I cooked this quick dinner for Jac and myself last Tuesday night: a stir-fry featuring SPAM, onion, mushrooms, green beans, cherry tomatoes and macaroni. I fried the SPAM cubes with chopped onion in the wok first, then added the mushrooms and green beans when the SPAM and onion were nicely browned, the SPAM with slightly […]
This was a recent Thursday night dinner, takeaway from the shops: a Pavarotti pie from Jesters and a chicken low GI salad from Sumo Salad. The chicken low GI salad is my current favourite from Sumo – it’s got tasty bits I love – crisp cos lettuce, grilled sliced chicken, sundried tomatoes and Danish fetta, […]
Last Tuesday evening, Jac cooked a noodle stir-fry with rice noodles, chicken, vegetables and tinned small prawns. Jac wanted to try the tinned cooked prawns – call me a snob, but I would never buy tinned prawns (and now, having eaten them in this dish, I still wouldn’t buy them! :)), but this was a […]
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…
21/04/2008 – fish and vegies. Panfried fish with steamed broccoli and carrots, steamed red cabbage and Jac’s “non-dairy potato bake”. The fish was coated in seasoned flour before frying. The steamed red cabbage was flavoured with Worchestershire sauce. The “non-dairy potato bake” was a cooking experiment that tur…
13/02/2008. I met Jac after work and we drove to the International Eating House food hall at East Victoria Park for a midweek dinner date. Jac ordered the regular teriyaki tofu set (AU$6.00 – I think). Yep, that’s right – this was the regular size, not large! The tofu has a very thin, crispy coating […]
I’m running behind yet again with posts and comment/email replies. Here are some of our dinners from the past week or so as I try to catch up. I just don’t have enough time on weeknights. It’s so frustrating. Bring on the weekend. 10/02/2008. I stir-fried some green vegies – bok choy and snow peas […]
Back in early December when we talked about what we wanted to do on our holiday, Jac suggested we spend a weekend in Newcastle, since I’ve never been there. Although we were both really looking forward to spending time with the girls at Nelson Bay, the idea of going off on our own for a […]
Monday night’s dinner included ma po tofu, made using firm tofu (that’s all we had, next time will get softer tofu), chicken mince and a Japanese boxed ma po tofu flavour mix. So quick and easy. Jac cooked it up in the big wok. I commandeered the small wok and stir-fried green beans with garlic […]
We had another stir-fry the next evening – chicken with black bean sauce, which Jac had marinating in a bag in the freezer for weeks – and carrots, broccoli, bok choy and cauliflower with noodles. The chicken had soaked up the black bean flavour and was so tender. This was fantastic – and I had […]