Archive for February, 2010

Crispy turkey schnitzels with salad

This was a quick and easy dinner to prepare – panfried turkey breast schnitzels, bought from Woolworths, with salad and aioli. Jac panfried the turkey schnitzels, I helped assemble the salad and dollop aioli into sauce dishes. I cracked a little black pepper on the tomatoes. I’m sure you can imagine how crispy the schnitzels […]

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Dinner and recipe – sardines in tomato sauce with onion

I recently published a post featuring tinned mackerel. It’s now tinned sardine’s turn! :D Years ago when I shared a flat with my eldest sister we sometimes cooked this dish for dinner – tinned sardines in tomato sauce with onions, served with rice. When I moved in with Jac, I cooked it for her and […]

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Christmas leftovers

This is the last of my Christmas 2009 posts! :D We ended up with leftover Christmas turkey, ham and prawns. We froze most of the ham but ate all the turkey and prawns over the next couple of days. This was my favourite dish cooked using the leftovers: a Christmas prawns and turkey noodle stir-fry. […]

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Boxing Day eating at IKEA

We felt like getting out of the house on Boxing Day and went to IKEA. Amazingly, we hadn’t been to IKEA since it moved from Osborne Park to its current location at Innaloo. When we got there just after 10am there was a long line of people moving slowly into the store. Jac detests waiting […]

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Christmas 2009 – breakfast with my family

Continuing with my belated Christmas 2009 posts! :D Sunday night, 27 December 2009The night before Christmas breakfast with my family, Jac and I got things ready and cleaned and tidied the house. We put our new Santa Claus mat in the hallway and Billy Lee immediately sat on it. Believe it or not, this is […]

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Christmas 2009 – lunch with Jac’s family

Happy Chinese New Year, everyone! We had a lovely family reunion dinner at my parents’ home tonight. Those photos will be posted soon. In the meantime, I’m still catching up on a backlog of posts I didn’t publish due to the redesign of the site. I know it’s terribly late but I hope you’ll still […]

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Salad with tinned mackerel, salad with SPAM

Jac assembled this dinner for herself: tinned mackerel with spring vegetables, salad and orange wedges. Since we had some SPAM to use up and Jac knew I’d prefer SPAM to tinned mackerel, she fried me up a few slices to go with my salad and oranges. The mackerel did look and smell very good. Jac […]

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