I know, I’ve been a bit slack with my blog posts this month. It’s like already the end of October and this is just my second post. Anyways, as some of you already know I’m living back in Melbourne now. It’s already been two and a half months and all I’ve pretty much been doing is working on my websites at home. I’ve been meaning to get off my butt and do some proper job hunting but just been a bit slack. I think I’m too used to the laid back lifestyle in Saigon. Haha but yeah, gotta get used to reality.

So anyways, I thought for the last post for the month I’d share a photo of what I made for breakfast the other day. Just some Spam ham sliced into fingers fried with an egg with a bit of white pepper. Cool yeah?

I just had banh canh for dinner and man was it good. It brought back recent memories of eating banh canh at Ben Thanh market in Saigon. Banh canh was one of my favourite things to eat after a big night out on the town when I was living in Vietnam.

For those who don’t know banh canh is a Vietnamese noodle soup dish with thick rice noodles, a thickish broth and normally includes either crab, prawns, fish, pork or a combination. The one I just ate had sliced prawn cakes, fish balls, pork and fried tofu.

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted something about food so I thought hey, why not take a photo of my lunch and write about it? Haha so here you have it. Grilled Vegemite and cheese on toast. For those of you who don’t know what Vegemite is, it’s a dark brown, savoury food spread made from yeast extract and is very popular in Australia and New Zealand. Some people who try it for the first time say it’s disgusting. I guess it’s an acquired taste that once you have a taste for it, it’s like the best thing ever.

So yeah, it’s just sliced bread spread with a decent amount of Vegemite, topped with your choice of cheese (I like to use vintage cheddar for the extra bite) and into the grill. A few minutes later, you’ll have something like what you can see below. Yummo!

I was watching V for Vendetta on TV the other day and saw the character V make ‘egg in the basket’ for Evey, Natalie Portman’s character. She seemed to enjoy it so much that I decided to make one for myself. Sad, aren’t I?

Anyways, the dish was so simple to prepare. I started with a slice of bread just buttered on one side. Using a thin drinking glass I made a whole in the middle. I then put the slice of bread into the fry pan browning one side and then turning it over. I cracked an egg in the hole and threw the lid on the fry pan for a few minutes. This helps the egg to rise a little making for a nice and flush finish. So yeah, a bit of salt and pepper to taste and there you have it. Egg in the basket.

It was lunchtime again and I was wondering what I should eat. After a bit of pondering I decided to pull out a pack of instant noodles, an egg and some frozen squid I had in the freezer.

I cooked the instant noodles with all the condiments and drained the broth out into a separate bowl, threw the squid in a fry pan with a little garlic and a tad of soy sauce. When the squid was nearly cooked I put it aside and threw in the egg breaking it up as it cooked. I then added re-added the squid and threw in the cooked noodles. I tossed and mixed the whole lot together and there it was, my egg and squid fried noodles.