I actually cooked dinner tonight, which is very unusual for a Friday! I used the rest of the tin of SPAM to make fried rice. I chopped the SPAM up into cubes and fried them in a small frypan until they were nicely browned and crisp on the edges (but still moist and bouncy). Once they were done, I heated up some oil in the wok and fried up chopped onions, garlic and green beans with a splash of soy sauce. When the beans were almost done, I added cooked rice, oyster sauce and cracked black pepper to taste. I broke an egg into the wok right at the end and mixed it through the rice. When the egg was cooked, dinner was ready. Easy peasy.
Jac came home at lunch time today to pick me up to go shopping. She brought food so we could have a quick lunch before we left.
She bought us these meat-stuffed flatbreads from a lebanese bakery near her work. My flatbread was still warm when I bit into it. It’s really good. I don’t know what their proper name is. I asked Jac what she asked for, and she said, “Two meat ones please”. She doesn’t know what they are called either. Heh.
The innard shot. As you can see, there’s capsicum and onion in the meat mixture. It tasted like lamb but had a texture that reminded me of tinned corned beef (I like both, so there’s no problem there!).
After our lunch, we went to the Good Guys to order our new oven/stove. We picked it out from a catalogue back in January, but it’s taken a number of pay fortnights to get the money together. It will probably be delivered next Friday, as the shop had none in stock and will have to get one in from their supplier. We also bought a kettle and a 4-slice toaster. They each have fancy poxy names, like cars. The toaster is a Sunbeam Toastum 4 and the kettle is a Breville Nova. I’ve already had my first cup of tea using the kettle. Next will be the christening of the toaster. I reckon freshly toasted crumpets with butter and honey will be a fantastic way to break in those wide slots. We paid cash and got everything for less than RRP, which of course pleased me greatly.
Once the oven/stove arrives, we’ll get our handyman, who is a qualified gas fitter, to install it. We will also get him to help us cut a hole in the bathroom ceiling for the exhaust fan we bought at Bunnings last weekend. Once that has been done, we’ll get the electrician to come over and install the exhaust fan and fix the spa room light and bedroom light (both of which haven’t worked for a very long time). Geez, is that the time? I’d better hurry up and finish the next and last post of this batch.
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YAH! New posts with incredible pictures! The Lebanese meat-filled bread looks like my kinda meal–meat and carbs! Looks like there is tomato sauce though. Also, I commend Jac for trying to feed you vegetables. (Good job Jac! Keep on sneaking them in the meals!)
Passionate Eater, glad you like the pics. I didn’t taste tomato sauce in the meat – there was red capsicum (peppers) in there though. Jac is pleased to receive your commendation on her pro-vege stance :)
Looks good, I especially like the spam-fried rice for breakfast. Why is rice at breakfast an unusual concept for some people? I can’t figure that one out. Am I wierd? (Probably.)
Rick, I understand why people who’ve never eaten or thought of having rice for breakfast would find it strange to begin with, but then some of them never get used to the idea and insist it’s weird, bad for me, abnormal etc etc. It’s not like I’m forcing them to do it themselves! *shrug* Oh well. That SPAM + green beans + egg combination for fried rice is my favourite.