DinnerJac cooked this dinner, of rice with ginger chicken and green vegetables stir-fried with oyster sauce and garlic. The chicken pieces and carrot slices were tender, the onion sweet. The ginger sauce was delicious. After I took the photo I shifted items around on my plate so the rice could soak up as much of […]
Dinner After a few days away from the house, Jac couldn’t wait to get back into the kitchen and do some cooking. I came home from work to the most delicious smells of marinated chicken pieces and vegetables roasting in the oven. Well, roasting chicken and vegetable smells intermingled with the smell of freshly painted […]
A bento from a few weeks ago! Jac panfried four chicken thigh fillets which she’d simply rubbed in salt and pepper, and I packed us chicken and salad for lunch. The salad consisted of mixed greens, grape tomatoes, cucumber, green beans, mushrooms, sliced sweet gherkin pickles and corn kernels. I packed Kiri cream cheese in […]
A couple of people have asked me where my sister Juji got the bento box from in Melbourne. This is what she told me: “I bought it from a shop in Melbourne Central – but i can’t remember the name of the shop! It was a little shop off the ground floor entrance … Near […]
DinnerFor dinner, Jac served oven-baked crumbed chicken fingers (bought frozen in a box), asparagus stems and vegetable slice. The vegetable slice was another of Jac’s experiments, made of egg and vegetables – green beans, asparagus tips, potato, carrot and onion. Jac included a nice big dish of smokey barbecue sauce for dipping the chi…
Jac bought a bag of fresh multigrain bread rolls, so I used last of the turkey thigh roast to make us turkey and salad rolls for lunch. In roll number one: turkey, autumn fruit chutney, Kewpie mayonnaise, lettuce and tomato. Jac bought a jar of homemade autumn fruit chutney from a weekend market when she […]
I love bento lunches featuring leftover roast meat and vegetables (see previous post Sunday lunch of two roast meats)! I packed us both the same lunch: roast pork with apple sauce, turkey thigh roast with cranberry sauce, roasted vegetables, crackling, steamed green beans and broccoli, and a little container of gravy. This was Jac’s lunch, [&…
We had a family afternoon tea recently at my parents’ home. Jac and I contributed siew mai to the meal – we bought three or four serves from Fook Kee at Spencer Village International Food Hall (200 Spencer Road, Thornlie) and brought them along. Mum and I placed them in a dish to heat up […]
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 …
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 […]