September starts!

And hopefully a return to record keeping!

I have also taken a deep-freezer inventory, in the hope that we can use up frozen meats etc ( and save a bit on our grocery bills) . of course once it is used up, I wil have to restock, lol!

sept 1

*Lost the recipe for the pork, but it had capsicums, atsuage and onions done in tobanjan, sugar, sugar, touch of soy and mirin ( I think) and cooked in sesame oil. Yum!
*pumpkin sesame-miso
*Daikon and tomato salad with Japanese dressing
*Asparagus
*spinach and tofu miso soup

Kid's dinner: slightly re-arranged with spinach, egg, pork chanpuru and some sweet potato and green peas!

And in August we fasted....

Or so it would seem-- my last food update was from the end of July!
Yikes!!!

Yeah, summer WAS pretty damn hot (we lived all but a few hours on three occasions) without the air-con too!

I didn't even keep a list of our dinners in August- but I do know we ate Goya chanpuru a few times(Goya from MIL), unagi once and found a new way of preparing pumpkin(胡麻和え) which was great for hot days!!

Oh and this is what we ate on Aug 31st!!

-sanma
-chicken wings in sweet chili sauce, honey, tomato sauce marinade
-pumpkin goma-ae
-tofu topped with okra and bonito flakes

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

the rooster

Tues I bought a big chunk of pork, with the intentions of cooking up a roast, since I had a bag of new (baby) potatoes. Seems I am not that up with the cuts of meat, and I bought a block of pork belly!! After I got the thumbs down from both J and my folks, I decided NOT to "just try to roast it and see how it goes" and keep that pork belly for another day, so last night we had whatever I could scrimp together at 4:30pm -- which was pasta with bacon, brocolli, onion and tomato based sauce.

Wed morning I told K what we had to do for the day, which involved picking up J's work shirts from the dry cleaners, getting L's haircut (!!!) and buying some meat and pumpkin for the roast...By dinner time last night, K was so excited, and kept on asking where the rooster is ;)

Wed 26th - kinda Australia Day dinner - Roast pork (herbed up with thyme, pepper and cloves and roasted in roughly cut onion and apple juice) with roast veges (potato, pumkin and sweet potato), asparagus spears and honey-butter carrots.

OH YUM!

洋 baby, yo!

I have had these baby potatoes sitting around for a while now, just waiting for the perfect opportunity to be boiled up and teamed with a lovely, regular, western meal. So it goes:

♦ grilled pork chops(seasoned with s+p), served with apple sauce
♦ boiled baby potatoes, served with butter
♦ honey glazed carrots
♦ green bean amandine
♦ pumpkin
♦ steamed cabbage


I would have had some nice fresh bread with it, but fell asleep putting K down for her afternoon nap, and then didn't have enough time to set the bread maker to be ready before dinner, oops. And wouldn't you know it, the first thing J asks when he sits down "isn't there any bread?? where are the carbs?" (doh- whacha call potatoes, dahhhhling?)

The green beans done in almond were absolutely delish! What a find, will be making this again for sure!