Menu du jour meat saurus : 12 Recipes


  • Recipe Miso Soba
    Miso Soba
    Everyone around me is down with flu! Lunch buddy in the office and Mr. T... and typically these men refuse to see the doctor, self medicate and overdose on vitamins to suppress the symptoms! So instead of just getting sick and recovering, we have[...]
  • Recipe Christmas Dinner
    Christmas Dinner
    The sturdy new oven wavered at 7 pm... just as I put my beef wrapped in puff pastry into the oven for the finishing touch on the Wellington. The oven just went off - overworked, overheated. Thank goodness the beef had already been pre-roasted hours[...]
  • Recipe It's been so long...
    It's been so long...
    But finally, I'm up and about in my new kitchen! Well, the official move in is on Monday 3 Jan, but i've been staying in the new place out of a suitcase for the last two weeks. I took the new Ariston for a test run on our first dinner at the new[...]
  • Recipe Thai Chicken Stir Fry
    Thai Chicken Stir Fry
    First thing i've cooked in ages - it was a toss up between curry but i guess Thai is a winner. At the last moment i discovered that i'd ran out of bird's eye chillies (not surprising) - so i used dried chillies, worked out great. Am really glad that[...]
  • Recipe Beef Ragu & Woody Tones
    Beef Ragu & Woody Tones
    I like this background much much better! Anyway, part of the Japanese supermarket expedition also saw a slab of beef brisket. I bought it and then was clueless on what to do with it, could have done a Chinese or Japanese styled stew. But since I had[...]
  • Recipe long weekend come and gone
    long weekend come and gone
    thank goodness that we have long weekends due to public holidays for each month to the end of the year. again, did lots of laundry and cooking, but no cleaning. turning into a lazy homebody.friday night: squid stuffed with smoked oysters & chickpeas[...]
  • Recipe Long weekend, it's about time!
    Long weekend, it's about time!
    Finally managed to cook dinner - it's been a tough month of May, so i treated myself to a nice steak and my favourite bing cherries! Ribeye and mash - Marinated steaks for 30 mins in lots of crushed garlic, and freshly crushed black pepper corns and[...]
  • Recipe sage with everything for the weekend
    sage with everything for the weekend
    after eating loads of greasy junk for the past two weeks and drinking virtually no water, i felt really worn out. somehow i equate taking better care of myself with cooking. i picked up a pack of sage leaves on friday night and used it in[...]
  • Recipe hamburger mini steak on a public holiday
    hamburger mini steak on a public holiday
    it was a shorter work week, monday 10 aug being a public holiday. i made mini-hamburgers in tomato sauce for dinner. part of my "i want to be a japanese housewife without the japanese husband" campaign (not that i have anything against japanese men,[...]
  • Recipe Citrus pork chops with olive oil mashed potatoes
    Citrus pork chops with olive oil mashed potatoes
    1 Lime, juiced 1 Orange, juiced 1 tbsp Blackpeppercorns, roughly bashed 3 tbsp Mirin 5 Basil leaves, roughly torn 3 cloves Garlic, bashed > Combine as a marinade for pork. I left mine over night in the fridge. Before cooking, make sure your chops are[...]