In the pursuit of healthier/ethical eating, I’ve attempted to go retro and cook a veggie chilli. It surprises me that I’ve not personally tried this before but after the other half’s past attempt it was easy to realize that the cupboard was ready. This was a lentil-based chilli, and for a first attempt I thought […]

On Sunday, I had the most appalling “Japanese” meal. Call it nostalgia for the fresh seafood of Sydney and despite the fact that experience has told me that it was not to be in cloistered, ignorant Cambridge – or perhaps post beer festival fatigue – I agreed. It was not just the seafood. The entire […]

Whew, another festival! Before falling into the familiar (and delicious) trap of karaage, I got to try out a new way to do chicken – and it’s bloody awesome! One day I should try to actually match my sidedishes better – or at least have them come from the same country/region, but that would require […]

When one is exhausted, the familiar becomes a comfort. In this case: carrots, tomato, steamed broad beans, spinach, potato salad. Nothing too extravagant, but decent flavours and enough variety to stave boredom. May 31 A simple comfort for a rainy day. And really fast to prepare. Another pimped up instant ramen with spring onion, homemade […]

Finally, at the bookend of May – and another exhausting beer festival! What I like about investing the time to make meals when at the venue is the smugness I get when looking at the line of food vans while I have my tasty food AND feel the money left in my pocket. IN UR […]

What I like about May is that daylight savings really starts making the days feel better with the longer period for sunlight, it is definitely warming up and the local farm shop just constantly has their own-grown asparagus in stock. This is the real deal – I don’t think I can ever buy them from […]

After fussing to get okra, suddenly I don’t have the motivation to make anything new… Oh well, beef mince (and leftovers) to the rescue! May 10 Back again from a ‘working holiday’ and back to rice and miserable weather. Good thing there were leftovers… Lunch is BBQ lamb chops, pickled radishes, potato omelette, garlic purple […]

After a surge of ebi furai and the convenience that the ingredients are in my stash (the freezer and the cupboard) it was in reviewing last week that I had made a grave error when packing more than one: and that is to reduce the fried item count for the other dishes. As tasty as […]

I really should be using my Just Bento cookbook rather than save it around like a collector’s item but with the internet so readily available my first port to call aren’t books. The entry about ebi furai did feed back to many manga/anime depictions of bento, and it was odd that I’ve not tried this […]

Doing my own lunch sometimes reminds me what I was packed when I was in primary school – with 9 to 5 jobs both my parents were too busy to think about school lunches in the capacity to what I’ve been feeding myself nowadays. I recall despising leftovers for lunch with one exception: spaghetti “bolognese” […]