Tues May 31st

(just testing to see if I can post this from my computer -- please oh please may my publish button work this time ;)

Pumpkin soup - with carrot, cabbage, onion and dill (from the garden!)
French stick
Hot Pasta Salad - capsicum, zucchini, eggplant, onion and sausage
Oven baked Chicken breast

mid january

Mon 17th - chicken cream stew
got home at 5pm, so packet mix stuff.

Tues 18th - ブリ　照り焼き
j bought yellowtail at the lil grocery shop by his work -- it has a better fish selection that the big supermarket, would you believe!? , which always has only the same boring old fish. For a country that supposedly lives on fish, I wonder sometimes what everyone eats, as all I can ever find at the supermarkets are the same old salmon, a bit of overpriced cod and then some dried up crap, uh, himono.

Wed 19th - hmmm, cant quite remember, lol!

Thurs 20th - pad thai and gyoza

Fri 21st - salmon, rice, and a huge serve of vege stir fry

Weekend - stayed at in-laws and had yakisoba for lunch, and chinese for dinner on sat, then sushi-ro for lunch on Sunday and ramen for dinner.

Mon 24th - used the left over salmon from Fri night to make salmon fish cakes and my goodness they were delish!! the ENTIRE family loved them - L had 2, so I only got 1 myself, lol, but smothered half of it in sweet chili sauce and that was pretty damn nice too. Served with rice, yu-dofu (and ponzu sauce)

riceless is nice sometimes too

Realised on Fri night that we had run out of rice. As in, i used up the last of it for dinner! And since we forgot to buy any when we went shopping on the weekend, we are gonna tuff it out until Sat when there are 5* points at the supermarket.
So this week is going to be pretty much riceless (I still have enough frozen for probably one dinners worth). I am ok with a riceless week, of course, but if last night was anything to go by, J will be eating cup ramen for midnight snacks all week (you know, Japanese people are never "full" unless they have eaten a bowl of rice, ROLLS EYES)

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Mon: Oven-roasted herb chicken fillets, with mashed potato, pumpkin, cabbage and asparagus wrapped in bacon. YUMMY asparagus, from Hokkaido.

Tues: Pasta. eggplant, bacon, mushroom, capsicum in tomato-mushroom sauce. Served with side salads (green salad, three beans mix, tomato/shiso/cucumber). Corn on the cobb (forgot to serve it last night). Possibly with french stick, if I can get to talk to J before he goes past the bread shop on his way home from work.

soup, pasta and chicken

Cabbage soup, kinda following this recipe, but with about 1/3 of ingredients. Also ended up blending the cabbage/celery mix to make a smooth soup, and it was very very nice! Admitedly, J couldn't work out what it was (he thought it was potato soup) but he did say it was very nice!

hot pasta salad. I always try to immitate mum's "famous" hot pasta salad, that is always served at bbqs at home, but I never quite get it right. Still it was nice, for me.

herb baked chicken breasts

J is not a fan of chicken breast, so he wasn't so impressed with dinner. Bugger him, I ENJOYED it immensly, thank you very much! And enough pasta salad and soup and chicken left for lunch!