A recent home cooked breakfast – Jac panfried the mushrooms in butter and toasted the bread. I made the scrambled eggs. I spread kaya thickly on my toast – yum! In egg-related news, we’ve been discussing keeping chooks in our backyard again. We had three isa brown hens a few years ago, and their eggs […]
A simple pasta dinner: wholemeal penne with a tomato, sausage, mushroom and broccoli sauce. Jac’s been buying wholemeal pasta for us instead of the regular kind. I eat it because I know it’s good for me and Jac’s cooked it – I know I’ve said this before, but there’s something about its texture that I […]
My lunch is on the left, Jac’s is on the right – lamb meatballs and salad (mixed salad greens, blanched green beans, baby roma tomatoes and carrot sticks, with some green seedless grapes thrown in with the salad, and a container of aioli as dressing/dip for the vegies). You’ll probably notice that Jac only had […]
Jac didn’t need a packed lunch last Monday, so I just threw together something quick and easy for my bento -SPAM cubes and mushrooms, salad (mixed greens, green beans, homegrown cherry tomatoes), leftover potato salad and fruit (grapes, strawberries and prunes). I panfried the SPAM and mushrooms and allowed them to cool completely before pack…
On Sunday afternoon, Jac cooked up a dish with two different kinds of tinned mushrooms – champignons, “golden mushrooms” (which looked like enoki mushrooms to me), and the last of the fresh mushrooms we had in the fridge. With spring onions, peas and oyster sauce, it was my kind of dish. During the week, the […]
We celebrated Jac’s brother’s fiancee Kelsie’s birthday last Wednesday with a family feast of finger foods. We gave Kelsie a break from cooking; the party was at their house, but the rest of us did the food preparation for the evening. This was the first of Jac’s and my contributions for the evening: fresh vegetables [&helli…
Jac made burgers for dinner recently, with these fancy-topped burger buns she bought from. She toasted them to a light golden-brown under the grill. We had a lot of mushrooms to use up, so I suggested we have fried onions and mushrooms in our burgers. With lettuce, tomato, smokey barbecue sauce and 100% beef patties […]
Breakfast, an example of great teamwork: garlic mushrooms (cooked by Jac) and scrambled eggs with chives (cooked by me). As usual, I got to eat the pan-roasted whole garlic cloves. Dinner: tender panfried mini pork steaks, bubble and squeak, salad and chilli sauce. The pork steaks were simply rubbed with salt and pepper before being […]
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 […]
I recently attended a course held in one of the convention rooms at the Melbourne Hotel in Perth. Since the course didn’t start until 9:30am, I decided to have breakfast in the city beforehand. There’s a cafe at the Melbourne, called M Cafe. I chose to eat there more for convenience than anything; since my […]