Jac went to Denmark to stay with our friend M over new year’s weekend (yes, I’m still catching up on posts). I stayed home and worked on my website. It was during this particular weekend that I chose my blog theme and started really working on the redesign, so it ended up being a bit […]
I love Christmas ham! This time we enjoyed thick slices of ham lightly panfried, served with French toast and maple syrup. We had leftovers from two different Christmas hams this year, which we froze and then retrieved later. This was the ham from Christmas breakfast with my family. There really isn’t that much more to […]
We held Jac’s belated birthday brunch with her family and friends at our house. We celebrated after her actual birthday so that her brother Brad could come. He works away, so we held the brunch on one the weekends he was home. Jac loves “playing host” and was really looking forward to putting on a […]
This was a very quick and simple weeknight dinner, prepared by Jac: fish fillets, covered with seasoned flour (plain flour mixed with salt and pepper) then panfried until they were just crispy on the outside potatoes thickly sliced with their skins still on, steamed so they were cooked in the middle but still firm and […]
Jac and I went out to dinner at Hayashi Japanese restaurant (2/15 Ogilvie Road, Applecross) to celebrate her birthday last month. Jac’s starter was the beef tataki (entree* AU$17.50, main $28.50). Jac loves any rare or raw beef dishes and wanted this as soon as she saw it on the menu. When she ordered, our […]
We celebrated Chinese New Year (CNY) with our family reunion dinner on 13 February, the eve of CNY. Mum cooked a number of dishes, but all of us “kids” also brought something along for the meal. For our contribution, Jac and I made minchee (pork mince and potato cooked with onions, garlic, soy sauce and […]
Take some cooked penne pasta, fresh grape tomatoes, grated cheese and a tin of condensed tomato soup. Finely chop some white onion. Put the pasta, tomatoes, onion and soup into a casserole dish, top with cheese (as much or as little as you like) and bake in the oven until the dish is heated through, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]