Friday arvo lunch!

Reuben Sandwich @ Grace The Establishment

I never knew weekday lunches outdoors can make me feel so goooood. 

*hearts*

Reception @ Petaluma's

I had the privilege to attend the wedding reception of  this couple whom I know before they got together till the day they say ''I do!''. One of the many exciting bits obviously include dinner at Petaluma's winery. =D

Entree: Organic chicken, Kanmantoo bacon, almond and confit onion pie, sherry glaze. 

It was a huge portion for an entree, it actually filled us up. Oh! It smelt and tasted like the siew paus we have in Malaysia too. 

Main: Beef fillet with potato croquette, romesco and parmesan. 

I like!

Main: Pan fried Atlantic salmon with nicoise salad and olive tapenade

Nicely cooked salmon. Personally didn't enjoy the olive tapenade that much. 

Served with caramelised pumpkin, pinenuts and chorizo

I was full to the brim at this stage, but just couldn't pass this up. 

Dessert: Steamed chocolate and toasted almond pudding with dark chocolate sauce

Sad to say, this was overcooked. Despite that, I actually did quite well and finished this off. 

Throughout the night, we were offered bottomless drinks (not that we are alcoholics!). 

After all, we are very civilised guests. =)

Season of lamb

Back to do some cooking (finally, I know). 

We started with every intention to cook our lamb shanks in the oven. It was so spontaneous! We planned for roast veggies (pumpkin, carrots, red onions-yummm) and obviously the beautiful meat-off-bones lamb shanks for dinner. =) To be honest, both of us are at a health condition where we shouldn't be near lamb at all.

After much nagging from parents, we made it into a stew on the stove. It didn't turn out bad, but definitely oily from all the fat from the lamb. I am not a big fan of lamb, I have to say, due to the high content in it but I love the tomato based stew with all that flavour. Simple flavours of cherry tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, herbs, garlic, onion and of course, LAMB (or to be specific, fat from the lamb) ! Stewed for so long, it is meat off bones too!

Spring has sprung. Time for lamb?

1 and only ?!

Yes, we have been MIA. I couldn't believe my eyes, it is almost a month since our last post. =( Here's an apology to anyone with a sweet tooth- peanut butter cup with chocolate based cookie? White chocolate was possibly somewhere in between. Edited: One pack comes with 2 creations; the first is a chocolate chip cookie with a peanut butter cup which is made with mini M&M's. The second one (the one I had) is a chocolate sandwich cookie (Oreo style) with a white chocolate chip peanut butter cup on the top.

To be honest, I think this little cup was almost a bit too much.