Tuesday Night Ramen

After an extended long weekend in Lorne eating, drinking, swimming and more drinking, I'm trying to eat healthy this week. With a colder day today, I needed something to warm me up, so headed to King St for...some Ramen!! There's never anyone in this place, but it's pretty cheap, right near my house and the menu is on an iPad, that you use to send your order through too!!

PS, I didn't have the Spam entree, but did have the IPONDO Special Beef Ramen!

Huxtaburger in today's Epicure

After posting that I wanted to check out Huxtaburger, I opened the Epicure today to find it in the CHECK OUT... section, better get down there soon.

Also in today's Epicure was Larissa Dubecki's review on Albert St Food & Wine where Philippa Sibley heads up the kitchen. She gave it 15/20. I think I'll make my own judgement on that...and add Albert St Food & Wine to my "Places I wanna eat at before the end of Summer".

http://www.albertst.com.au/

Sunday in Portarlington

After finishing dinner and getting ready to watch the Tomic v Federer clash, thought I'd give an update.  Started the day with sausages, home made hash browns, home grown tomatoes and an egg for breakfast. One of my favourite things in Summer is to have ice in my coffee for breakfast, something I picked up when I was in Japan!!

Moving on to lunch and there was still some salsa left. I cooked up some lamb and made mini souvas and squeezed some oranges to have a fresh OJ to go with it.

As we'd missed out on a drink at the new wine bar in Portarlington, I made a Beef Noodle Salad for dinner. Rice vermicelli noodles, marinated beef and yep, you guessed it, salsa, this time with cashew nuts! The best thing is that there's still enough left for lunch tomorrow!!

Paco's Tacos

I was going to post about Paco's Tacos when I posted my fish tacos from last night, but forgot, so here it is.  Paco's Tacos is where Movida Terraza used to be - right next to Movida Aqui, above Earl Canteen, all at the back of 500 Bourke St. I've had the Pescado (marinated fish, pic below) a few times and tried the Camarones (prawn). I'm yet to try the Pato Asado (duck), but am sure it'll be as tasty as the others.

Places I wanna eat at before the end of Summer

Gumbo Kitchen

San Telmo

Taco Truck

Huxtaburger

Seafood for lunch, seafood for dinner

There was plenty of "the" salsa left after lunch so I cooked fish taco's for dinner. There were cheap Dory fillets at the supermarket, so I cooked them up, but a cheap fish like Basa woulda done the job! Instead of lettuce I put cabbage and made a mean guac to go on them.

Gazpacho Yabby Shooters

I was going to do prawn cocktails for my Mum's birthday lunch, but when I got to the Vic Market, there were yabbies on sale. It's been ages since I had yabbies, but one of the last times I had a yabby was in a seafood bisque shooter. With the warmer weather, I asked my sister Soph to make a gazpacho and peeled the tails of the yabbies, leaving the head and claws intact and placed them into the soup!

Last Saturday Night

If only I'd started this last weekend, I coulda taken photos of the dinner I did for Flic and George. Four courses in total included:
Calamari Cones,
Prawn Cocktail (Cafe Vue Style - including the prawn crackers!!),
Green Tea Soba Noodle Salad with Ocean Trout,
Nectarine Pudding.
A bottle each of Hollick's Sparkling Merlot, Pizzini Pinot Grigio and nearly two six packs of Asahi, I managed to impress my chef friends and decided to leave the dishes until Sunday morning!

Friday Night Dinner

I'm doing a birthday lunch for my Mum's birthday tomorrow and Schnitzel burgers are on the menu. I'd bought too many schnitzels at the Vic Market yesterday, so I cooked one for my dinner and made a red wine gravy to go on it. My famous salsa is also on the menu for the birthday lunch so I made that early and had some with the schnitzel and washed it down with a Henniger lager!