Simple Luxury

So these days, work lunches consist of a can of tuna, corn thins, and... that's it. Plus green tea. Dinner is usually steamed dumplings from a packet in the freezer. It's an improvement from, say, instant noodles, and I realised I can actually eat the same food for over a week without getting bored. That is the degree of can't-be-botherness I've reached, but hunger does trump laziness eventually (I had run out of tuna AND corn thins), and after one particularly trying day at work, it was time to do some grocery shopping. Instead of getting the usual 1L Connoisseur ice cream tub, I decided to go for something a little fancy.

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My mum requested cream cheese. I originally bought a couple of packs for a cheesecake which I never made and she's been slowly making her way into the block... bought another double pack. One can never have too little cream cheese. It's like butter, but better. No wait, I did not just say that. What can possibly be better than butter??

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Bought bread. Another request from mum- she wanted bread, so I decided to get healthy bread. Seeds and grains and whatnot.

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And this was inspired by an entree dish at Zenya, Eastwood. They have this salmon carpaccio with lemon dressing which was so good, but awfully overpriced when you can simply make the dish. Recipe is right there- eyeball the amounts, but I found as you add more lemon, the taste rises exponentially. The thing about smoked salmon is that it tends to be overly salty (it goes well with rice!), so leaving it in the lemon dressing helps rid the saltiness a bit. 

I'm done with entry 2. Bit of a lazy one, but please be forgiving. It ain't getting any better from here.