• Beef Donburi (Rice Bowl) Vegetables

    Beef & Tomato Rice Bowl

    This is a super easy rice bowl dish. If you use already thinly sliced Beef, often available as frozen in tube shape, it will be super quick to cook. I love to add Garlic to this dish, but Ginger is also nice. You may wish to add both. This Beef and Tomato mixture is lovely …

  • Baked & Fried Sweets

    Australian Chocolate Slice

    In Australia where I live, ‘Chocolate Slice’ means this type, ‘Chocolate & Coconut Slice’. It’s very popular and quite easy to make. Many people have their own recipes, and this is mine. You don’t need to weigh ingredients. Just mix ingredients and bake, and impress your friends and colleagues. Cake Tin 34cm x 20cm Brownie …

  • Donburi (Rice Bowl) Pork

    Mixed Vegetables & Mince Rice Bowl

    A few months ago, my husband bought two large bags of Frozen Mixed Vegetables that he intended to eat for his lunch but he quickly lost interest. I needed to use them up to clean the freezer. I have been using the Frozen Mix Vegetables day after day, and this quick and easy rice bowl …

  • Cheese Chicken Mushrooms

    Creamy Chicken & Mushroom Enchiladas

    Enchiladas are versatile and the filling can be Meats, Beans, Potatoes, Vegetables, Cheese, OR combinations. Today’s filling is Creamy Chicken & Mushrooms. You need to cook it cautiously to make the sauce NOT RUNNY as it would be difficult to wrap with Tortillas. Makes 4 Servings (8 Pieces) Ingredients 600g Chicken Fillets *Thigh OR Breast1 …

  • Beef

    Super Easy Mongolian Beef

    For a long time I wondered why this dish is called ‘Mongolian Beef’. I recently discovered it has nothing to do with Mongolian cuisine. Anyway, it is popular in Melbourne where I live. When I tried to cook it at home, I looked for recipes and I didn’t like all of them, because they were …

  • Beans & Peas Beef Lamb

    Stewed Lamb & Kidney Beans

    I received a message on my ‘Stewed Azuki (Red Beans)’ recipe page from a woman, whose name was Aileen. She wrote that the dish had reminded her what her late-mother used to cook for her large family. Aileen described how her mother would cook the dish, and this is how I would cook it. Thank …

  • Baked & Fried Sweets Nuts

    Pistachio Snowball Cookies

    These delicious cookies can be made with other ground Nuts such as Almonds. Today I used Pistachios, expecting the cookies would turn green, but they didn’t because the Pistachios I used were not really green. Probably they were not good quality. If you use good quality Pistachio that are really green, the cookies would look …

  • Fish Vegetables

    Spinach, Corn & Tuna Salad with Sesame & Mayonnaise

    My family’s favourite Spinach dish is definitely ‘Goma-ae Spinach’, however it contains a fair amount of Soy Sauce. I am trying to reduce Salt intake because of my husband’s health issue. Today I used Japanese Mayonnaise to seasoned it and I added only 1 teaspoon Soy Sauce to this dish. It was salty enough for …

  • Zōsui (Rice Soup)

    ‘Get-Well-Soon’ Rice Soup

    This is what I am most likely cooking when I don’t feel well with a cold or something. If I am very sick and weak, I would wish to eat ‘Okayu’, Japanese Rice Porridge, that is seasoned with only a small amount of Salt, but it is not nutritious. For this Rice Soup, Egg and …

  • Baked & Fried Sweets Nuts

    Pistachio Pinwheel Cookies

    Today I wanted to use up leftover Pistachios that were already ground. First I thought about making Puff Pastry Pinwheel Biscuits, but I didn’t have Puff Pastry. I absolutely didn’t want to bother making it, then I decided to make my ‘Easiest Sweet Shortcrust Pastry’. I used Egg Yolk for the Pastry, so I used …

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