DinnerPanfried pork steaks with mushroom sauce, served with steamed broccolini, oven-roasted sweet potatoes and potato cubes, with an experimental oven-baked cauliflower and asparagus dish. Mushrooms and spring onions go extremely well with a succulent, poppingly fresh panfried pork chop. The potatoes were golden and crispy-edged and seasoned with …
Here’s some of the food I ate while Jac was away in Denmark (a town in Western Australia, not the country in Europe!) recently, starting with… no surprises for regular readers – SPAM! Whenever Jac’s away I will eat at least one meal of fried SPAM and egg, rice and baked beans. This time, I […]
This was a kind of naughty junk food bento – a McDonald’s bento, with Chicken McNuggets and a sachet of tomato sauce, and a McDonald’s apple pie for dessert. I also included one of my sweet crunchy salad combos – with mixed greens, grape tomatoes, sliced sweet gherkin pickles, grapes and swiss cheese – the […]
We’ve cooked minchee using turkey mince previously (I have a category devoted to minchee), and I remarked on how “wormy” the turkey mince looked. It tasted fine, but I think pork mince remains the ideal meat to use for minchee. We cooked up another batch of turkey mince minchee recently though, because 1) we needed […]
A takeaway work lunch – spinach and ricotta-filled ravioli with tomato meatball sauce, which I guess isn’t a typical pasta and sauce combination. That’s what happens when I get to choose from a bain marie! Well, it was either this sickly looking salmon cream sauce, napolitana sauce or this very appealing looking meatball sauce, an…
We finally tried the box of Japanese golden curry mix I bought ages ago – this was the “medium” curry mix which, incidentally, tasted pretty mild :). Jac made chicken curry with it, with potatoes, onions and carrots. She didn’t crumb the chicken a la Japanese chicken katsu curry (see First taste of Japanese curry), [……
Another quick takeaway work lunch, eaten in a hurry: sweet and sour pork, with stir-fried vegetables and fried rice. The pork had a pretty good meat to batter ratio, and quite a nice sweet and sour flavour too. I hate it when sweet and sour pork is mostly batter with barely any meat inside. That […]
I came across a sausage sizzle at lunch time – $2.00 for a barbecued sausage, onions and barbecue sauce or tomato sauce in a fresh bun. Fantastic! I must confess – I bought and ate two. :) I would’ve had one with tomato sauce and one with barbecue sauce, but by the time I made […]
I packed this breakfast for myself one morning recently- it was a kind of breakfast bento, I guess – I took it to work and ate it at my desk as I read my emails and started my work day. I’d made myself toasted sandwiches – two with honey-glazed ham, mushrooms and mayonnaise, one with […]
A steak and salad bento! Jac panfried a steak medium-rare for her and a steak medium-well for me. I made my easy potato salad, and threw together a simple salad of mixed greens, grape tomatoes and red seedless grapes. I packed us each a container of smokey barbecue sauce to eat with our steak. Jac […]