Fresh fruit salad

We all love fresh fruit salad and a few days ago, I went to the fruit shop to buy whatever fruits I can find that suit our budget.

Ingredients:
seedless grapes
strawberries
rock melon
watermelon
pineapple

Dinner

Our dinner yesterday. baked barramundi fillet with fresh vegetable salad.

This is how I cook barramundi fillet or any fish fillet, just bake it in the oven for about 40 minutes with lemon juice, olive oil and pepper (no salt). It's quick and easy.

Lunch

This was my lunch yesterday, satay chicken and fried rice with lemon iced tea at Norwest Shopping Mall.

Fried Rice

 I cooked fried rice the other day.

Ingredients:
cooked jasmine rice
brown onion
chopped rindless bacon rashers
garlic
free-range egg
left over fried sausage
Maggi seasoning
oil to fry
a cup of mix vegetables
light soy sauce

Breakfast

 Here's my breakfast this morning: bacon and egg roll with barbecue sauce, and hot chocolate topped with marhsmallow

Fresh fruit salad

This is what we had for dessert after lunch yesterday.
Ingredients:
strawberries
pineapple
watermelon
rock melon

Crispy fried chicken

I made crispy fried chicken for lunch today

Lunch yesterday

I made a mango chicken curry for our lunch yesterday, a perfect food for a cold day. I just bought a Mango Chicken Curry Simmer Sauce and added 1 kg of diced chicken and 2 diced medium size potatoes,  and served on a bed of jasmine rice.

Tomato and cucumber salad

This was sometime last February when I was flooded with cherry tomatoes from the garden. I was trying to figure out what can I do with my tomatoes. I couldn't dried them during those times because it was raining. I thought to make pickled tomatoes but I couldn't get a chance. Then a friend of mine suggested to try  tomato and cucumber salad, and so I did. It was my first time to try it and I fell in love with it. I thought hubby wouldn't love it but glad he did but the kids didn't like it.
It's simple, light and refreshing.
Ingredients:
cherry tomatoes
cucumber
onion
garlic
olive oil
malt vinegar
a sprinkle with parsley

Comfort food

Talking about comfort food on cold days there is only one thing that comes to my mind, a food which is good to eat and so simple to make. Cold days make me hungry most of the time and makes me crave for this particular food that I used to eat during snack time in the Phils. I dont eat this food very often here in fact I can't even remember when was the last time since I have this food on the table.

We call it pospas or rice poridge.
Ingredients:
rice
left over roasted chicken meat
onion
ginger
garlic
ground black pepper
knorr chicken broth cubes
cups of water

I just garnished it with finely chopped spring onions and fried garlic. Yummy.

Last Sunday's dinner

We went to Goulburn in the Southern Highlands, NSW last Sunday to visit my hubby's daughter who was in the hospital for she fell off her horse and suffered a broken ankle and had a surgery. She was doing really good  after the surgery and is back home since yesterday.
It was late when we left the hospital and decided to have dinner in one of the popular restaurants in Goulburn before we started the long trip going back home. We have been in this restaurant  a few times and every time we visit there,  I don't miss to order their yummy omelette and so did hubby.

My omelette consist of ham tomato and mushrooms serve with vegetables. Yum!

Lunch

This was my lunch yesterday, fresh salad and grilled chicken strips, with avocado and mayo dressing. Yummy...

Last Night

We decided to go out for a dinner last night at Lone Pine Tavern which is close to where we live.  It is a new pub with fantastic atmosphere and quality food and drinks. One thing what I like best at the tavern is that it has  a place for the kids where they can have fun or just to watch a movie for free. Anyways, here is what I had ordered for my dinner, char-grilled swordfish with warm anti-pasto salad, roast tomato and pine nut salsa.

 And below is a chocolate pudding as my dessert.

Hot chips

I bought a pack of frozen traditional style straight cut chips from the supermarket. I deep fried some and sprinkled a little bit of chicken salt for our afternoon snack today

Pasta Carbonara

I bought a Dolmio Italian Meat Base Carbonara sauce in a packet yesterday. It was my first time cooking pasta carbonara using this sauce. I added only, cooked pasta, diced bacon, cream and cheese, and cooked it according to the instruction at the back packet. I garnished it with finely chopped parsley before serving to add extra flavour. It was delicious.

Chocolate cake

Yesterday afternoon, Dorothy baked a cake for us. I just bought her a Premium delux premium chocolate mix to use and a ready to spread rich chocolate fudge for frosting. She loves cooking and baking and it is amazing that at this young age of her she can already bake a cake without my supervision.

Penne pasta with bacon and spinach

While surfing in the internet sometime last month, I found a recipe which is quick and easy to prepare. It is a light meal which will compliment anything. Since me and my daughter are a great pasta lovers ,and I had fresh tomatoes in the garden during that time, I decided to try it.
This is a great dish. I sprinkled  feta cheese and we loved it.
Recipe: Ingredients

• 1 (12 ounce) package penne pasta
• 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
• 6 slices bacon, chopped
• 2 tablespoons minced garlic
• 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes
• 1 bunch fresh spinach, rinsed and torn into bite-size pieces

Directions:

1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add the penne pasta, and cook until tender, 8 to 10 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Place bacon in the skillet, and cook until browned and crisp. Add garlic, and cook for about 1 minute. Stir in the tomatoes, and cook until heated through.
3. Place the spinach into a colander, and drain the hot pasta over it so it is wilted. Transfer to a large serving bowl, and toss with the remaining olive oil, and the bacon and tomato mixture.

Source:http://allrecipes.com/recipe/penne-pasta-with-spinach-and-bacon/

Dinner the other night

We had mashed potato, green peas and baked chicken drumsticks.

Pavlova

Before Christmas, Dorothy asked me if we can make a pavlova for Christmas. She loves pavlova so much and really wanted to have pavlova as one of our desserts after our Christmas lunch. Since I would be busy on that day, I just promised her to buy a pavlova base from Woolies and let her do the topping . I just bought the fruits that she loved to use as the topping and whipped the fresh cream for her.And here is her yummy pavlova.

Chocolate sundae

These sundaes came from McDonald $5 feed deal that I bought for Dorothy and her friend when I took them to the shopping mall last week. The $5 feed consists of cheeseburger, med. fries, med. coke , and apple pie or sundae. Dorothy loves their sundae but I don't. I just prefer the apple pie instead.