Hah. Like I could stick to plan. Right!
But I was close :-) It's practically what I planned.
Grilled sun-dried tomato chicken with rice and snow pea shoots (Plan) was meant to be a piece of grilled chicken, stir-fried shoots on the side and a rice timbale (maybe - or instead, a mound of rice with something colourful mixed through).
But, it just looked wrong. Plan B: sliced chicken breast on rice with snowpea shoots stir fried with garlic sauce.
It's been a long wait. Today's episode is on Kway Teow - called "iterative" cos as you can see, it needs heaps of development still *grin*
Things to do next time:
- use bean paste
- taste before turning off the fire!
- more oil for that authentic hot-fried texture and aroma
- cook it for longer so that the flavour permeates properly
Went out with Mum and Dad for dinner tonight as Mum noticed a new place opening next to her regular Asian grocery store in Wantirna.
The little brother of another eatery from Box Hill, in fact. Another little factoid - owned by a man who happens to play mahjong with a friend of Mum and Dad's.
So enough of the non-food reporting.. we thought we'd try it out because it opened on Tuesday.
Oops...didn't make a booking - they take bookings?
But Dad looked SO disappointed that they relented and suggested to wait outside for 10 minutes while they saw if they could find 4 seats.
This time it's the fabulous Sarah. I'm also leaning towards Melbournians at the moment but will probably move on to Sydneysiders in a minute as am running out of names :-(
Check it out - this is going to be a favourite destination.. Sarah cooks, Sarah eats & Sarah rocks!
It was so hot that my skin stung the instant it got into the sun. Like acid!
I can tell you I didn't give it a chance to burn - it was already too painful being in the sun. Found out later that yesterday qualified December as the hottest month on Melbourne records since the 1880s. Phew..no wonder.
Anyway, we were picking up end-of-day bread from the generous Brumby's bakery in Centre Road, Bentleigh. Across the road and a few shops down, was The Coffee Stop which looks like any of the million mum & dad milkbars across the nation. Hardly your slick Gelatavita or Trampoline.
Calling Londoners: Anyone looking for some authentic Malaysian or generally Asian food, as well as other culinary adventures both UK and abroad, check out the latest addition to the blog list, banana tikka masala.
ML - you may want to read this first...
http://bananaasian.blogspot.com/2005/11/champor-champor.html
Oh yeh...and Happy New Year everybodies!
Yeh..check out this list of Asian female food bloggers the next time you need inspiration gold..
http://scentofgreenbananas.blogspot.com/2004/12/how-many.html
It's a big job but I'll be looking through all of them and working out which ones to add to the blogroll. Mainly a focus on Aussies of course, but I must confess that the south east asian blogs will likely be over-represented!
The BlogRoundUp thing doesn't work at the mo', so I've changed the link to the aggregator view, and also added a menu item ("BlogRoll") so you can see exactly where the news items come from.
That's the temporary patch anyway. Check it out!
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