Yearly Archives: 2015

Lunch Log: Week 138

Feeling slow to recover but at least we have french beans and some balsamic to make probably the tastiest renditions of bean kimpira I’ve cooked (recipe soon!). Though yellow zucchini is a recent feature in the farm shop, it’s rather convenient there’s still the lacto-fermented dill pickles to provide a contrasting flavour. September 8 Bluh, […]

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Lunch Log: Week 137

Wooo a bank holiday week! Gotta take ’em while ya got ’em! Actually, the week started off gently before melting into a manic, chaotic and perhaps a tad silly (Jägerbombs at 2am at your hotel on a multiday beer festival? Kids: just say no) extended weekend. Though I did miss the work summer BBQ (whole […]

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Lunch Log: Week 136

I admit that I approach this week every year with trepidation since high school; though these days there is “bierre festivus interruptus” that might offset anything negative and a general motto that “the secret to happiness is very low expectations” I’d say this year was particularly predictably… shit awful. Exceptions of course those that wished […]

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Lunch Log: Week 135

I’ve a sushi book that makes very purple rice with red shiso furikake but I think in normal application I may have gone overboard… unlike homemade, commercial furikake tends to be salter and sweeter so small quantities would be fine as for decorative sushi in this concentration. A valuable lesson learned perhaps, but I did […]

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Lunch Log: Week 134

“Hi, I’m Kit and I’m addicted to karaage.” *Hi Kit* Ok, it’s one thing for perfecting recipes but it’s another when it certain items keep repeating and this limits the menu selection.. On the good side, I think I have a fried chicken recipe/technique that I should be posting it as soon as I can […]

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Lunch Log: Week 133

If it wasn’t for the near-vegetarian pasta this week I think I need another break from meat; it’s too easy to go for chicken as the ‘show stopper’ item in lunches. It’s a good thing that with the warmer weather we’re finding more interesting and delicious veg (read: they BBQ well) to make use of. […]

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Lunch Log: Week 132

In retrospect from this week it doesn’t appear I struggled to recover from an amazing extended weekend at B^3; I definitely felt like an absolute asshole for not helping out with the take-down. Looks like my ‘holidays’ will be spent seeing a lot of those folk anyway in other similar events this year… In the […]

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Lunch Log: Week 131

This is starting to be a common pattern – a shortened week due to something beery.. Knowing how “well” I generally feel after such a long haul event I set out to try and make a huge stash of things to encourage recovery. Unfortunately (as the story normally goes) this is normally in vain. I’ve […]

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Lunch Log: Week 130

“I’m going vegetarian/pescatarian for a week” I declared after a week of chicken. Though the chicken definitely was not monotonous in preparation I felt that it was time to not go so heavy with meat-based protein as the ‘feature’ dish; it’s too close to doing what is the considered norm of “meat and two veg”. […]

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Lunch Log: Week 129

After much anticipation my workplace has moved.. a few meters on the same block. The new building was supposed to be finished late last year but naturally with construction it was delayed at times due to logistics and weather. Air conditioning! Space! The team was one of the first to be moved in due to […]

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