The Food Pornographer

This was my favourite dinner of the week. Jac cooked up a pot of bow pasta (farfalle). I blanched some chopped green beans, then opened a can of Sirena tuna slices with chilli and oil. I love canned tuna slices – I find it more meaty, satisfying and pleasurable to eat than chunk style or sandwich style tuna. I mixed the blanched green beans with some freshly cooked pasta, then topped that with the tuna slices and a drizzle of the chilli oil poured from the can. Not all the oil, I’d say around half. A little cracked black pepper on top and it was ready for photographing, then eating.

It was such a simple meal to prepare, but so delicious. I will definitely have this again (in fact, since I originally wrote this post, I’ve had it another couple of times, once more with pasta, and another time with freshly cooked rice).

This is Pixel. She wants a bite of ham steak.

On a weekend a few weeks ago, Jac fried ham steaks for both of us. She fried me one egg, sunny side up (I asked for one egg instead of my usual two). She poached herself a couple of eggs, and with a packet of instant hollandaise sauce and a sprinkling of fresh parsley, made herself eggs benedict. We had toast and tomatoes too. I made us a cup of tea each to wash it down.

Pixel tends to sit at the breakfast table with us, while Billy Lee is quite happy watching from a distance.

I had kaya on my toast. Yum!

This was my breakfast: ham steak, fried egg and a fancy-cut tomato.

Pixel seemed quite interested in the appliance catalogue Jac was reading.

See? Fascinating!

Just because I think it’s a beautiful sight, here’s another view of my breakfast plate. :)

Jac served me a big bowl full of penne, prawns and snow peas. I cracked fresh black pepper on top. The garlic smelled fantastic and I couldn’t wait to dig in.

The cats got a little treat too. Jac took the tails off a few prawns, squeezed out the prawn meat and gave it to the cats in little dishes. (Don’t worry – no oil, onion or garlic for the cats!) They were so excited! They loved having prawns for dinner!