Food Glorious Food!

[horrie hastings]

HH, I reckon you could author a book. 'Best Eats, Travelling throughout NSW' I would buy it as I always enjoy reading your contribution!

I'm trying to find places that serve rabbit in Sydney, had rabbit while staying in Melbourne last week and it was so good, such a good tasting meat but hard to find it on menus here.
The Maltese Cafe in Newtown do a rabbit dish once a month, usually on the last Sunday on the month but i usually have something on so end up missing it. Alchemy at Surry Hills a Polish restaurant has it on the menu and i have had it there before, it was ok but didn't have the gamey wild taste that i like with it so after a more rustic style like i had in Melbourne and i reckon the Maltese Cafe would do it like that, just have to be free on one of the Sundays. Just wish it was more freely available at more restaurants here.

[horrie hastings]

These look good.

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Would you say Froot Loops colourful or more Rainbow?

Fluorescent.

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Bro I love Thai food too!

I will ask Batemans to write a poem on Thai food and perhaps Mickie can answer any questions regarding ping pong.

A good spicy holy basil chicken followed by mango coconut sticky rice is about as good as it gets.

Can get a few good ones around Soi Cowboy. Easy to find Mickie there also.

[Bates]

I'm trying to find places that serve rabbit in Sydney, had rabbit while staying in Melbourne last week and it was so good, such a good tasting meat but hard to find it on menus here.
The Maltese Cafe in Newtown do a rabbit dish once a month, usually on the last Sunday on the month but i usually have something on so end up missing it. Alchemy at Surry Hills a Polish restaurant has it on the menu and i have had it there before, it was ok but didn't have the gamey wild taste that i like with it so after a more rustic style like i had in Melbourne and i reckon the Maltese Cafe would do it like that, just have to be free on one of the Sundays. Just wish it was more freely available at more restaurants here.

Big Mama's Woollahra was to the place to get traditionally cooked rabbit and great Italian food when I lived in Sydney.

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Just checked out exactly where it is on google maps, easy to get to just off the highway. hopefully will get there but looking at the upcoming weather so going to wait and see as the forecast is looking a bit dire rain wise. Going to Taree for a 90th birthday but if the weather is going to really bad i will have no hesitation in not going,

Travel safe dude. Stay dry!

[Bates]

Scrambled eggs with spring onion on a fresh sourdough baguette for breakfast.

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Mango split chicken roast with 3 veg tonight. Simple but tasty and effective. My kids will cook it up.

[horrie hastings]

Big Mama's Woollahra was to the place to get traditionally cooked rabbit and great Italian food when I lived in Sydney.

Thanks Bates, didn't know of Big Mama's but just checked it out and it looks really good and not badly priced considering the location.

Was watching Stanley Tucci's Italy last year and rabbit appeared on the show a couple of times and was looking forward to having at least one dish of rabbit somewhere in Italy while i would have been there but due to a couple of factors last year trip had to be cancelled.
You used to see rabbit in a lot of butcher shops back in the 70 s and 80 s and i even remember seeing rabbit pieces for sale in the David Jones food hall in the city. It seems more a speciality product these days but i suppose it comes down to now that 99% of rabbit would be a farmed product as wild rabbit cannot be sold because of the viruses injected into the populations to try and eradicate them, the taste of the wild rabbit is far superior compared to the farmed product. It was a bit like duck, the first time i had duck was a wild one that some friends of relatives up the coast had shot. my aunty baked it and it was beautiful, even though i have many great duck dishes and meals since i have never forgotten how good the taste of the first duck was.

[horrie hastings]

Travel safe dude. Stay dry!

Thanks mate, not looking great though with possible flooding predicated in Taree this evening. If there is any doubt i am not going.Just spoke to other in laws who are cut off in Dungog at the moment.

[Bates]

Dinner dilemmas.

Main ingredient is 4 organic chicken thighs.

Potential dishes.

Butter chicken.
Chicken and bacon pasta with cream.
Spicy chicken burgers and chips
Chicken and veg soup.

[Bates]

Thanks Bates, didn't know of Big Mama's but just checked it out and it looks really good and not badly priced considering the location.

Was watching Stanley Tucci's Italy last year and rabbit appeared on the show a couple of times and was looking forward to having at least one dish of rabbit somewhere in Italy while i would have been there but due to a couple of factors last year trip had to be cancelled.
You used to see rabbit in a lot of butcher shops back in the 70 s and 80 s and i even remember seeing rabbit pieces for sale in the David Jones food hall in the city. It seems more a speciality product these days but i suppose it comes down to now that 99% of rabbit would be a farmed product as wild rabbit cannot be sold because of the viruses injected into the populations to try and eradicate them, the taste of the wild rabbit is far superior compared to the farmed product. It was a bit like duck, the first time i had duck was a wild one that some friends of relatives up the coast had shot. my aunty baked it and it was beautiful, even though i have many great duck dishes and meals since i have never forgotten how good the taste of the first duck was.

Hi Horrie, have you tried Pigeon?

It's one thing I can't bring myself to try.

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Dinner dilemmas.

Main ingredient is 4 organic chicken thighs.

Potential dishes.

Butter chicken.
Chicken and bacon pasta with cream.
Spicy chicken burgers and chips
Chicken and veg soup.

Option 3.

Anything spicy!

[horrie hastings]

Hi Horrie, have you tried Pigeon?

It's one thing I can't bring myself to try.

Actually haven't tried pigeon but it is on my bucket list to try, was a place in Canberra we used to go to and pigeon was on the menu but every time we went in a group no one else wanted to order it so i thought if i ever went back to the place by myself i would order it. I remember watching a cooking show many years ago and Dorinda Hafner was cooking pigeons and they looked like very very small roast chickens cooking. so i am still keen to try pigeon one day.
Another bird you don't see often is goose, have had once when i was about 5 years old and once again at the Alchemy restaurant in Surry Hills about 7-8 years ago, it was ok but would like to try properly roasted , maybe like Maggie Beer used to do.

[Bates]

Actually haven't tried pigeon but it is on my bucket list to try, was a place in Canberra we used to go to and pigeon was on the menu but every time we went in a group no one else wanted to order it so i thought if i ever went back to the place by myself i would order it. I remember watching a cooking show many years ago and Dorinda Hafner was cooking pigeons and they looked like very very small roast chickens cooking. so i am still keen to try pigeon one day.
Another bird you don't see often is goose, have had once when i was about 5 years old and once again at the Alchemy restaurant in Surry Hills about 7-8 years ago, it was ok but would like to try properly roasted , maybe like Maggie Beer used to do.

That's interesting mate.

I can't get past all that pigeon poo in the school playground.

My uncle loved them! Back in the 70's, he would shoot them with an air pellet rifle out of his laundry window. Could you imagine doing that in Bondi nowadays.