Jet lagged brunch on Saturday was an interesting affair on the Kirribilli ferry wharf - one small coffee shop, 5 special dishes = result a great 'non-birthday' celebration. We had salmon tarts, spinach and feta tarts, ricotta pancakes, cupcakes, coffee, tea (in the smallest tea glasses you have ever seen), toasted with Australian champagne from the Orange area - really tasty stuff!
Settling into the laid back lifestyle V and I took a bottle of chilled white down to the park to drink whilst catching up. After some chucking a rugby ball around and demonstrating how not to 'touch' when playing touch rugby we were off to the next eating event... very Aussie - rugby watching & BBQ
(It was the Australia - NZ game, H&M might like to know that me, C and V were supporting NZ, whilst the boys were supporting Australia - and we were supporting them from the start, not just when they were winning lol!)
But back to the most important stuff.... food!
C&T definitely put on a spread for us - we had freshly fried squid rings (made by T's own fair hands), brushetta with melted mozzarella and feta, and then the center piece - lamb kebabs
The lamb (back strap??? what is that in English?? answers on a postcard please!) was marinated quite simply with cinnamon, cumin & olive oil, it was served with a simple salad with spinach leaves, cherry tomatoes, avocado, feta and a balsamic dressing.
In addition C made a tasty sauce which I think I can remember the ingredients for:
Yoghurt
Sweet chilli sauce
Garlic
Chopped coriander
So will definitely have to try this out on the Camden Crew when I'm back (as long as I can work out what cut of lamb to get and do a coriander free version for J!)
Other culinary dishes tried in Sydney so far include:
Morton bay bug linguine (on day 3 - pretty good going, hey Mum!?)
Laksa noodle soup
Pizza on the park bench (its my friend's 'dining table' and it overlooks the Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge - such a hard life...)
To look forward to: weekend at the beach, with an attack cookaburra targetting the barbie!
The Camden Road Cook (temporarily not in Camden Road but instead Kirrbilli Avenue, and eating instead of cooking!)
Oops - just thought it may have been coriander instead of cinnamon in the lamb marinade... but either would work (only a pinch of cinnamon) as the cumin is the main flavour...
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