Posts Tagged ‘roast pork’

BBQ King, Haymarket, Sydney

I recently went to Sydney for a holiday with my sister Juji and her fiance Jay. I’m proud to call Perth home but the eating in Sydney is magnificent! This is the first of my posts about the trip. We’ve eaten on the plane but by the time we arrive in Sydney just after 1pm […]

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Chinese New Year 2009 – family reunion dinner

My family celebrated Chinese New Year last weekend with a delicious family reunion dinner. This year, Mum cooked just one of the dishes – the must-have chap chye, which consists of cabbage, mushrooms and other fungi, beancurd skin and vermicelli. I’ve loved this dish ever since I was a child. We were all very pleased […]

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Midweek roast pork dinner

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…

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Christmas 2008 – lunch

We had a late lunch with Jac’s family on Christmas day. It was close to 2pm by the time we sat down to eat, and I was ready again for another big meal. The theme of the day was meat – lots and lots of meat – vegetarians, this is your warning of what’s ahead! […]

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Roast pork dinner and leftovers for lunch

Tuesday evening last week Jac cooked a pork loin roast, which she served with roasted root vegetables (sweet potato, potato and carrot) and buttered steamed cabbage. It was really delicious, but some of you will be disappointed to know there was no crackling. That’s just how the roast came from the butcher. You may notice […]

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Christmas 2006 Part 1

I’ve uploaded 293 photos to a Flickr set called Xmas in Dunsborough, 2006. Friends and family can see lots of people photos there. Everyone else can see food, animal and landscape shots. These next few posts about Christmas at Dunsborough will feature selected shots from that set. We left for Dunsborough early on Christmas morning, […]

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Sunday lunch part 1 – the roast

And so ends our special event mini-series Commentgate: The Dummy Spit of TFP. We will now resume normal programming. Yesterday my younger sister and her boyfriend came over for lunch and to get the run-down regarding what needs to be done when they house/cat-sit for us when we go on holiday to Geraldton next week. […]

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Mothers Day, savoury

Since last night, the house has smelled reeeeally delicious – we were both busy cooking for today’s Mothers Day lunch. After eating leftover chinese for dinner last night, Jac cooked up a pot of soup while I baked chewy chocolate brownies (details coming up). And as soon as we woke up this morning, we were […]

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