A blog about cooking.
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Old fashioned prawn and crab sandwich
New year’s eve tea with Mum and Dad consisted of blue swimmer crab [also known as sand crab] (Portunus armatus) and blue endeavour prawns (Metapenaeus endeavouri) on Tip Top™ white sandwich bread with real butter, aioli, salt, and pepper.
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Wagyu sirloin and sea scallops
Tempest Seafood Restaurant and Teppanyaki Grill It’s New Year’s Eve and I took my parents and Ms18 to Tempest Seafood Restaurant and Teppanyaki Grill in Scarborough for lunch. This is the first time in about four visits here that I didn’t have a seafood platter. Australian Wagyu beef Instead I went with the Wagyu sirloin…
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Sichuan Papa, Everton Plaza, Brisbane
Last night I went to Sichuan Papa at Everton Plaza in Brisbane’s north side. Sichuan Papa has just opened a week or so ago. The people working are quickly developing their work flow. It wasn’t distractingly evident that the people working were getting into the swing of working in a new space. The menu is…
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Baked salmon with pickled radish, fennel, and red onion
Baked salmon with pickled radish, fennel, and red onion Tonight I baked some salmon and pickled some radish, fennel, and red onion with orange and lime juice. The green stuff is parsley and mint.
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Chicken thigh schnitzel, steamed red cabbage, and cherry tomatoes
I bought a chicken thigh schnitzel from Belconnen Chicken earlier this morning. I pan-fried it in garlic butter and then tossed in some sliced red cabbage and cherry tomatoes, put the lid on to effectively steam the vegetables.
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Baked salmon, Hollandaise sauce, red cabbage slaw with pickled radish, red onion, and fennel.
Tonight’s Yummy Lummy blog post is Baked salmon, Hollandaise sauce, red cabbage slaw with pickled radish, red onion, and fennel. Today’s lunch was salmon too
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Roast chicken and frozen vegetables
I had a piece of dry brined chicken thigh in the refrigerator and some frozen vegetables I needed to finish off.
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Roast chicken thigh and red cabbage slaw
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Chicken schnitty
Chicken thigh schnitzel with pickle salad I know I shouldn’t do this after eating so much food yesterday. However, I was in Westfield Belconnen earlier and saw that Belconnen Chicken was open for business. Belconnen Chicken sells chicken thigh schnitzel rather than the traditional chicken breast schnitzel. People who know me, know that I’m a…
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What I ate Christmas 2019
Christmas 2019 I ate well today. Breakfast My standard breakfast of a steamed egg and wilted spinach. Lunch Lunch was an extravaganza of roast turkey with cranberry jelly and gravy, ham and hot English mustard, a spanner crab, mango and avocado salad, plus roast vegetables. It was superb. There were also smoked salmon blinis for…