When I got home on Wednesday night I could smell something delicious cooking. Jac had made savoury mince with mashed potato. She called it a cheat’s cottage pie – ‘cheat’ in the sense that she didn’t actually put the savoury mince in a dish, top it with mashed potato and then brown it in the […]
On Wednesday, J and I grabbed takeaway curry from IGA supermarket (Shop 2, 81 Royal St, East Perth) for our lunch. J got herself a small combination, with chicken briyani rice, butter chicken and chick pea curry. I got a regular combination, with chicken briyani, chicken tikka, potatoes and eggplant curry. It’s very good value […]
I packed us two different lunches last Tuesday. Jac said she felt like a toasted sandwich, so I made her a sandwich that she could pop into the sandwich toaster at work. She’s got my old Breville sandwich toaster at her work – I bought it when I was 18, when I first moved out […]
For Monday’s bento, Jac marinated a couple of chicken thighs with hoisin and chilli sauce. I packed us a sliced chicken thigh each on a bed of salad greens, along with more salad (mixed greens, cucumber, blanched snow peas and green beans, homegrown cherry tomatoes and leftover oven-baked carrot). I also made a quick potato […]
Dinner last Sunday was oven-baked fish and vegetables (potatoes, carrots, butternut pumpkin, zucchini, tomato*) and cabbage. For dessert – tinned fruit salad, sliced fresh banana and vanilla ice cream. The syrupy sweet fruit salad was pretty mushy – it’s not something I have often, but I really enjoyed it. *Yes, I know tomato is a…
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 […]
I had to attend a Christmas function after work a couple of Friday nights ago. While I was at the function, Jac ran a few errands and grabbed food from Spencer Village (Spencer Road Shopping Centre, Thornlie). This is what she bought for me – hainan chicken rice from Penang Cuisine. I ate it the […]
I recently went out to lunch at Ristorante Noi (Shop 21, 60 Royal St East Perth) with my workmates, to farewell L, who’s left to take on a new job. The food was pretty good, but I don’t recommend nor plan to return to Noi. I’ll explain why, but let me start with the food […]
Jac’s bento lunch last Friday consisted of a panfried lemon pepper-rubbed chicken thigh, salad (cos lettuce, homegrown cherry tomatoes, snow peas, cucumber) with creamy ranch dressing (the sachet of dressing was left over from a pack of Chicken Kickers, from a previous Dominos Pizza meal), bread and butter, watermelon, mini havarti cheese and…
Last Thursday, Jac didn’t need lunch, but I did – so I packed myself a similar lunch to the one I made for her on Wednesday, when I didn’t need lunch. More sliced chicken sausage, mixed salad greens, homegrown cherry tomatoes, snow peas and green beans, a chunk of buttered French-style loaf, mini Babybel tasty […]