We’ve cooked minchee using turkey mince previously (I have a category devoted to minchee), and I remarked on how “wormy” the turkey mince looked. It tasted fine, but I think pork mince remains the ideal meat to use for minchee. We cooked up another batch of turkey mince minchee recently though, because 1) we needed […]
A takeaway work lunch – spinach and ricotta-filled ravioli with tomato meatball sauce, which I guess isn’t a typical pasta and sauce combination. That’s what happens when I get to choose from a bain marie! Well, it was either this sickly looking salmon cream sauce, napolitana sauce or this very appealing looking meatball sauce, an…
We finally tried the box of Japanese golden curry mix I bought ages ago – this was the “medium” curry mix which, incidentally, tasted pretty mild :). Jac made chicken curry with it, with potatoes, onions and carrots. She didn’t crumb the chicken a la Japanese chicken katsu curry (see First taste of Japanese curry), [……
Another quick takeaway work lunch, eaten in a hurry: sweet and sour pork, with stir-fried vegetables and fried rice. The pork had a pretty good meat to batter ratio, and quite a nice sweet and sour flavour too. I hate it when sweet and sour pork is mostly batter with barely any meat inside. That […]
I came across a sausage sizzle at lunch time – $2.00 for a barbecued sausage, onions and barbecue sauce or tomato sauce in a fresh bun. Fantastic! I must confess – I bought and ate two. :) I would’ve had one with tomato sauce and one with barbecue sauce, but by the time I made […]
I packed this breakfast for myself one morning recently- it was a kind of breakfast bento, I guess – I took it to work and ate it at my desk as I read my emails and started my work day. I’d made myself toasted sandwiches – two with honey-glazed ham, mushrooms and mayonnaise, one with […]
A steak and salad bento! Jac panfried a steak medium-rare for her and a steak medium-well for me. I made my easy potato salad, and threw together a simple salad of mixed greens, grape tomatoes and red seedless grapes. I packed us each a container of smokey barbecue sauce to eat with our steak. Jac […]
I recently had a craving for a dish my late grandma used to make. She called it a chicken stew, and it was simply chicken pieces, usually on the bone, with vegetables, cooked in a rich gravy. I loved to eat the stew with fresh buttered bread or with rice.* I described the dish to […]
We enjoyed a lovely hot breakfast recently at Food for Me (895 Albany Highway, East Victoria Park), washed down with creamy strong cappucino (Jac) and a pot of English breakfast tea (me). If a menu features eggs benedict or a similar dish of poached eggs and hollandaise, that’s what Jac will always order. At Food […]
I met my eldest sister for lunch a few weeks ago at Kirribilli Cafe*, on Curtin University campus in Bentley. We both ordered the special of the day, coq au vin. We each had a quarter chicken with a drumstick and thigh, served on mashed potato, with carrots, mushrooms and bacon. I love it when […]