For dinner tonight: 15 fresh clams, 15 fresh tiger prawns and a 750g silver perch, stuffed with spring onions and coriander. All cooked on a disposable charcoal barbeque and eaten with Thai “seafood sauce”, a delicious combination of green chilli, coriander, garlic and palm sugar. Smelled like Bangkok in our tiny back courtyard. Total cost: [...]
My goodness. Over the weekend Hoff, Clinton, Gabby and The Other Elaine came over for a Curry Night. D. made an awesome red lentil dhal, Clinton made amazing curried potatoes, and a fantastic lamb curry, and Hoff brought a pack of frozen roti. These were a revelation… much better than I expected, and better than [...]
Woke early and drove down to the Westerm Farmers Markets, within the FERN Community Garden, next to Fremantle Golf Course, precisely where a Putt-Putt course that I remember from my childhood used to be. Breakfasted on a bacon, egg and spinach roll, which was spectacular, with smokey bacon, tasty eggs and freshly baked bread. Came [...]
For dinner tonight: Medium rare eye fillet, seasoned with salt, pepper, cayenne pepper and garlic. Fresh green salad with a dressing of good olive oil and verjuice. Caramelised onions, cooked in the pan juices. Confit potatoes, made by boiling cubed potatoes in a heatproof bag, with goose fat and white pepper. A pint of Little [...]
My parent’s bought themselves a PC. Not terribly successfully. Their brand new HP Pavilion a6130a desktop, with Visa Home pre-installed, came with the default amount of RAM: 512MB. To an old-timer like me, that’s a massive amount of memory, as I got by quite well with 512KB on the old Amiga, thankyou very much, so [...]
Wow… a homemade curry laksa with fresh prawns and scallops, fresh coriander and a generous squeeze of lemon is an amazing meal experience. And fifteen minutes to prepare!?! In other news, I can field strip a toddler’s car seat in sixty seconds, and we spent three hours tonight with our builder, discussing small details like [...]
Saturdays begin with a trip to the Subiaco markets. Eliza and I buy an almond croissant from La Galette De France, together with Machiatto and Baby Chino, while D. shops for whatever looks fresh, which determines what we’ll be eating for the coming week. Today tomatoes and parsely looked good, so tonight it’ll be Middle [...]
Just finished the curry. Wow, so much better the next day. Amazing that you can cook the bejeesus out of it and still have the potatoes hold their shape… especially when they’ve absorbed so much of the sauce. And plenty for leftovers, too! I think I’m going to go on a braised food bender, because [...]
Tonight I cooked twice. I didn’t plan for that to happen… it just did. D. had gone shopping during the day, and bought enough to make lamb cutlets on a bed of fusilli with a garlic and wine tomato sauce (one of our favourites), and to make a hearty Indian curry. Curry is so much [...]
I checked my personal records. I purchased my first-generation, “stick’o’gum” iPod shuffle on Saturday April 23, 2005. It probably cost $150 or something outrageous like that. On the same day, we ate barbequed corn and “shaking beef”, played “Lost Cities” and “Carcassonne”, played the demo of “Meteos” on the DS and watched “Iron Chef”, which [...]