Free Food? dream on~

it's my 4th week in Adelaide and i'm still unemployed.. well, i've got a phone call this morning from one of the companies that really attracted me.. but all the guy said was that they'll give me a call if i get shortlisted.. well, by late afternoon i've already received the rejection e-mail! oh well, this is life, isnt it?

anyway, i'm not complaining about my easy life at the moment.. first thing after waking up would be breakfast and then going online to look for jobs.. that would take a couple of hours including applications.. and then it's lunch break.. sometimes i would cook before going out to get groceries and sometimes i would just head out for grocery shopping first and then coming back to cook an early dinner.. and depending on my mood, sometimes i'll do more job hunting after that and other times, i'll just clean up my room or do laundry.. that's that.. until i'm employed!

i tried a recipe that i found online, it's Chicken with Tomatoes and Mushrooms.. it seemed very simple, so i didnt exactly kept to the recipe.. though the ingredients used were similar..

- 3 skinless chicken thighs (my favourite part of the chicken!) instead of skinless chicken breast..
- normal table salt and pepper.. that's what i have so i make use of them instead of coarse salt and ground pepper.. i love ground pepper though..
- olive oil.. to oil the pot..
- 250g of white cup mushrooms.. trimmed and quartered..
- 3 medium gourmet tomatoes.. that's about 450g.. i didnt use canned stewed tomatoes because i couldnt find them..
- 2 garlic cloves, minced.. i used 4! and i used purple garlic from Mexico!
- dried oregano

wash the chicken and season them with salt and pepper.. pan-fry them till they turn white.. remove from cooking pot.. next, the stir-fry the mushrooms.. cook till soft before adding in the tomatoes, garlic and oregano.. cook till tomatoes breakdown.. add in the chicken and make sure it's cook through..

i steamed some rice to go with it as well.. without any rice cooker!



this is what i managed to churn out with all the ingredients above:

what do you think?

both Jo and Miyuki were in the kitchen cooking dinner at around 7pm.. i was just heating up my chicken and rice.. Jo was making more Muffins.. Miyuki was making Thai Green Curry! things doesnt seemed to be going too well.. Jo's muffins didnt cooked through and the can-opener didnt work well with the canned coconut milk that Miyuki was going to use.. she had to use the knife and poke a couple of holes to get the coconut milk out.. but at least Miyuki had her decent dinner after that.. Jo didnt manage to keep the muffins intact so we were left with the top half of all the muffins.. which coincidentally, were my favourite part of muffins! wahaha.. lucky me, isnt it?

after dinner, i decided to ask Simon if i could take back my shelf for my kitchen stuff.. he said to go ahead and we found a whole shelf of stuff that was left behind my previous tenants! we thought we could have free food but the joy was short lived when Jo found out that about 70% of all that stuff had already expired.. so we were left with packets of instant pasta and some disposable cups, plates and cutlery.. oh well.. after throwing out all that expired stuff, there seemed to be plenty of space in the cupboard now.. i managed to move Simon's stuff back to his rightful shelf and move the 'free food' on to the first shelf that Jo didnt need.. i now have more space to get more food!