Forgotten passwords (again)

Couldn't comment on my own blog as cant remember my password to sign in to comment!! (Don't need to sign into post tho, from the same app!! how stoopid!)

Thnx for dropping by to comment Kel:) yep my little man is three!! Already!! Time really does fly!!

Wed April 24
Pad Thai--made from scratch;) I bought the noodles at Gyomu, and found a recipe online (first hit, actually...maybe should have looked around more but was running out if time!!) It wasnt anywhere near par with the packet mix but it was yummy (even mum liked it)
http://cookpad.com/recipe/229837

Served with spring rolls, potato croquettes and deep fried octopus karaage. All store bought and greasy-- I felt sick after eating them:(

"Beef or chicken?"

Tues April 23
Happy 3rd birthday little man L!!!
No cake, no special dinner, just after-dinner ice-cream :)

Oven-baked chicken breast, mashed potato, green beans and yummy cream-of-tomato soup (heaps leftover for next time too!!)
http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-cream-of-tomato-soup-156693

Mon April 22
Ballet night, though I only had to do drop off as J did pick-up.
Rice, bulgorgi beef (marinated from costco, added onions and nira), egg-roll, salad, Asari miso soup

Lost my she-bang!!

I've been using the excuse that Monday night = dance night. Currently class is 5pm-6pm, which actually means we are out if the house 4:30pm-6:30pm or thereabouts. So preparing dinner is difficult.

But in reality, even if we are at home, with a newborn that nurses every two hours, there is really not much time between feedings anyway to prep much.....I am scraping the barrel for easy to prepare meals that are kinda healthy AND both my kids and my parents will eat!!!

So the upshot of it all, was curry(out if the freezer) Monday night; grilled chicken breast, mashed potato, carrot, frozen peas& beans on Tuesday night; and Costco pizza, with salad and soup (celery, also pre-frozen just add milk and stock cubes;) tonight.

And somehow we are now over the hump--two more meals to get through!! I can do it ;)

Weekend BBQ

Sat night J brought out the BBQ, and I brought out our Aussie beef (prime rib fillet). Served with whole baked potatoes, mushrooms, butter corn, and French-stick (bread).

Sun (lunch/night) I intended on cooking up the italian sausages we bought at Costco, but I awoke to a breakfast of eggs and breakfast sausages so that idea was scrapped. We did lunch at sushi-ro, and since mum and dad were still kinda full, dinner was slap-happy leftovers of fried rice, somen noodles, salad and a baguette.

Throw-it-together Thursday and Friday fish and frugal

Thursday--dance night.
store bought pizzas and two pastas:
Asari, garlic, tomato Spag
Bacon, eggplant, onion tomato Spag

Friday--Frugal Again.
Rice, salmon, salad, natto, miso soup (with the one little tofu pack I had in the fridge and 小ネギ), kimchee, chicken teriyaki drumsticks leftovers.

J brought home a "roll cake" for dessert.

Italian, Moroccan and Chinese following a weekend of J-cooking

Weekend cooking was left to J:
Sat April 6
Yellowtail kama nimono
Chinese style sesame chicken, and another dish with Chinese style vinegar-ish chicken, rice,salad

Sun April 7
Yellowtail sashimi
Okonomiyaki, followed by yakisoba.

Mon April 8
Ballet night (requires pre-planning and cooking!!)
Lasagna with salad. Dad made the bechemel sauce:) two dishes of lasagna basically all gone;)

TueApril 9
Moroccan chicken drumsticks; mashed potato; cabbage, carrot, shiitake, onion itame (butter/konbu tsuyu)
Pumpkin soup

Wednesday April 10
Chinese
Fried rice, gyoza (J walked in the door as these were about to be cooked, so I managed to fob them off to him to finish), chili prawns, mabo-tofu (both packet mixes tonight:), spring rolls from the supermarket, Asari-garlic butter.
Strawberries, grapes, banana and ice cream for dessert:)

I-can-do-it

Burst of energy Thursday led to the production of possibly the best looking (and yummy tasting, of course) quiche I have ever made--photos below!! I took care to use more pastry than usual (I tend to skimp, and try to spread it to one and a half quiche dishes worth). This time I made a double batch for two quiches:

* ham and cheese quiche
* shimeji mushrooms, spinach, onion and cheese quiche.
* last minute inclusion of cream-of corn Chinese egg drop soup.
Served with side salad.

Friday night and energy was low (after a very emotional day 9 of baby's life and our troubled-nursing career) so it was rice for dinner:

* took advantage of the last two eggplant, and bulked it up with carrots, onion and shiitake in a repeat of the other bight's dish (http://cookpad.com/recipe/880838)
* shirasu rice (kids, round 1 meal)
* wakame miso soup
* leftover pumpkin nimono
* buri (yellowtail) which J brought home with him (had no fish in house!!) and cooked in fry pan with s+p
* kimchee, umeboshi, natto as desired.

Eating with a newborn

And my parents here.
I got out of hospital Monday, baby girl (still no-name) in tow, and found myself at home with 4 adults, three kids and two nationalities (and culinary sets) to deal with. My folks have been awesome in helping with meal prep, but we still need to decide what to make!!

Mon: the ol' go-to, Spag Bol ( with hidden carrots, onion, spinach)
Tues: curry ;)
Wed: Hot dog sausages, mashed potato, pumpkin nimono, brocolli. With a bagette (aka "French stick" to my folks, and me until coming to Japan ;)

Three days down.....now, what about the rest of the week??hhmmmm