Happy new year dear reader. I hope you had a great 2014 and I hope your 2015 is full of happiness and joy.
Thank you for following either by e-mail or via the WordPress.com reader or by another RSS reader.
If you’re inclined I’d really appreciate your heading over to Yummy Lummy and following me there by e-mail. Thanks đ
Dear Readers,
The migration from WordPress.com to a self hosted site using WordPress.org has progressed nicely and I’m happily blogging and uploading photographs of food. Please check it out by visiting Yummy Lummy.
In WordPress.org while you will see Yummy Lummy in the WordPress reader it doesn’t appear instantly and does take a few hours.
If you don’t mind receiving e-mails, I’d love it if you visited YummyLummy.com and on the right hand side bar at the top you’ll see a subscription tool. Subscribing by e-mail means you won’t miss out on any posts.
Thanks for reading my blog. I really do appreciate it.
Kind regards
Gaz
Well not so much of an announcement but just a change.
I’ve made the leap to a self hosted site. I’ve experienced a few frustrations with this change and the new site doesn’t look anywhere as good as I would like. I’ll be experimenting with new themes over the next few months and hopefully I’ll settle on an appearance I want.
So this website will remain active for searching and access to old post purposes. I discovered the ability to import from WordPress.com to WordPress.org is not as easy as the website tutorials suggest.
Please go to Yummy Lummy and resubscribe and please continue following me there.
Thanks everyone. Please get in contact with me if you have any comments or advice.
Gaz
Bron and I went to a movie this morning and saw The Trip to Italy. We really enjoyed it.
After the movie we enjoyed a quick lunch at PappaRich in the Canberra Centre.
I enjoyed a piece of Tandoori chicken and some chicken and beef satay sticks as well as a coffee milo drink đ
Chicken and beef satay with peanut sauce as well as Tandoori chicken.
Coffee Milo hot drink at PappaRich
The coffee milo drink was an odd surprise. I really enjoyed it.
Anyway, just a quick post to share some food đ
On Friday night Bron and I dined at Onred on Red Hill Lookout. We’ve dined there before and enjoyed the experience. This time was no different. The restaurant is at the top of a hill with a great view of Canberra. I imagine dining in summer in the early evening is more spectacular with the changing light conditions of sunset to view. At the end of May though, even with a 6.30 reservation, the sky was black and all of Canberra’s lights could be seen đ
Onred at night Image from http://www.onred.com.au/images/about_us10.jpg
I posted this picture to Twitter tonight and I was asked for the recipe. Click on the image for a clearer view of the soup.
Spicy cauliflower and pumpkin crab meat soup for #dinner
I’m happy to share the recipe although I never weigh anything and I suggest gauging the amounts based on how many people you’re cooking for.
Ingredients
Method
If you have any comments or questions please send me a comment in the space below.
Please like the Yummy Lummy Facebook page
Please follow me on Instagram
Please follow Yummy Lummy and Gary on Twitter.
Hope you have a great weekend and eat YUMMY
Other food I ate today
Shaved lamb, tabouli and aioli for #lunch
Bacon and eggs for #breakfast Wish it was pay day Thursday đ
Bron has bought an Entertainment Book and the plan is to eat our way through the book đ The Entertainment Book provides a substantial discount on a large number of restaurants in Canberra. The value for food lovers is obvious.
On Thursday night Bron and I went to Pistachio Dining at Torrens for dinner. When we arrived for our 8 pm reservation we noticed the restaurant had just under half of its tables occupied and we noticed that night’s service only required one waiter. We were greeted with a friendly smile and shown to a table for two near the back wall of the dining room. The rectangular dining area was very large without any poles or pillars. One wall is the front window panel that reveals the carpark of the Torrens’ shops. At 8 pm on a May evening it’s dark and atmospheric. The restaurant is nicely heated đ
The menu is marked by one of my favourite dishes of all time, viz., crumbed lamb brains (I think Dr Offal may reblog this post đ ).
It’s no surprise I went for the brains for an entrĂ© while Bron when for the tasting plate.
Crumbed lamb brains with baby spinach, dried prosciutto and split jus
Sautéed Sea scallops with smoked salmon, watercress, salmon roe and beurre blanc | Slow cooked lobster tail with pearl barley, chorizo, garlic chips, confit potato and herb oil | Grilled haloumi with buttermilk curd, tomato compote, charred onion and wild rocket
The brains were delicious, my only negative was the prosciutto not because it tasted bad, quite the contrary it was delicious, but it was dried and difficult to handle with a knife and fork. Â I would have used my fingers but that’s not appropriate in a fine dining restaurant.
Bron enjoyed her tasting plate too. I think the tasting plate is the way to go if we eat there again.
—————————————————————————————————-
For a main course I chose the lamb shoulder and Bron chose the pork.
Lamb shoulder that has been cooked for 12 hrs and pressed with green cabbage,
bacon lardons, rosemary, turned zucchini and potato
Roasted pork with mushroom purée, red wine reduction, caramelised onion
and chickpea chip
Both dishes were delicious with easy pull apart flesh. You could just see how tender Bron’s pork was when she used her fork to gently tease a portion of flesh from the piece of pork in the centre of her plate. It sounded like the mushrooms were delicious too.
For me, the lamb was perfect. The lamb came in two parts, on top were thin slices of medium rare meat which was seasoned nicely and delicious. The rest of the meat was a large muscle bundle from the shoulder that was full of flavour and jelly.
—————————————————————————————————-
For dessert Bron chose a special which was a CrĂšme brĂ»lĂ©e  with pistachio biscotti and chocolate fondant. I didn’t capture an image sorry. I asked for the passionfruit parfait with vanilla ice cream and pistachio praline. Utterly delicious.
Passionfruit parfait with vanilla ice cream, pistachio praline, syrup and dried flowers
We would happily recommend Pistachio Dining at Torrens. If you live in Canberra, it’s a restaurant worth eating at.
If you have any comments or questions please send me a comment in the space below.
Please like the Yummy Lummy Facebook page
Please follow me on Instagram
Please follow Yummy Lummy and Gary on Twitter.
Hope you had a great weekend and ate YUMMY
Google maps https://goo.gl/maps/VQouU
On Saturday Bron suggested lunch at Jamie’s Italian in the Canberra Centre. Max, Bron’s son also came along. Earlier in the day Max had suggested he would capture a photograph of his dish so that I could blog about it.
We’ve been to Jamie’s Italian before but in the evening. It was good then and we were expecting a similarly good experience.
On arriving we were greeted with a friendly smile from our waiter who stayed with us throughout the meal. Kids get treated specially at Jamie’s Italian. They receive a mug with crayons, a piece of paper with a line drawing for colouring and a 3D view finder which contains images of the kids’ menu. The good thing about the kids menu is that it isn’t chicken nuggets and chips or similar food you find in other restaurants. There were lots of families there with kids eating good looking meals. It’s good to see kids are considered as well as the adults are.
Bron captured a photograph of an interesting lighting feature in the middle of the restaurant.
Lighting at Jamie’s Italian
Max chose the hotdogs and chips. He went ahead and captured an image of his meal with his iPad. Maybe Max will one day have his own food blog.
Max’s hot dogs and chips at Jamie’s Italian. Image captured by Max with his iPad.
Max was pretty happy with his meal.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bron decided on the Black Angel Spaghetti with the squid ink pasta, scallops and anchovies. She also got a fennel and orange salad.
Squid ink pasta, scallops, garlic, chilli, anchovies, wine and capers
Bron said her spaghetti was delicious.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I went for the strip steak cooked rare.
350Â g pasture-fed Aussie Black Angus bone-in strip loin served with wild mushrooms and peppery endives with summer truffle butter and shaved Tuscan black truffles
Wild mushrooms and peppery endives served with the 350Â g pasture-fed Aussie Black Angus bone-in strip loin with summer truffle butter and shaved Tuscan black truffles
The steak was cooked perfectly and just to my liking. The truffle butter with shaved summer truffles was divine.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For dessert Max chose the chocolate brownie with amaretto ice cream and popcorn. Bron also had a bit of the dessert and mentioned a few times how good the chocolate was. Sorry I didn’t capture an image.
Jamie’s Italian dessert menu portion
The restaurant was quite busy and the turnover of customers was high. The restaurant is well staffed and the customer flow goes well. We’d happily recommend Jamie’s Italian to anyone wanting a good quality meal for a reasonable price.
Google maps https://goo.gl/maps/p3iyT
If you have any comments or questions please send me a comment in the space below.
Please like the Yummy Lummy Facebook page
Please follow me on Instagram
Please follow Yummy Lummy and Gary on Twitter.
Hope you had a great weekend and ate YUMMY
I’ve just got home (Canberra) after a busy weekend in Brisbane to see my daughters. May is a big month for us, my father’s birthday is in May, my eldest two daughters both share a birthday in May (two years apart), it’s mothers day in May and my birthday is in May.
I arrived late Friday night and the girls were already in ‘bed’ ready to sleep. They had a big Saturday ahead of them.
On Saturday we got out of bed at 5 am and ate a quick breakfast. I had peanut paste on toast (I didn’t have time for a low carbohydrate meal) while the two youngest ones had Mum’s lemon curd on toast. We had to be on the road by 6.30 am and on our way to Yatala for the QGSSSA Cross Country championships. Athletics is not the favourite sport for Miss13 and Miss17 however, as all rounders they compete in as many sports as possible. The meet is held at Rivermount College which isn’t part of the QGSSSA. The college is at Yatala near the Gold Coast.
Just thinking back a bit, when I arrived Friday night I discovered that a tube of moisturiser (yes I have Ichthyosis) had ‘exploded’ in my bag and the shirt I was going to wear had been ruined. Mum said I should wear one of Dad’s shirts. She also said it would be warm so short sleeves wouldn’t be a problem. I always listen to my mother.
So we arrive at Yatala and it’s cloudy and cold. I’m shivering. Thanks Mum đ
[To get more detail out of the images, click on them, they should open in a new window with a higher resolution. I’m happy to receive comments on the photography. Some images were captured with a Canon PowerShot G16 and the others with a Nikon D7100. I shoot in manual and capture RAW files to allow some post processing in Adobe Lightroom. ]
Rivermount College GPS coordinates
Rivermount College GPS coordinates
The girls run well and enjoy themselves. The next stop is the Sleeman Sports Complex in Chandler. We have to get Miss17 there for gymnastics training. Even though she didn’t make the Queensland team this year she’s allowed to compete at the national championships this week in Melbourne. She has to train at Gymnastics Queensland headquarters in Chandler. Before we get there though, Miss17 suggests a spot of morning tea at Yatala Pies.
Yatala Pies is a bit of an institution in South East Queensland. Their pies are known far and wide. Funnily enough I’ve never eaten in the Yatala Pies shop. This was a first.
The Famous Yatala Pies shop at Yatala near Queensland’s Gold Coast http://yatalapies.m2media.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/feature1.jpg
Miss17 had a curry chicken and vegetable pie, Miss13 had a sausage roll and I elected to have a pasty. It’s been ages since I’ve had a good pasty. This one didn’t disappoint. I loved it.
Yatala pies pasty
Yatala pies takeaway box. You can see Miss13’s sausage roll in the background.
Now regulars readers know me so it shouldn’t be any surprise that when I saw Vanilla slice I had to have one. Yatala Pies sells French Vanilla slices with a whopping big layer of French vanilla cream. It was gorgeous.
Yatala Pies French vanilla slice
After a lot of driving back and forth between Chandler and Chermside it was a long tiring day. After getting the kids back to my parents’ place it was time to cook our special May dinner to celebrate so many birthdays and mothers day.
I said to Mum that I wanted to cook salmon and would be wonderful is Miss17 could make a salad. I also made a pumpkin cauliflower mash which I used to smear the plate and perch the salmon on.
Salmon
#Dinner is salmon on a smear of pumpkin cauliflower mash with a green salad
For dessert, Miss17 had made an ice cream cake. The base was made with Ferrero Rocher, Chocolate Mint and Queensland nut (Macadamia) ice creams. The top had a combination of mixers added to make it a cake to remember.
Miss17 made me a Ferrero rocher, chocolate mint and Queensland nut ice cream cake with heaps of mixers
After dinner we watched The Hunger Games on DVD. I’d never seen it before. It was good.
After a good night’s sleep Miss19 joined us after a busy weekend of working and studying. We had planned a special breakfast together. My daughters and me đ We decided to head to Groove Train at Chermside because it was close and the last time we were there we enjoyed the food.
Inside Groove Train Chermisde https://www.groovetrain.com.au/modules/mod_btslideshow/images/240/slideshow/storebannerchermside1.jpg
I asked for poached eggs with bacon, hollandaise sauce, avocado and mushrooms. It was pretty good.
Poached eggs with bacon, hollandaise sauce, avocado and mushroom on sourdough toast
Miss13 asked for pancakes
Pancake stack with berries and maple syrup
After breakfast I had to take Miss17 back to Chandler for more training. I said my goodbyes and then caught a flight back to Canberra.
Dinner while watching Master Chef Australia was a nude burger with tomato, bacon and Coon cheese.
Nude Wagyu burger with bacon, tomato and Coon cheese
If you have any comments or questions please send me a comment in the space below.
Please like the Yummy Lummy Facebook page
Please follow me on Instagram
Please follow Yummy Lummy and Gary on Twitter.
Hope you had a great weekend and ate YUMMY
Okay so it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these food round ups. I’m not limiting myself to this weekend either đ
Let’s start on Thursday. It was a payday which means lunch has to be a celebration.
A cheese burger from Urban Bean Espresso Bar which I ate nude (sans bread) to keep it low carb.
Original Yummy Lummy 
