday’s is also in September but she was overseas at the time, eating her way around Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. It was a breakfast of family favourites! Regular readers have seen Mum’s pork rice [&hel…
Well, not totally homemade – we didn’t make the pizza bases. Jac bought fresh pizza bases from Bakers Delight and made two pizzas for dinner. She made a vegetarian pizza topped with finely diced onion, fresh tomato, tinned champignons, homegrown capsicum, spinach and garlic on tomato sauce. She put extra cheese and olives on her [&helli…
You had me at “ribs” Jac has been keen to eat at Tony Roma’s ever since she noticed it in our Entertainment book. I love pork ribs. Jac loves any ribs. We’re both big fans of barbecue. So on a recent Friday night after a long week, I couldn’t think of anything better than sitting […]