Jac took me out recently for a pub dinner at the Carlisle Hotel (174 Rutland Avenue, Carlisle). We began with a serve of garlic bread (AU$5.00). It was typical cafe-style garlic bread – pressed flat and toasted till golden and crisp on the outside, more buttery than garlicky in flavour, yet satisfyingly savoury. There was […]
Last weekend, Jac also made mango ice cream. We bought a tray of mangoes so Jac could put her plan into action – to make ice cream and freeze the rest of the mango flesh ready for smoothies. We got ice cream recipe from her Margaret Fulton’s Book of Ices and Desserts (published 1983 by […]
Sunday, 30th December. I woke up nice and early, took a couple of photos… …and then went back to bed and slept in. We got up when it was bright and sunny and got ready to go out to breakfast. Paymaster’s Cafe 18 Bond St Newcastle East NSW Sunday surcharge AU$2.00 per person www.paymasters.com.au I […]
Red Neds Gourmet Pie Bar Shop 3/17-19 Stockton St, Nelson Bay NSW www.redneds.com.au I was keen to check out Nelson Bay’s local gourmet pie shop (1) after Jac told me about it following her previous trip to Nelson Bay, and (2) since it was voted one of the top 50 pie shops in Australia in […]
Wednesday this week turned out to be a big day of eating. For lunch, Chad and I went to Toraya. She had the dish that’s become her favourite there, the medium agedashi tofu lunch box. I had my favourite, the karaage donburi, topped with chilli mayonaise. Both our meals included miso soup (not pictured). Back […]
After dinner, we took a bit of a walk around Northbridge, stopping off at Timezone where Jac and Jay took to the air hockey table and motorbike racing. (Friends and family can see the photos when logged in at Flickr.) Having worked off a little bit of their dinner, Jac wanted a milkshake and Jay […]
Boxing Day Breakfast The next morning, brother B drove to the bakery and picked up fresh bread rolls so we could have bacon and egg rolls for breakfast. He cooked the bacon on the new portable gas stove he got for Christmas from Jac’s mum. Many rounds of bacon were fried on that little stove. […]
For dessert after our Japanese dinner, Jac had two scoops of ice cream at Baskin Robbins. She had “Love Potion #31”, which consists of white chocolate and raspberry ice cream swirled with a raspberry ribbon and loaded with raspberry filled heart-shaped chocolate pieces and chocolate chips (this is seriously decadent ice cream!), and …