What I'm reading now...

A fascinating book on my two favourite topics - New York & oysters. Mark Kurlansky's The Big Oyster.

Anything to distract myself from wedding preparations and house hunting :)

Lazy Sunday

Smoked salmon scrambled eggs - the lazy way

It was such a glorious day yesterday we decided to have a BBQ on the roof of our building. I made some potato salad and a cold bean and red pepper salad. I then marinated a tonne of chicken drumsticks in soy sauce to be coated with a honey glaze once cooked (my family's secret recipe, used at every Easter and Christmas BBQ for as long as I can remember).

My brother and his friend called around and we had a lovely evening outside. After they left, we were so exhausted we went to bed...at 10pm...on a Saturday night. I guess we must be getting old!

So when we woke up this morning to another glorious day, we decided to have brunch on the balcony. J headed out to get some coffess and the Sunday paper and I prepped for our brunch. A super quick and easy scambled eggs with smoked salmon, grape tomatoes and a slice of toast.

Ahhh...you've gotta love the weekends.

Sunday Night - blogging and cooking

Just about to start my second attempt at pork chops with mustard sauce, with green beans, glazed carrots and baked potatoes.



I have the ingredients prepped, I have a glass of wine in hand. Ready, steady.....GO!!!


VERDICT: J gave it 7/10 - he found the sauce a little too sweet. I give it 7.5 (only because I slaved over the stove...ha!). It turned out a lot better than my first attempt, and hopefully it'll be better the next time I try. I used single (light) cream rather than what the recipe called for, and it thickened up fine.

A little sleepy now from such a big meal. Just going to finish up that bottle of wine before heading off to bed. I can't believe the weekend is over already!


Sunday night dinner - excuse the dodgy looking baked potato!