1 tbspn soy sauce 1 tbspn honey 2 tbspn fish sauce 2 sirloin steaks with fat removed 375g rice noodles 1 litre chicken stock 5 slices ginger 2 tbspn lime juice 1 cinnamon stick 2 tspn sugar 3 star anise 1 tbspn light flavoured oil 1 bunch bok choi 1 red chili put the soy [...]
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Pho with rare beef
Posted in general, tagged Food, recipe on November 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Brrrrrrrrr
Posted in general on November 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We have frost and snow here in Northern Ireland. I’m feeling the chill, so I think I’ll be making a steamy hot curry for tea tonight Hopefully a recipe will follow later, if I manage to remember what I put in it!!!
Stuck!
Posted in general on November 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Another first for me at work today, I managed to get stuck in a lift for 45 minutes! It was an experience to say the least!! Add to that we’ve had horrible weather here in the UK today, storms, 70mph winds, flooding, you get the idea. *Brrrrrrr!* I feel a few winter stews and casseroles [...]
Assignments
Posted in general on November 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Did I happen to mention that I hate writing assignments? No? Well I have 4 of the blasted things to write over the next lot of weeks for my job. *sigh* Any tips welcome!
Hi ho hi ho, it’s off to a hotel I go!!!!
Posted in general on October 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Off I go for another week on my training course. 2 down, 3 to go. The salvation of my nights away from home in the hotel have been my Amazon Kindle. I love this little gadget to bits! I lug it along and look forward to browsing my books to chill out after a long [...]
You know you want to…..
Posted in general on September 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
get up and have a little dance! I found this little gem on You Tube and if you don’t have a hankering to get up and boogie just a little teeny weeny bit then there’s something wrong wit ya!!
This weekend…….
Posted in general on August 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m off to a fancy pants hotel for my wedding anniversary! I hope to have a very posh evening out with my husband and a lovely relaxing time too. I will try and take some pictures, though I won’t make any promises as I have a head like a sieve! Maybe I’ll have another little [...]
Today I start organizing my recipes!
Posted in food, general on July 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have so many recipes, written on scraps of paper, torn from magazines, I really need to start and organize them. Yesterday while grocery shopping, I picked up a nice neat book with an accordian file section at the back. Perfect for writing down recipes and storing scraps of paper before I write them out. [...]
Facebook!
Posted in general on July 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
My Japanese Lunch Blog is now on Facebook if you would like to stop by Here’s a link to the facebook page and profile, if you’d like to come and join me, feel free! Arkonites Bento Box on Facebook!
Everybody go “awwwwwww”
Posted in general on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My poor wee doggie had to have surgery on his knee yesterday. But doesn’t his camouflage bandage look so cool!!!!!


