Sashimi & Soba Noodles

Make no mistake, I love noodles.
Most kinds of noodles... such a versatile food, so many varieties and so many ways to cook and enjoy them.

Anyhoos... we had some fresh fish from the market so the best way to enjoy fresh fish is to do what the Japanese do best: Sashimi.

Yum. Oh.

Shimeji mushrooms, just stirfried to bring out its own natural flavours

The main characters: swordfish, salmon and tuna

And here they are again, photo hogs

Oh hello lovely noodles! Fancy seeing you here... oh how I do adore you :)

(oh, and that's friend crispy salmon skin, cos you cannot let that kind of stuff go to waste!)

Roast Chicken Maryland

Cannot beat a roast chicken for dinner during the week.

Roasted baby eggplant

Golden skinned roast chicken with roasted baby eggplants, roasted broccoli and cauliflower.
DEEEEE-LISH!

Oh, and we had 2 leftover mushrooms, so we roasted that with garlicky olive oil too

Housemates Dinner: El Burro

It's that time again, housemates dinner!
Hello Spanish feast!

Not bad, not great... just a bit standard.
Good service though.

I give this place 3 thumbs up out of 5 (but I only have 2 thumbs....hmmm)

White sangria, and oh look! That's me in the background lol

Garlic and chilli bbq prawns

Confit of pork belly on pear chutney

Grilled scallops on chorizo and grilled slice of apple

ze menu

Lamb cutlets with salad

Meat paella

Roasted Baby Eggplant & Baby Zucchini with Miso Honey Glaze

We found these gorgeous little baby eggplants and baby zucchini at the markets and was determined to make something of them...

So, here goes, miso honey glaze served with a risoni salad

The good mix. A bit of this, a bit of that

Crushed almonds

Korean flavoured grilled pork

We live on this stuff, herbs... yum

Lettuce. Be friends?

Seafood risotto

Bun Thit Nuong - or rice vermicelli with grilled pork

Awesome housemate wasn't gonna be home for dinner, but she prepared this for our dinner anyway because that's just the kind of awesome person she is.

And of course, you cannot have vietnamese food without plenty of herbs and fresh salad

Remember that fig from a few days ago?
HERE IT IS! Put to good use, and it was fantastic

Baked Barramundi with Herb sauce & Cauli Brocci Salad

Righto Barra!
Baked.
I want something herby... herb sauce *ding!* (I'm a genius)

Need vegies... let's make that cauli/ brocci salad with crunchy garlic chips again, oh YES PLEASE!

WE HAZ POTATOES! Might as well roast some of that, and why not? Who doesn't love roasted crunchy potatoes. DEEE-LISH-SHOS!

Crusty baked potatoes with rosemary

Bay leaves with stirfried onions. Why? Well, why not?

Beancurd skin rolls

Make beancurd wrapped rolls, attempt 1: Successful!

These divine beancurd skins, wrapped around House of Awesome Food-styled pork mince, served with a satay sauce, some rice and some lightly flavoured wombok. Because the flavours are so strong, you really only want light clean flavours to match this.

Lightly stir fried wombok with a sprinkle of chilli flakes.

Looks great eh?
Tasted even better than it looks!

Oh, just randomly, I received these stunning little gifts from a colleague. Pretty ain't they?
Black skinned capsicum, with a wonderful little fig.

Beef Fajitas

A reliably quick meal, from a trusty old recipe (goold ol' El Paco!)

And throw in a few extra ingredients we had left over in the fridge that just *had* to be cooked and eaten.. *Ahem* that means you, Mr Crab and Silly Chorizo Sausage...

Manchego cheese, grated. Avocado and capsicum salsa

Well there, my friend! You look mighty tasty!

Chorizo and tomatoes = awesome tapas