The Food Pornographer

A few weeks ago, Jac fired up the barbecue and cooked chicken sausages, onions and potatoes on it.

She sliced and parboiled the potatoes before putting them on the barbie.

We both love barbecued onions, and Jac cooked up plenty.

The cats watched as Jac cooked.

This is Billy Lee’s “I’m hot and can’t be bothered” pose.

Pixel’s fur was dirty – she’d been playing in the garden all afternoon.

As Jac cooked the barbie, I made us each a mini salad, with cos lettuce, yellow capcisum, red grape tomatoes, green beans and seedless green grapes.

Dinner was delicious! Chicken sausages, potatoes, onions and salad.

Lunch – barbecue chicken and coleslaw from the supermarket. The chicken with salty skin, meat falling off the bones, finger-sucking good.

Dinner – Indomie mi goreng, the original flavour. We had some chicken left over from lunch. I took the meat off the bones, zapped it in the microwave, then served it with the noodles for our dinner.

I am not exaggerating when I say these were the most delicious pork steaks I have ever eaten. After the first bite I ate very slowly, savouring every chew.

This was an experimental potato salad Jac threw together. It consisted of steamed potatoes and sweet potatoes, baby peas, hard boiled egg and chopped parsley. She used mayonnaise for the dressing. It was surprisingly good!

Jac also made a tomato, onion and cucumber salad, with a double vinegar dressing (a little red wine vinegar and a little white wine vinegar). It was quite refreshing, but I preferred the potato salad. Jac liked this one better.

So back to these pork steaks. Jac rubbed them with Alseason before cooking. The Alseason complemented the pork flavour beautifully, adding a tasty savouryness to the delicious natural pork flavour. Jac cooked them so perfectly so they were tender and juicy, and slicing into the meat with my knife was such a pleasure. Jac served the pork with a little dish of fruit chutney, but the pork was so good it really didn’t need any sauce.

I know some of you will ask about the Alseason, so I took this photo the last time we were at the supermarket. We use the original/plain Alseason, but there are “spicy”, “peppered” and “herb and garlic” varieties. This is what they look like (see bottles 2 to 5 from the left, top shelf):

A Sunday breakfast of a few weeks ago: I scrambled the eggs, Jac toasted the bread. I like it when Jac cooks but I love it even more when we cook together. And what’s great is our new kitchen is bigger and has a better layout than the old one, so it’s easier for us to both be in the kitchen at the same time. :D

A little cracked black pepper and salt just before serving – perfect!

First Pixel sat on the bench and stared.

My response was not satisfactory (all I did was photograph her :)), so she jumped up on the bench next to Jac and poked her face onto Jac’s plate. See her eyes? They say “WANT”.

Here’s something I spotted in Myer – it’s a set of bookends that are supposed to say “BOOK”, but I read it as “BO OK” (BO is OK… ewww) XD

Jac had also picked up a pesto pasta salad from the supermarket.

As well as the roast pork, Jac also bought a barbecue chook from the supermarket (sorry, no photo of the chicken). Here’s my plate, with roast pork, salad, and half a bread roll with barbecue chicken and mayo in it.

For sweets, Kelsie had brought a pull-apart iced bun thingy stuffed with apple. Kels, what’s it called again?

We also had fresh sweet strawberries.

The bun was nice, but extremely sweet and sticky – very messy on the fingers!

After Kelsie and the kids went home, Jac brought the cats inside and locked up so we could go out to City Farmers to buy cat food and a few bits and pieces for the garden (mulch, sheep poo etc). As soon as the cats were in, they collapsed on the tiles in exactly the same positions as they’d been outside on the patio. :)

We stopped by the shops at Riverton to go to Big W before City Farmers. Guess who was in town? Mr Greedy!

When we got home, we found the cats had moved onto the couch.

They looked very comfy and made no effort to move or get up.