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 […]
Another dinner cooked by Jac, this time panfried pork steaks, homemade oven-baked potato wedges*, steamed cabbage and green beans, and orange mash (carrots and sweet potato), with big creamy dollop of aioli for dipping. The pork steaks were juicy and tender, with golden brown caramelised edges. I couldn’t wait to get my knife and fork [&helli…
Jac had a craving for pork ribs recently but didn’t have the time to make a marinade, so she just used a bottled smokey barbecue sauce instead, rubbing the pork ribs generously in the sauce before baking them in the oven with a few potatoes. We ate the potatoes with butter, salt and pepper. Jac […]
I wanted to make minchee, but when I opened the potato keeper, well, let’s just say the potatoes had been long forgotten, were beginning to change state and grow some spectacular horns. :) So, a change of plan was needed, but only a slight change. I seasoned the pork mince with soy sauce and pepper. […]
When I got home last Wednesday night, I smelled something wonderful cooking. “We’re having roast pork and vegies,” Jac told me. Fantastic! Here’s the chunk of roasted pork, resting before Jac carved it. She roasted potatoes, sweet potatoes, butternut pumpkin and carrot. Here’s the roast pork after Jac carved off slices…
My bento lunch the day after our pork ribs barbecue: leftover salad and hard-boiled egg, pork ribs (taken off the bone so they’d be less messy to eat at work), with a piece of Christmas nutty cake, green seedless grapes, and a piece of tasty cheddar cheese.
It was a stinking hot day on Monday 29 December, so Jac decided to keep the heat out of the house and cook dinner outdoors on the barbecue. I got home from work to find Jac assembling a garden salad with mixed lettuce, cucumber, snow peas, cherry tomatoes, orange capsicum and sliced hard-boiled eggs. She’d […]
On the Sunday after Christmas, Jac and I went out to lunch with our friend M (remember this delicious vegetarian barbecue?). We went to the Broken Hill Hotel (314 Albany Highway, Victoria Park). It’s a pub Jac’s wanted to check out for some time now – and I’m glad we did. Jac and M enjoyed […]
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 […]
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 […]