Posts Tagged ‘ribs’

The Merrywell, Crown Perth, Burswood

The Merrywell has brought dude food to Crown Perth. It’s simultaneously comforting and indulgent: salty verging on over-seasoned, deep-fried and gloriously fatty, more suited to being eaten with fingers than cutlery. It’s a trendy pub with striking looks, plenty of dark timber and the warm glow of orange lamps. There are beers on tap, a…

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A Friday night with Juji and Jay

We had a long weekend here in Western Australia in September. Jac went on a trip to Margaret River with her hockey team mates while I stayed home. I’m always quite happy to be home alone. I just do my own thing, usually spending most of the weekend sitting in my study at my computer, […]

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Pork ribs, salad and baked potato

Jac had a craving for pork ribs recently but didn’t have the time to make a marinade, so she just used a bottled smokey barbecue sauce instead, rubbing the pork ribs generously in the sauce before baking them in the oven with a few potatoes. We ate the potatoes with butter, salt and pepper. Jac […]

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Tuesday bento – pork ribs, salad and fruit

My bento lunch the day after our pork ribs barbecue: leftover salad and hard-boiled egg, pork ribs (taken off the bone so they’d be less messy to eat at work), with a piece of Christmas nutty cake, green seedless grapes, and a piece of tasty cheddar cheese.

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Barbecue – pork ribs and potatoes

It was a stinking hot day on Monday 29 December, so Jac decided to keep the heat out of the house and cook dinner outdoors on the barbecue. I got home from work to find Jac assembling a garden salad with mixed lettuce, cucumber, snow peas, cherry tomatoes, orange capsicum and sliced hard-boiled eggs. She’d […]

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I can’t believe I’d never been to Sizzler!

As the title says, I can’t believe I’m 32 and the first time I ever went to Sizzler was Wednesday last week. That place is so ME! It’s not fancy, but there’s lots to eat and I love buffets! Upon arrival we joined the queue and ordered main courses, which included salad bar, and paid […]

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Belated Chinese New Year family dinner

My folks had been away on holiday in Malaysia since mid-January. They got home on the 15th of February. We all got together on Thursday last week after work for a Chap Goh Mei/belated family reunion dinner, to celebrate Chinese New Year. My cousin AM, her hubby C and little daughter E were at dinner […]

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NSW Holiday 2007-2008 – Day 12

On the 2nd of January it was, sadly, time to leave Nelson Bay. We said good-bye to D, who was staying home to study, while L drove us to Newcastle, where we would have lunch and then make our way to the train station. But just before we left, L told us that S who […]

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