We love to eat :)

Let's be frank... some people eat to live; Noon and I, we live to eat!

Our weekly expenses are spent not on shopping sprees, no not even at periodic 'sales times', instead we find that we spend our money on food and groceries. We do tend to eat out from time to time, even making the occasional 1 1/2 hour trip up to Sydney just for food alone.

However, doing so on a frequent and regular basis would break the bank for us. So instead we try to cook up special meals at home on the weekends. Some recipes taken from cookbooks, some from television cooking shows, and some from friends and family.

Here are some pics of some of the things we've cooked and had for dinner in the past month or so.

First up, we had a barbeque spread from when my Mum and Dad came to visit back in July. On the menu were swordfish steaks, beef fillet steaks, honey soy chicken wings, lamb chops, sausages, grilled vegetables (zucchini, capsicum, and mushrooms) and a fresh leaf salad.
I'd thought that we had plenty of food, and there'd be some leftovers for Sam and Rosie (with the cooked bones removed, of course), but Dad had other ideas... nothing was left in the end.

During Mum and Dad's visit, we also decided to make sushi for dinner one night. Had an assortment of different fillings for the rolls in the pictures, from salmon to unagi to prawns, with combinations of Japanese mayonnaise, rocket, snowpea sprouts, alfalfa, cucumber and salmon roe.

If anyone's interested in specific combinations that we have found go well together, feel free to leave a message in the comments section and I'll get back to you via email.

Then a couple of weeks later, Noon and I had a craving for duck! And this is what we came up with... Spiced duck breast on a bed of roasted potatoes, onions and carrots, with steamed broccolini. The sauce was made from crushed garlic, red wine, stock, cranberry sauce and a dash of vinegar.


This next one's a simple salmon steak dish. Mildly seasoned with sea salt and crushed black pepper, panfried for a crisp skin and then quickly sealed on high heat to preserve an inside that was still moist (Noon and I love raw salmon sushi, hence we didn't want to overcook this dish). The sauce was made from olive oil, balsamic vinegar, capers and parsley.


Noon and I are Asian, both of us are Chinese, she being from Thailand and myself from Malaysia. And while we do cook a lot of Asian cuisine, we also believe in not limiting ourselves that one particular kind of food or cooking style. Overall, I think we've had a very good run where experiences are concerned, and we're constantly on the lookout for different foods to try.

And Andrew, if you're reading this, hurry up and finish with whatever it is you're doing; we want to organise another food trip up to where you are in Sydney. Want to catch up and go try out all those eats you've been telling us about!

P.S. - Sam and Rosie said to say "Hello" :)