So during my stay in Sydney we spent a weekend at the beach....
it started at midday Friday with the trip to Palm Beach (apparently home of summer bay lifeguards...), and lunch at Barren Joey's House
http://www.barrenjoeyhouse.com.au/
Not a quick lunch - we had bacon wrapped dates to start with our champagne cocktails, then steak (ummmmm) with 2 lots of chilli chips (they were good!), and then finished with desserts - knickerbocker glory for me (which has been raved about by many so I dont need to add much, except I should have left more room for it!), and chocolate Nemesis.....
Then we rolled ourselves to the ferry quay and loaded up enough food and drink to keep us going for the next month (probably!) and headed for Mackerel...
On arrival we filled the main fridge and the beer fridge (very important) and settled down to digest... and wait for the others who couldn't get the afternoon off. Unfortunately it then turned cloudy and wet - boo! So everyone crossed their fingers the weather would be better.
The vanguard turned up after 8pm - having taken the water taxi over... and having to turn back to pick up the roast chicken they left in the car - apparently they decided that they could have left it there - we did have enough food - but after 2 days in that weather they wouldn't fancy coming back to the car!
The serious cooking and eating started the next day when the sun was out - yeay! Breakfast was from B&S, gourmet blueberry pancakes with lashings of maple syrup and fruit salad, see the stack:
Then lunch was roast lamb with rosemary and garlic, saved from the attack cookaburra who vainly tried to distract us to get to the meat (who knew they were carnivorous?!). This was served with E's family recipe potato salad which went something like this...
potatoes (dur!)
dressing with a grain mustard, dill, parsley and possibly some other green herbs & mayonnaise
boiled eggs and crispy bacon pieces to dress
and a large greek salad with lettuce and balsamic dressing
This was only lunch and already everyone was full!! Dinner was brushetta and garlic bread - I's speciality, followed by meatballs and pasta and then vodka jelly which made it game over really!
The eating continued with a full fry up the next day courtsey of B&S again, and then quiche (from scratch - very impressive) from K&R (although it was mainly K's effort :P). She made bacon and cream cheese and spinach and feta - very tasty!
After that we rolled back onto the ferry carting what we couldn't eat..... all in all a great weekend at the beach!
(ps just to note that we did do other things than just eat! There was swimming, fishing, digging a sea wall, and a volleyball match to the death (nearly!))
The Camden Road Cook (having gained a few pounds...)
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