Cheese Burger and Lamb Shoulder (by Biggs)

After a long long, hard hard day of work G suggested we meet for a couple of pints - I was dead keen. The motivation came from both independantly noticing a shelled out warehouse down the road from us that seemed to be full of people drinking. We couldn't find any reference to this place on the whole of the internet thus intriguing us further.

Once I discovered it's name I did in fact find one reference describing it as a Traditional British Pub.....with a modern twist. Turns out the modern twist was so twisted it in fact bore no relationship to any Traditional British Pub I've read about or seen in movies. I would describe it more as wank and swank.

Next door to this wank and swank though was a magical deli wonderland of our dreams. After wandering around this place for a while....and dropping some coin....we decided to go back to the bar to celebrate our discovery with more beer and some food.

We quickly decided on two cheese burgers and a shoulder of lamb....no side vegetables thank you very much. Good stuff. G thought the lamb would have gone well with a side of gravy but certainly the squeeze of lemon was satisfying enough. The cheeseburger.....close to the best I've ever had. Even the brioche bun wasn't too sweet and offensive.

After our inital disappointment I feel like we'll be back here every time we shop at the deli wonderland.....ongoing celebration of discovery you see.

Steak with a Garlic Prawn Topper (by Biggs)

I've been quite taken with the concept of 'steak toppers' lately so thought I'd give it a crack myself. I went with the easiest option - a steak with garlic prawns piled on top. Yep!

I seem to be in the habit of defaulting to a three meat dinner after every Vegetarian Wednesday and tonight was no different with bacon mixed through the side of vegetables.

Other than the bacon there were brussel sprouts, peas and onion....a squeeze of lemon.

I accidently overcooked everything a little but....dinner served. 

Mushdogs (by G)

Vegetarian Wednesday again which means (at least when I'm in charge) mushroom Wednesday. 

Tonight a mix of mushrooms varieties fried with garlic and spring onion, flavoured with some stock, thickened with some cornflower, and stuffed into rolls then topped with some cubes of feta.

The mushdogs were pretty good, a bit lacking in flavour - the thing that made dinner exciting were the side of hash browns... lovely, crisp and light golden as prescribed by the packet.

Bratwurst Sausage Tortillas (by Biggs)

My favourite thing about the blog is checking out the stats of our traffic sources. It tells us which countries people are reading from, what browser and device they're using and keyword searches that have led readers to our blog. 

Some of my favourite key word searches have been 'Cambodian junk food', 'adobo and mung bean purée' and 'damn thirst for knowledge'....of course that search sent someone to our blog. This week there was the new key word search of 'bratwurst sausage tortillas'. Even though that led someone to our blog we've never actually had such a thing before so...an dinner idea was born. The strangest thing is that I discovered there are infact plenty of bratwurst sausage tortilla recipes on the internet. 

This one involved simmering the bratwurst in beer then wrapping them in cheese layered tortillas and grilling them up a bit. The sauce was a white sauce with diced onion and mustard stirred through. I'm super glad I decided to serve them with a salad of cucumber, snow peas and tomatoes. It really helped balance things out a bit. 

Glazed Salmon and Salad (by G)

Biggs has struck on the idea that we should limit our dinner portions to, like, one portion each. The only way I know how to limit portions is with fish.
I bought some salmon pieces, grilled them skin side down then removed the skin and fried that separately to get it crispy. The meat pieces were then brushed with a mix of soy, sugar, mirin, ketjap manis and savoury chilli sauce and grilled.

Portion control also involves a modest amount of salad, in this case cabbage, chilli, coriander, spring onion and toasted sesame seeds dressed with yoghurt, some of the salmon glaze and lime.

Despite my aversion to cooking fish I thought the meal was pretty good, didn’t stink up the kitchen too much. That counts as a win… but boy am I hungry.

Punjabi Palace (by Biggs)

A very lazy day today so a very lazy dinner plan...take away Indian. Chicken Korma and Lamb Vindaloo - tender and tasty. Happy household.

The Lord Stanley (by Biggs)

A hearty feast before The Big Game was on the menu tonight so we headed to The Lord Stanley. Good food, good beer, not too crowded, complimentary mini-bus to The Gabba. All round excellent.

 

G agonised over what to order. I on the other hand went for the obvious choice - the Chicken Parmie. Three cheese Chicken Parmie no less. I couldn't tell you what the cheese varieties were but what I can tell you is that they, and everything on this plate, was delicious.

 

G had a rump steak with mushroom sauce, chips and a ceaser salad. He seemed pretty happy. I'm disappointed that he didn't order one of the steak toppers. Options were onion rings, prawns, calamari, ribs or lamb skewers. Steak topped with ribs - how amazing would that have been. Though, the corn topper was an unexpected bonus for him.

 

Turns out Kirst is a connoisseur of the cheap Gabba wines and was delighted to see this new variety on offer....so, it made the blog. She was very impressed with the cup type - holds more wine, stylish, spill-resistant lip.