Homegrown chillies and thoughts about gardening

This was a chicken and vegetable stir-fry with chilli and basil Jac cooked recently. The chilli was fresh out of our garden. It was a delicious dinner. In the past, we’ve had lots of tomatoes growing in our garden. This year, it’s been chilli! You may remember Jac used our homegrown chillies in a recent […]

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Dinner – bratwurst, sauerkraut, potatoes and onions

After our recent meal at Alpine Restaurant, Jac developed a craving for bratwurst and sauerkraut – she’d ordered rollmops and goulash on the night but quite liked the look of Juji’s bratwurst dish. The following week, Jac decided to do her own version of bratwurst, sauerkraut, potatoes and onions for dinner. She bought bratwurst s…

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Family afternoon tea

We had a family afternoon tea at my eldest sister CW and her hubby M’s home recently. As usual, everyone brought something for afternoon tea and the result was a feast of savoury and sweet delights! Jac made pork meatballs and mini scotch eggs. A scotch egg is usually a hard-boiled egg enclosed in sausage […]

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Portraits of donuts

I’m still hoping Krispy Kreme will open a store in Perth (see my post from last year Krispy Kreme coming to Perth soon?). In the meantime, we make do with other donut shops. Jac bought a six-pack from Donut King recently. A strawberry iced donut, simple but yummy. Sometimes strawberry flavour can taste medicinal, but […]

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Dinner – chicken and corn stew

A variation of Jac’s chicken stew, and another bowl and spoon dinner! – chicken and corn stew, with chicken, potatoes, carrots, onions and lots of corn. I loved the flavour of that delicious gravy and how it soaked into the rice. I loved the pop of corn kernels as I bit them. I ate more […]

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Rifo’s Cafe, East Victoria Park

UPDATE: Rifo’s is now closed – trading at this address now is Bravo’s. When Rifo’s Cafe first opened in East Victoria Park, I must admit I wasn’t sure what it was called. I didn’t know about the original Rifo’s in Maylands at the time. Typically, we’d be in the car driving past on Albany Highway [&hel…

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Dinner – chicken stroganoff with peas and mashed potato

Dinner cooked by Jac: chicken stroganoff, served with peas and mashed potato. She used a jar of Chicken Tonight stroganoff to make the chicken dish, adding the chicken thigh meat and mushrooms. As a mushroom lover I was totally thrilled to discover she’d used both tinned and fresh mushrooms – I love both. The fluffy […]

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Tetsuya masterclass winner

Congratulations to Lucille from Nobby Beach QLD, winner of the Tetsuya masterclass. Lucille, I hope you have an awesome time at the masterclass! Thank you to everyone who entered! If any of you haven’t seen it, here’s my post about my experience at Tetsuya’s masterclass

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Bacon and egg toasted sandwich with BBQ sauce

Mmmm, bacon… Jac gave me a lift to the train station one morning and we stopped to grab breakfast at a lunch bar on the way – takeaway bacon and egg toasted sandwiches. I didn’t unwrap my sandwich until I was at my desk at work, and I was thrilled to see the layers of […]

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Alpine Restaurant, Carlisle

I craved German food after 1) my sister Juji’s recent post about Max Dietz’s Pork Knuckle with Braised Red Cabbage and 2) a Twitter chat with Erin. Erin and I both lamented our lack of a Lowenbrau Keller or Bavarian Bier Cafe here in Perth. Jac and I have enjoyed German food at the Duckstein […]

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