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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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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”