Posts Tagged ‘lamb’

Barbecue dinner with friends

Towards the end of March, we went to our friends S and D’s home for a barbecue. I love grilled or barbecued haloumi cheese, so I was chuffed to see our starter dish cooking on the barbie. Soon, we could hear the sizzle of haloumi turning golden-brown on the hotplate. It smelled great! I ate […]

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Lamb mince and spinach pasta

Jac made a delicious pasta sauce with tomato paste, lamb mince, mushrooms and spinach. She served it with pasta spirals. It was meaty and rich and lip-smackingly good. I loved the flavour of the lamb, and Jac left some of the mince quite chunky on purpose (yum!), but my favourite part of this sauce was […]

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Dinner and bento – lamb steaks

The dinner Jac made up a platter of salad (mixed lettuce, mushrooms, cucumber, tomatoes), coleslaw, pickles (sweet gherkins and pickled onions) and fruit (grapes, apple and nectarine). She panfried these beautiful tiny lamb steaks, which I’d bought sometime ago (they’d been in the freezer) – I’d thought they’d be perfe…

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Tuesday bento – lamb cutlets

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, […]

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Dad’s early birthday satay lunch

It was a big family weekend last weekend – on Sunday we got together again to celebrate my dad’s birthday with a satay lunch. Jac’s and my contribution to the meal were two fruit platters. We cut the fruit up and arranged the platters on Sunday morning, just before we left for my folks’ place. […]

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Ruby’s first birthday

Last Saturday, we celebrated my niece Ruby’s first birthday. Ruby’s proud parents, my brother Mark and sister-in-law Ange, really put on a feast for all the friends and family who attended! The first things I ate upon arrival were a couple of these delicious mini frittatas, made by Ange. Jac happily helped herself to cheese, […]

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Weekend at the Hyatt – Part 2

Continued from the previous post – Weekend at the Hyatt – Part 1. A not so good start in the morning We woke up hungry on Sunday morning, really looking forward to our room service breakfast. We sat in bed and watched cartoons on Foxtel while we waited for the food to arrive. We’d asked […]

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Tuesday bento – lamb cutlets, vegetables and salads

I was really looking forward to the arrival of these new bento boxes I bought recently on eBay. They are plastic bento boxes, two-tiered, with a lid and removal mini food divider for the top smaller tier and a black bento belt. I believe the two tiers hold a total of 750 mL, but I’m […]

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Dinners at home

25/05/2008 – savoury chops (a family recipe, made with lamb chops), with garlic mashed potatoes and steamed green vegetables (broccoli and green beans). The carrots were cooked in the casserole dish with the chops, and they were sweet and delicious. For dessert, Jac made what she called cheat’s trifle. We didn’t have any swiss rol…

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