Archive for the ‘Family and friends’ Category

Moving weekend food

Moving weekend featured lots of junk food. Juji and Jay came round to help on Saturday morning and brought us breakfast from McDonald’s – bacon and egg mcmuffins, hash browns, OJ for me and a cappucino for Jac. We all took a lunch break a few hours later – Jac’s mum Pattycakes and I did […]

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August birthday family feast

I can’t believe I forgot to post this! :-O That same day, before our fabulous birthday feast of finger foods, Jac and I attended breakfast at my parents’ home to celebrate my Mum’s birthday! Yes, it was a big day of eating! :D We didn’t need lunch that day! When Jac and I walked in, […]

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A birthday feast of finger foods

Fans of family feasts, you guys will LOVE this post! We celebrated Jac’s mum Pattycakes’ birthday last month with a feast of finger foods. Jac and I contributed to the feast, but most items were prepared by Kelsie, Jac’s sister-in-law, and she did an amazing job. Kels, if you’re reading this and I’ve gotten any [&helli…

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Lunch at Cafe Ambrosia

I had lunch with my sister CW at the new Cafe Ambrosia, the replacement for Kirribilli Cafe (where we’d had coq au vin for lunch recently) at Curtin University campus. CW ordered the linguine with roasted pumpkin, spinach and fetta. The pasta that arrived looked more like tagliatelli than linguine to me. CW found the […]

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Zoe’s baptism lunch

My niece Zoe (sister of Ruby) was baptised* last month, and afterwards we all went back to my brother’s place for lunch. My sister-in-law Ange (Zoe’s mum) had done some cooking, but family and friends brought along dishes too. It was quite a feast! Earlier, when I arrived at my parents’ home (I grabbed a […]

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About the applecats bento box from Melbourne

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 […]

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Sunday lunch of two roast meats

A few weeks ago, we had my friend Chad and her boyfriend J over for a Sunday roast lunch. Jac loves cooking for guests, and she cooked up a feast featuring two roasts and lots of vegetables. This was the roast leg of pork, complete with salty, crunchy crackling. Jac peeled the crackling off the […]

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Breakfast at Dome

We took Jac’s nephew and niece out to breakfast the next morning. We met up with Jac’s cousin K at Dome. I didn’t get photos of everyone’s breakfast – just Jac’s and mine. Jac ordered the eggs benedict. She enjoyed the eggs, toast, spinach and ham, but like many places, the hollandaise served on the […]

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Takeaway – Penang Delight Malaysian Chinese Cuisine

A few weeks ago, Jac and I looked after her niece and nephew on a Friday night – their parents (Jac’s brother B and his wife K – remember our Hamilton Island holiday? :)) were off to Melbourne for the weekend to attend a friend’s 40th birthday celebration. The plan was like this: Jac and […]

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