What did you eat last night for dinner?

[ehkay]

The ghosts of Medmen and pizza’s past.

 

[Jazzmenco]

Traditional Romanian Christmas eve dinner, cabbage rolls (sarmale, Romanian national dish) with polenta (Mămăligă) and homemade sausage. The green beans were my contribution... Today she will be baking that outstanding sweet bread (cozonac) Pork crown roast with baked yams and butternut squash. Romanians eat a lot of pork.....


Ready for the oven

Romanians make great desserts, well worth the calories.

 

[mgm9128]

le boeuf

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Christmas lunch somewhat low key, did intend to be sitting on a beach somewhere with a picnic hamper, and a lite dinner early evening...

Twice baked Goat/Victorian Blue soufflés. Used a combo of spelt flour 60% and 40% rice flour made then a lot lighter served with a mix of chargrilled and blanched asparagus. Antipasto platter, with a 2018 Hurley Vineyard Lodestone Pinot Noir Balnarring Mornington Peninsul.

Macerated strawberries, blueberries and raspberries in Four Pillars Rare Dry Gin, lemon juice and teaspoon of caster sugar. With meringue on bed of thick brandy and vanilla custard with raspberry coulis. Served with a De Bortoli Noble One Botrytis Semillon 2017.

Followed by a leisurely four cheese platter two goat bries, a goat blue and Manchego cheese.

Followed with a clean skin Victorian 2016 Pinot Noir, personally my palate told me it hails from Mornington Peninsula.

Tonight Pizza Eggplant, black olives caramelised red onions Bulgarian feta. Mushroom, fresh passley, radicchio, blue cheese and parmesan. Washed down with a West Australian 2018 Castle Rock Estate Porongurup Pinot Noir, something different. First time I‘ve had WA PN impressed not a state know for it.

@Jazzmenco while those desserts look impressive IMHO on one beats the French at this art.

 

[Jazzmenco]

@Geoffrey Firmin FIFY........Romanians make great desserts, well worth the calories.

 

[gdl203]

 

[ehkay]

Mediocre and very small truffles made into lemonade, large and very excellent turbot

 

[mgm9128]

Le surf & Le turf

 

[mgm9128]

 

[Texasmade]

A lot of food for just one person!

 

[mgm9128]

Lobster pasta

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Saturday night pizza night
Char grilled eggplant, fried Swiss brown mushrooms, black olives and caramelised red onions with one fresh Thai chili, Bulgarian sheep feta and mozzarella cheese.

Desiree potato,fresh rosemary, red chili and Maldon salt sprinkled over to cook then with blue cheese and caramelised red onion to finish.

Washed down with a glass of Victorian clean skin Pinot Noir.

 

[gdl203]

New year’s day meal

 

[mgm9128]

Fried pork chop

 

[ehkay]

chocolate soufflé