Some leftover random chicken curry...bit of bread. Large water.
About to have a tea now, and probably watch some bewitched on dvd before getting maybe 5 hours sleep before work.

:eek: :eek: :eek:

Chicken and Sweetcorn pizza.

Some pikelets with...
King Island Dairy blue vein cheese
Quince paste
A mixture of cointreau and maple syrup.

I'm going to make a potato and vegetable bake later with garlic and herb sauce.

Wow, I forgot about this thread.

I had a sausage and cheese omelet and coffee for breakfast. Lunch will be a Smart Ones frozen entree.

PB&J with salt and vinegar chips on the side.

I was feeling lazy. :o

The omelet I had was a frozen Jimmy Dean thing. Feel better now? :D

NYE consisted of a buffet...crazy fuckin' all you can eat buffet...I'll see if I can remember it all:

Charsiew ?sp?
bbq pork belly
Chinese crispy skin duck
Chinese chicken
Roast pork w/crackling
Roast Beef
Steak in pepper sauce
Pizza
Grilled Squid
Grilled mussels
White fish with capers, tomato and onion
Chargrilled baby octopus done thai style with caperberries.
Italian style squid in tomato and olives
Grilled peppered chicken breast
Mixed mesclun salad
thai beef salad
Some kind've pork chop
Grilled salmon (sadly overdone)
Freshly made waffles to order with strawberry sauce
green tea cheesecake
Chocolate pudding
Pumpkin pie (never had it, was awesome. Will learn how.)
Ice cream
Chocolate brownies
Coffee cake
Chocolate covered custard filled profiteroles.
Coke/creaming soda.
...and that's if I'm remembering all the things I ate there.
SO, so stuffed.

Watched some fireworks, came home to drink beer and tequila.
Had some more chocolate cake, that's about it.

I just had a "Barkleys - Tastefully Intense Mint".
Not that intense.

I had a watermelon/raspberry iceblock before.

just ate my mean fish(travelly)i caught off the beach today,mmm nothing better than fresh fish

Just drank a can of Pepsi.

Just had a Jimmy Dean 3-cheese omelet, and am now having a cup of Newman's Own coffee.

Coffee and cigarettes-"breakfast of champions" as my sisters say.

oh yeah just had the same brekfast,beautiful!

HDC people dont sound like very healthy people

This is a little healthier: for lunch I had a Smart Ones entree (three cheese ziti marinara) and a diet iced tea.

Salt and vinegar crisps. That's potato chips from you outside the UK.

Last night we had a curry.
Now I'm not too sure how authentic a curry it was, I'd say it was very least Indian/other south east asian style, the spices indicated that at least.
So yeah, I actually found a recipe for this curry online - we didn't know what we wanted to cook, so I looked for a recipe based on the food and spices we had in the house, and got this.
I want to share it, because it's super simple, all the ingredients are cheap, and really it makes a very nice meal.
This is the second time we've made it, and yeah everyone who's tried it has liked it. Here ya go:
http://beefcurry.info/
It's just the first one on the page, but there's some other good stuff there too.

Working on my second glass of Pinot Noir

working...is it really a job

LOL not really

didnt think so other wise id be apllying for a job strait away screw the holidays

Just got up, having a cup of Green Mountain Nantucket Blend coffee with Coffee Mate Peppermint Mocha cream.

Ahh I was just thinking of making some coffee!!

Pringles (sour cream and chive)

fush and chups bro

Pringles are too upmarket for me-I normally get the supermarket brand "value" crisps.

I wonder how long this threads gone untouched?

Anyways, today I had poached eggs on toast with spinach. The toast had a layer of black olive tapenade.

For the last couple of hours, we've had two chickens slow cooking submersed in an asian style liquid stock.

The wife is (hm, just realised I was not sure if I made that particular announcement here yet...) making a chocolate cake. Store bought but we're kind've taking steps to make it better.
Made it in layers, I super-whipped the icing and added extra raw cocoa to it along with used sparingly some chilli flakes I made in the dehydrator from birdseye chillis and some habenero, and a little bit of chilli/chocllate dukkah spice mix.
I'd wanted to enrich the mixture by blending in a seperated egg yolk, unfortunately the last of the eggs went on breakfast.
Final product isn't ready yet, but I'd say that there will be an interesting blend of textures along with a a mild progressive heat.

I guess we're doing something with this chicken afterwards.

A Beach Club sub from JJ's and a bag of BBQ potato chips last night for dinner. Haven't had breakfast yet, although my growling stomach is beginning to question that strategy.

So...we had some chicken...by the time it came out of the poaching liquid stock, the chicken was slightly separating itself, the thighs/legs came away from the breast. Put the chicken under a grill for a bit to crisp up the skin, it slightly caramelized due to the stock it'd been in...pretty nice.

I served it with some rice noodles I bought at the night markets in Sydneys Chinatown, on once a week.
They were steamed rolled rice noodles in a spicy satay style sauce.
I reheated them gently in a pan and added some of the poaching liquid to reconstitute the sauce a little. SO nice. Wish I'd had them fresh.

The reason I didn't have it fresh, well that's to do with last night as well.
As I said we visited the once a week Asian night markets in Chinatown...these are essentially uh, semi-flea-markets with a LOT of great "street food".
The noodles...well, I saw them and HAD TO get some, even though I'd filled up pretty well.

I started out the night with a couple of coronas at Happy hour at a place near our harbour which is quite close to Chinatown, the lady had a sparkling white then a strawberry cocktail of some sort. Then I had something called a "pure blonde" beer which is I guess trying to imitate something like a german beer. Not bad. Pretty crisp.

Walked over to Chinatown, had a seat at a place that was advertising "Sake-Bombs" which I found out were glasses of Stella Artois beer which I quite like, with shots of sake sunk into them, like a depth charge.
The mix, I was dreading, but...wow...the effect was nice and they actually tasted good. I will be getting more.

We also shared a serving of 4 pieces of octopus takoyaki at the same placewhich was quite good - I mainly got this because one of the two friends that was with us hadn't tried them before.

If you want to know what takoyaki are, read here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takoyaki

Look here:
http://travelsort.com/blog/must-try-...e-world-part-2
Its the forth one down.


Onto the street markets then.
SO crowded. But, while I usually hate crowds I make an exception for Chinatown, I'm just "used to it" there.

First we stopped to get some dragonbeard candy.
entertaining video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCLYieehzGs

Love these things.

Then I had some chinese flat grilled meat called Rou Gan "http://www.google.com.au/search?safe=off&hl=en&biw=1920&bih=955&q=rou%20gan &um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=rojqUaePIKTuiA eo7oHQAQ"
with a little honey and chilli.

TAKOYAKI again.
This time from a vendor there at the markets with 8-9 guys operating about 16 grills all around. you could just tell that these would be incredible.
Myself and the chick got a pack of 8. Some prawn, some octupus and some crab. They were served with some kewpie doll mayo, some sesame seeds, something like hoisin sauce, some chopped spring onion and shaved bonito flakes that were so thin they blew in the wind.
The ones we had first were "nice", these things though, they were a work of fucking art.
They had their operation SO sorted...we ordered and got our order among 6 other orders, correctly, and within 4 minutes.
I cannot put into words how good they were.

We actually went into an arcade and shared a meal in there too...it had chicken, crunchy green beans, it was hot, had steamed rcie and was served with a chicken/corn soup with silken egg.
It was nice. Unremarkable. But yeah we wanted to sit for a bit and eat something "proper".

Bit more of a walk around and then onto the chinese bakery side-store for emperor puffs, which are kind've like a custard filled bite-sized vanilla cake?
They drum so many of these things out and they were so popular that they permanently opened a side-window JUST to sell these one item...and there is ALWAYS a line of no less than 10 people. Last night of course was no exception.
While the wife waited I went for a wonder to one of the food stalls we'd missed...that's the hard thing, it's not like a hit and miss market this one, it's like EVERY motherfucking place has at least 3-4 things that make you want them SO bad, and the smell is intoxicating.
I was intending to buy a pork belly steamed bun, when I saw those noodles I mentioned AGES ago get served to someone.
I had to have them.
I was totally full at the time, but I needed them. So tonights dinner they became.

Went home on the train, had a beer on the way back.
Nice night out.

I don't believe you did make that announcement ....congrats Bro:)

Thanks man, yeah been about a year and a half now.

Congratulations!

Thankyou ma'am ;)
We were wed on our 13th anniversary together, kept the date the same.
Just a couple family members, a few mutual friends.
Non-churchy commonlaw affair.
Went out to a German tavern for some excellent food and drink, caught a ferry at night, spent the night out in the city and had a hotel and breakfast.
Small, uncomplicated. Nice.
We're having another one in 2017, a "bigger" one, and hope to involve our child in that one too.


Today we went to a vietnamese restaurant/diner and shared a "bahn mi" which is essentially a bread roll with roast pork, pate, and some nice fresh salads.
Info here:
http://www.goodfood.com.au/good-food...201-2doq8.html

We also had a congee with chicken, prawns, and some tofu.

Served with kind've plain tea, I'm guessing something like green/oolong.
She had a chai latte, I had a vietnamese style iced coffee, which to me just tasted like a nice strong iced coffee - which is what I like.

That's wonderful! If I was to ever get married, that's the kind of ceremony I want. Something simple and intimate.

May as well post something related to the thread! :D

Had brown sugar oatmeal and coffee this morning.

turkey bacon and some sweet tea

Is this for real?
 

A food thread in a horror forum? My two favourite things!

I just ate four pieces of L&P white chocolate!

L&P is a soda drink here in New Zealand, it's lemon flavoured and the company has just teamed up with Whitakers chocolate makers and created this new crazy chocolate! It's got lemon flavoured pop rocks inside, reminiscent of the fizz in a bottle of L&P. Pretty awesome actually.

If anyone wants to taste it, I'll be happy to post you a block in return for you sending me something cool and unique from your country?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.n...93878560_n.jpg

Hm.
I've tried both L&P and Whittakers, I like both.
Have yet to see this product here in Australia though...
Not sure what I'd send in exchange though, don't we have pretty much the same things? Though I guess our cadbury and nestle stuff sometimes has different versions..?
I don't know. I don't know what we have.


Last night we drove across to the other side of the city, to get some lebanese style flame grilled chicken. Served with pickled radishes and cucumber, soft flatbread, chips/fries, and a most excellent thoum.
We make the drive every now and then, it's so worth it.
Also got to hit up a market that specialised in arabic, indian and nepalese foods and spices, just unlike the range of the stores we have over my way. Always interesting.