Lunch at Work
Garlic & Parsley Chicken Mignon
Roasted Potatoes
I prepared this chicken mignons last night. In a zip lock bag, I combined some butter, crushed garlic and chopped fresh parsley. I snipped off one of the corners of the bag to create a piping bag!
Squeeze a bit of the garlic & parsley butter onto each mignon and roast them in the oven for about thirty minutes at 180C.
I also baked some potatoes with the mignons. The resulting pan juices were oh
so so delicious! Buttery pan juices infused with garlic, parsley, and the taste of chicken and bacon.
*drool*
After having some terrible news announced at work today, I was in desperate need of some comfort food when I got home. I had some camembert with a glass of wine while preparing dinner. Cooking is such a wonderful distraction.
While waiting for my food to cook, I couldn't help snacking on some of the stirfry Mum made. She was so delighted with it - apparently one of her friends has grown this very hard to find melon or gourd and gave her one. You can't find it at the shops. I saw it briefly before it was all chopped up. It looked like a bitter gourd but it tastes like choko. Mum fried it with prawns and it's such a great combination as you still get the flavour of the melon. Delicious!
Simba was hungry for his dinner. I can't believe how fast we go through his cans of dog food! I bought a large can of CHUM yesterday and I gave him some of this tonight. As I was mashing it up with some rice, I couldn't help but fall in love with the smell! Yes, I quite like the smell of some of the dog food we feed Simba. This CHUM smelled so good...it didn't take me long to realise it smelt like SPAM!
Entree
Vegetable Soup with Pasta Shells
Main
Linguine with Bacon in a Rich Tomato Sauce
OMG this was such an awesome cake! I don't eat cake often nowadays, but this was absolutely delicious! The pears kept their texture and the cake was moist - rather like a teacake. We all fell in love with it. Well done Alice! We'll all be asking her for her recipe!
I'm on night shifts a work this week and my locker has been looking pretty dismal lately. So, I replenished my snack foods supplies and now my locker looks like the snack shelf in a deli.
I bought two lamb leg roasts as they were on special. I stuffed some garlic and fresh rosemary into the lamb and seasoned with sea salt, pepper and olive oil.
In keeping with our 'Active April' regime, we went indoor rock climing this morning at
After our morning's workout, we all eagerly ordered the fish and chips. It took a while for the food to arrive, and I have to admit I was disappointed to see that my fish was burnt and my chips were looking a bit overdone. The dressing was gorgeous though! It was a light, lemony mayonnaise.
Before dinner, we sat across the street from the restaurant to enjoy a coffee and rejuvenate ourselves.
I've eaten here many years ago and remember it was a rather average restaurant serving Italian food and woodfire pizzas. We ordered several pizzas to share.
It's hard to go wrong with woodfire pizzas but tonight when we were close to finishing our meal, one of us discovered a hair in the pizza. It was embedded into the dough base. *shudder
I also ordered a bottle of wine but we were rather horrified to find that it was a cleanskin that they had relabelled as theirs and were charging $25 for it. Misleading and deceitful, in my opinion. 
I prepared this chicken mignons last night. In a zip lock bag, I combined some butter, crushed garlic and chopped fresh parsley. I snipped off one of the corners of the bag to create a piping bag!
Squeeze a bit of the garlic & parsley butter onto each mignon and roast them in the oven for about thirty minutes at 180C.
I also baked some potatoes with the mignons. The resulting pan juices were oh so so delicious! Buttery pan juices infused with garlic, parsley, and the taste of chicken and bacon. *drool*
After having some terrible news announced at work today, I was in desperate need of some comfort food when I got home. I had some camembert with a glass of wine while preparing dinner. Cooking is such a wonderful distraction.
While waiting for my food to cook, I couldn't help snacking on some of the stirfry Mum made. She was so delighted with it - apparently one of her friends has grown this very hard to find melon or gourd and gave her one. You can't find it at the shops. I saw it briefly before it was all chopped up. It looked like a bitter gourd but it tastes like choko. Mum fried it with prawns and it's such a great combination as you still get the flavour of the melon. Delicious!
Simba was hungry for his dinner. I can't believe how fast we go through his cans of dog food! I bought a large can of CHUM yesterday and I gave him some of this tonight. As I was mashing it up with some rice, I couldn't help but fall in love with the smell! Yes, I quite like the smell of some of the dog food we feed Simba. This CHUM smelled so good...it didn't take me long to realise it smelt like SPAM!
