Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Hello fellow losers Sydney-bound SRFians.
To alleviate the bitter taste of holiday jealously, nothing beats filling your mouth with delicious, stodgy, heart-stopping foods. For a bit of international flavour, I was thinking of taking a look at the www.winterfestival.com.au and maybe washing down some grostel with a few mugs of glühwein after work this Friday night. Anyone else interested?
To alleviate the bitter taste of holiday jealously, nothing beats filling your mouth with delicious, stodgy, heart-stopping foods. For a bit of international flavour, I was thinking of taking a look at the www.winterfestival.com.au and maybe washing down some grostel with a few mugs of glühwein after work this Friday night. Anyone else interested?
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
The Great Beef Gumboot Off
Infected by Masterchef-fever, two teams of intrepid wannabe chefs (with floating entree-creator Shari as moral support) embarked on the Great Beef Wellington-off last weekend. Or in Australian, Beef Gumboot.
True to the show: product placement
Recipes were laminated, girls pitched against boys, Jenny's kitchen was commandeered and beers were opened in readiness.
Chopping herbs
Team Boy got off to a good start, barricading themselves in the kitchen while the girls loitered in the bedroom talking tactics, but we were soon neck and neck.
Beef Wellington is a pretty convoluted recipe so we began by dividing up the tasks and preparing the different elements: crepes, mushroom pate thingo, seared beef etc.
Team Girl crepes
Team Boy crepes
Mushrooms in a blender
Meanwhile some of us chipped in to help Shari make some delicious chorizo and potato bombas. YUM.
Hiding the chorizo in the potato
Mmmm... Bombas
Replenishing our energy with Bombas
After pausing for our starter we got on with the task of assembling the Beef Wellington. First the seared beef was basted with mustard. Then it was wrapped in the mushroom layer encased in proscutio.
Sarah places the beef on its bed of mushrooms
Encasing it in crepes
"What shall we do?" "I dunno, let's copy the girls." (Note product placement of Handee Ultra in the foreground)
After popping it in and out of the freezer, wrapping it in crepes, pastry and making a little 'valve' for the top, they were ready to go into the oven.
Before cooking. The lopsided cut of beef on the left is Team Girl
Fresh out of the oven. YUM!
It looks just like it did on the telly!
It was about 11.30pm at this stage so we were pretty hungry. We'd also neglected to find an impartial judge to decide on the winner, so instead we each had a slice of the boys' and the girls' beef wellington. To be totally honest with you, they were both delicious, and we were too full of pride in our achievements to declare an overall winner.
Team Boy on the left, Team Girl on the right. Both delicious.
Not to do things by halves, the girls also prepared dessert: chocolate cake with raspberry coulis, whipped cream and raspberries dipped in melted chocolate.
Dessert
V glad we made the effort
Roll on the next SRF Masterchef challenge!
cx
Recipes were laminated, girls pitched against boys, Jenny's kitchen was commandeered and beers were opened in readiness.
Team Boy got off to a good start, barricading themselves in the kitchen while the girls loitered in the bedroom talking tactics, but we were soon neck and neck.
Beef Wellington is a pretty convoluted recipe so we began by dividing up the tasks and preparing the different elements: crepes, mushroom pate thingo, seared beef etc.
Meanwhile some of us chipped in to help Shari make some delicious chorizo and potato bombas. YUM.
After pausing for our starter we got on with the task of assembling the Beef Wellington. First the seared beef was basted with mustard. Then it was wrapped in the mushroom layer encased in proscutio.
After popping it in and out of the freezer, wrapping it in crepes, pastry and making a little 'valve' for the top, they were ready to go into the oven.
It was about 11.30pm at this stage so we were pretty hungry. We'd also neglected to find an impartial judge to decide on the winner, so instead we each had a slice of the boys' and the girls' beef wellington. To be totally honest with you, they were both delicious, and we were too full of pride in our achievements to declare an overall winner.
Not to do things by halves, the girls also prepared dessert: chocolate cake with raspberry coulis, whipped cream and raspberries dipped in melted chocolate.
Roll on the next SRF Masterchef challenge!
cx
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
There's nothing like Australia
Lots of mumblings afoot about whether the new overseas Tourism Australia ad captures the essence of the country. What do you think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpn6ijA8rrY&feature=player_embedded
Warning: tone-deaf singers involved.
Here are some of the responses so far:
http://mumbrella.com.au/tourism-australia-finally-reveals-its-new-all-singing-ad-26950
cx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpn6ijA8rrY&feature=player_embedded
Warning: tone-deaf singers involved.
Here are some of the responses so far:
http://mumbrella.com.au/tourism-australia-finally-reveals-its-new-all-singing-ad-26950
cx
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