Sunday, 11 January 2009

Lazy ass food

Howdie ho neighbourinos!
This was certainly a week of curries!  On Monday Cam made Malaysian Curry, on Tuesday he made dahl (and we went to see the awesome, incredibly sad (really, I was bawling during the end) Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and on Friday night I had the Lit girls over for an Indian banquet and drunken ravings about novels.
You've seen pictures of our curries before (Cam was actually happy with the Cauliflower and Potato curry this time - he always thinks it's bland - I disagree!), so I'll show you the breads I made - ROTI!!!!
Recipe is from here (I can't remember who put me on to Manjula's Kitchen, but I'm forever in your debt!!!
They puffed up and tasted pretty authentic (I substituted Nuttelex for the ghee)....
And (of course) the pictures sucked.  I made them again the next day with a couple of tablespoons of finely chopped fresh coriander....
Roti
See the puffyness!  You should have seen the dance I did around the kitchen when this happened.  SOOOOOO funny.
Anyway, the next day (Saturday) I went to the West End Markets with Kath and Tif to get breakfast.  Mmmmmm Ykillamoocow pies (their website seems to have disappeared):
Outside pie
And the inside:
Inside Pie
Yum!  And all this before the diet plan starts on Monday.  Whoops!  

Sunday, 4 January 2009

I don't want to go to school tomorrow Mummy

Or I don't want to go back to work tomorrow dammit!!!
Holidays are over :(
Here's a recap of what we've done...
We bought a BBQ!
BBQ
We cooked mushrooms on it (remove stalk, add salt and wait!)
Mushroom
Mmmmm juicy goodness....
Made a BBQ tofu sandwich!
BBQ Tofu Sammich
Watch out for the evil potato!!!!
Evil Potato
Spent an afternoon making Pumpkin Cinnabons (from Don't Eat Off The Sidewalk)
Naked Cinnabons
Dressed Cinnabons
Got Hell Pizza takeaway.  I wasn't a fan of cooked avocado (Cam was):
Hell Pizza
Scarfed down kumara chips with the pizza.  Fuck yeah....
Kumara Chips
Visited Kuan Yin (my office moved to the valley, but I still visit on holidays!).  There's some cool new menu items including:
Salt and Pepper Calamari (made with rehydrated shiitakes - we think):
Sald and Pepper Oysters
Spicy Calamari
Spicy Calamari
And people say vegan food is boring?  HA!!!!
Hope no-one else is as sad as I am to be returning to the coal mines.....