The wonderful Lorraine from ‘Not quite Nigella’ recently posted a weeks worth of her eating. Its strangely interesting to see how another person eats. So in this theme, I have decided to record a weeks worth of dinners at my house. Its not a usual week but then there is no usual week for me. I decide my meals on mood, what I’ve bought at the markets and time.
The gorgeous M spent saturday night coughing. I woke up and decided that we would have chicken soup for dinner. A quick look through my recipes and I knew that I wanted chicken pho. Not a quick meal but enjoyable to make – there is something very satisfying about boiling bones don’t ya think!
Naturally, I forgot to take the plated up meal. We have the table set with herbs, bean shoots, chilli, lime and the bowls ready to go with rice noodles and chicken meat.
Dinner plans were cancelled for monday night as we were invited to a little birthday celebration for our beautiful 5 year old twin friends.
Tuesday night – lamb saagwala. i had some lamb forequarter chops which I trimmed and diced. I also had a big bag of spinach and some leftover fresh coriander from last week. At my local market I buy spice mixes from a sunshine coast company called ‘spice it’.
Wednesday night – whats in the fridge? Some leftover stock from the chicken pho, some beautiful pesto from a local deli and lots of green vegetables. Dinner was green risotto with a little feta cheese crumbled through.
Thursday night – the gorgeous M’s mini-me (Master 4yr old)got his favourite meal- sushi. Thick rolls with smoked trout, avocado and cucumber and thin rolls with tuna and Japanese mayonnaise.
Now its friday night and I’m feeling tired and uninspired. We have BBQ’ed sausages on wraps with salad
The last night is saturday night and guess what – I forgot to take a photo. We had a BBQ at the beach with our wonderful neighbours. There were a number of salads and we enjoyed BBQed steak with salad, chilled white wine and really great company. So that was a week at my house. Every week is different but overall we try for at least one fish dinner, one meatless night and there is usually one BBQ night. Do you have any stock standard favorites at your place?
Nov 26, 2012 @ 18:19:12
Do you seriously put frangipanis and tea lights on your dinner table? Please tell me you didn’t roll your own sushi.
Nov 27, 2012 @ 15:31:20
Ha ha, I had my mother in law coming for dinner so the table got a little extra love. And yes, I do roll my own nori
Nov 26, 2012 @ 22:09:02
I saw Lorraine’s post…it is quite interesting to see what other people eat! You eat a lot of variety and Pho, now that is a challenge! We try to eat a variety, but we often don’t get as much seafood as I would like. BBQ’s are probably once a week, too!
Nov 27, 2012 @ 15:32:21
Thanks Ali – its a bit like peeping into peoples shopping trolleys
Dec 19, 2012 @ 17:46:38
Everything looks delicious!
And hehe yes it’s easy to forget to take photos of all of the meals isn’t it? 
Now I feel like sushi! 