Jac made “spicy, supercrunchy fried chicken” for lunch with friends at our house recently. The recipe came from The Essential New York Times Cook Book: Recipes for a New Century (2010). The recipe begins: Ready for a tip that will change your life? You don’t need to deep-fry chicken: you can shallow-fry it in half […]
We hosted a family lunch recently at our home to celebrate Jac’s mum Pattycakes’ birthday. Jac loves to cook for company and had a great time planning and preparing the meal. I helped her with recipe research and the boring stuff like setting the table on the day. :) Our starter dish was prawns sauteed […]
A couple of weekends ago, Jac and I went to a quiz night with my siblings and their partners. It was a fundraiser for Jac’s hockey club. We all brought food, of course. Jac made her savoury eggs (some people call them deviled eggs). Jac’s never written her recipe down – it’s all done by […]
“Um… I think you may have ordered too many dishes,” our waitress said tentatively after we placed our order. I wonder what gave her that idea? :P We assured her we were very hungry and were happy to stick with what we’d ordered. Oh, so much food! But not too much food! Last Friday, Jac […]
On Saturday we celebrated my sister Juji and her fiancé Jay’s engagement with a lunch party with family and friends. Jac and I made coleslaw and my mum made her pork wantans, but Juji outdid everyone with her supreme culinary efforts that day. She slow-cooked four pork shoulders for 14 hours which she and Jay […]
Honey mustard quail, oven roasted potato, green salad I recently received some sample products from Game Farm. Jac and I were both very excited – Jac, to cook them; me, to eat them! Game Farm has been around since 1975 and specialises in the breeding and processing of game birds and speciality poultry, and supply […]
This weekend, Jac and I joined my family and friends at my nephew Caleb’s baptism. It was a double baptism – my brother’s best mate T’s daughter Grace, born around the same time as Caleb, was baptised too. My brother and T have been friends since they met in primary school when they were both […]
I met my two friends Chad and L for breakfast at City Farm Cafe, East Perth last month. Breakfast, friends and bacon, a great way to start the day! Skinny cappuccino L ordered fruit toast (AU$6) with sides of bacon (AU$3) and maple syrup. Chad decided that sounded good and ordered the same. Bacon and […]
Smile, it’s another family get-together! This time, a barbecue. Friends of my parents were over from Malaysia and we all got together for Sunday lunch. Zoe smiles as soon as she sees my camera I don’t even have to ask my niece Zoe to smile any more! She “smiles” as soon as I point my […]
On Easter Monday, we packed, checked out of our holiday apartments and then went breakfast at Samovar, on the corner of Queen and Kent streets in Busselton town centre. It was just after 10am and the cafe was busy – we grabbed the second-last free table. Jay ordered eggs Benedict (AU$17.00, available with leg ham […]