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Frugal Spicy Salmon Maki
“I’ll work from home tomorrow” – Yvan’s words yesterday made me think that my preparation was all in vain. I had almost finished cooking some oven-roasted eggplants (the smaller ‘sausage shaped’ variety) in the frypan for a ginger eggplant sidedish and had kicked off the rice cooker. With the weather lately playing winter catch-up, the […]
Return of the Edamame Skewers
Placed an order of rice from Japan Centre, which took a little longer to arrive. Finally got to use some, after finishing a batch of brown rice first – I’ve been anticipating the return of the umeboshi with plain rice combination for a while. The tamagoyaki has some of the chillis kicking about indoors that […]
Quinoa Rice & Mabo Dofu
How time flies – another new year! Our Christmas dinner was postponed and Yvan accepted the challenge of cooking an entirely vegetarian meal – matched with beer too! Four tasty courses including a fancy dessert – I hope Yvan was quite pleased as I with it all. One dish during this vegetarian feast was a […]
Roast Chicken Thigh & Kimpira
I rarely use the oven, but this place has two: a main oven and a smaller ‘plate warmer’ sized one. Seeing that I don’t like the idea of cooking small batches in a normal sized oven I found this was a perfect opportunity. With seasoned chicken thighs, I made slits over the skin-side and placed […]
Another Random Makizushi
We’re finally able to harvest more radish in the vegetable bed – it’s a tiny one that looked larger viewing it aboveground. I think for the rest they may need another week. It’s another day that shouldn’t be spent sitting indoors, so I’ve made sushi again for on the go. This time all the items […]
Eggplant & Lumpia
This lunch is twinned with Yvan’s ‘boiled eggs and bacon’ lunch. Again, after constructing a fiddly sushi roll I went for the simple route again. Note that some of the sides are shared – ah the joys of a prepared larder. Again, my lunch is almost vegetarian if not for the meaty lumpia I do […]
Boiled Eggs & Bacon
Not quite ‘green eggs and ham’ – I prefer more variety for lunch. This is twinned with my ‘eggplant and lumpia’ lunch. I had an orange capsicum I intended to make into a peri peri sauce base, so I whole-roasted it and peeled the skin. As I struggled to think up a more interesting item […]
Random Crabstick Makizushi
Not exactly the most inspiring lunch in the world but pretty good for when you’re on the go. One thing I do like about makizushi is that it can be handled with just your fingers. With summer to disappear soon lunches like this are best enjoyed outside! Lunch contents: makizushi (crabstick, green onion, sesame seed, […]
Simmered Dishes
I have been slowly increasing the amount of side dishes I make so I can have them on-hand for lunches. While Yvan took away smoked salmon sushi I left mine more simple. Reading up the varieties of capsicum, though the green type has the best nutrition it isn’t as sweet so I made a compromise […]
Vegetarian Makizushi
I wanted to see if I could construct a makizushi that had lots of flavour, but I think the result was too odd even for my tastes. If it wasn’t for the lumpia this bento would of been vegetarian, so just imagine that it is. Top tier contents: vegetarian makizushi (roast capsicum, pickled jalepeno, spring […]