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Fahye ([personal profile] fahye) wrote2010-06-25 11:42 pm
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Hello flist! Tonight I had a pleasant surprise: some really wonderful food! And then we all piled into a motel room and watched Ratatouille and sighed over food some more. And now I am all fired up about the prospect of COOKING when I go back home for a week -- I'm going to dig out my Charmaine Solomon and my Marie Clare Comfort Food book (the Marie Clare recipes aren't dazzling but the cookbooks are basically FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY PORN) and cook up a storm.

If you have any cold-weather recipes that you swear by, or even have just seen on a food blog somewhere and would like an Antipodean who's living in the correct season to try out, leave them here.

Fooooooood. Mm. Tonight I sleep the sleep of someone who has eaten lemon brulee tart with pina colada sauce, and who doesn't have to be awake before 9am tomorrow, because it is the

WEEKEND

WWEEEEEEEEKEEEEEND

It is possibly I have gone slightly delirious with the shock of finding a seriously good restaurant in this tiny town.
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[identity profile] -leareth.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Someday I will teach you quick and easy and healthy soup noodles. In one pot.
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[identity profile] fahye.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I would be up for that! In the meantime can you give me an ingredients list? I can do a trial run in Canberra and blog hilariously about the results.
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[personal profile] skygiants 2010-06-25 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Corn chowder! So easy, so comforting, so delicious. In the winter I make huge vats of it and then eat it all week.

[identity profile] setissma.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Check out realsimple.com. Delicious food! Their ingredients are usually easy to find (at least, here!) and relatively inexpensive.

[identity profile] dr-biscuit.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
It was only recently I discovered the joy of toad in the hole. With bacon. It's not classy, but on a cold night it is deeply satisfying.
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[identity profile] ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Even people in McLean like to eat out!

My wisdom as a coastal-country-town person says: if you want a decent variety of restaurants, get someone to drive you in to Yamba. It's probably got a scaled-down version of the Nelson Bay Effect going on: to wit, the tourist trade from major cities over summer would push up the quality/variety of restaurants. Googling reveals there are in fact TWO Thai restaurants in Yamba, and although my experience in Nelson Bay does not fill me with hope on the Thai front, apparently these guys have a conventional sort of menu but notable 'freshness and flavour' (http://www.agfg.com.au/guide/nsw/northern-rivers/yamba-area/yamba/restaurants-dining/annola-thai).
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[identity profile] fahye.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
Yamba is in fact where we are staying (we drive to Maclean every morning) and where said delicious restaurant was found! We've tried Annola -- really good red duck curry, but mediocre other things.
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[identity profile] ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 10:48 am (UTC)(link)
Yamba is LOVELY :D. Although my main memory of it is that mum lost the diamond from her wedding ring in one of the swimming holes at Angourie.
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