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1980s Love and Marriage Snippets and Vignettes

The Earliest Days of Trenna AND Greg – Part 2

Part 1 of this series is here.

Slow Progress

By Greg

Postscript to Part 1

Trenna had apparently shunned me at the end of our first date, yet she said she was fine with me calling her?

I replayed the evening over and over in my mind. It had seemed to go so well. The conversation had flowed so easily. And through pure chance I had brought her favourite wine to take to the restaurant.

Apart from the end, the … Read the rest ... “The Earliest Days of Trenna AND Greg – Part 2”

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1990s Menus

Menu Diary No. 8

October 1992

A reconnection to the Andersons!

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Monday 28 September. Roast Pork. I would have made this one. Mainly because Trenna would have real trouble lifting a hot pork roast safely, and secondly because in those days I always got the crackling perfectly crispy.

Wednesday 30 September – Sunday 4 Read the rest ... “Menu Diary No. 8”

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1990s Menus

The Menu Diaries No. 5

July 1992

One of Many Indian Banquets

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Tuesday 30 June 1992. Steak and Kidney Pie. “Really Yummy”. Trenna developed a recipe for this, and another, very similar, for Steak and Mushroom Pie. Both were favourites with us and I am sure they are going to appear all through the years … Read the rest ... “The Menu Diaries No. 5”

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1990s Menus Recipes

The Menu Diaries No. 2

April 1992

Anzac Day and Hungry Jack’s

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Saturday 4 April. “Ragaletto”! A pasta sauce from a jar!? Could this be right? Then I remembered that when we were first together and both working it wasn’t uncommon for us to have Dolmio brand pasta sauces from a jar. On this … Read the rest ... “The Menu Diaries No. 2”

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1990s Menus Recipes

The Menu Diaries No.1

March 1992

Rissoles, Rumah Batik and Sunday Sessions

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The first thing I notice about this menu sheet is that there are a number of crossings out. I think at first Trenna was drawing up the sheets with what she expected we would be eating. Then when circumstances changed she had … Read the rest ... “The Menu Diaries No.1”