still searching for my cooking mojo.....(sigh)

Wed Jul 28:
* tonkatsu (instant shaker type tonkatsu coating!)
* mashed potato
* carrots sauteed in maple syrup and butter
* asparagus spears
* white bread
*

Thurs Jul 29:
* squid and vege stir fry in oyster sauce
* tofu
* rice
* ししとう
* gyoza

Fri Jul 30:
* fried rice (I seem to be eating less rice, so we are having leftovers every night again even though I only make 2go of rice....the freezer is getting overloaded with rice!!)
* mabo nasu
* left over squid vege stir fry
* salad

cooking for 4

Apr 1st: (first night my parents are here, and I am hit with a mix of allergies and fever and headaches....) Dinner: chicken, 青梗菜 and mushroom alfredo sauce spaghetti

Apr 2nd (Fri): K's 3rd birthday party at home. Lunch was yakiniku (we remembered as the meat came out that it was Good Friday, oops). Redeemed ourselves (?) at dinner time with 手巻き寿司

Apr 3rd (Sat): Flounder ムニエル with baby potatoes and エリンギmushrooms, salad for mum and me. Wa-style sea mackeral 煮物 for dad and J. (J's idea to cook it like that ;-))

Apr 4th (Sun): Chinese at home, thanks to J. Fried rice, ふかひれsoup, 青梗菜 in oyster sauce, mabo nasu

Apr 5th (Mon): Asparagus, bacon, onion and spinach quiche (pie crust was one of the best I have ever made, yay! may have gotten my pie-crust "mojo"?? FMIO: 5eggs used with about 1 cup milk and it made a nice consistency, cooed at 180deg for 25mins, then another 10mins before serving), salad and pumpkin soup (with some onion/carrots/potato/garlic thrown in too - this was yum!)

Apr 6th (Tues): planning to have mash potato, pumpkin, zucchini, corn on the cob, and steak. Just like being at "home"

I am not used to making meals for 4, so this is an interesting challenge - to have enough for everyone to eat!! And to be able to make enough without being stuck in the kitchen all night. Getting lots of help from J over the weekend, and Mum too so am grateful for that :-)

last night of just the girls for this week

A big lunch at TGIF after playgroup (their "world famous hamburger" ) meant that I wasn't that hungry for dinner anyway:

* corn soup (once I get a taste for something these days, there is no stopping me!)
* yakitori
* and rice for K.

sounds so boring written down, but hit the spot anyway (for me at least, don't know about poor K! lol)

freezer foods

no motivation to cook for just K and me, so it is leftovers (actually not-used-overs?!?) from stuff I bought for friend's visit on Sunday night but never used:

* fried rice
* yakitori
* soy beans

all about to be heated up in a flash.

doesn't hurt once in a while to have a tv-dinner(or the japanese version of that, lol), surely!? and it is a freezer-clean out to boot!

いただきま～す

chinese on IH

After dinner last night we went out to the supermarket to get some supplies and came back with pork, eggplant, pumpkin, milk, bread, roast beef, ham, cheese, mitsuya cider and iced green tea (for some reason I was dying to drink it!!)

So today's lunch was:

Roast beef and cheese sandwich for K (using the last of the bread after we both had 2 slices of toast for breakky, with vegemite on it no less!) and a roast beef, tomato, sunny lettuce salad for me. How good am I! Well, I had it with mitsuya cider so not *that* good, lol.

Dinner:

Pork stir fry (substituted veges in recipe for: eggplant, carrot and long onions and it came out delish! also, have no cooking sake in house so used sherry kept for trifles instead and, yay, it worked!!)Nice and tasty recipe.

fried rice (with left over rice from last night, when I cooked up 3 cups - usually we eat 2 cups, but I overestimated that last night I would be so into my rice that I would have refills, which I didn't)

Again I had issues with the IH hotplates. Using the IH-designated stainless steel fry pan to cook the pork (even in half a bottle of oil) ended up in the bottom of the pot being burnt to smithereens, so I had to change to the teflon fry pan anyway. I hope this IH cooking gets easier.

Also hope I can find my way around the kitchen better fast - spend half the time searching for when I put things away, over a month ago, hehe.