Mon 12th night - chinese chicken & cashew nuts and mabo nasu, egg roll at mum's request :-)
Tues 13th night - mum's famous hot pasta salad with sausages. very nice.
Wed 14th night - curry; leftovers frozen for post-baby quick meals
Thurs 15th night - made my folks suffer through 和食 with salmon, rice, pickles, egg roll with nira, mushrooms and spinach in butter/garlic/めんつゆ sauce, side salad and dad's soup! (they thought it was a veritable feast with so many different dishes, lol)
Fri 16th night - quiche and mashed potato
Sat 17th night - since I have so much pie crust left (why this time I have enough for three, when I usually only have enough for 2, I donU't know, but it is a VERY GOOD pie crust - I may almost be tempted to say I have found my pie-crust groove!!) am going to make a shepherds pie for dinner. yum!
Wow - never done so much cooking while J is away, lol. And making bread most days - breadmaker working hard!
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Happy Australia Day
I feel like glossing over the fact that we had maccas for lunch, but this blog is really meant to be nothing more than a food diary for my own benefits, (and hiding the maccas wrappers would feel like cheating on a test) so I am fessing up! Even remembered at the counter, just before ordering that I should check my keitai for mail coupons, and got a happy meal for 290yen (that is a 200yen discount!) for K with chicken nuggets, and a cheeseburger and choc thickshake for myself. We had spent the morning shopping/fighting/tantruming/stressing so I felt I deserved a simple lunch. And the smiles are free at maccas, right?!?
Came home and went about making meat pies for dinner. I went against my better judgement and used this recipe for the pie crust....now, I know that Ihave had trouble in the past making a nice pastry, so it may not be all the recipe's fault, but I found it far too wet and sticky, which meant I had trouble rolling it out, which meant I probably overworked it, which meant that it was "tough". I wasn't too impressed.
My pie filling was great though, using a recipe out of Women's weekly (I save clippings sometimes, even in this day and age of searching on the net for recipes, lol) I am very ahppy with the filling, and hope to use it again IF I can ever perfect a pie crust (big ため息）It was so simple - just fry off some mince, then fry up 1 chopped onion, 2 crushed garlic, add 2tbs flour, then add 1cup beef stock and 1tbs worstershire sauce. Tasted just like a meat pie from the shops. I used puff pastry for the lids, which was a good idea in the end, considering my failure with the short-crust pastry.
I ended up making party pies for K, in silicon muffin cases, and single serve pies for J and me - in the gratin dishes, the best thing I could find, and I think they did the trick!! Served with mashed potato and a big glass of milk for both K and me!
Anyway, here is the pictures of our Australia Day pies - slather a bit of tomato sauce on it, and you beauty mate!
Came home and went about making meat pies for dinner. I went against my better judgement and used this recipe for the pie crust....now, I know that Ihave had trouble in the past making a nice pastry, so it may not be all the recipe's fault, but I found it far too wet and sticky, which meant I had trouble rolling it out, which meant I probably overworked it, which meant that it was "tough". I wasn't too impressed.
My pie filling was great though, using a recipe out of Women's weekly (I save clippings sometimes, even in this day and age of searching on the net for recipes, lol) I am very ahppy with the filling, and hope to use it again IF I can ever perfect a pie crust (big ため息）It was so simple - just fry off some mince, then fry up 1 chopped onion, 2 crushed garlic, add 2tbs flour, then add 1cup beef stock and 1tbs worstershire sauce. Tasted just like a meat pie from the shops. I used puff pastry for the lids, which was a good idea in the end, considering my failure with the short-crust pastry.
I ended up making party pies for K, in silicon muffin cases, and single serve pies for J and me - in the gratin dishes, the best thing I could find, and I think they did the trick!! Served with mashed potato and a big glass of milk for both K and me!
Anyway, here is the pictures of our Australia Day pies - slather a bit of tomato sauce on it, and you beauty mate!
Monday, December 14, 2009
cottage pie
Recipe here.
well, the title and the photo basically say it all.
except for the fact that the brocolli was crap - and it was one we got from the 道の駅 and the bread in the background was our home baked rye french bread. yum.
well, the title and the photo basically say it all.
except for the fact that the brocolli was crap - and it was one we got from the 道の駅 and the bread in the background was our home baked rye french bread. yum.
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