Last month, we had a family afternoon tea at my folks’ home to celebrate my sister Juji and my dad’s birthdays (my brother’s birthday is also in September, but his official celebration was at the recent 62nd birthday party). Everyone brought something along for afternoon tea, and it was quite a feast! Jac and I […]
A chicken pie from Brumby’s bakery. Mmm, it smelled great. Chunks of chicken, with peas and corn kernels in a nicely seasoned white sauce. The pastry was crisp. I really enjoyed eating my pastry crescent moon. An iced cinnamon bun, also from Brumby’s. A little too strong on the cinnamon, I thought, but yummy all […]
This was one of Jac’s experimental dinners – she cooked up some beef mince and mixed it with vegetarian mince (I know, I know, not TFP food! :-P She bought the vegetarian mince sometime ago and wanted to use it up), bought some frozen shortcrust pastry and made pies! She served me a pie with […]
The painters arrived at the house at 6am. They were very impressed with the packing we’d done, leaving them easy access to the walls. With Juji and Jay’s help, we’d packed all the books into boxes and then hauled the bookshelves out of the house and packed them away in the garage. Anyone who’s been […]
This was a kind of naughty junk food bento – a McDonald’s bento, with Chicken McNuggets and a sachet of tomato sauce, and a McDonald’s apple pie for dessert. I also included one of my sweet crunchy salad combos – with mixed greens, grape tomatoes, sliced sweet gherkin pickles, grapes and swiss cheese – the […]
On Mothers Day, we enjoyed a late lunch with Jac’s family. We brought bunches of flowers for the mums. Jac and I prepared the first course. We’d marinated chicken thighs pieces in a mixture of half hoisin sauce, half oyster sauce and the juice of an orange. The marinade smelled a little peculiar to me […]
This is post 2 out of a series of 8 posts (the full list is at the end of this post). Our holiday apartmentOn our second day, I woke up early and took photographs of our holiday apartment. This is the front of the apartment – we were upstairs. The kitchen area had all the […]
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 […]
This post is especially for Nicole – I know how much you like posts that feature pies! I recently ate a delicious chicken and vegetable pie and a couple of samosas bought from the bakery at the Bentley Centre. As usual, once I was at home, I had to eat them off a plate rather […]
Jac recently bought a box of mini meat pies, sausage rolls and quiches and a full-size pastie from the bakery at The Bentley Centre. I ate one of each mini pastry, plus half the pastie, which Jac and I shared. The mini meat pies were especially good, filled with a combination of beef mince and […]