I hope you’ve had a merry Christmas and happy holidays! This year, we got together with Jac’s family the weekend before Christmas with a barbecue lunch at Point Walter, on the Swan River in Bicton. We set up in a shady spot next to the water so Jac and the boys wouldn’t have far to […]
Quietly nestled among the cafes and shops along sun-dappled Crown Street is Mad Spuds, a cafe that specialises in potatoes. And not just any potatoes – they are organic potatoes grown in Robertson, in the Southern Highlands of NSW. The cafe serves Double Roasters fair trade locally roasted coffee, and prides itself on dishes that […]
This was a very quick and simple weeknight dinner, prepared by Jac: fish fillets, covered with seasoned flour (plain flour mixed with salt and pepper) then panfried until they were just crispy on the outside potatoes thickly sliced with their skins still on, steamed so they were cooked in the middle but still firm and […]
Happy new year, everyone! (I know it’s not quite 2010 for all of you yet though!) A few weeks ago, Jac fired up the barbecue and cooked chicken sausages, onions and potatoes on it. She sliced and parboiled the potatoes before putting them on the barbie. We both love barbecued onions, and Jac cooked up […]
Jac panfried crumbed turkey breast steaks until they were golden brown and super crispy. She served them with potato salad and sliced cucumber. She put peas and cubes of strasburg sausage in the potato salad. Only one other thing would’ve made this better – hard-boiled egg. But we didn’t think about that until we sat […]
Jac bought a meatloaf from the butcher at the Bentley Centre. I’ve been spoilt by Jac’s delicious homemade meatloaf, so I was sceptical – how good could a bought, pre-made meatloaf be? I was to be pleasantly surprised and very impressed! As she sliced the meatloaf, it looked and smelled unbelievable! I couldn’t wait to [&hel…
Garlic prawns and sparkling wineOur friends S and D came over with their two kids to see the new house. They had some exciting news of their own – their offer on a house had been accepted. They brought over a bottle of sparkling wine and we drank a toast to both our new houses. […]
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 […]
DinnerJac made patties using tinned salmon and mashed potato. She served them with steamed broccoli and carrot. I ate my salmon patties with tomato sauce. BentoJac had made some mini salmon patties specially for the next day’s bento. I packed us mini patties with little containers of Newman’s Own Southwest Dressing as dip, potato salad,…
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 […]