21 | July | 2012 | Yummy Lummy

Wow what a dinner we had this evening. Bron out did herself. This morning we went to Costco with the aim of getting some King crab. During the Summer, Costco has a pavilion set up for seafood. It looks like in the Winter this is not the case. We ended up finding some Alaskan King crab in the frozen food section of Costco.

King crab at Costco (iPhone)

When I got to Bron’s place this afternoon she was in the midst of macaron manufacture.

Ready for the oven (iPhone)

These are a jaffa flavour.

Piping macarons (iPhone)

Macarons with orange chocolate ganache (iPhone)

There is also some cointreau in the ganache.

King crab waiting to be eaten (iPhone)

Crab man https://twitter.com/bron99/status/226597992789065728/photo/1

You can find the twitpic link at https://twitter.com/bron99/status/226597992789065728/photo/1

The aioli was amazing (iPhone)

It took a while but we finished four legs and two claws (iPhone)

For dessert Bron made a chocolate meringue layered with orange chocolate ganache topped with cream and raspberries.

Chocolate meringue with chocolate orange ganache topped with cream and raspberries (iPhone)

After dessert I was still feeling peckish so had the last of the salted caramel chocolate Bron had made plus a macaron.

Salted caramel chocolate and macaron (iPhone)

I now feel full and have strong garlic breath from the aioli.

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It’s been a little while since our last outing to Lemon Grass at Woden. We love the food, especially number 39 on the menu GANG PANANG (Creamy red curry (chicken or beef) with crushed peanuts and kaffir leaves topped with crispy egg noodles). We wanted to give them another go. We were patient and as clear as possible when speaking. Yet we waited and waited and at the end when we wanted to ask for dessert, the wait staff cleared empty tables rather than tables with customers. They main problem with this restaurant is the ratio of wait staff to customers. On a large floor with seating for more than a hundred or so customers there are three wait staff. They’re friendly enough but I’m not sure what food service training they’ve received.

We started with entrée and around us we had fish cakes, curry puffs and pork patties. These were not that good, they were tasty but not really anything special.

Pork patties (iPhone)

I then had the beef red curry (Number 39).

Beef red curry (iPhone)

One of our party noticed you couldn’t get a 69 at this restaurant. Mind you, you can’t get a 63 or a 64 either

We all wanted something sweet and were prepared to stay and order dessert here. Lots of other tables had been vacated and dirty plates were stacked on each. We had dirty plates on our table and were clearly wanting to stay. The wait staff avoided our attention seeking behaviour and proceeded to clear the other tables. In the end, we went to the front desk, obtained the bill, sorted out the money and left.

We had dessert at Max Brenner.

I had ice cream, whipped cream and toffee topping plus a hot white chocolate.