The other day I asked my facebook friends in Aust to tell me what they had for dinner that night, here are the responses:
Grilled chicken marylands, mashed potato, corn on the cob & steamed carrot & broccoli
Chicken stir fry
Rissoles darl!
Lamb chops.
We had Indian takeaway
We had salad!
Lamb cutlets, steak, boiled potatoes, steamed corn and broccoli and a leftover cous cous salad and kids had rice. Quite untypical as we usually have Asian.
Leftovers: Corned beef, mashed potato, pumpkin and broccoli.
Chicken and honey roasted pumpkin risotto with tonnes of garlic and herbs.
glenten free chicken tenders with salad followed by gluten free orange cake with iragne sauce and a touch of sour cream spoilt rootne aren't i coems from livign with a gourmet chef
Maccas
Beef and cashew in oyster sauce wtih tenderstem brocolli and pak choi. George loved it!
Cheese and biscuits and a mandarin
Sausages, grilled sweet potato, corn on the cob (cooked on the BBQ) and a green salad.
Chicken, fennel, broccoli, zucchini stir fry. With lots of chilli.
cashews
sausages and rissole with baked potato and corn/capsicum blend (frozen dinner)
we had stir fry chicken with lots veggies soy,honey and ginger and rice
chicken drumsticks, baked potato, pumpkin & carrot, zucchini fried & broccoli microwaved followed with cheescake (did anyone taste marmalade) & yogurt
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Juniper Tree food, and back home again
While we were in Cm to have Baby we stayed at the J Tree where we both happily ate. Its hard for us to find food we both enjoy, so it was nice to eat together food we both like. It was Western food cooked by Asians, and Asian food made to suit Western taste.
Since we have been back one of Soeun's fake relatives has been working for us and cooking 5 meals a week, so far Khmer salad, a pumpkin curry she learnt at a cooking class we sent her too, along with tomato and pasta dish, ginger chicken done without bones, fried fish , veg stir fry, tuk groeung (raw veg with a dip made from fish and herbs etc), char greong .. hmm can't remember what else.
Anyway this last week the family have been staying, so Soeun has got to have lots of treats, the yummy food he likes. The smell of his food makes me NOT hungry. I used to try to eat with the family, the first 5 years, but found myself still getting hungry. I guess I didn't eat enough as it was hard to eat- lots of bones andhard bits and fermented things that are hard to swallow. Dried fish, fermemted bamboo shoots, various types of fermented fish dips, things that are a cross between snails and shellfish that get cooked when pp wheel the carts around town, dried veg, dried frogs. Soeun got a bad tummy ache this time last week and we rushed off to hospital. They took him to emergecy and it turns out he probs has the same thing his sister has, some kind of tum infection.
While they were here they mostly cooked and ate their own food, while I kind of tried to join in but ate some bread later.
A few meals i did- one lunch we had sandwiches, another time we had pasta (spag bol.)
Today he and his sister are eating dried fish and rice, when they heat it up it makes the whole house stink.
For lunch I made myself a potato salad with potato, mayo, a bit of mustard, chopped up sandwich ham (had all these from when i made the family eat sandwiches! ) with chives and hard boiled egg (things we usually have in fridge).
For dinner I put some tom. paste on bread, with more chopped sandwich ham, sliceed tom and grated cheese. Will attempt to use grill setting on microwave.
Since we have been back one of Soeun's fake relatives has been working for us and cooking 5 meals a week, so far Khmer salad, a pumpkin curry she learnt at a cooking class we sent her too, along with tomato and pasta dish, ginger chicken done without bones, fried fish , veg stir fry, tuk groeung (raw veg with a dip made from fish and herbs etc), char greong .. hmm can't remember what else.
Anyway this last week the family have been staying, so Soeun has got to have lots of treats, the yummy food he likes. The smell of his food makes me NOT hungry. I used to try to eat with the family, the first 5 years, but found myself still getting hungry. I guess I didn't eat enough as it was hard to eat- lots of bones andhard bits and fermented things that are hard to swallow. Dried fish, fermemted bamboo shoots, various types of fermented fish dips, things that are a cross between snails and shellfish that get cooked when pp wheel the carts around town, dried veg, dried frogs. Soeun got a bad tummy ache this time last week and we rushed off to hospital. They took him to emergecy and it turns out he probs has the same thing his sister has, some kind of tum infection.
While they were here they mostly cooked and ate their own food, while I kind of tried to join in but ate some bread later.
A few meals i did- one lunch we had sandwiches, another time we had pasta (spag bol.)
Today he and his sister are eating dried fish and rice, when they heat it up it makes the whole house stink.
For lunch I made myself a potato salad with potato, mayo, a bit of mustard, chopped up sandwich ham (had all these from when i made the family eat sandwiches! ) with chives and hard boiled egg (things we usually have in fridge).
For dinner I put some tom. paste on bread, with more chopped sandwich ham, sliceed tom and grated cheese. Will attempt to use grill setting on microwave.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
rice cooker banana cake
i didnt really follow the method, this photo i s mine but words from a blog
3 eggs
110g sugar
110g melted butter
200g banana (weight without skin)
160g plain flour
3/4 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
a pinch of salt, less than 1/8 tsp
Method
1. Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a big bowl, set aside. Melt the butter and sugar in a non-stick pot and set aside to cool a while. Mash the bananas with a fork and set aside.
2. Add in beaten eggs to the melted cake batter from (1) and mix well using a manual whisk or spatula.
110g sugar
110g melted butter
200g banana (weight without skin)
160g plain flour
3/4 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
a pinch of salt, less than 1/8 tsp
Method
1. Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a big bowl, set aside. Melt the butter and sugar in a non-stick pot and set aside to cool a while. Mash the bananas with a fork and set aside.
2. Add in beaten eggs to the melted cake batter from (1) and mix well using a manual whisk or spatula.
3. Add in mashed bananas, mix well using a spatula.
4. Finally fold in sifted flour mixture (over 3 times) using a spatula.
5. Pour the cake batter into the greased rice cooker bowl. Press
"COOK" and allow it to cook for at least 1 hour. (In my case, I pressed
"COOK" 3 times. Each time my rice cooker has finished cooking, it
will beep and automatically switch to "KEEP WARM" mode, so I just
have to press "CANCEL" and press "COOK" again. It took me
30 min + 17 min + 17 min = 1 hour 4 min in total. This is a cake that works in
a rice cooker without the cake-baking function. Note that cooking time may
vary based on the capacity of your rice cooker. Mine has a 5.5 cup
capacity. )
6. Allow the cake to cool for a while, before turning out. (My cake
flipped out easily in a split second even without using a knife to loosen the
edges. And look at the crust, how I love the crust of a rice cooker cake!)
Monday, August 19, 2013
rice cooker cake!!!!
http://everybodyeatswell.blogspot.be/2013/06/rcc-6-rice-cooker-moist-chocolate-cake.html
making a cake by steaming... used to try it on the stove, just got the idea to use a rice cooker, first try it worked out well, i didn't use evaptorated milk, also i didn't have vanilla and i used oil instead of butter, and normal sugar, took about 45 min
making a cake by steaming... used to try it on the stove, just got the idea to use a rice cooker, first try it worked out well, i didn't use evaptorated milk, also i didn't have vanilla and i used oil instead of butter, and normal sugar, took about 45 min
Ingredients
150g of unsalted melted butter or corn oil (reduced from 175g)
175g castor sugar (reduced from 1 cup which is 225g)
1/2 can evaporated milk, about 200ml
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup plain flour, about 125g
1/2 cup cocoa powder, about 60g
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp vanilla essence
Method
1. Combine sugar, evaporated milk, vanilla essence and butter in a saucepan.
2. Stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved.
3. Add the beaten eggs into the slightly cooled evaporated milk mixture and stir till well-mixed.
4. Sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda into a large mixing bowl then pour the egg mixture over the flour and stir till well-mixed. (cake batter should be runny).
grease pot, cook for an hourish, pushing down "cook" lever every 5-10 min
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