Last Weekend

I had a lovely weekend that's just passed. Lots and lots of chores that the boy and I conquered. Mind you, there's still a basket full of laundry to be washed!!! We have this thing called a Clothes Monster that inhabits in our bedroom and it tends to grow and takes a life of its own. Thank god it isn't of dirty laundry! We also conquered the Clothes Monster this weekend. When the next one grows and gets out of hand, I'll remember to take a picture.
There was lots of cooking as usual. Saturday morning I woke craving pancakes....

And so the boy set to cook 'em!

The Pancake Monster

A happy one at that!

I also watched Iron Chef for the first time on Saturday night. It is indeed addictive! I particularly like the fact that there weren't that many ad breaks. I got inspired (not by what they were cooking though) so I set making dessert.

Orange poached pear served with fresh orange, ice cream and of course, cinnamon

That was an accomplishment for me. I always marvelled at poached fruit and used to think of it as a 'too hard' task. It was incredibly easy! I used orange juice (the 100% sort, not concentrate), brown sugar, cloves and cinnmon. Worked!
I want to share these receipes here, if anything, for my own record. I'm a chronic non-follower of receipes. In fact, most of the enjoyment I get from cooking is from the 'conjuring' up factor not as much when I'm constantly following instructions. Apparently this is something that Rhonda (who happens to by my good friend Sandy's MIL!), in her post about homecooking recommends when home-cooking. So, most of the time when I eat something when we eat out and love it, I have to come home to make it and if it doesn't work the first time, I make it again and again till I get the receipe down. Problem is (are), 1) by the time I get the taste right, I'm sick to death of eating that same dish week after week, 2) I get it right after the nth time, and not make it for a long time as per problem 1 and then forget how to make it the next time cos I haven't written it down.
On Sunday Energex rid us of electricity so we set off earlier than usual to the Rocklea markets. We didn't find what we were looking for there and so that took us further South to Wishart...... (to be continued).
Oops, I just spent too long on Eat Blog Sleep. Top blog!!
Time's running out I have to get ready for work soon. I bought this magazine from the news agency just then and LOVE IT. Only for a small price of $3.95!

Nude Food Mag  

To end, here's the top of my To Cook List for next week...