I recently had a craving for a dish my late grandma used to make. She called it a chicken stew, and it was simply chicken pieces, usually on the bone, with vegetables, cooked in a rich gravy. I loved to eat the stew with fresh buttered bread or with rice.* I described the dish to […]
We enjoyed a lovely hot breakfast recently at Food for Me (895 Albany Highway, East Victoria Park), washed down with creamy strong cappucino (Jac) and a pot of English breakfast tea (me). If a menu features eggs benedict or a similar dish of poached eggs and hollandaise, that’s what Jac will always order. At Food […]
I met my eldest sister for lunch a few weeks ago at Kirribilli Cafe*, on Curtin University campus in Bentley. We both ordered the special of the day, coq au vin. We each had a quarter chicken with a drumstick and thigh, served on mashed potato, with carrots, mushrooms and bacon. I love it when […]
What does a person do when she’s struggling to fight off a cold and resisting the need to go to bed early? She looks at photos of junk food – greasy, salty, deep-fried junk food. I think I’d be able to taste this if I ate it tonight, but tomorrow, given my rapidly-getting-more-blocked nose… who […]
A takeaway lunch, eaten in the staff lunch room on a rainy day: teriyaki chicken, vegetables and rice. The chicken had its skin on and was pretty tasty, but there needed to be a lot more teriyaki sauce to soak into the rice. And more vegies would’ve been good too, more green beans especially. Having […]
A bento lunch I packed for myself – leftover barbecue chicken with salad (lettuce, carrot sticks, corn kernels, sweet gherkin pickle slices, red seedless grapes and the last of the corn kernels), Kewpie mayonnaise in a bear head-shaped container, and French toast squares. I didn’t pack any maple syrup to go with these French toast [&hel…
Another dinner cooked by Jac, this time panfried pork steaks, homemade oven-baked potato wedges*, steamed cabbage and green beans, and orange mash (carrots and sweet potato), with big creamy dollop of aioli for dipping. The pork steaks were juicy and tender, with golden brown caramelised edges. I couldn’t wait to get my knife and fork [&helli…
I was very pleased with these bento boxes I put together for us. I’d asked Jac what she’d like for lunch, to which she said, “Cold meat, salad and pickles.” That’s exactly what I packed us – with a few extra bits and pieces. This was my lunch. On the left: hard-boiled egg, salad (lettuce, […]
I decided to use up some of the leftover barbecue chicken to make sandwiches for our bento the next day. The sandwiches I made were: chicken, mayo and French mustard curried chicken English ham and Dijon mustard All the sandwiches had mixed salad greens in them. I also included a mini salad of lettuce and […]
On a recent fine and sunny weekend, Jac and I decided to go for a walk and have a picnic by the river. We packed picnic things, food and ice packs in our very daggy but useful insulated shopping trolley and off we went. So here’s the picnic spread. From the left: Jarlsberg Light slices, […]