Posts Tagged ‘salad’

BBQ Chicken with potato and pea salad

Jac picked up a BBQ chicken from the supermarket and served it up with salad for dinner. Here’s my plate, with a chicken thigh and drumstick, skin on (of course!). Jac chopped up some iceberg lettuce, cucumber and tomato. I cracked black pepper onto my tomato. :D She also made a quick potato and pea […]

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Dinner – panfried chicken with pasta salad and fried bread

A tasty dinner Jac cooked – panfried chicken thigh fillet pieces, seasoned with Alseason, served with pasta salad (penne, green beans, corn, semi-dried tomatoes, spring onion tossed with a little light olive oil and a cracking of fresh salt and black pepper) and two pieces of bread (well, one slice of bread, crusts off, cut […]

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Fried fish, salad and potatoes

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 […]

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Crispy turkey schnitzels with salad

This was a quick and easy dinner to prepare – panfried turkey breast schnitzels, bought from Woolworths, with salad and aioli. Jac panfried the turkey schnitzels, I helped assemble the salad and dollop aioli into sauce dishes. I cracked a little black pepper on the tomatoes. I’m sure you can imagine how crispy the schnitzels […]

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Salad with tinned mackerel, salad with SPAM

Jac assembled this dinner for herself: tinned mackerel with spring vegetables, salad and orange wedges. Since we had some SPAM to use up and Jac knew I’d prefer SPAM to tinned mackerel, she fried me up a few slices to go with my salad and oranges. The mackerel did look and smell very good. Jac […]

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Dinner – panfried fish, curried potato salad and garden salad

Jac seasoned fish fillets with barbecue seasoning and panfried them for dinner. She served them with two salads – a garden salad and a curried potato salad. I wasn’t expecting curried potato salad – it was a delicious surprise! The garden salad was very simple – spinach, grape tomatoes and sliced hard-boiled eggs. As soon [&…

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Dinner – garlic prawns, bread and salad

This was a fantastic dinner! Garlic prawns, fresh bread and salad. The salad included mixed greens, sugar snap peas, cucumber, grape tomatoes and hard-boiled egg. I added a little freshly cracked black pepper on the egg and tomato. Jac served the bread unbuttered. The garlicky oil would provide plenty of flavour for the bread. You […]

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Dinner – takeaway sushi and salad

I met Jac at the shops after work. We had a couple of bills to pay and I needed to buy vitamins. After we’d done those tasks, just as I was about to say “I’m really tired. Could we just get some dinner and go home?” Jac looked at me and said “Do you mind […]

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Bento – Sascha Jane’s chicken with salad

As I put away the leftovers from our family dinner I packed the next day’s lunch for Jac and me. There were three chicken skewers left; I pulled the meat off the skewers and divided it between two lunch boxes. I added lettuce, cherry tomatoes, sundried tomatoes, sliced sweet gherkin pickles, tasty cheese and asparagus. […]

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Dinner – barbecue chicken, salad and bread

Jac bought a barbecue chicken from Woolworths, the kind that comes seasoned in the bag and ready to cook in the microwave or conventional oven. I was pleased to discover it came with stuffing too! She cooked it in the oven and chicken turned out moist and tender and fell off the bone. Jac served […]

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