Lunch and Dinner Day Saturday
The sun came out! So to celebrate we thought we would invite some friends who lived not too far away (In Australian distance) to come for a late lunch, enjoy the pool and make use of the BBQ at the rental. I'm not even a BBQ fanatic but I had serious envy with this one. I made a comment to my father once about how BBQ in Australia was much easier (I grew up with disposable charcoal BBQs in the UK) and he replied that he could probably do just as well if he had an outdoor gas oven - he has a point.
Any way it was a simple deal, these posts certainly won't give you Gourmet but they might show you something different to what you get at home. Thats why I love Egullet, I love seeing what resources you all have and what you do with them.
Loaded with one of each of the big three, lamb, beef and pork, our feathered friends gained a reprieve.
I set the table and everything! Mainly because it was at rainforest humidity levels and sticky is not fun. Check the paper plates - I wasn't washing up.
Some locally made condiments, we brought the 'Wooster' sauce with us, its starting to gain a bit of traction, a box sent on a truck heading for Cairns fairly regularly and I have seen it as far down as Brisbane. Its made in three different levels of 'heat/strength' as well. Should it be called Worcestershire Sauce? I'm not sure. Is there any Wooster sauce if its not Lea & Perrins? That's not my fight. Is it very very good? Yes. Should you just call it Wooster sauce instead of the county? Yup.
A new relish to try for my Jalapeno mad husband. Tried growing them once, they were bright red and still smaller than my pinky finger. Failed.
I had decided I simply must cook something on the beautiful stove, although it wasn't going to be anything complicated. A big pan of onions, slowly caramelised in butter. Lets be honest, they cooked themselves.
This is obviously a before photo, the after didn't happen unfortunately. They were good though.
I found a few other things that made me chuckle when I was in the 'FoodWorks' procuring onion and side salads.
I found the price of $17.99 a kilo for lamb breast a little surprising, even with the fillings.
And after seeing the prices on these, I'm heading straight over to some of the fermenting and sauerkraut posts to get me the skills to set up a little business. I feel there is a tidy markup.
And to finish, our four legged friends have not been forgotten. I know its dog food but... still. I don't even think its trying to be funny!
After a big lunch, we farwelled our friends and grabbed pizza for tea. I was a little underwhelmed and almost forgot any photos, Pepperoni, Supreme and BBQ meatlovers. Thin crust (my favourite - unfortunately a tad soggy), sadly very very salty. Still filled a hole.
What goes up must come down.
Edit: To make sense of my 'downhill' comment - We actually had a reservation at a restaurant called 'Plantation' for Saturday night, its on a resort called lagoons, and is the one of the most rated places in town - to be fair I would not have needed said reservation, the whole township was a ghost- umm - township, dosen't sound right but you know what I mean. However, my little boy got very very sunburnt in three hours outside (we are very sun safe etc - turns out the best rated sunscreen out there - that he was basted in - has some issues at the moment). I was too embarrassed to take him out, everyone judges the parents not the product, so the fancy place I hoped to show you guys got replaced with pizza - this was the first in a few failures of things I wanted to show you - more will be revealed later.
