A tasty dinner Jac cooked – panfried chicken thigh fillet pieces, seasoned with Alseason, served with pasta salad (penne, green beans, corn, semi-dried tomatoes, spring onion tossed with a little light olive oil and a cracking of fresh salt and black pepper) and two pieces of bread (well, one slice of bread, crusts off, cut […]
While Jac was away in January, I made French toast for my breakfast but cooked a little extra so I’d have some to snack on whenever. I used four slices of bread, each cut into half. I dipped each piece of bread into a mixture of two beaten eggs, a splash of soy milk and […]
In case you may be interested, just letting you know I’ve set up an AudioBoo account where I’ll be publishing short audio recordings, called “boos” from time to time. Not surprisingly, the boos I’ve published already are mostly food-related! These short audio messages won’t replace the blog posts – theyR…
Jac went to Denmark to stay with our friend M over new year’s weekend (yes, I’m still catching up on posts). I stayed home and worked on my website. It was during this particular weekend that I chose my blog theme and started really working on the redesign, so it ended up being a bit […]
I love Christmas ham! This time we enjoyed thick slices of ham lightly panfried, served with French toast and maple syrup. We had leftovers from two different Christmas hams this year, which we froze and then retrieved later. This was the ham from Christmas breakfast with my family. There really isn’t that much more to […]
We held Jac’s belated birthday brunch with her family and friends at our house. We celebrated after her actual birthday so that her brother Brad could come. He works away, so we held the brunch on one the weekends he was home. Jac loves “playing host” and was really looking forward to putting on a […]
This was a very quick and simple weeknight dinner, prepared by Jac: fish fillets, covered with seasoned flour (plain flour mixed with salt and pepper) then panfried until they were just crispy on the outside potatoes thickly sliced with their skins still on, steamed so they were cooked in the middle but still firm and […]
Jac and I went out to dinner at Hayashi Japanese restaurant (2/15 Ogilvie Road, Applecross) to celebrate her birthday last month. Jac’s starter was the beef tataki (entree* AU$17.50, main $28.50). Jac loves any rare or raw beef dishes and wanted this as soon as she saw it on the menu. When she ordered, our […]
We celebrated Chinese New Year (CNY) with our family reunion dinner on 13 February, the eve of CNY. Mum cooked a number of dishes, but all of us “kids” also brought something along for the meal. For our contribution, Jac and I made minchee (pork mince and potato cooked with onions, garlic, soy sauce and […]
Take some cooked penne pasta, fresh grape tomatoes, grated cheese and a tin of condensed tomato soup. Finely chop some white onion. Put the pasta, tomatoes, onion and soup into a casserole dish, top with cheese (as much or as little as you like) and bake in the oven until the dish is heated through, […]