Since neither of us gets back to work (well work for Jac, back to thesis/uni for me) until Monday, we decided to go shopping again for bookshelves on Friday. We’d made a number of unsuccessful shopping excursions on previous occasions, but just couldn’t seem to find the right bookshelves to buy. We ended up going […]
We had dinner when Juji’s boyfriend got home from work. I was drooling in anticipation as the meatballs bubbled in the cream sauce in the cast iron frying pan. She tweaked this original IKEA recipe. I was busy sorting out the laundry and unpacking while she was cooking, so I wasn’t able to pay attention […]
I’m still working on getting that lamb meatballs recipe for those of you who expressed an interest (and I also really want it for ME!). This post also features lamb meatballs, but this is one of Jac’s no recipe creations. I did ask her for the recipe but she was very vague. But as you […]
This was my dinner tonight: lamb kofta meatballs with rice. We didn’t make the meatballs – Jac’s brother’s fiancee Kelsie made them, but Jac’s brother turned his nose up at them (apparently he made vomit noises to express his dislike of them) and since Jac happened to be at their house at the time, she […]
We celebrated my brother and youngest sister’s birthdays today with lunch at my parents’ house. The main course, made by Mum and the birthday girl, was a dish called “Sunday Dolmades”. It consists of “forcemeat” (fancy name for meatballs made with mince and finely chopped mushrooms), wrapped in bacon and baked in…