Posts Tagged ‘casserole’

Baked chicken, mushroom and potato casserole

This was a delicious dinner Jac cooked – chicken and mushroom casserole, made with chicken pieces, sliced potatoes and fresh button mushrooms, all baked in the oven. She served the casserole with corn kernels and peas. She’d left the chicken on the bone, and it was tender and flavoursome. I kept going back to the […]

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Return of Christmas turkey

I wrote this post a few weeks ago and didn’t publish it (no particular reason, just didn’t!). Jac cooked a casserole in the electric frypan we got from my parents for Christmas – she used Christmas turkey thigh roll, retrieved from the freezer, thawed and cut into cubes. She added vegetables – carrots, celery, green [&hellip…

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Sausage, bean and bacon casserole

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 […]

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Dinners at home

A couple of dinners from this week – first, panfried fish fillets seasoned with lemon pepper… …served with a simple fresh salad garnished with hard-boiled eggs. And a tasty beef casserole made with celery, carrots, mushrooms and red wine, served with mashed potato.

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Dinners at home

15/01/2008. Panfried pork chops with Lee Kum Kee oriental sauce for pork chop, served with green beans stir fried with oyster sauce, onions and garlic. The pork chops were lean but juicy and cooked by Jac to tender perfection. The oriental sauce was great – sweet and syrupy and finger-sucking good, it would’ve been fantastic […]

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Friday night dinner

For dinner last night, Jac made a chicken and mushroom casserole, with carrots, green beans and capsicum, which she served with mashed potatoes and steamed corn on the cob. Delicious, and I had leftovers for dinner again tonight!

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A couple of dinners

Monday night: Jac made a casserole using chicken sausages, turkey bacon, onions, a tin of Heinz Big Red tomato soup and a tin of Heinz Baked Beans. She served it with fluffy mashed potato, peas and corn kernels and baked polenta topped with smokey BBQ sauce. The polenta looked good but we both agreed it […]

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Four out of five weeknight dinners

Monday: Jac made chicken burgers. Panfried chicken thigh filets, lettuce, tomato and mushrooms in toasted focaccia. As you can see, she went heavy on the lettuce. Hahahaaa. P.S. I do like eating lettuce stems. Tuesday: My day off. The cats and I fell asleep in the late afternoon, snuggled together and all toasty on the […]

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Hearty cold weather food

Last night for dinner Jac made a beef, mushroom and red wine casserole, which she served with mashed potato. I love eating meals like this on cold days. We’ve now brought the gas heater in from the garage (it lives there during the warmer months), and I am wearing my ugg shoes around the house […]

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Meatball and mushroom casserole

This was tonight’s dinner, an original Jac creation she calls “Meatball and mushroom casserole”. No recipe as such – she made the meatballs using lamb mince, onions, garlic, salt and pepper. She used both fresh and tinned sliced mushrooms. The gravy was made with beef stock and powdered gravy. She served the casserole with f…

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