Food Glorious Food!

[mightyrooster]

Went to the Bayside Food and Wine festival today at Mascot, a nice mix of food trucks, food stalls, wineries and distilleries, they also had cooking demonstrations and live music. Hung around and watched a couple of the cooking demonstrations, one was Declan Cleary who has appeared on Master Chef, he was doing three different demonstration during the day, the one we watched he did a basic pasta with pork sausages, after cooking the sausage, he did onion in the pan and threw in all sorts of stuff, soy sauce , balsamic vinegar, more salt then chucked in the dry pasta and topped up with beef stock, he kept on adding stock and more salt. it seemed to take ages for a simple dish and when sampled, the some of the pasta was still hard and it was way to salty. Still though he was very charismatic but this dish was a fail.

After Declan was Vikki and Helena who appeared on My Kitchen Rules, what lovely girls, i had met one before about 2 years ago at a long table dinner. They made a basic pita bread just with plain flour, Greek yoghurt and a pinch of salt, they made a dip with Greek Feta and Yoghurt and lemon zest and chilli, it was delicious. They were doing another demonstration making other dishes which i would have liked to stay around to see but headed off home after it.

That would have been very interesting. I know Declan from MasterChef. He was on this year’s return to win series as well. He seemed to be a pretty basic meat and veg cook, but he was trying to branch out a bit. The judges loved him probably because of his charisma. Speaking of MasterChef I have Julie Goodwin’s braised curried lamb chops in the oven now. We’ll see how they go.

[mightyrooster]

And tonights dinner, peri peri chicken wings to start with and lamb meatballs with risoni.

I was tossing up the meatballs and risoni meal too but went with the braised lamb chops. Will cook the meatballs again soon.

[horrie hastings]

That would have been very interesting. I know Declan from MasterChef. He was on this year’s return to win series as well. He seemed to be a pretty basic meat and veg cook, but he was trying to branch out a bit. The judges loved him probably because of his charisma. Speaking of MasterChef I have Julie Goodwin’s braised curried lamb chops in the oven now. We’ll see how they go.

He hung around for Vikki and Helena afterwards and joined then on the stage in part of their demonstration , he had good rapport with them.
Julie Goodwin's curry lamb chops sound good, have a couple of Julies recipes printed out but haven't tried any yet.

[mightyrooster]

He hung around for Vikki and Helena afterwards and joined then on the stage in part of their demonstration , he had good rapport with them.
Julie Goodwin's curry lamb chops sound good, have a couple of Julies recipes printed out but haven't tried any yet.

If I like it I’ll post it on the other recipe thread. It’s a good old fashioned home style curry. I actually just remembered Declan’s specialty I think was seafood. But he also did other meats. He and another contestant became an item on last years show. Sarah, but I can’t remember her surname. She specialised in Thai and south east Asia I think.

[horrie hastings]

Had a delicious mussels in tomato and chilli dish last night at the Maltese cafe at the south end of King St Newtown, then had a penne del nonna, it was tomato and eggplant.

Tonight will most likely left over lamb meatballs and risoni from Saturday night or home made burgers,

[mightyrooster]

It’s tacos tonight. The braised lamb curry was good too. I will have to post the recipe on the other thread when I get a chance. It’s pretty long and will take a bit of typing if I can’t copy and paste.

[horrie hastings]

Greek marinated flat chicken with roast potato, carrot, parsnip, garlic, pan fried asparagus and zucchini. Cant believe how good the asparagus has been this season.

[horrie hastings]

Pork stir fry tonight with onion, mushrooms, red capsicum, carrot, sugar snap peas, will probably chuck some tomato in to.

[Bates]

Stuffed tomatoes, capsicum and potatoes with savoury beef, pork mince and rice.

Batsey's version of the Greek dish Gemista.

And Tzatziki on top.

[horrie hastings]

Stuffed tomatoes, capsicum and potatoes with savoury beef, pork mince and rice.

Batsey's version of the Greek dish Gemista.

And Tzatziki on top.

When i picked up the red capsicum for the stir fry today i thought i should get a few more and do stuffed capsicum one day soon.

[horrie hastings]

Going to go out somewhere nice for dinner tomorrow as Saturday i go onto a plain diet of white bread ( yuck ) and basic plain stuff before complete liquid diet on Sunday ( apart from jelly ) where i have to drink that horrible stuff to clean you out for a colonoscopy on Monday. Feels like tomorrow night will be a last supper, i don't know why i am worried because i have done it all before. Yay Gatorade , jelly and zooper doopers for Sunday besides water and the horrible stuff you have to mix into it.

[mightyrooster]

Going to go out somewhere nice for dinner tomorrow as Saturday i go onto a plain diet of white bread ( yuck ) and basic plain stuff before complete liquid diet on Sunday ( apart from jelly ) where i have to drink that horrible stuff to clean you out for a colonoscopy on Monday. Feels like tomorrow night will be a last supper, i don't know why i am worried because i have done it all before. Yay Gatorade , jelly and zooper doopers for Sunday besides water and the horrible stuff you have to mix into it.

Oh, that stuff is awful. I had to do it 4 years ago and due again in 12 months time. I’ve never had to drink anything so disgusting. A horrible mix of super salty and super sweet. Absolutely gross. I couldn’t actually drink it all and am dreading going through that again. The plain boring diet was the easy part for me.

[horrie hastings]

Oh, that stuff is awful. I had to do it 4 years ago and due again in 12 months time. I’ve never had to drink anything so disgusting. A horrible mix of super salty and super sweet. Absolutely gross. I couldn’t actually drink it all and am dreading going through that again. The plain boring diet was the easy part for me.

Forgotten how bland plain white bread is, had it today with scrambled eggs for breakfast.

Last night seeing a lot of foods are off the menu for a couple of days , had Thai, chicken and prawn dim sims, prawn wrapped in betel leaves which was so delicate, stuffed chicken wings and a Penang lamb shank curry, it was all very good.

[Bates]

Forgotten how bland plain white bread is, had it today with scrambled eggs for breakfast.

Last night seeing a lot of foods are off the menu for a couple of days , had Thai, chicken and prawn dim sims, prawn wrapped in betel leaves which was so delicate, stuffed chicken wings and a Penang lamb shank curry, it was all very good.

I find it interesting how Kiwi's opt for white sandwich bread when they're making abalone, whitebait or sea urchin roe sandwiches.

[horrie hastings]

I find it interesting how Kiwi's opt for white sandwich bread when they're making abalone, whitebait or sea urchin roe sandwiches.

Find it interesting as i would have never even considered white bait for sandwiches, just like it in fritter form or as the Italian called it Nannata. Just a shame the New Zealand white bait is rare as hens teeth now, when i was living down in East Sydney had a Kiwi neighbour who would get whitebait sent over from NZ and invite me over when she cooked it up, absolutely yummy. Unfortunately most of stuff in the markets here is the Chinese product, i often order Nannata at the Maltese Cafe in Newtown, i suspect it is the Chinese product but it's still nice.

Speaking of sandwich's, love a good prawn sandwich or roll and have been craving one for a while now coming into summer, just a bit of lemon juice and Marie rose style sauce, maybe a bit of lettuce but that is optional.