Dinner
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.
Mushrooms and spring onions go extremely well with a succulent, poppingly fresh panfried pork chop.
The potatoes were golden and crispy-edged and seasoned with garlic salt – yum!
The experimental baked cauliflower and asparagus dish was fantastic! But I must apologise – I didn’t write down what was in the dish (other than the cauliflower and asparagus, that is) and Jac doesn’t remember either! It may come back to her, now that I’ve asked her again.
I’m pretty sure there was a little cheese in the cauliflower dish – but whatever gave the sauce its orangey tinge remains a mystery buried in our pathetic memories.
Bento
Jac oven-roasted a whole tray’s worth of extra vegetables especially for bento the next day. And so I packed us roasted vegetables (potato, sweet potato, zucchini, mushrooms, carrots, whole garlic cloves) and corn, along with cold roasted turkey breast and prunes for something sweet to finish.
I cut the corn kernels off the cobs so they’d be easier to eat at work. They were sweet and juicy, beautiful as they were with no need for butter.
A soppy but sincere bento note for Jac… I have my mushy moments.
I was recently asked by a couple of people how I keep the bento notes from getting food all over them. Well, I usually protect them with a little greaseproof paper. I also try to find the spot in the bento box that’s the least wet or saucy (hmm, that does sound food “porny” doesn’t it? ^_^) – that’s where I place the note.
I'm TFP, a food blogger from Perth, Western Australia.
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yay bentocat! so hungry arg…
I love the turkey meat garnish… I think restaurants should garnish with lunch meat instead of parsley from now on…
Yum! Love roasted veggies! It’s so cute how you stuck a piece of turkey in there! Too bad about not remembering what was in the cauliflower but as long as it tasted good, who cares? I’m sure you’ll just get creative and make it another way later!
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Your pathetic memories? Ha. She should feel proud she cooks so “off the cuff.” I wish I were more like that.
Food porny hehe. Very sweet note, TFP. :)
And another great dinner from Jac! It’s been forever since I paired mushrooms and pork, though I have had some delicious mushrooms with steak recently as you saw. Gotta do it with chops again soon.
oh, so sweet and so nice!
that bento looks perfect.
leigh wt
jetgirl,
LOL.
Bryan,
Yes! They should garnish all dishes with meat! Hahahaha.
Cookie,
Yes, I reckon that’s what will happen. Jac may just read this post and get re-inspired!
Thanks, Eden.
Melissa,
I’m not a big steak eater, but my favourite sauce to have with steak is probably mushroom sauce, with lots and lots of mushrooms.
Thanks, leigh. I was very pleased with this bento, myself.
I’ve been reading your blog since the beginning, but I’ve never commented before. I have to say, I absolutely admire the affection that you and Jac have for each other, and I wish the world had more love like yours in it.
P.S.: The food photographs look so delicious! Could Jac send me some food in California? ;-)