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CantCookStillTry

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  1. I like Gillie Houston for my daily doses of travel and food envy. She is a young food writer paid to travel to beautiful locations and eat amazing food. She will also take the time to show every cute and fluffy animal she might find in her stories.
  2. Oh it is. Deepest Darkest Mid Winter infact - Queensland just skips the bleak part.
  3. We went to the WinterFeast farmers market in Bundaberg today. Excuse the poor photos. I am incredibly shy about taking them so they are all sneak shots 😁. It's an annual event in its third year. Lots of stalls from local producers, Cooking demonstrations, and plenty of food vendors and alot of bodies. Demos. Haul - Honey roasted macadamias, chilli jerky, hopped apple cider, watermelon water and $3 for 5 Avos. Jalepeno Cheese Pork Snags, Biltong, Beef Cheeks & Bratwurst. Lil dudes Breakfast - Strawberry Lime & Salted Caramel Gelato. And this poor dude. It may be winter. But its still 25c and humid.
  4. The time that the footies on over here means the only snack I have had has been Coffee. I find 2018, as far as these tournaments go, has been rather interesting. Who would have thought the Warhols would be the last Crisps of this trio standing at the end of the group snack off. Certainly not me, or history post 1966. Australia has done the usual 'flavours of the world' for crisps/pringles and stuff, usually the fast food chains do some weird and wonderful burger flavours but I don't recall seeing any adverts this year. Haven't been looking though!
  5. CantCookStillTry

    Dinner 2018

    Oodles of Noodles. Inspiration: The totally Authentic 😉Chinese takeaway, open until 3am, in staggering distance from my Dorm way back when. I think I added way too many vegetables and way too little salt, if fuzzy memory serves.
  6. CantCookStillTry

    Dinner 2018

    Dipping my toe back into the world of real food. Baked/Roasted (is there a difference? Which is correct if so?) Chicken Thigh, Parmesan Cauliflower Mash & Garlic Baby Spinach.
  7. CantCookStillTry

    Dinner 2018

    Just want to say - sorry for being the weirdo that has liked everyones standard Tuesday night dinner from three weeks ago, I'm not being a stalker, just catching up. Wish I hadn't. You guys are so amazing. There is not one post that hasn't made me go 'Jeez I wish I had that right now' (okay maybe some of the ones with liver or tomato but still there was a tomato tainted Turkey sandwich I would destroy). Any way long story short. Keep doing what you are all doing it's inspiring... or at the very least hunger inducing - and if anyone wants to invite me round for dinner I'll be there in 5. What 5 amounts to depends on location
  8. CantCookStillTry

    Dinner 2018

    So I have not posted much lately. I just cannot find the inspiration to cook for one that other members possess. I am so jealous. I've had grilled cheese three nights in a row! Mainly to use up leftovers, the cheese my husband left behind before he went back to work, and the bread leftover from small dudes lunches. It's like I am 15 again. With a lot more wrinkles. Jarlsberg, 3 year old cheddar and the most bland rubbish mozzarella you ever did taste.
  9. Just seen this.. No words. Unbelievably sad.
  10. Yup I could go for that. Your chips look wonderful! I think I'd have ruined the aesthetic with too much salt and splashes of malt vinegar before I got to photo taking. The omelette has me rethinking my dinner plans too.
  11. CantCookStillTry

    Dinner 2018

    No I haven't accidentally missed 'snacking while' this was my actual dinner. No crackers no nothing. When I looked at the amount I had uh.. harmlessly nibbled while waiting for it to come to temperature, I cancelled dinner, and googled local defibrillators (There is one at the bank 34km away). It may have made it into my top 3 cheeses, and that is an accolade. Flinders Estate Ash Brie. EdTA: Top 3 easily available in Australia... may have been a little hasty once I got going down cheese memory lane. It's long.
  12. CantCookStillTry

    Dinner 2018

    Captain low carb came home tonight, needed a dinner I could have on the table in 10 minutes - as travel time is fairly consistent but there are a LOT of roos to dodge. Porterhouse with stir fry of broc, Jalepeno (Con-Fusion I know) red bell and spring onion in oyster & ginger sauce.
  13. Small Dude has been nagging me for Sausage Rolls. Obliged him today. Made a batch for today, for his lunchboxes and for the freezer. We will see if that happens - which is why I don't make them very often!
  14. CantCookStillTry

    Dinner 2018

    Ok, I tried the fresh baked whole, cut, plated and bite shots with this one, but as you are about to realise, this dinner has a face only a tummy can love. Chicken Jalepeno Popper Bake, a combo recipe from a bunch of lchf blogs for my husbands tea & freezer meals. Yeah, that was the best one.
  15. CantCookStillTry

    Dinner 2018

    Its not pretty but its the first thing I've cooked in a while so I'm sharing my mediocrity. Pork loin chops and a CauliBroc Cheese - Born from my excited declaration when I got home from work and a grocery run. 'Look husband, these big chunks of short date (2 weeks) Jarlsberg straight off the wheel were 75% off! I got 2!' And his reply - "yeah, me too"
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    Dinner 2018

    Each to their own, I think they are very important to the more rural communities. I doubt you would find rave reviews for a 'Brisbane RSL' but go walkabout, say Charleville, say Kempsey, then they can be the heart and soul. Honest, unpretentious, a gathering place. And thats just my immigrant opinion.
  17. CantCookStillTry

    Dinner 2018

    @liuzhou, "Returned and Services League". A little hard for me to explain, a "real" Aussie would do it so much better. Its like a bar/pub/bistro/gambling establishment honouring returned and current servicemen/women. Every town has one be it grand or.. not. If you're there at 0600 (I dont think many would be open) or 1800 you stand and show respect for colours and sunset (I only know Navy terms) - flag goes up/down shut your mouth, stop what you're doing, trumpets etc.
  18. CantCookStillTry

    Dinner 2018

    Visiting the Husband. Went to the local RSL for dinner. He had an 'Aussie Pork Snitz' (pork, bbq sauce, fried egg, bacon, cheese) and I had the Barramundi. The meat and the fish were very good. Can't comment on the rest . We both tend to eat in sequence, like meat first then sundries.. Well tonight I had finished my Fish (literally just my fish, all salad and chips remained, same for husband) and got up to get my lil boys dessert, my husband also got up to get another drink. In the 1 minute we were both absent from the table but less than 20ft away (son still sitting eating) both our meals were taken and disposed of. I was too amused to complain about the staff imposed diet
  19. CantCookStillTry

    Dinner 2018

    Panko crumbed chicken Schnitzel topped with salsa, tomato, spring onion, jalepeno, cheese and sour cream. With leftover skin on boiled chats, mashed and baked with goodies until crispy and creamy. Generic green beans. I miss good ole 'Runner Beans' so much.
  20. CantCookStillTry

    Dinner 2018

    For your enjoyment . My first and I guess second attempt (reheated) reverse seared rib eye and potatoes (back story on never again..). Served 4 hours after it was ready. No effort was made in the plating or photography. The will was long gone.
  21. I shall never again attempt to serve my husband a time critical expensive (for us) meal on a work night. I bought some beautiful Rib Eye Steaks, good inch and half thick, $50 per KG. Really wanted to treat him and use my preciously hoarded fresh green peppercorns (biatch to find out here) to make a sauce seeing as I have been in suck a cooking slump lately - lotta noodles been happening. Decided to try the 'Reverse Sear' method I have been intrigued by recently, now I have finally procured thick enough steaks. All calculations mean I should have dinner on the table 15 minutes after he walks in like the perfect house wife I am . Half an hour in to getting the steaks up to temp in the oven - 'Bing' goes the phone "Serious incident at work going to be late". It's an hour and a half over my projected serve time and he is still at work (over an hour away). The steak will have to be reheated . The sauce is a bit congealed and ucky looking. And I am oscillating between finding my failure hilarious and quiet rage at the waste.
  22. CantCookStillTry

    Dinner 2018

    Quick after-work Quiche. Well as quick as anything involving pastry can be. Base was a little too thin to handle the amount of cheese I added. Despite a rigorous blind bake. I imagine it will be better cold for lunch tomorrow. Served a little too hot, it was loose cheesy and barely holding itself together. I would make a joke but its not necessary
  23. Not as of yet @JoNorvelleWalker but to be honest, I haven't been back to the Asian Grocery in the big town, which is the only place I would have a chance to find it. Since my last disaster I have lacked the need/desire/courage/confidence! Your steak sounds like the last ones I have tried to cook. I shelled out on the weekend and purchased some of suitable thickness to hopefully remedy my woes, cost me around $20 a kilo extra though! So I better not mess it up! You will see my results either here or hopefully in the dinner thread soon!
  24. Spring seems to have sprung from what I can gather, atleast in parts of the northern hemisphere so hopefully it won't be long before we start to see some of the beautiful produce again. My haul from a farmers market in the big town this morning. Kg of Zucs, 3 green capsicum (sorry folks), birds eye chillis, kale, spring onion, kg of chat pots, peeled chinese garlic cloves, 1/2 watermelon and the best bit 4 (4!) Beautiful caulis weighing well over a kilo each. Can't wait for the season.
  25. CantCookStillTry

    Dinner 2018

    Continuing my "no effort no F's" phase. King Island Camembert and bread. Covered all but one of the food groups I care about.
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