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Lin & Jun Profile Lin's Kitchen Dining Out Archives July 2007 September 2007 Taggy |
Sunday, September 2, 2007 Spicy Grilled Sausages Lin's Style Scrambled Eggs Spinach Stir-Fry And Crossaint (From 'Bakers Delight')  Lin's Kitchen: Grilled Chicken & Cheese Sausages Lin's Style Scrambled Eggs "Garlic Sprout" Stir-Fry A Side of Turkish Bread Grilled with Homemade Garlic Butter & Mixed Herbs.   Lin's Kitchen: Instant Indo-Mee With Homemade Beef rendang Soft Boiled Egg And Lin's Mummy Homemade Sambal Ikan Bilis  Lin's Kitchen: Another Instant Noodle Affair Instant Japanese Yaki Soba With Fried Egg Topped With Nori Fumi Furikake. 海苔のふりかけ。  Lin's Kitchen: First Attempt At Baba Style Chicken Curry with Pumpkin & Sweet Potato (Turned out a success! WHOO!)  Lin's Kitchen: A Yummilicious Vegeterian Dish Lohan Vegeterian Dish (With Various different asian mushrooms, bamboo shoots, Lily bulbs, Tofu, Chinese Cabbage, Black & White Fungus....etc)  Lin's Kitchen: Lin's Sweet & Sour Barramundi With Homemade Sweet & Sour Sauce. Fresh Barramundi Peices Lightly Coated in Corn Flour & Shallow Fried  Lin's Sweet & Sour Barramundi Peices (Yum! We wiped it all clean!)  Lin's Kitchen: Sambal Stir-Fry Noodles with slice fish cake Topped with Lin's Style Scrambled Eggs (Yes I love my eggs so much!) & Nori Fumi Furikake. 海苔のふりかけ。  Lin's Kitchen: Lin's Japanese Style Stir-Fry Chicken Udon with Spring Onions Topped with Sesame Seeds  Lin's Kitchen: Stir-Fry Sambal French Beans With Minced Beans & Fried Tofu Served with Fragrant Fried Rice  Lin's Kitchen: Grilled Garlicky Barramundi Spicy Sambal Dark Soy French Beans & Carrot Served with Rice Topped with Nori Fumi Furikake. 海苔のふりかけ。  Lin's Kitchen: Grilled Honey-Mustard Barramundi Sauteed Mushrooms Fresh Homemade Garden Salad With No oil Italian Dressing.  Lin's Kitchen: Lin's Attempt At Going "Gourmet"... What do you think? Grilled Honey Mustard Tasmanian Salmon Chargrilled Prawns Garlicky Spinach Stir-Fry in Vegeterian Oyster Sauce  Lin's Kitchen: Spicy Chargrilled Calamari & Prawns (Hmmm-Mmmm) Steamed Brocolli & Carrot Infused with GInger & Garlic  Apologies for the long absence due to University studies & Work. Hope you enjoyed this foodie pics galore... I'm going on a Detox, so won't be making anything for a while. With Love, From Lin's Kitchen. Monday, July 16, 2007 My Ever-so-dearest Papa & Mummy's Visit To Australia They brought bag-full of goodies, chinese herbs, biccies, candies and even a 5 litre Thermo cooking Pot to Australia for us. Mummy cooked while Jun and I assisted in the Kitchen. A few things I cooked for her and cooked together with her too. The Picture Saga Begins... My Papa & Mummy. Still in Love after 24 years of Marriage. My Role Models.  My Father's First Bottle of Vino in Australia this time round...  The Great 10 day Cook-off Begins...  For the First Night, It was just a light & simple dinner...(Andrew and I were both sick) The Mummy Cooked: Asian style Clear Chicken & Vegetable Soup Chinese Cabbage & Shitake Mushroom In Oyster Sauce & Garlic. Roasted Desiree Potatoes Grilled Pork Fillets With Asian Sauces, Herbs & Spices Served with Brown Rice  Lunch the next day... The Mummy Cooked: "Poh-fun" (Claypot Rice)- Topped with "chang-ju-la" (Crispy fried onion) (Contains: Chicken, Carrots, Leek...etc)  Dinner the next night... The Mummy Cooked: Fried Carrot Cake /w Sambal chilli (Mum cooked it from scratch. Steaming her own carrot cake made with shredded pumpkin - instead of the usual yam. Fried Garlic & Rice Flour. Cut it up and fried it the way we love it. Black & Spicy)  Lunch the next day... The Mummy Cooked: Spicy Char Kuay Teow!  Dinner that night... The Mummy Cooked: Stir-fry Bok Choy /w Lap cheong Sweet & Sour Prawns   Yet another night's dinner... The Mummy Cooked: Chicken Curry (Typical Singaporean/Malaysian Style) Mushroom & Chicken Stir-Fry with Shredded Chilli, Onion & Garlic in Mushroom Sauce.   That Same Night...Andrew had a craving so after work he bought... Take Out: New York Slice Pizzeria Traditional New York Style Pizza Pies... Half-and-Half Pizza (Hawaiian & Meat Lovers) The Box  Their Pizza is Gigantic!  Look at just ONE slice on a normal dining plate...  Okay..if you still don't believe how big it is... Here's one of my mum holding the pizza box  Although they are a little pricey...Their Pizza IS THE BEST! Our all time fave. Take-Out From: New York Slice Pizzeria 360 Brunswick Street Fortitude Valley Phone (07) 3252 0888 Okay... So GUESS WHAT WAS FOR LUNCH THE NEXT DAY....  The Mummy Cooked: Homemade Chicken Rice And Our Very Own Grilled Chicken (YUM!) Have You Guessed it Right? The Chicken. (We don't have a good enough knife here so we couldn't chop it like "chicken rice store style", which my mummy often do back home.. so we cut into peices instead)  The Whole She-bang...  AFTER...  Jun wiped clean ALL the rice... She had 3 servings. (My mum is such a great cook!)  This is totally Random... But Our New Piano (that my parents bought) arrived after chicken rice... How happy can a soul get? Our New Kawai CN4 (We have a really good Kawai performance edition back home... This is much less pricey but the touch is the same!) The Set-up For Our New Piano:  For Dessert.. The Mummy Made: White Fungus, Red Date, Ginseng & Rock Sugar Dessert (Yummy!)  A Spicy, Hot & Sour Lunch the next day...(drools right about now...) The Mummy Cooked: Mee-Siam (It was sooo good - I learnt how to make it!)  Now...Can you guess what this two little things hold?  Yes...YES! The Mummy Made Her Very Own: Sambal Ikan Bilis with Roasted Peanuts. And Dried Shrimp Sambal OMG! (We miss her cooking already!)  She made a big batch for us... Our Sambal Ikan Bilis Stash  Another Dinner... The Mummy Cooked: Asyam Fish (Insert more drooling action here)  Dinner the next night... We have been craving for a good sweet & sour fish... The Mummy Cooked: Barramundi And Dory Sweet & Sour Fish Spicy Dried Shrimp Sambal French Bean with Minced Pork I really dislike sweet & sour fish where it's like more batter then fish, and the fish.. is it really fish? And the sweet & sour sauce is very important.. I dislike those sticky bright red gooey time which is often too over powering and 'fake'. So I made my own sweet & sour sauce to go with it. It was very welcomed by the family. Both types of fish were lightly coated in corn flour and shallow fried. (Left: Barramundi - Right: Dory)   The Dinner: (Rice Topped With Sakanayasan No Hana Katsuo 魚やさんのはなかつお- Dried Shaved Bonito)  The Final Dinner Together This Holiday... (We miss them so much!) Early celebration - Jun's Birthday (19th July) The Mummy Cooked: Nasi Briyani Beef Rendang. (Soooo goood!)  The Beef Rendang  Before the cake, We sat with tea and a platter of Cavier & Philli on Jatz. Strawberries & Cherries Platter(Not shown)and just had a nice family chat.  My Parents and I went out earlier that day to get Jun's cake while she was at work... We bought: Charlotte Royale From Shingles Inn. (It was beautiful)  With candles:  My slice of cake:  Cake Bought From: Shingles Inn Indooroopilly Shopping Centre Moggill Rd Indooroopilly phone: (07) 3878 7861 They left for Singapore on Sunday... We miss them so much! The Next Morning... we woke up and felt a little weird without them... So.. For Breakfast, I cooked... Lin's Kitchen: Chee cheong fun  And a nice fresh snack: Fresh cherries  Well, I hope you enjoyed our little saga. We certainly had a great time... More Next Time. With Love From Lin and Jun's Mummy's Kitchen & Lin's Kitchen Friday, June 29, 2007 Rustic Fungi Alla Bolognaise Spinach Stir-Fry with Garlic, Oyster Sauce & Chilli Padi Red & Green Apple + Strawberry Juice. We really loved the Chicken & Mushroom Alla Spiral Pasta Bolognaise I made on Wednesday.. So I decided to make a very similar pasta dish but just using mushrooms...Really didn't feel like meat today so to make up for iron, I made a stir-fry Spinach with garlic, oyster sauce & chilli padi. The chilli padi was very potent! YUM. Rustic Fungi Alla Bolognaise  Spinach Stir-Fry With Oyster Sauce, Garlic & Chilli Padi  The Beautiful Juice Made by my Sister, Jun. Red Apples, Green Apples & Strawberries.  And Not Forgetting One of Our Favourite Chocolates, With Jun's Cat as the Ambassador... Presenting Haku & Kit Kat Mint  Okay so there we have it. A few nights ago I had a really weird craving and just had to have it for supper. It was really random and weird because usually people crave for like bad stuff for like chocolates or Maccas or some oily/fried stuff... This was what I craved for... What was it I got up to cook, freezing my butt off in the middle of the night for that random craving?  It's Grilled Terriyaki Glazed Atlantic Salmon... What a craving to have in the middle of the night! It was SOOOO yummy!  Okay.. I will end today's post with another cat picture... The Black Cat, Kuro, born on Halloween last year.  With Love From Lin's Kitchen, Jun's Yummy Juice & The Cats. Wednesday, June 27, 2007 Chicken & Mushroom Alla Spiral Pasta Bolognaise. As I have mentioned in the very first post we were saving up to get a camera. A few of you have also commented on how my food lacks luster because of the poor quality of my mobile phone's measely camera. A few days ago I bought Andrew one of the cameras he has been eyeing for. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8 I bought that for him, a high-speed card and a wrrantee for 5 years.(Our Dream camera however is the Canon 400D) But this camera I bought him = LOVE. Beautiful Quality. Beautiful Pictures. Powerful. This is how the camera looks like:  Click here for an online review of the camera. Dinner Tonight: Chicken & Mushroom Alla Spiral Pasta Bologanise.  Strawberries Throughout the Day...  And Finally a picture of my much loved cat, Kiki!  With Love From Lin's Kitchen Sunday, June 24, 2007 Japanese Cold Soba Terriyaki Glazed Chicken with Caramalized Onions Spicy Terriyaki Celery Stir-Fry Wanted to make a simple Japanese dinner....So here goes: Japanese Cold Soba with Shallots  Dipping the Cold Soba into Zaru Soba Tuyu (Sauce for Soba noodle)  Terriyaki Glazed Chicken with Caramelized Onions, Sesame Seeds & Shallots  Spicy Terriyaki Celery Stir-Fry with Chopped Chilli Padi  There was alot of left over Soba... So for lunch tomorrow I made: Stir-Fry Chicken Terriyaki Soba  After Dinner: A Good Pot of Japanese Genmai Cha  And: Yummilicious Japanese Biccies (taste just like my fave pastry - Palmier)   We really enjoyed our dinner...more tomorrow! With Love from Lin's Kitchen. Friday, June 22, 2007 Azabu Japanese Restaurant Katsu-Don I decided to take Jun out for dinner at the Japanese Restaurant near our place. Heard lots of good things about it and I didn't hear wrong. It was good, even their miso soup was authentic. Jun had Katsu-Don (omg, I LOVE katsu don and I LOVE theirs, it's simply one of the best I have tasted!), I had Unajyu (Grilled Unagi with Rice - Not shown), and we both had miso soup. YUM. I'm definitely going back and definitely going to take pictures of every dish. Here's the Katsu-Don  "A katsudon (カツ丼) is a popular Japanese food; it is a bowl of rice topped with a deep-fried pork cutlet, egg, and condiments. Variations include sauce katsudon (with Worcestershire sauce), demi katsudon (with demi-glace and often green peas, a specialty of Okayama), shio katsudon (with salt, another Okayama variety), shōyu-dare katsudon (with soy sauce, Niigata style), and miso katsudon (a favorite in Nagoya). Beef and chicken can substitute for the pork. The dish takes its name from the Japanese words tonkatsu (for pork cutlet) and donburi (for rice bowl dish). It has become a modern ritual tradition for Japanese students to eat katsudon the night before taking a major test or school entrance exam. This is because "katsu" is a homophone of the verb 勝つ katsu, meaning "to win" or "to be victorious"." - Wikipedia. Dined At Azabu Japanese Restaurant Shop 18/ 165 Moggill Rd Taringa QLD 4068 ph: (07) 3371 7605 Tuesday, June 19, 2007 Grilled Italian Meatballs alla Bolognaise The Italian Meatballs With Herbs, Garlic & Spices  The Dinner: Grilled Italian Meatballs alla Bolognaise  I made the Italian Meatballs alla Bolognaise for Jun and Andrew. The Spiral Pasta held the sauce very well. My bolognaise sauce is slightly spicy to enhance the taste of the tomatoes, I used a good dash of rich red wine, lots of onion, freshly chopped garlic, four seasons peppercorn and other spices....My sister, Jun was very delighted, and When my partner Andrew got back from work he was all smiles and gobbled it all down. Happy Diners = Happy Cook. I made a vegetarian style pasta for myself with the same sauce base but I made it spicier. Below was my dinner for tonight. Spicy Spinach & Eggplant Spiral Pasta alla Bolognaise  With Love From Lin's Kitchen |
