Home made pies

chicken and mushroom pies and curry pies. with rocket, pear and grapefruit salad.

Fresh fruit tart

i have taken up dessert cooking recently and this is my first attempt at making pastry and also my first creme patissiere. the pastry was beautiful but the creme patissiere with a whole vanilla bean just had too strong taste of vanilla for my liking.

i also tried with yoghurt

Mudcrab at home

The local mud crab supplier in Canberra
Mr Crab http://mrcrab.com.au/
delivers live mud crab to your door - for anywhere between $30-40 per kg - depends on season, male or female and how long since they've flown over from the Northern Territory

Crustaceans have got to be my favourite food type
So with no help from hubby - preparation of Singaporean Chilli Crab

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Jjolmyun at home

quick lunch of jjolmyun which literally means chewy noodles. with a chilli paste sauce