This was a very basic cheese and mustard on toast. The cheese was Farmers Union Old Bitey (just the name makes me want to eat it! It is yuuuuuummy cheese!) and we used Australian mustard to add a little more bitey-ness. But just the cheese on its own without mustard would’ve been beautiful too. Good ol’ Old Bitey!

We had grilled fish and vegetables/salad for dinner during the week. To go with the fish, Jac made a carrot and sultana salad – grated carrot and sultanas with a dressing made with a little honey, a little soy sauce, a little 100% fat free French dressing (according to her, for additional “lubricant”) and sesame oil. She topped it all with a sprinkling of sesame seeds. The result was sweet yet savoury. It was really good – I’d definitely eat it again. Sorry about the vague amounts for the salad dressing – she made it up as she went along to taste, so there were/are no set amounts.

She also grilled some brown mushrooms with garlic and onions, then served them with chopped parsley.

Here’s the grilled baby snapper with the salad/vegie trimmings. And oh, she served sliced orange and pear with the vegies too. I was surprised how well pear went with fish! But I ate the orange slices after all the savoury stuff (and pear) was gone.

We also had dinner at Jac’s mum’s last week. She made her fantastic savoury lamb chops (a family recipe involving Worchestershire sauce and tomato sauce among other things, which I can’t share, sorry!), mashed potato, cauliflower cheese and boiled vegies (carrot, pumpkin, peas).

For dessert we had warm baked chocolate pudding with a little bit of cream.

On Tuesday evening VR grilled snapper fillets with butter, salt and pepper, and served them with salad and freshly hard-boiled eggs.

Wednesday evening was VR’s very last night with us. We went out for tea at – yep, our favourite Asian food hall. Once again I had glutinous chicken rice…

… and chee cheong fun. Next time I will have to have something else so you guys won’t have to look at the same food over and over again! :)

VR had a big bowl of tom yum soup with prawns – though as Chubbypanda pointed out, there were too many mushrooms and not enough prawns.

VR fished around and found perhaps half a dozen or so juicy prawns, so it wasn’t too bad. She thought the soup was too tomatoey, and didn’t finish it. Jac and I tried it, and we both thought it was really tasty. We proceeded to share the soup between us since VR didn’t want any more. I ate all the pieces of cooked tomato that were in the soup – I love sweet cooked tomato! I might order this soup for myself next time – but a chicken version.

Jac had yong tow foo, popiah (no photo this time) and her old favourite steamed pork dumplings. She always brings a tupperware from home and takes home whatever she can’t finish. :)

On Friday night, I had IKEA Swedish meatballs which we had in our freezer – I ate them with Jac’s mum’s homemade tomato relish and rice. YUMMO.