When I got home last Wednesday night, I smelled something wonderful cooking. “We’re having roast pork and vegies,” Jac told me. Fantastic! Here’s the chunk of roasted pork, resting before Jac carved it. She roasted potatoes, sweet potatoes, butternut pumpkin and carrot. Here’s the roast pork after Jac carved off slices…
The homemade chicken and vegetable patties with chilli jam made such a delicious combination that I didn’t hesitate to do it all over again the very next day. We didn’t have much by way of carbs or veg in the fridge, so I had to improvise. I cooked up a packet of Maggi chicken flavoured […]
Ever since being sick on new year’s eve, Jac’s been staying away from heavy meals, rich and fatty foods and red meat. We celebrated her birthday last week with lots of presents, a simple dinner at Nando’s and a nice walk afterwards. She didn’t want a cake, so I didn’t make one. :) We shared […]
Sorry guys, Jac was still not in a bento place so I didn’t pack her any lunches this past week. She did, however, make me some mini chicken and vegetable patties for my bento. She used most of the chicken mince to make our curried chicken mince and vegetables dinner, but set aside a batch […]
The Continental “Hearty Dutch curry & rice” soup mix made a reappearance in this recent meal cooked by Jac, with chicken mince, carrot, cabbage and green beans. The last time Jac used the Dutch curry mix, she served it with mashed potato. This time, we ate the curried mince and vegetables with rice. A very […]
This was my bento lunch last Monday: panfried salt and pepper chicken thigh with salad – lettuce, grape tomatoes, mushrooms and semi-sundried tomatoes, with cubes of roasted sweet potato. For added colour and texture, I mixed some leftover vegetable spirals into the salad. This was another lunch I enjoyed cold.
For a recent dinner, Jac cooked barramundi fillets in the oven. She seasoned the fish with salt and pepper, wrapped the fillets in foil with a little butter and topped them with lemon wedges. She’d been craving a creamy vegetable dish, and made a cauliflower, broccoli and peas mornay. She stirred the vegetables through a […]
Here’s a recent Sunday breakfast: fried sliced bratwurst sausage, kaya on toast, and a fried egg. I’ve previously shared Jac’s tips for perfect sunny side up eggs: how to cook an egg sunny side up. The egg yolk was perfectly gooey, the sausage chewy with deliciously crisp edges, and the sweet toast went really well […]
This was a very simple dinner Jac cooked recently – sweet and sour chicken and vegetables, served on rice. The sweet and sour sauce came out of a jar – Kan Tong. Jac used pieces of chicken thigh meat and carrot, cauliflower, green capsicum and onion. I must admit I wasn’t expecting much from this […]
It was Jac’s birthday on the 13th (it was a quiet one this year, more in a post still to come); I went shopping on my own on the weekend before to buy her birthday presents. I started shopping around 10:30am; by the time I thought to come up for air and have something to […]