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Charmane wrote:as long as they eat them vicki! thats great do you crumb your own fish? we bought a deep fryer AGES ago from aldi, still haven't used it {can't bear to soak our food in fat! LOL} BUT it would be good to fry some stuff up hehhe....

I'm eating my fave cheese - brie.... and biscuits with a glass of wine.... now to scrap! I'm just editing photos atm though

It was just frozen fish in the oven tonight, but come summer when Matt and Ashan start fishing, we will have LOTS of fresh fish to eat, then we will be crumbing our own!! Yum!! We normally just shallow fry the fish in the electric frypan!!

I have a deep fryer that we used to use to make our own chips, but it hasn't been out of the cupboard for about 12mths cos its easier to just nick down the road and grab chips when we need them!!

about the brussel sprouts Ant!!! My mum was the same - forced the eat them as a child and HATED them, so they never made it on the menu at our place. (They probably didnt taste as bad as you remember though, coz they used to boil the life out of all veges back then and you didnt overcook them. The cabbage family release sulphur when they are overcooked - hence the horrible bitter taste you remember.)
And yep, our roast veges were YUMMY...

Oky Doky i was out of action last night the kiddys gave me a spewy bug was not happy LOL, so the big boy just had left over sausage cassserole while me and the kids had..... fluids...

I was a naughty girl and had Maccas tonight, Fish and vege last night.

Niccinu wrote:Oky Doky i was out of action last night the kiddys gave me a spewy bug was not happy LOL, so the big boy just had left over sausage cassserole while me and the kids had..... fluids...

Hope you're feeling better now

Well we were gonna have roasted chicken pieces and vegies but when Ray came home from having his surgery (after fasting for close to 2 days) he decided he was gonna be a pig (his words). We ended up getting pizza AND Maccas......yep - really healthy that was. He was the only one of all of us that managed to have both....blahhhhh.

LMAO Ant!!

Tonight i made chicken, prawn and cashew stir-fry!! It was yummy!!

We had bacon, eggs and hash browns mmmm

YUMMMM Vick!

I didnt do much tonight, DD & I had a simple pasta early and then DP cooked himself steak and eggs later on.

We had to go to dd's school bush dance tonight so I got to have some yummy bbq chicken kebabs they were selling. I maanaged to capture some great video footage of dd dancing with her daddy - so very sweet.

Awwwww how wonderful Linda!

Well Ashan decided to cook tonight.... again.... gotta love it!!! Biryani, yummy srilankan vegies, dhal mmmmm..... very HOT too.... and a glass of wine or two heheheh

LOL, we got baked spuds for tea tonight!! Couldn't be bothered cooking with no kiddies home!!

it's saturday night, so I figured a night off was in order...my lot got toasted sandwiches!

vickstar wrote:LOL, we got baked spuds for tea tonight!! Couldn't be bothered cooking with no kiddies home!!

gosh you have it good no kids again???? so you making another one hehehhe/???

Lmao, maybe if Matt be's nice to me!! hehe!! We don't always farm them out, the grandies fight over who is going to have them all the time!! lol!!

I WISH I had that problem...one night off in over 2 years here...LOL
You guys are very lucky to have such helpful and caring grandparents for the kids close by.

i agree sue! you are very lucky vicki! Now that we are down here though, we have the opportunity, but not an overnight stay, thing it would be too much.... specially with THREE of them hehhe.... I just loved the fact that mum was able to look after them on wednesday when I had to do the LL party and Ashan had his first day of his job - def a lifesaver!!! I'm looking forward to having a night out to dinner just ashan and I.... now that he has a job, it might happen SOON! wahooo!

Yippee!!

I really would like some of the recipes - the stir fry you made the other night Vicki sounded wonderful....and Charm what are srilankan vegies and dahl - some recipes please.....and the curry that you had the other night. Sounds yummo.

We had the chicken and roast vegies that we were meant to have last night....ended up having my sister and her partner over too. They decided we needed sweets (we never eat sweets) so they brought an apple and rhubbarb crumble and we had custard with it....even I enjoyed that.

Oh yummy, i love making crumble!!

only srilankans can make srilankan food.... i've attempted but it's never as good! We buy our curry powders/spices from indian/srilankan shops in melbourne too, so if you don't have the right stuff its hard to get it "right" iykwim?

dhal are lentils though - the yellow ones that you can buy in the soup section, but as i have discovered are a lot cheaper in the "asian" section of the supermarket.... go figure! you add onion, garlic, curry powder, tumeric, curry leaves.... and some other stuff that ashan adds and the way he cooks it so much better than me.... he just gives me the easy stuff to do - cut up the onions, garlic, ginger.... and cook the rice heheh.... i'm happy with that

I LOVE dhal!!!
the best dhal I have ever had was a tiny little vegetarian cafe run by some hare krishnas in Eumundi...it was my Friday night treat when I was broke and a strict vegan...$7 all we could eat!!!

LOL Sue! Ashan makes the best dhal.... but then again..... so do our srilankan friends hehhe

well I would love his recipe! I havent had dhal for AGES!