Happy Easter!!

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!

Now it doesn’t happen all too often that we have absolutely nothing planned for an entire two days, but these two Easter days are a lucky exception to that rule… So we started our day of with sleeping in late and then Tom made a lovely easter breakfast in bed for me. The weather was not especially nice, not after yesterday where we actually sat on a terrace outside for the first time this year! It was ok though but we decided to stay the day indoors and just relax a bit and catch up on emails, read blogs and stuff like that (well, that is what I did. Tom played some kind of game on the computer….)

For dinner we had an easy one from Donna Hay’s chicken book; Chilli cashew chicken noodles. It was simple and nice enough for a quick meal!

I just took a quick snap handheld so nothing fancy, but it shows the content of the dish! The recipe is as follows:

Ingredients:

2 tbsp peanut oil

2 onions, sliced into wedges

4 large red chillies, seeded and chopped

1/4 cup (55 gr) of sugar

1 red capsicum (bell pepper) sliced

3/4 cup roasted unsalted cashew nuts

2 tbsp fish sauce

2 tbsp soy sauce

2 tbsp lemon juice

200 gr dried thick rice noodles, cooked and drained (I used Udon noodles)

1/4 cup of cilantro (coriander) leaves (which I forgot to get as you can tell from the photo)

Heat a wok or deep non-stick frying pan over high heat. Add the oil, onions, chillies and sugar and cook for 2 minutes. Remove from the pan and set aside. Add the chicken and cook, stirring, for 4 minutes or until the chicken is golden. Add the capsicum, cashews, fish sauce, soy, lemon juice, onion mixture and noodles. Cook, stirring, for 4 minutes or until heated through. Sprinkle with coriander. Serves 4.

And while I was trying to be quick about taking the photo; Gizmo kept getting in the way. She jumped on the table everytime I was about to snap a pic as you can tell from these two photos!