Posts Tagged ‘recipe’

Uncharacteristically motivated on a Monday morning

I woke up on Monday last week with a hankering for French toast. So intense was this hankering that I was compelled to make French toast for my breakfast before I went to work. I was pretty impressed with myself. TFP’s early morning French toast Cut three slices of bread into halves. Beat two eggs […]

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Work lunches

Monday – I’d been looking forward to eating the pizza left over from Friday. We ate the pizza cold, of course. J brought in homemade soup for us both to eat with the leftover pizza. It was delicious and comforting, perfect for a cool autumn’s day lunch. And J very generously gave me her recipe […]

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Jac’s meatloaf recipe

This morning I managed to get Jac to tell me how she made her meatloaf (from this recent post). Given that she made it up as she went along and didn’t write anything down at the time, all amounts/measurements below are from memory more than a week later and may not be as precise or […]

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Easy strudel recipe

I can’t guarantee that I will always be able to provide recipes when requested, but I have two to share with you now – first, the easy strudel we had recently at a family lunch. My younger sister Juji kindly gave me the recipe to share with you guys (original post here). Obviously this is […]

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TFP’s Chicken Salad

For dinner tonight, Jac made chicken salad. Actually, I first made this salad a number of years ago when Jac’s cousin and her hubby were visiting from Queensland and we had them over for dinner, so Jac calls it “TFP’s Chicken Salad”. I’ve never bothered to write the recipe down before, but Jac wrote down […]

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Swedish meatballs by Juji

My sister Juji has kindly given permission for me to share her recipe with you guys. Do let me know if you give it a go! Swedish meatballs (by Juji) Meatballs Beef or veal mince and pork mince, to a total of 1 kg 1 onion chopped finely 1 cup fresh bread crumbs 1/4 cup […]

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Sunday lunch part 2 – the trifle

Ta-dah! Yes, I made trifle for our dessert! No, those are not my hands. :) Our lunch guests love sweeties, and we knew we just had to serve dessert. I thought a cold dessert would go well after a heavy hot roast lunch. Jac supervised my trifle-making in her role as “chief cook of the […]

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Jac’s french chicken recipe

Maile asked me for the recipe for the creamy chicken with mushrooms that Jac made recently. Sorry it took so long, but finally I got her to recall what she did (remember, she just made it up to use the leftover cream – there was no actual recipe). So here goes. Amounts, times etc. are […]

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Baked Cheese Cake Recipe

A few people have asked for the baked cheese cake recipe, and so here it is. Thanks to my Mum for sharing it. She told me a friend gave her this recipe when we were still living in Malaysia, but she only made it after we had immigrated to Australia, where ingredients such as the […]

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