chop-chop fried noodles

Continuing on my speedy recipe series, today I will introduce you to my chop-chop fried noodles. What I sometimes do when I can`t be bothered cooking is buy a whole roast chicken from Coles. I eat the thighs & drumsticks with rice. But I hate eating the breast meat, so I usually let someone else eat it. More often than not, though, I ended up making it into my chop-chop fried noodles.

1. Wokka thin egg style noodle
2. Whole roast chicken
3. You choy
4. Chop-chop fried noodles

pan fried snapper

A really quick and tasty way of upping your omega-3 intake is to pan fry your choice of fish and either eat it with rice (my preferred way) or with salad.

It's good to know your nearest fish market where you can buy fresh fish. When I went to get my fish, I didn't know which fish is good for pan frying. This is the time when a knowledgeable fishmonger worths its weight in gold. She recommended the soft-fleshed pink snapper and she couldn't be more right. The fish was so soft that it literally melts in my mouth.

work food

Where I work, we are given free food because we work exorbitantly long hours and our employer knows that we cannot possibly find the time to cook for ourselves after work.

During my time there, I found that the number one thing that my colleagues like to whinge about is the quality of food. Remarks such as "You know why it tastes good? Because frying chips is the one thing they can't possibly f#@%ed" or "Maybe they should get a cooking lesson in how to grill steaks, it's bloody burnt and not cooked at all" or some other remarks which I won't write here in fear of getting myself horribly sued.

assam fish

This recipe is another keeper from Food Safari (google: SBS food safari). I got a chance to do this one because the cleaner at my work just came back from a fishing trip and she gave me two steak chunks of mackerel from the fish that she caught herself. Thanks Flossy, you're tops!

I kinda butchered this recipe, because I couldn't find a mortar and pestle to grind the rempah to a fine paste. So I used a blender which couldn't make the rempah into a fine paste. Added to that, silly me, I tried to stir the rempah with a chopstick while the blender was still on. Can you believe it? So I had to throw away that chewed up chopstick and start over. In the end, I think I did an OK job. Maybe that'll teach me next time to stick to the instructions to a tee.

glory box dark chocolate & pistachio scrummo

I have neglected my blogging duties, but I have allowed myself to have this as I have been quite busy with the commotion of my wedding. That's right folks, you are now reading the blog of a married woman!

Anyways, my sister and I found this quite accidentally. We drove along our usual neighbourhood road and noticed that our local town was having a cappuccino festival. Not sure what a cappucino festival is exactly, but it gave us a distraction to an otherwise quite a boring afternoon.

One of the stalls was this cake shop called the Glory Box. They had this small cylindrical tubes of cake, not unlike muffins, but more tall and thin. I found out that they also do this as a wedding cake, so instead of having one big cake, they'd do small portions of cake baked individually and then arrange them to shape like a cake. Pretty ingenious really, because the cake tasted better, the dark chocolate was so good and each individual cake was crusty on the outside just like it should if it was individually baked.

1. The band on the festival
2. The Glory Box stall
3. Dark chocolate & macadamia scrummos
4. Dark chocolate & pistachio scrummo

Kudos to the concept! Don't know why nobody thought about it before.

Glory Box
358 Charles St
North Perth WA
Open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturday 10am-3pm