Last week was a pretty crazy week with Micaiah suffering from croup and needing to preach on Sunday. (It made me realise how little ‘buffer’ I have, both in terms of the external i.e. time, and the internal i.e. capacity to write a talk under pressure). So, caffein becomes necessary when buffer is low, and [...]
A variety of circumstances brought opportunities for coffee in the past few weeks – especially at cafes that we’ve never visited before. (Disclaimer for those who really do know their coffee: drinking ‘outside’ coffee is like our fun things to do away from our good ol’ Maccona, so please don’t take these thoughts too seriously) [...]
Meeting a friend for lunch at UNSW in about 15 minutes. It’ll be the first time I have laksa P.M. (short for Post Micaiah). Is it too trivial a thing to be praying that Satay Delight will have chicken laksa with ho-fan by the time I get there?
One of the ‘bonus’ of going to a fellowship that’s on Saturday nights (perhaps ‘consequence’ is the better word) is that we get to catch Better Homes and Gardens on Friday night tv. Not that I have much interest in gardening (nor any talent whatsoever), but Ed Halmagyi, better know as ‘Fast’ Ed, is a [...]
Love the format. Love the tips. Love the peek into professional kitchens. Love the full episodes online. Love the chef battles. Love the fact that my two favourites are going straight through to the last round. Cauliflower puree is beau-ti-ful!
Fresh – I guess so. Mex – perhaps. Grill – yes (certainly explains the long-ish wait). The nachos we orderd for lunch was a good size, but the mince was scant and the guacamole bland. Conclusion: our homemade version is better. Consolation: a voucher for a free 2nd burrito. Till next time!
One of the things that we are doing less at the moment is cooking. Cooking needs good timing – and its not infrequent these days that just as we finish cooking Micaiah wants his feed (he isn’t a very scheduled baby). So this basically means that Anna can’t eat till an hour later and I [...]
A few months ago we saw the new Kikkoman (famous for its soy sauces) range of marinade on special at Burwood, so we tried the Sesame, Ginger & Soy Marinade. It is superb. Great as a straight-on marinade for pan-frying or stir-frying pork and beef, but also tasty for boiling chicken. Yes, boiling chicken! Lay [...]
A few weeks back we saw these Charlotte Potatoes on sale at Woolies, so we bought some to try. Anna and I were both amazed how tasty they were – even without sauce or seasoning (its heaven with real mayonnaise =D) They are slightly yellow, flat, kidney shaped, and their smaller in size than other [...]
Now that we church at Strathfield, we have more opportunities to sample the restaurants ‘out west’ =) Burwood happens to be a hotbed of Asian restaurants, and Anh Dao is one of those gems forged amongst the fiery competition. Its suppose to be Vietnamese, but like many places it does a bit of everything; the [...]