Dinner at our place. Bring a bottle; we’ll handle the food. The guests are late, but that’s okay because the roast is even later. Cheese…
Tag: dinners
Pressure Cooker Pulled Pork
One of the wonderfully generous wedding gifts we received is a pressure cooker. I was a little skeptical about how much we really needed another…
Gazpacho Soup
I’ve always found the idea of a cold vegetable soup intriguing but not exactly appetising. But the days are getting uncomfortably warm, and my usually…
Cauliflower Soup & Braised Ox-tail
I think this is a pretty good example of the way The Boy and I cook – he favours hearty, meaty one-pot wonders with interesting…
Supper Snaps: Vietnamese grilled pork with vermicelli
We made Jeff’s Bun thit nuong (Vietnamese grilled pork with vermicelli) again for dinner tonight – yum! It’s one of those meals where you pretty…
This Week
Wonton and noodle soup; Totoro on a green grass rug; yellow wedding shoes; Sunday drinks at The Brisbane Hotel. I had one of those weeks…
Steamboat
Steamboat (or hotpot, or shabu shabu) is one of the best foods for gatherings ever. No cooking, and very little prep – just defrost everything,…
This Weekend
Shopping, cleaning, cooking and organising – a fairly quiet weekend! I’d intended to buy some fabric from Spotlight to make The Boy and I aprons,…
Birthday at Amusé
Yesterday was The Boy’s birthday! We celebrated with a degustation at Restaurant Amusé, which we’ve wanted to try for ages. The Boy will write a…
This week in photos
In an effort to blog and take photos more often, I’m going to try and post a few photos every Sunday from the past week.
Dinner Parties for Noobs
Now that we have an apartment that can fit more than 4 people without squishing, we’ve been having people over for meals quite often. I…