Colour: brown
Waving Goodbye to Summer with Onigiri
Time to cache the sunlight, pity it doesn’t warm rice balls effectively. Lunch is seafood green curry, pickled radish ‘chrysanthemums’, cucumber, runner beans with ginger & ponzu and tomato served with onigiri (kombu tsukudani, bacon and anchovy with spring onion & ginger)
First Pasta of September
First day and pasta of the month, though the days are getting shorter the BBQ will go on.. Because of excess sausages and beans for Sunday breakfast, it was a simple matter of cooking the tomatoes to bring out their extra sweetness. Lunch is stove-top grilled tomatoes, shredded bacon, sliced Italian sausage and runner beans […]
Lunch Log: Week 84 Day 4
Almost too disgustingly healthy, with things grilled, pickled or steamed. Lunch is beef croquette, steamed baby carrots, BBQ capsicum, BBQ eggplant, steamed peas, BBQ steak, pickled cucumber and tomato
Lunch Log: Week 84 Day 3
Big batches of mince are handily transformed into various foodstuffs, in this case: croquettes. Lunch is beef croquettes, steamed sugar snap peas, steamed carrots dressed in ponzu & basil, pickled radish, pickled cucumber and tomato, with kombu no tsukudani for the rice
Lunch Log: Week 84 Day 2
Leftovers from dinner makes lunch easy: steamed baby carrots with lime/garlic/basil rapeseed oil dressing, steamed sugar peas, pickled radish, BBQ sardines, pickled cucumber and tomato.
Lunch Log: Week 83 Day 2
Not the most healthy of lunches, but isn’t that the point of beer festivals? Multiples of beef spring rolls and plain onigiri as sides to various varieties of beer..
Lunch Log: Week 83 Day 1
Al desko, as they say, but does it count when you’re at home? Lunch is BBQ lamb steak, grilled runner beans, tomato, cheese cauliflower and crabstick makizushi
Lunch Log: Week 82 Day 5
Because I felt like udon, I went a little overboard with the toppings: steamed beans, spring rolls, soft boiled egg, shredded crab stick, spring onions, simmered shiitake and garlic eggplant – The udon soup started off as a traditional vegetarian type but I couldn’t resist adding a home made chicken stock cube. Topped with nori […]
Lunch Log: Week 82 Day 4
Looks like sorrel can discolour with acid in addition to heat. A simple lunch today: steamed French beans & cauliflower, spring rolls and sweet pickled beetroot
Lunch Log: Week 82 Day 3
OK I can say that’s the last of the salad for now but I doubt I’d be sick of the spring rolls ever. Rice topped with smoked salmon is accompanied with garlic & anchovy eggplant, konnyaku & capsicum, steamed beans, cucumber & wakame salad and lambspring rolls