Yearly Archives: 2014

Lunch Log: Week 94-97 (November 2014)

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Some interesting produce showing up at my local fruit and veg shop: small carrots in orange, white/yellow and purple. It’s hard to resist foods that are compact – it’s like they are bento-ready. In contrast, having a larger box may be problematic considering some of the tastiest foods I like involve deep frying. I’ve rediscovered […]

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Lunch Log: Week 89-93 (October 2014)

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If any observers would have noticed, October is punctuated by beer event that has become a regular annual ritual. It’s been its lucky third time in existence, and once again ‘home’ is a conveniently located hotel (same one every year so far!) for most of that week. The first year I was rather organized and […]

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Lunch Log: Week 87-89 (Late-September 2014)

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What a month! ‘Nuff said, really. I could count myself grateful that in the end, things did turn out OK but I can’t deny that the whole experience hasn’t been an emotional roller coaster and all those cliches. As consolidation I can say it wasn’t so bad from the comfort of the other end of […]

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Monsoon Summer lunch

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I’m not sure if I got household approval or hunger was to blame but it resulted in complete annihilation of the piri piri sauce. Lunch is late with pan fried chicken thigh pieces with piri piri, tomato & mint salad, stir fried yellow capsicum & onion and steamed runner beans. The onigiri are plain but […]

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The tradional colours of Autumn

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Autumnal Bento: too bad I’ve not foraged for mushrooms around here, so it’s store provided shiitake. Takikomi gohan (shiitake, carrot, frozen baby broad beans, kombu no tsukudani) with a soft boiled egg, tomato, runner beans steamed in dashi and salmon

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Not your average BBQ chicken

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I guess you start to truly appreciate good quality meat when it is less convenient to come by. Lunch is pickled radish, tomato, carrot kimpira, BBQ eggplant, BBQ chicken with home made piri piri sauce and kombu no tsukudani

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Bibimbap – Healthy, Pretty, and Delicious

Feeling under the weather, so I had this a little earlier than usual. Stir fried onion, soft boiled egg, chilli sausage, soy eggplant, garlic runner beans, carrot kimpira and pickled radish.. And when it’s bowled up – wWhat a beautiful sight; it’s mostly veg so it’s probably healthier than yesterday’s lunch. Bibimbap never fails to […]

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Nostalgic Piri Piri Chicken

What an eventful week. After such an elaborate sushi making session, it’s good to wind down. As the rice was fresh for sushi, I prepared onigiri yesterday in advance. The fillings were kombu no tsukudani, smoked salmon & wasabi or anchovy & spring onion – “cupboard store” items (or left overs in the case of […]

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First Timer’s Oshizushi

Oshizushi is one of the types of sushi you can make at home (either have the mold or you improvise equipment for it), and since temari sushi is far more simple in comparison it’s one of those things I’ve put on the “when I have the time” and “if I can be arsed” categories. Let’s […]

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Very Simple Ramen

A simple lunch consisting of noodles which is heavy on the crab sticks as I need to get through it since the brand change was not popular in the household. Shiitake, soft boiled egg, shredded crab sticks and spring onion combined with a shoyu ginger broth with added chicken stock. Despite the reduced amount of noodles or […]

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