Toona melt-gasm

Although I had a whole lot of Pad Grapow left over from last night, after having it twice over the last 24 hours I fancied something a bit more fatty, fatty.

So I had a look in the pantry and lo and behold... tuna, sweetcorn, green bell pepper, scallions, hot saaauuce, trocomare salt, black pepper and mayo - toooona melt time!!

I also happened to buy a loaf of Nonna's Panne Di Casa yesterday on my junga trip, it's a crusty kind of sourdough loaf and it's SO good when you toast it and then pour 'olitalia' olive oil on it.

So I toasty toasty, then I poury poursy, then I put the spicy tuna mayo mix on, loads of shredded cheese on top and put it under the grill for 5 mins - til the cheese bubbled and browned.

It was super delishbags, but I was in too much of a hurry to stuff it in my face so I didn't take pics... Soz lolz!

I did happen to take pics of the awesome meat pie I made for me and gugustin on Saturday night so I'll just post a pic of that instead...




Beef, cheese and gravy pie in a puff pastry, served with sweet potato mash, baby peas and this sauteed spicy silverbeet/mushroom combo, which was really yum too.

Location:Chez bailz

Happy birthday Grill'd!!! ...Happy birthday everybody!!

Headed down to Grill'd (healthy burgers) this evening on the corner of Crown and Oxford Street in Darlinghurst for their 1st birthday BOGOF (best abbreviation ever btw: Buy One Get One Free FYI). The place was buuusy, done up with loads of balloons and party stuff and had a nice lively vibe.




We were in the mood for chicken burgers so we both went for the 'Zen Hen', which has satay sauce and shredded carrot, with that amazing crunchy lettuce of theirs and a side of the amazing fries with herbed mayo and loads of Tabasco mixed with ketchup. It's like they double-fry the chips they're so crunchy and coated in a herby sea salt... Freaking delish. Major burger boner!!

They even put a little cupcake on the side for us for their birthday! Awwwwwwwesome.

Http://www.grilld.com.au/

Excelsioooorrrrr!!!

So we ended up in the Excelsior on Foveaux street in Surry Hills. It's right around the corner from Gus' place on Belmore and we had been there on our drunken Friday night escapades a few weeks ago and had a great time. It's been recently taken over by the people who run the Beresford on Bourke St... And the back is converted into a Mexican restaurant which is full of pinata's and Mexican style decor, but in a cool way.

It was fairly lively even for a rainy Tuesday night. Mikey had the steak and I had the fish, which was delicious! Not sure what kind of fish it was but it was meaty, tender and crispy skinned, served with a spicy salsa verde and some kind of celeriac salad which worked really well with the flavour of the fish and lots of spicy piquant sauce on the side which made my eye sockets sweat a bit... Yumm. We also shared a hotdog which was covered in a mountain of fluffy shredded cheese and only $7!

Awesome little spot for midweek craic.

Location:Foveaux street, surry hills, NSW

DAHL for all occasions...

Loobish emailed me this morning asking for my dahl recipe so since I was typing it out thought i might as well copy it to here... not much of a strict recipe really though, you can adapt it to suit whatever you have in your cupboard at the time, once theres red split lentils and turmeric you cant really go wrong...
So to start off I just wash the lentils - red split lentils that you can get in any supermarket, give them a good wash til the water runs clear. Then bring them to the boil in a big pot, 2 parts water to one part lentils, adding turmeric, some curry powder, any indian spices you fancy really (lizbob maitra makes hers with just turmeric and its really good too), bit o ground cumin, a bit of fresh grated ginger, sliced onions, tomatoes, anything you want really (you can fry the onions with a clove of garlic before adding the lentils if you can be bothered, I usually just throw them in to boil up). Give it a good stir, turn it down and simmer it until the lentils are soft and broken down, adding water if you need to - depending how soupy you like it. It also thickens as it cools so it's usually good to be generous with the water.

(There's also a tasty variation where you can fry up onions, cumin seeds and mustard seed in a hot pan with some ghee or vegetable oil, until the onions brown and the seeds are popped and then you stir that into the cooked dahl.)
Then when it's off the heat, I just slap a load of chopped fresh coriander in and stir it well. If you have a lot it freezes really well in glad bags. I like to put the thickened version in to freeze and then if you want it soupy you juat add water as it defrosts.

You can have it soupy, with a spoonful of salted butter stirred in before serving with fluffy tilda basmati and a load of Greek yoghurt with ground cumin stirred in.

Or use the thick version on buttery hot toast, or on crackers.

J'Amazing, omg SO making it when I get home!!!

Not even bloody mary oyster shots and prosecco can soften the blow of losing RyRy...

But it certainly helps....
Went down to Vue on bondi beach for Ryry's leaving dinner last night, the food was awesome as always. We had 2 dozen oysters between 5 of us, served with bloody mary shots. Then Claus cranked out some prosecco and the food came at our table like an avalanche of delicious. Seafood paella with mussels in it, spicy and chewy and sweet - with chunks of fish in there and peas! I love peas. Then the famous arancini balls filled with pesto and peas (yesssss!) served with a tomato salsa on a bed of rocket - amazing, and then chorizo in a tomato sauce. There were other things too I'm sure but unfortunately I had too much prosecco and can't really remember. Oat got the tiramisu for desert and even though I'm not a fan of tiramisu, it was pretty tasty. We also had some of Claus's own desert cocktail which had almond syrup in it or something, it was tropical and delishbags too.

Cheapo mexi-feast on citydeal.ie today!

"€3.20 instead of €8 worth of any burritos, tacos or quesadillas to have in or take away from Burritos and Blues - Save 60%"

Get all your mates to sign up for this too and you get €6 for each friend referred, so you pretty much get 2 free burrito's for free!
Love that shit.