More herring fillets! This time, Jac coated them with seasoned flour again, but not seasoned with just salt and pepper – this time she used curry powder too! She served the fish with oven-fried chips, blanched broccoli, fresh grape tomatoes and cucumber on a bed of cos lettuce. I had tomato sauce to go with […]
Jac panfried chicken thighs seasoned with salt and pepper so I could use them for bento. I packed us some bread and butter, leftover potato salad, and made a quick salad of cos lettuce, carrot, cucumber, snow peas and pickles. Of course, I had to include a little note for Jac in her lunch box. […]
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 bento from a few weeks ago! Jac panfried four chicken thigh fillets which she’d simply rubbed in salt and pepper, and I packed us chicken and salad for lunch. The salad consisted of mixed greens, grape tomatoes, cucumber, green beans, mushrooms, sliced sweet gherkin pickles and corn kernels. I packed Kiri cream cheese in […]
Jac used the last of the roast pork to create a dish she called a “hot Chinese-style pork salad”*. She served hot roast pork pieces in a warm soy and chilli dressing topped with beansprouts and chopped spring onion, on salad greens and carrot. She used lots of dressing so that the salad was very […]
This was a kind of naughty junk food bento – a McDonald’s bento, with Chicken McNuggets and a sachet of tomato sauce, and a McDonald’s apple pie for dessert. I also included one of my sweet crunchy salad combos – with mixed greens, grape tomatoes, sliced sweet gherkin pickles, grapes and swiss cheese – the […]
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 […]
I was very pleased with these bento boxes I put together for us. I’d asked Jac what she’d like for lunch, to which she said, “Cold meat, salad and pickles.” That’s exactly what I packed us – with a few extra bits and pieces. This was my lunch. On the left: hard-boiled egg, salad (lettuce, […]
I decided to use up some of the leftover barbecue chicken to make sandwiches for our bento the next day. The sandwiches I made were: chicken, mayo and French mustard curried chicken English ham and Dijon mustard All the sandwiches had mixed salad greens in them. I also included a mini salad of lettuce and […]
Another fish and salad dinner: barramundi fillets coated in seasoned flour, served with garden salad and pasta salad. The garden salad was very simple: mixed greens, cucumber, capsicum and grape tomatoes. I ate it just as it was, no dressing. Jac used pasta bows (farfalle) in the pasta salad – she chopped the bows in […]