Food for thought (or more accurately, food thoughts and inspirations)

[Lomas]

**** I’m getting old.

 

[koshari]

They also have some decent gyoza, as far as the frozen ones go, was surprised.

Yea i had them as well.

 

[Samsquanch]

 

[ferball]

Adelaide. Foody capitol of the known universe.

 

[Samsquanch]

Adelaide. Foody capitol of the known universe.

You can easily see why a boy would be homesick.

 

[Samsquanch]

This could go in the grumpy thread...

During the lockdown we did manage to procure a few cartons of UHT Milk. Now some are nearing their best before date, a certain member of the household decided they need to be used up and not wasted.

During desperate lockdown times UHT Milk in my morning flat whites was tolerable. In freedom times I can't believe that I was able to get used to drinking it. I might as well be making instant coffee and not wasting good beans.

Anyway, it has forced my hand and I've moved on to black coffee for now, made with my trusty Chemex. Luckily, I have some paper filters still as the Chemex was more like a decorator item than a practical coffee maker in my opinion up until the past couple of days.

Now I'm enjoying black coffee.

And I heard somebody say one day, once you go black you can never go back, which I assume is some sort of coffee reference.

 

[Gasometer]

It’s official, I have perfected the slow cook Lamb Roast Weber where by the meat falls off the bone with the ease of a pair of tongs

Delish

 

[gokangas]

It’s official, I have perfected the slow cook Lamb Roast Weber where by the meat falls off the bone with the ease of a pair of tongs

Delish

Love my weber q - might try a kettle one day.

 

[Gasometer]

Love my weber q - might try a kettle one day.

I have both the Family Weber Q and the kettle; the coals are the best

 

[DuckYeah]

Duck can cook.

 

[DuckYeah]

Poached eggs, bacon, smashed av and goats cheese on sour dough with home made hollandaise (clarified).

Sunday morning breakfasts are the bees knees at Ducks house

 

[Ashley B]

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Poached eggs, bacon, smashed av and goats cheese on sour dough with home made hollandaise (clarified).

Sunday morning breakfasts are the bees knees at Ducks house

Quack quack, that’s pretty impressive. The closest I get to cooking is watching The Great Australian Bake Off lol

 

[blackshadow]

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Poached eggs, bacon, smashed av and goats cheese on sour dough with home made hollandaise (clarified).

Sunday morning breakfasts are the bees knees at Ducks house

I’m salivating….

 

[koshari]

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Poached eggs, bacon, smashed av and goats cheese on sour dough with home made hollandaise (clarified).

Sunday morning breakfasts are the bees knees at Ducks house

done properly the hollandaise is the bomb, but knowing how to make it myself it leads to disappointment often when i eat out for breakfast,

my hollendaise is pure yolk and butter folded in together, this is the critical stage because you can split the egg yolk if you dont mix it in with the butter properly before the yolk begins to solidify. at the stage i add a little sugar ( just enough to offset the acidity of the lemon juice) and freshly squeezed lemon juice. then you can commence the whisking stage. garnish with freshly chopped parsley and cracked peppercorn.

 

[DuckYeah]

done properly the hollandaise is the bomb, but knowing how to make it myself it leads to disappointment often when i eat out for breakfast,

my hollendaise is pure yolk and butter folded in together, this is the critical stage because you can split the egg yolk if you dont mix it in with the butter properly before the yolk begins to solidify. at the stage i add a little sugar ( just enough to offset the acidity of the lemon juice) and freshly squeezed lemon juice. then you can commence the whisking stage. garnish with freshly chopped parsley and cracked peppercorn.

Clarified butter is what you need to use. But yes, thats how I make it. just no sugar, i use just about a 1/4 tea spoon of lemon juice. Touch of cayenne in it too.

 

[Gasometer]

Broccoli

Looks like a fresh tight bunch and then slice into it and the inside is that dry dead look

It’s been like this since last year

 

[Lomas]

Broccoli

Looks like a fresh tight bunch and then slice into it and the inside is that dry dead look

It’s been like this since last year

 

[Samsquanch]

Broccoli

Looks like a fresh tight bunch and then slice into it and the inside is that dry dead look

It’s been like this since last year

Good lord.

 

[Better Loosen Up]

Seafood Laksa anyone?

 

[Samsquanch]

Boozy pancakes. My better half made me add Greek Yoghurt and some museli so in addition to a bit of her home made vanilla essence (a bottle of vodka with a handful of beans) I added a fair whack of triple sec. Three of these and it's 0.05 but no belly aches.

 

[marklovesbeer]

Boozy pancakes. My better half made me add Greek Yoghurt and some museli so in addition to a bit of her home made vanilla essence (a bottle of vodka with a handful of beans) I added a fair whack of triple sec. Three of these and it's 0.05 but no belly aches.View attachment 1718851

Could you please share the recipe?!

I need to up my weekend breakfast game at home.

 

[Samsquanch]

Could you please share the recipe?!

I need to up my weekend breakfast game at home.

Here's the confession. I used a packet mix, but in addition to the powder, I put in 1/2 cup of plain flour, 1/2 cup of SR flour, a Tbsp of Custard powder, a spoon of vanilla essence (whatever size spoon you like as this stuff is delicious) and about 50 or 60mL of triple sec plus the milk and egg that the recipe box asked for and 150mL of Greek yoghurt plus a large spoonful of museli (minced fine in the mini-food processor - optional). The extra ingredients make the packet mix taste a bit more like the real thing.

I made it up as I went along - just mixed in the milk until the batter was fairly thick but goopy enough to drip off the spoon into the frypan.

We had the packet of pancake mix in the cupboard for the last year or two and if it wasn't made into tasty treats it was under threat of being thrown out - a situation I could not bear the thought of.

The triple sec was a Coles supermarket special last week - I bought a couple of bottles as this stuff is delicious on ice-cream.

And it's OK in pancakes.

 

[andana]

spoon of vanilla essence (whatever size spoon you like as this stuff is delicious)

A LOCAL father is pleading for supermarkets to take vanilla essence off their shelves because its high alcohol content is too tempting for people like his son who suffer alcoholism.

Eric’s (not his real name) 35-year-old son has struggled with alcohol and methamphetamine addiction for 15 years, leading to periods “on the streets” when he’s not under his father’s roof.

On the day Eric dropped in to talk with the Herald, he’d been contacted by police to let him know his son had been found inebriated and needing assistance in a local park; it was before 9am.

He says the ready availability of vanilla essence on supermarket shelves is fuelling the problem for alcoholics, and worries that teenagers might cotton on to its “quick hit”.

With a high alcohol content of 35 per cent, a 50ml bottle vanilla essence is roughly worth a shot of vodka if you can stomach the taste.@

 

[Samsquanch]

A LOCAL father is pleading for supermarkets to take vanilla essence off their shelves because its high alcohol content is too tempting for people like his son who suffer alcoholism.

Eric’s (not his real name) 35-year-old son has struggled with alcohol and methamphetamine addiction for 15 years, leading to periods “on the streets” when he’s not under his father’s roof.

On the day Eric dropped in to talk with the Herald, he’d been contacted by police to let him know his son had been found inebriated and needing assistance in a local park; it was before 9am.

He says the ready availability of vanilla essence on supermarket shelves is fuelling the problem for alcoholics, and worries that teenagers might cotton on to its “quick hit”.

With a high alcohol content of 35 per cent, a 50ml bottle vanilla essence is roughly worth a shot of vodka if you can stomach the taste.@

My wife makes her own vanilla essence out of pure vodka and a bunch of vanilla beans.

 

[andana]

When people describe some of our players as a bit vanilla maybe they are suggesting they are moving around like drunks