This week in brief
After the excitement of last week, this week was fairly quiet. Well – mostly. Work was busybusybusy. But that doesn’t lead to exciting eating, so this week’s post is mostly about random stuff I ate. (And it does get a bit random.)
Last weekend I made a big pot of lamb stew and I ate a variation of the same meal – salad and stewed lamb – for lunch and dinner three days straight. The only reason I stopped eating it was because I ran out of lamb! I don’t understand people who don’t like leftovers – I survive on leftovers. I love cooking, but not needing to cook or think about what to eat after coming home from work = the best thing ever.
But I did run out of lamb eventually and needed to cook. Boohoo. One evening I made chicken cooked in the pressure cooker with onions and sage. Super tasty.
Breakfast one day – microwave omelette, ham and baby spinach.
And a weekend breakfast: green smoothie time. This one had fresh mango, a heck of a lot of baby spinach, a handful of almonds, a tablespoon of honey and coconut milk. It was really filling and super delicious – it just tasted like mango, if you’re wondering.
We went on a trip to Bunnings, and I was tempted by the sausage sizzle that’s always outside. I haven’t eaten one in ages! I totally could’ve scoffed down a second one but managed to resist the allure of the dirty sausage.
Then we went shopping and somehow this ended up in our trolley. AHHH I don’t even know what to say but I do like that it’s “gourmet inspired”. I don’t know what kind of gourmets they know!
An ode to ice cream daifuku:
Mochi ice cream
How can something so wonderous exist?
Combining mochi and ice cream
Your deliciousness makes me want to weep
In joy.
Get in my belly
Where I will love you forever.
Heh heh heh. 😀
The one on the bottom was watermelon flavoured and it was awesome!
Now that I’ve declared my mochi ice cream love, let’s move on to: spicy dried eel. SO nasty, but SO good. I ate half the packet yesterday and polished the rest off for breakfast today… No, I can’t explain it either.
(One day I’m going to look back at these posts and realise how they highlight my occasionally strange eating habits.)
Today I spent all morning in the kitchen. Alastair had to work for a few hours, so I cooked and cooked. I made a batch of the best chilli sauce ever, broke down two chickens, made a pot of pressure cooker butter chicken, baked paleo granola, and fried up some marinated pork chops. In addition, I baked triple chocolate muffins for Alastair, because he mentioned muffins as he was walking out the door. (That’s love, hey?)
Here’s a shot of the paleo granola with chopped up strawberries. Thanh is super addicted to this stuff – it’s basically just chopped up nuts baked with some honey and spices.
And finally – today we also put up our Christmas tree! I made Alastair listen to Christmas songs while we put it up. 😀 BRING ON CHRISTMAS!
Lisa
December 5, 2011 @ 3:47 am
I love your poem 🙂
Agnes
December 5, 2011 @ 9:07 pm
Hahaha thanks Lisa! 😀
Hannah
December 5, 2011 @ 2:31 pm
Baked chopped nuts also = best thing ever. Loooove the vibrancy of your green smoothie, and in fact was thinking of you this weekend as I bought my first mangoes and remembered how we’d talked months ago about looking forward to having them for our smoothies 🙂
I remember seeing mochi ice cream in America and wishing I could try it. Must look for it here.
Also… I would totally share that eel with you!
Agnes
December 5, 2011 @ 9:09 pm
Omg the mango and spinach smoothie was so good! And it was so nice not to drink brown sludge for once. 😀 LOVE mango season!
Re mochi ice cream, have a look in an Asian grocery store – they should have it.
And you’re assuming I would share my eel with you! 😉
Hannah
December 5, 2011 @ 9:23 pm
Yay!! I still have seemingly never-ending frozen pineapple in my freezer, so I think I’ll be having mango and pineapple soon 🙂 Need to stock up on baby spinach, because I truly do miss the non-sweet edge it lends to smoothies.
Oh, you so would share. You know you would. After all, you shared your fancy chocolate 🙂
Agnes
December 5, 2011 @ 9:26 pm
I just add the spinach because it ups my vegie quota for the day even more. Also so I’m not just having fruit because then I’ll be hungry in an hour.
Sharing chocolate is one thing – dried eel is another thing entirely! :p
Hannah
December 5, 2011 @ 9:28 pm
Okay, I understand now. BFF > chocolate, but eel > BFF.
Agnes
December 5, 2011 @ 9:29 pm
Well done! A+ 🙂
msihua
December 5, 2011 @ 8:57 pm
Awww… such a good wife!!!
AND I want to put up my tree too! Maybe before you guys come over 🙂
Agnes
December 5, 2011 @ 9:10 pm
I am the best wife ever. 😀
Put your tree up! Now I’m expecting to see it 🙂
Vee @ Munching (in) Melbourne
December 8, 2011 @ 11:53 pm
Ahh I’ve been scouring Asian groceries for mochi ice creams as well! So far this black sesame one sold in individual packets is leading the pack 😉
Agnes
December 11, 2011 @ 10:35 pm
Oooh black sesame? I haven’t see that one! I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the watermelon one.
Thanh
December 27, 2011 @ 8:23 pm
Ice cream daifuku is the best thing ever. I was so hooked to it for a while.
Awww so nice of you to bake Alastair muffins. Did I mention that I like muffins too, of the banana variety. 🙂