Jac didn’t need lunch again on Friday, so this is what I packed for myself. The savoury: oven-fried chicken wingettes, blanched broccolini, salad and sauteed mushrooms. The sweet: the same fruit combo of strawberries and papaya (that whole papaya we bought – we used the first of it on the fruit platters we made for […]
Last Thursday night, I met Jac after work and we went to Spencer Village for dinner. Jac was in the mood for Japanese. She got herself a set with salmon sashimi, chicken teriyaki, California roll and salad. If it were me eating Japanese, I’d have needed steamed rice too, to eat with the chicken (for […]
Whenever I haven’t had time to organise any protein for my bento (whether leftovers or prepared specifically for bento), I fall back on good old hard-boiled eggs – this is what I had to do for my Thursday bento. Jac didn’t need lunch on this occasion – here’s the lunch I packed for myself. I […]
Last Wednesday evening, Jac made a sausage, bean and bacon casserole. She fried up onion and bacon pieces and added sliced cooked pork chipolatas we’d saved in the freezer, along with a tin of baked beans, black pepper, Worchestershire sauce and a little maple syrup. (There may have been other ingredients – this isn’t a […]
Last weekend, Jac marinated some chicken wingettes in teriyaki sauce for bento. The chicken sat in the teriyaki sauce for two days in a container in the fridge. Last Tuesday evening, she panfried the chicken so it would be cooled and ready for me to pack for bento on Wednesday morning. The chicken looks a […]
Last Tuesday night’s dinner was very simple – panfried basa fillets with salad. I ate the tartare sauce not only with the fish, but also as a dipping sauce for the salad. This fish was bought frozen rather than fresh but tasted absolutely beautiful – tender, moist and flaky. Jac managed to get a golden […]
Jac cooked us a very nice vegetarian dinner last Monday night – she was keen to try out a recipe from one of her vegetarian cook books – eggplant blinis with chive sour cream and stir-fried vegetables. The chive sour cream was easy to make – I just mixed sour cream with chopped fresh chives […]
Last Monday J and I decided to get design-your-own noodles for lunch from Noodlebox. J’s favourite sauce whenever she designs her own noodles is oyster sauce. She had thick egg noodles with double broccoli, snow peas, fish cake and roast pork with oyster sauce. I like the oyster sauce noodles too, but decided to try […]
It was a big family weekend last weekend – on Sunday we got together again to celebrate my dad’s birthday with a satay lunch. Jac’s and my contribution to the meal were two fruit platters. We cut the fruit up and arranged the platters on Sunday morning, just before we left for my folks’ place. […]
Last Saturday, we celebrated my niece Ruby’s first birthday. Ruby’s proud parents, my brother Mark and sister-in-law Ange, really put on a feast for all the friends and family who attended! The first things I ate upon arrival were a couple of these delicious mini frittatas, made by Ange. Jac happily helped herself to cheese, […]