I have been really lazy at the beginning of this week. I suppose it's because I had too much fun on the weekend. Thus, this laziness continues  Anyway, it does not mean that we have to eat out everyday. There are a lot of prepared meat at the butcher and those help a lot to shorten the preparation time in the kitchen. Nowadays, there are a lot of healthier added value items from the supermarkets and the butchers. Nowadays, they offer products with health claim such as low fat, low salt, gluten free and so on depending on your need.

My meal plan may not be the healtiest of the meal choices but once in a while is alright. Don't get too stress out about our diet. We need to enjoy our life too. Seriously!!!

For sure, there will be no picture taken this week. I still have a lot of photos waiting to be editted. Geez... need more spare hours in a day!!! I don't want added hours in a day tho...

Here are my week dinner meals...

Monday - McDonald’s Apple Pie and Soft Serve Cone

                Broken Rice with Pork Chop, Fried Egg and Vermicelli from Vietnamese Restaurant

Note: This dish is very nice eventhoug it might use cheap rice.  The packet was also very cheap as I had half portion for dinner and the other half was for lunch.

Tuesday - Assorted Chicken Sausages from Lenard’s and salad

Note: The sausages were very salty but may be alright with bread. The least salty sausage was the plain chicken sausage but it didn't have much flavour.

Beneran asin banget!!!

Wednesday- Chicken Breast Snitschel from Linden Butcher (modified to Parmigiana) and salad

Note: The snitschel was very nice. I had to cut them into two due to their size. I deep fried them in hot oil, no more oil spray.  It's apparently easier to cook and took shorter time. Then, I put some tomato sauce and a slice of tasty cheese. Grill them until the cheese melted.

Thursday - Chicken Enchilada from Lenard’s and Tomato Salad

Friday - Beef Patties with fresh salad

It's a Mother's Day on 13 May 2007 in Australia. Well, I don't celebrate this Hallmark day in my family but yeah, my husband's family somehow celebrates this kind of day.

My opinion is that the Mother's day doesn't have to be a special allocated day like that. The attention and the love have to be shown on any day. It's kind of ridiculous now that the day becomes commercialised.

Anyway, it's still a good day to practise my culinary skills . My plan is to cook some simple food and nice. The menu is as the following:

Scotch Fillet Steak with Garlic and Butter Sauce served with Sauteed Spinach

Grilled Chicken with Garlic, Chilli and Ginger (for Ma in Law coz she doesn't like beef that much) served with Sauteed Spinach

Puff Pasty Pillow with Strawberry Chunks and Vanilla Ice Cream

PS: Recipes and photos will be posted later.

It's end of the week again. It's the time to up-date the menu list. I'm still trying to group the food types so I can prepare them ahead but not to saturate my appetite.

Last week was a busy time for both of us and we came home pretty late most of the days. So... as expected, I wouldn't be able to follow the third week list. I still have some of the ingredients for that week in the freezer and it's the time to make those meals this week *well, I hope so*

Surprise... surprise... I still managed to bake 2 times at night. The first one was the Coconut Macadamia Cookies from Ci Irma's recipe with a mild twist and the Chocolate Chunk Cookies using Culinary Institute of America. How can you resist cookies?  

From this week, I will post the subsequent weekly menu in this blog. Please feel free to peek into the list.

The first week nearly ends and so far it has been a good week. I reach home around 5:30-ish (if not later) and need to get the food ready within 30-40 minutes. The menu plan has been a real help for me... even though, I am still tempted to cook something else than the listed ones. *Hmm... please be on the track!*

Anyway, if you are interested to see what's cooking next week, you can look into the attachment. Have fun!

No photos of the dishes at the moment as I am always in the rush. I'll take the pictures some of the dishes when I manage to set the mini studio.

Up-date 3 May 07:

This week has been a hectic one but I still manage to follow the menu. Of course, with a little bit of change here and there . The only thing that I really want is to take the pics of the dishes. It's not with a reason to show off of what I do and the food that I cook. It's just simply to improve my photo taking skills and my food styling skills. Hmm self satisfaction... I guess I have to make the tent ready for it. I wish that I could have more time at home to do this.

Berikut ini adalah beberapa daftar menu makanan yang pernah aku bikin untuk pesta di rumah. Aku masak sebagian besar makanannya dan kalau yang kue2an atau salad aku serahkan ke mertua :)

Aku lagi mencoba bikin menu makan malam mingguan seperti yang ada di Fixing Dinner. Soalnya si Byron bakalan mulai kerja di tempat baru dan jam kerjanya lebih siangan. So pasti nyampe rumahnya lebih telat deh dan sekarang masaknya harus lebih terencana.  Kayaknya sih kalo mau bikin makanan Indo yg ribet skg asli mesti hari libur.

Kadang bingung juga mau masak apa yg cepat, nikmat dan bisa dibawa kerja (aka bisa direheat di microwave). Sudah 5 harian ini gak bawa makanan ke kantor dan seringan makan malam di luar jg * boros la yaw*

Aniwei.... kemarinnya sudah ngeset daftar makanan utk 8 minggu terus ditelaah lagi, eh ternyata ada steak lah di hari kerja. Soalnya kalo steak itu gak enak sih utk dihangatkan di microwave. Ada potato dihari kerja juga dan ya dengan alasan yg sama sih, gak terlalu enak dimikrowv keesokan harinya. Terus ya sudah deh, daftarnya diubah urutannya. Akan tetapi, kemarinnya udah ngeset daftar belanjaannya per minggu. * bagian ke 2!!* Mesti dilihat2 lagi deh... Rencana sih mau dimasukin ke Living Cookbook karena seingetku bisa dibuat menu juga dan biar bisa dihitung harganya juga. Ya, kali2 aja ntar mau buka katering kecil2an, kan udah ada kalkulasinya.

Ntar kalau daftarnya udah ok semua, aku posting sederetan di postingan selanjutnya  Semoga bisa dipake yg sama2 ngadepin jam mepet utk makan malam. Sekarang mau ngeset lagi utk minggu depan dulu dan besok mau shop shop ke Springvale.

Rencana utk Minggu I *moga-moga sih jalan*: