From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Dinner and bento – Pork steaks and oven-roasted vegetables

30 June 2009
Pork steaks and oven-roasted vegetables

Panfried pork steaks with mushroom sauce, served with steamed broccolini, oven-roasted sweet potatoes and potato cubes, with an experimental oven-baked cauliflower and asparagus dish.

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Food on a weekend alone (mostly SPAM and chicken)

29 June 2009
Stir-fried chicken and vegetables with rice

Here’s some of the food I ate while Jac was away in Denmark (a town in Western Australia, not the country in Europe!) recently.

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Bento – McDonalds Chicken McNuggets, Apple Pie and salad

29 June 2009
Bento - McDonalds Chicken McNuggets, Apple Pie and salad

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…

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Turkey minchee puffs!*

28 June 2009
Turkey minchee puffs

A couple of nights later, Jac came home with a packet of frozen puff pastry. She said she wanted to try making pastry puffs with leftover minchee as the filling. As a fan of both puff pastry and minchee, it sounded fantastic to me!

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Work lunch – spinach and ricotta ravioli with meatball sauce

28 June 2009
Work lunch - spinach and ricotta ravioli with meatball sauce

A takeaway work lunch – spinach and ricotta-filled ravioli with tomato meatball sauce, which I guess isn’t a typical pasta and sauce combination.

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Dinner – Japanese chicken curry

27 June 2009
Japanese chicken curry

We finally tried the box of Japanese golden curry mix I bought ages ago – this was the “medium” curry mix which, incidentally, tasted pretty mild Jac made chicken curry with it, with potatoes, onions and carrots.

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Work lunch – Sweet and sour pork, vegetables and fried rice

26 June 2009
Sweet and sour pork, vegetables and fried rice

Another quick takeaway work lunch, eaten in a hurry: sweet and sour pork, with stir-fried vegetables and fried rice.

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Sausage sizzle lunch

26 June 2009
Sausage sizzle

I came across a sausage sizzle at lunch time – $2.00 for a barbecued sausage, onions and barbecue sauce or tomato sauce in a fresh bun. Fantastic!

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A sort of breakfast bento

24 June 2009
A sort of breakfast bento

I packed this breakfast for myself one morning recently- it was a kind of breakfast bento, I guess – I took it to work and ate it at my desk as I read my emails and started my work day.

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Bento – steak, potato salad, salad and bread

24 June 2009
Bento - steak, potato salad, salad and bread

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.

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