Prawns & Penne Pasta

Craving carbs.....
Resorting to a tried and tasted staple.
Got prawns, got pasta, go herbs. Nuff said.

Cold Arrowroot Noodle Soup & Tempeh with Noodle Salad

I'm not sure I can take it anymore...
This stoooooopid heat, it's frying my brains!

Must. Eat. Cold. Food.

Hmm... I'm not really sure what's in this one... but I hazard a guess:
Arrowroot noodles, nectarines, shitake mushrooms, cucumber, konbu and some sort of light fruity broth
Perhaps I should check with the chef.... :Þ

Looks good though, doesn't it?
Tasted awesome. Hit all the right spots just when we needed it most!

This was dinner.
I'm a bit infatuated with noodle salad right now, might have something to do with the fried brain....
So, soba noodles, zucchini julienned, mixed herbs (coriander, parsley, shiso leaves, vietnamese mint, normal mint)
Probably a ~BIT~ too many flavours and textures happening there lol, it was kind of weird...

And the bowl of orange cubey things is tempeh...
That was kind of weird too.... not sure I like it very much. Perhaps it was just the way I made it :(

We've been lucky with our food exploits, Almost everything has been exceptional and delightfully delectable but eventually we were gonna come across a meal that just doesn't quite work...
This was it.


I blame the hot weather :)

Cold Soba Salad with Salmon Sashimi

Blech, it was like 4000 degrees today, if we were food, then the house will be the oven, and if the house were an oven, then we'd be done cooking YESTERDAY!
That's how hot it was :(

So anyways, what to eat on a steamy hot day?
Cold noodles of course! Nobody wants to move around prepping food when all you want to do is vege out...

Look what we achieved with a little bit of inspiration :)

Soy, mirin, sake dressing for the noodles

Looks good eh?
What fresh salmon should always look like!

Noodle salad containing mixed herbs, shredded cucumber and enoki muchrooms

Roasted Pork Ribs with Bok Choy

Oh how I do love this dish!
It's finger-lickingly good in so many ways, and all it needs is to be teamed up with some clean flavours like bok choy and rice

O
M
G
This is heaven in a meat

drool-worthy no?

Broccoli, Parmesan and Pasta

We're tired and busy and so we just wanted something easy and quick to make... PASTA!

Needs not a single word but YUM

Free Form Vegetable Lasagne

When you get home late... and there's not a lot of food left in the fridge, what do you do?

Make a quick and easy lasagne with left over vegies, and this is what it turned out like...

Not bad eh?

fresh out of the oven, ahhh
if only you could smell it!

Goodness it was yum!
It was so yum I was disallowed to have seconds for fear that I would not know when to stop...  :(

22 November 2011 - Pork Chops, Ginger & Orange Sauce with Cavalo Nero

So T decides to try out this new vegetable she saw at the market... it was labelled "Tuscan Cabbage" and none of us had ever heard of it before although it did look very familiar to me...

Anyway, afterwards I had to google it and turns out, "Tuscan Cabbage" is actually Cavalo Nero, or sometimes known as Kale... but Cavalo Nero I DO know! 

Boy, what a wonderful vegetable. We loved it very much here!

But yeah, anyway we had extra pork chops from last night so because it was so darn awesome, we cooked the same pork chops tonight as well. I actually think it was better tonight because the meat got to marinade for an extra day for EXTRA flavour!

Earl grey pannacotta, with some dodgy looking viet mint
But delicious. Perfect everything, nice work sister!

Just when I thought the pannacotta was already perfect, the sister adds a touch more perfection to this.
Can you believe it can possibly be even more perfect? No?
Well, how's about adding chocolate coated coffee beans? Yeah? YEAH!
*DROOLS thinking about it*

Oh and this was lunch for Wednesday... zucchini slice...
Words cannot explain how bloody delish this dish was...

Here's a close up.
Zucchini slice, with beetroot salad and yoghurt

*sigh*
sooooo good

lunch packed.