Dinner For dinner, Jac baked chicken pieces in the oven, marinated with slatherings of Thai red curry paste – she just wanted to use up what was left in the jar of curry paste. She served the chicken with rice and salad. The chicken was juicy and very tasty. Usually when we cook with red […]
DinnerJac sliced up chicken thigh fillets and marinated them with salt and pepper. She then coated the chicken in “Kentucky” seasoning – we buy this in a box from the asian supermarket (see this photo of “Kentucky” seasoning). She fried the chicken until it was crispy on the outside and poppingly juicy on the inside. […
DinnerJac cooked a chicken and vegetable stir-fry, flavoured with garlic and ginger. She served it in a big bowl on freshly cooked rice. It was delicious, with carrots, beans, onions and champignons, tender pieces of chicken thigh meat and gingery gravy soaked into the rice. Jac doesn’t really like ginger, but she cooks dishes like […]
DinnerJac used up the last of the strasburg sausage, chicken, corn and green beans and cooked up a batch of fried rice. She flavoured it with Maggi Original Seasoning. (On the Nestle Australia Maggi Asian Sauces page, they refer to it as Maggi Liquid Seasoning – in the picture of sauce bottles, it’s second from […]
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As I put away the leftovers from our family dinner I packed the next day’s lunch for Jac and me. There were three chicken skewers left; I pulled the meat off the skewers and divided it between two lunch boxes. I added lettuce, cherry tomatoes, sundried tomatoes, sliced sweet gherkin pickles, tasty cheese and asparagus. […]
The pork and leek sausages and chicken kebabs stretched to another dinner and bento! DinnerJac sliced up the last of the leftover pork and leek sausages and took the last bits of chicken kebab off the skewers. She baked them in an oven dish with chicken drumsticks marinated in sweet soy. She referred affectionately to […]
I packed us deluxe sandwich bento for lunch the next day. This is my own terminology – sandwich bento is just sandwiches; deluxe sandwich bento comes with extra bits and pieces in different compartments. :D Today’s deluxe sandwich bento consisted of sandwiches, leftover fried onions and mushrooms, and fresh cubes of watermelon (with ani…
Jac panfried chicken thighs seasoned with salt and pepper so I could use them for bento. I packed us some bread and butter, leftover potato salad, and made a quick salad of cos lettuce, carrot, cucumber, snow peas and pickles. Of course, I had to include a little note for Jac in her lunch box. […]
DinnerJac cooked this dinner, of rice with ginger chicken and green vegetables stir-fried with oyster sauce and garlic. The chicken pieces and carrot slices were tender, the onion sweet. The ginger sauce was delicious. After I took the photo I shifted items around on my plate so the rice could soak up as much of […]