Skip to main content

Menu Monday

The baking this month has slowed down a bit... how do I know that?  Well, my list for the "big shop" this weekend did not include the 4kg of flour and 1.5kg of butter that it would normally.  When I put it like that - that's quite a bit of baking, huh?  Rest assured, my baked goods are usually shared around and not just consumed in the Ag May household.

 But, I'm feeling the baking thing coming on.  The cooler weather is definitely helping along in this department.  So watch this space in the next coming weeks...

 But for the past week it has been slightly warmer and I've been focussing on some more non-edible crafting.  So very simple meals this past week :-

Poached chicken with salad and greens 
Spanish Tortilla with salad and greens
Taco Salad (own recipe - will include next time)
Steak (fresh from the Farmers Market) with 3-ingredient pasta and salad
Polvoron (filipino sweet treat)
Handmade breakfast - handmade scones with handmade jam (thanks Opa) and hand-whipped cream (it's so soft and airy)

We also treated ourselves to a dinner out at a new restaurant/diner - Kenji Japanese Dining.  A little gem of a place hidden within a tiny walkthrough shopping arcade.  It is one of the best Japanese - most authentic and delicious - that we've come across.  The sashimi and endamame was refreshing.  The crab croquettes wonderfully deep-fried.



The takoyaki was flavoursome.  




And the Oyoko Don (Teriyaki Chicken Rice with eggy sauce) - wonderful!  This, while quite an "ordinary and common" dish was executed perfectly.  I wouldn't normally order this as there are usually more exotic dishes that I would like to sample, but this was my Dear Husband's choosing.  Why was it wonderful?  It was eggy (as promised in the description) with a nice balance with the teriyaki sauce.  It was not overly saucy - it was for this reason, chicken and rice drowned in overly sweet teriyaki sauce that I have turned off Don dishes - and it was not overly sweet.  This was perfection in a bowl.
  


We will definitely be going back to Kenji Japanese Dining.

So, what's on our menu for this week?

It's looking like Meat Pies, Chicken and Pork Adobo, and some sort of pasta (preferably vegetarian).   Maybe some sort of simple meat and 3-veg combo as well.
I'm thinking some sort of sweet treat - like Chocolate Truffles or Caramel Popcorn.  Or maybe even some "real" baking.

What's on your menu this week?


Edited to add recipe links.  Enjoy!!!

Labels

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Back from my hiatus

Have you ever struggled with your identity?  Like how you define yourself; how you think of yourself?  I do.  I have been.  I still am. Rather than simply stating "I am Ag May", I need to add labels.  I'm a mother.  I work but I'm on leave at the moment.  I'm a crafter, but I just make things not really create things.  I bake.  I cook.  And right now, I'm confused. I wonder if the lack of varied adult interaction has made me lose sight of how I define myself.  My wardrobe is probably a good metaphor... I've cleaned it out.  So now I'm left with 2 pairs of jeans; a pair of light coloured pants; a pair of tracksuit pants; a handful of t-shirts; and a handful of dresses.  Add to that a few jumpers and a couple of cardigans and that's my wardrobe.  No more "smart casual"; no more "office-wear"; no more "formal wear" or "going-out on the town wear".  I think I donated my personality to good will alongside my c...
2 comments
Read more

Monkey See; Monkey Do

I was just monkeying around the kitchen... I had some dough leftover from baking dinner rolls and cinnamon buns (yeah - it was alot of dough!) and I had seen this idea from the Pioneer Woman previously.  Cinnamon, butter, sugar and a dash of sweetened condensed milk - yes please!!!  Ok, so maybe, just maybe, I accidentally on purpose put some dough aside just so I could indulge in this .... well, indulgence. And what an indulgence - worse still, an easy indulgence as I already had the dough.  Caramelised cinnamon sugar with a bit of bread covered with sweetened condensed milk.  I don't think I really need to say more. And, in honour of Father's Day, we had special "WE heart DADDY" pancakes... ok ok - I ran out of time, energy and ideas this year.  (Note to self - try harder next year!) Don't mock the banana - at $12.99/kg this is a real treat.  Unfortunately Daddy was too slow and Little Miss M took it and ate it.  It might be Fat...
4 comments
Read more

To ice or not to ice?

That is the question... I have a new addiction (surprise, surprise!).  While I still favour Morning Tea and Afternoon Tea and all of its delights, I have recently been replacing the mandatory "tea and cake" with an Iced Tea or an Iced Coffee. These tea delights are so wonderfully refreshing on those hot summer days.  And it satisfies my "drink and sweet" craving in one shot - which saves me on baking time and calorie count (like I do that anyway!). Seriously, I could drink Iced Tea or Iced Coffee all day, but I have limited it to either Morning Tea or Afternoon Tea.  Got to keep it special!  (Hence the continued use of CAPITALS :) ). The best thing is that these drinks are so easy to make at home and, to my taste buds and stomach anyway, are a lot better than most of the ones that you can find in your local cafe.  I can control the strength, the milkiness, the sweetness to suit my picky palate. The other best thing is that I no longer feel the ...
1 comment
Read more