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It looks like we ate a few home grown vegies in January 1993. That was probably the peek of our vegetable growing as a short time later we built a swimming pool that took up most of the sunny space in the back yard.
Having said that, we always (and still do) grew quite a wide range of herbs and still grew the … Read the rest ... “The Menu Diaries No. 10”
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Monday 2 November. Cardboard sausages. These were left overs from Colin and Julie’s barbecue the day before.
Tuesday 3 November. Once again Tren’s Original Curry, as discussed in previous Menu Diaries.
Saturday 7 November. Muresk is an Agricultural College affiliated with the university at which I was working. It is about an hour and a half drive North East … Read the rest ... “Menu Diary No. 9”
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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 October. I went away to the National Australian Institute of Tertiary Education Administrators (AITEA) … Read the rest ... “Menu Diary No. 8”
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Tuesday 25 August. Trenna made moussaka again, which I’m sure I enjoyed – it would have taken her ages.
Thursday 27 August, chilli spaghetti is a really easy and fast meal. As it was a Thursday we probably did the grocery shopping first (the only night supermarkets were open late) and then I would have cooked it after we got home. … Read the rest ... “Menu Diary No. 7”
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Tuesday 28 July. “Basically” with the “Basic” underlined. I’m sure it would still have been good.
Wednesday 29 July. Trenna remarks that penne is a good choice of type of pasta. As long as I can remember, which is obviously not this far back, I thought we ALWAYS had that favourite meal with penne, but obviously not. It is the same meal that … Read the rest ... “Menu Diary No. 6”
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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 of these menu diaries (I last made it about a month ago). Eventually I will publish the recipes for those … Read the rest ... “The Menu Diaries No. 5”
To fully understand this post you are going to need to access the iPad document I have embedded above.
You won’t need to know much about crocheting, and you don’t need to read the whole document, provided you scan through the lot.
Well. Some time, probably in September 2014 Trenna and I received the wonderful news that one of our 9 nieces was pregnant – congratulations again Jade.
Trenna decided … Read the rest ... “A Rug for Jack and Jade”
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Friday 29 May 1992. A date which will live in infamy. Our good friend Helen invited us to her pace for dinner with her and her then husband, David. I fell asleep at the table. Big Whoops! Helen and David were good about it….
Tuesday 2 June. I see we had flathead fillets and really enjoyed them. Looking ahead at the next … Read the rest ... “The Menu Diaries No. 4”
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Monday 4 May. Steak with green pepper sauce, herbed spud, beans, carrots. Tren describes it as gluggy but yummy. She is referring to the green pepper sauce. I haven’t had it for years. It was made with peppercorns that came in a small green can, and evaporated milk was the other main ingredient. It was delicious, but hard not to make gluggy. We … Read the rest ... “The Menu Diaries No. 3”
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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 occasion I suspect we had it because it was Saturday and we had probably been busy all day – most … Read the rest ... “The Menu Diaries No. 2”
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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 to cross out what was planned and write what we actually had.
I believe after just a few sheets she cottoned … Read the rest ... “The Menu Diaries No.1”
In 1990-91 Trenna and I employed builders to do our first home renovation. Trenna had recently resigned from her job at the Hospital Benefit Fund (HBF) and therefore had the time to keep a record of what tradesmen came when.
I believe I’ve still got that record, but that will be the subject of a totally different post.
The reason I … Read the rest ... “Introducing the Menu Diaries”
[GM: As the title suggests, this was the fourth of 24 recordings done at our kitchen bench in Kensington, Western Australia. As part of the preparation for putting it on this website, in February 2022, I asked our friend Helen to read through this transcript and the one from 7 June 2018. Below you will find some of Helen’s comments interspersed. My thanks to Helen for doing that.]
GM: OK, so it’s the … Read the rest ... “The Fourth Kitchen Tape”