Thursday night saw Bron invite a couple of dear friends over to her place for dinner. The theme was Mexican, that is, the food theme, we didn’t do any Mexican hat dancing or tequila drinking.
For an entrée Bron made corn chips with a David Lebovitz guacamole, salsa and sour cream. Bron made the corn chips from tortillas and they were amazing. They were tasty, crunchy and light. The guacamole and salsa were fantastic. I watched Bron make some of each and had the pleasure of tasting it along the way. I could’ve eaten corn chips all night.
It looks like I had a lot of sour cream. It just seemed to spread across the plate (honestly).
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For the main course Bron made a David Lebovitz chicken with chocolate mole sauce. The mole sauce amongst other ingredients contained ancho chili peppers, onions, various herbs, tomatoes, pepper, and unsweetened chocolate. The sauce had a nice kick to it but it wasn’t an unpleasant heat that some chillies have. While Bron and our friends enjoyed wine with their meal I found pineapple juice to be an excellent accompaniment to the spicy flavours.
Chicken chocolate mole
This is the chicken covered in the chocolate mole sauce. No I did not eat all of this.
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This is my plate with a tortilla in the making and the chicken ready to be shredded. I only ate one tortilla
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My tortilla. It was delicious. What you won’t see is how much chicken I ate after finishing this.
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I remember on a trip to Mexico City enjoying enchiladas and mole sauce. I blogged about it and one of my work friends was horrified that I’d eaten a mole (as in the blind mammal that lives underground). I laugh and laugh every time I think of that.
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For dessert Bron made a David Lebovitz ginger cake plus some home made non-churn cherry and white chocolate ice cream
Doesn’t it look amazing? The ice cream was creamy and delicious. You wouldn’t know it was not churned. The cake had a lovely kick of ginger and a hint of pepper. It was brilliant. Bron is such a magnificent cook.
In last night’s post I mentioned that Bron was cooking up a storm for dinner. She told me she used every plate in the cupboard to do this and truly it was one of the best home made meals I’ve ever eaten. Bron has been experimenting with Mexican cuisine a little lately and for dinner we had a Mexican theme.
For starters Bron made some home made corn chips using tortillas
Home made corn chips
These were amazing with sour cream and some of David Lebovitz’s http://davidlebovitz.com guacamole
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As part of the main course Bron prepared some corn fritters. I’ve always loved corn or zucchini fritters. They are just fried loveliness.
Corn fritters
Nothing like the sizzle of fritters
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Gratuitous video of corn fritter frying
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Alongside the corn fritters the Pièce de résistance was a pulled pork stuffed avocado coated with egg and fried
Main course
Served with David Lebovitz’s guacamole and sour cream
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There was some pulled pork left over so I finished it off with some sour cream and guacamole
Left over pulled pork
This was so yummy
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For dessert Bron made a caramelised white chocolate and lemon curd with double cream tart
Dessert
Dessert was eaten as we watched Game of Thrones Series 3 episodes 2 and 3
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After a good sleep Bron made breakfast
Poached egg and marmalade on toast
Nothing like a good breakfast
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Cracking open the egg revealed a perfect runny yolk
Poached egg
A yellow runny water fall of happiness
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For lunch we’d booked a table at one of our favourite restaurants in Canberra, viz., The Dumpling Inn. We hadn’t eaten Yum Cha for what seemed like an age.
Yum Cha is one of life’s joys. A meal of guaranteed happiness.
Char siu pork
I love walking past Chinese restaurants and seeing char siu pork and roast ducks hanging in the windows. I love finely slice char siu pork with noodle soups.
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Steamed pork ribs
This was nice but a little grissly
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Rock salt chilli chicken drumettes
The flavours were amazing with this dish and very similar to their rock salt calamari. The chicken was so tender it was fall off the bone good.
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Sticky rice and pork dumplings
This is similar to a sweet dish my grandfather’s brother Les used to make with coconut and sugar
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Char siu boa (one of my favourite foods)
On a cold night, a few of these make a remarkably good snack
We left The Dumpling Inn feeling very satisfied. I’ll let you in on a secret. Before I walked in I loosened my belt a notch to avoid any in-restaurant embarrassment
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So it’s been an amazing weekend in food. What we really need next weekend is an amazing weekend in exercise. I hope you all have a good week ahead.
For the last week I’ve been eating more meals as wraps. My week in Instagram shows it in graphic detail I’m not sure why I’ve turned to wraps this week. Instagram followers will be familiar with my love of the Mavi Breakfast Wrap over the last 18 months.
I decided on Friday I was so going to make a version of Hilah’s sausage wrap because my version from Thursday night was crap in comparison. I split my snag and added onion.
I did the onions in the afternoon. I needed three large brown onions, a couple of tablespoons of olive oil, two tablespoons of brown sugar and a two tablespoons of balsamic vinegar. I spent about an hour softening the onions with the oil and a good pinch of salt. I then added the sugar and vinegar and stirred regularly for another hour. It turned into a lovely gooey mess of happiness. I also added a little curry powder and smoked paprika for flavour.
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On Monday evening Bron came over for dinner and inspired by Hilah I made a sausage and onion wrap.
Bron brought over some caramelised onion she bought at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. I cooked the sausages like Hilah did in her video and made the wrap. The bread I bought even came with little paper pocket bags.
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The best part of the evening though was that Bron brought over some of her home made macarons and non-churn ice cream. The flavours were orange and cardamon and lemon curd ice creams. The macarons where chocolate with chocolate popping candy ganache and lemon curd.
This dessert was amazingly good. Bron is a genius in the kitchen and a genius in general (yes her IQ is off the charts)
So this week it’s back to a five day work week after two Easter associated short weeks. I’m currently nursing a sore ankle so I’m not walking around as much as I would like.
Sunday’s breakfast was a salad wrap as opposed to a banana smoothie.
Breakfast wrap
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For dinner I kept to the wrap theme and made a salmon and salad wrap
Salmon and salad wrap
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On Monday for morning tea I had coffee with Bron at a local coffee shop at work. Bron brought in one of her peanut paste salted caramel biscuits. It was delicious.
For Monday evening dinner I used the two remaining Elite Meats chicken rissoles and continued the wrap theme
Chicken rissole wrap
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Lyme disease coffee
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On Tuesday morning Bron brought me another biscuit
Tuesday biscuit
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For lunch on Tuesday rather than a meaty treat I went with a mango yoghurt
Mango yoghurt
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On Tuesday night I prepared the Elite Meats scotch fillet steak
Scotch fillet steak
Raw goodness
Cooked happiness with a salad
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Extreme weather coffee
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After collecting my mail I thought I’d capture an image of the building I work in
Scarborough House
Scarborough House
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For lunch I had a mixed berry yoghurt. If you click on the image you’ll see the Instagram comments. They’re hilarious.
Mixed berry yoghurt
“Blood” in a Petri dish disease themed lunch
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I went to Bron’s for dinner on Wednesday night and she made a delicious Toad in the Hole
Toad in the Hole
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Bron also made a dessert with fresh free range eggs that we got from Elite Meats
Portuguese custard tarts
These were amazing. So good.
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Thursday Style Manual coffee
So many good Instagram comments with this image
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Thursday was pay day so it was #paydaypieday. This is a curry lamb and potato pie from Urban Bean Espresso Bar.
Curry Lamb Hot Pie
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In the afternoon Bron visited my office and brought over a sweet treat
Portuguese custard tart
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For Thursday dinner I cooked some of the Elite Meats sausages I got. I bought six Black Angus and Burgundy snags and put away three lots of two sausages.
As a kid growing up in Brisbane one of Mum’s regular dishes was salmon rissoles. If you’re not from Australia or New Zealand you may not be familiar with what a rissole is. The wikipedia entry is pretty reasonable. I know for Mum’s salmon rissoles the main ingredients were tinned pink salmon and mashed potato, as well as bread crumbs and lots of finely cut vegetables. One of my favourite Australian movies is “The Castle” which contains so much that is typically Australian. As a result when the producers tried to adapt it for an American audience various words had to be changed, i.e., meat loaf instead of rissole (alternative versions).
Anyway, I’m quite fond of rissoles so yesterday when Bron pointed out rissoles in the Elite Meats display I jumped at the chance to buy some. When speaking with one of the butchers he said there were made in-house and like everything in the shop all the produce is organic and free-range. The rissoles were made from chicken mince and cheese and vegetables and then coated in fresh bread crumbs. All that was needed was some shaping and then a shallow pan fry.
2CC is a talkback station with a fairly balanced political position. It takes programming from Sydney and Melbourne which is mostly just right of centre and it has two local announcers/broadcasters for the breakfast (Mark Parton) and afternoon (Mike Welsh) drive programs who balance each other out.
Mark Parton does breakfast on 2CC
Welshy does the drive show on 2CC
These images were taken from the 2CC website (see below)
On the day I won the meat, the “best of” topic was public art. Canberra has a significant recent history in terms of the public debate on public art. There are a good many residents who think the ACT Government has wasted vast amounts of tax payers money on what many regard as monstrosities and hideous insights into warped imaginations.
I’ve always thought a city, especially a national capital should be replete with public art. I really like the public art in Canberra and my favourite is the Owl Statue on the T-junction of Belconnen Way and Benjamin Way.
Bron and I went to Elite Meats in Kippax Fair in Holt and looked over the butcher’s shop. The butcher who looked after us was very friendly and very helpful. I’m pretty sure I’ll go back there to buy more meat. Over time I’m bound to post images from this selection of meat
The last weekend in Sydney was amazing My Easter | #ManFlu | #bestblogs13 We ate so well. This week albeit a short one I was back to the run of the mill. On Monday evening I considered a Meatless Monday but reconsidered and cooked a chicken schnitzel.
Meatless Monday
A nice green salad
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Chicken Schnitzel
I love chicken thigh schnitzel
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Of course after dinner I needed to try a couple of Zumbarons®
Zumbarons®
I have no idea of the flavours. They were delicious.
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Breakfast Smoothie
Back to the routine. Iced coffee banana smoothie with spinach.
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Morning office coffee and Zumbarons®
It’s so nice to enjoy a morning coffee with macarons
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On Tuesday evening I was going to make chicken schnitzel and salad again. For some reason I wanted to try something different. I thought about chicken and potato gems but after a weekend of really rich food I wanted salad but I also didn’t want salad. I think I’ve been watching too many cooking competitions on television, I thought about a salad in a different form. I love my blender so why not liquefy my salad. It contained the usual elements, viz., salad leaves, spring onions, red onion, tomato, coriander, plus some lemon juice and zest and olive oil. I added some chilli flakes and coarsely ground black pepper. I then liquefied it in my blender.
Experimental food
Honestly it looks like I vomited my salad. It tasted good though.
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Zumbarons®
My last Zumbarons®
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My morning office coffee felt empty just like the box without Zumbarons®
Adriano Zumbo Zumbarons® Box
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There were still Easter eggs at work. I was told I needed to help out and eat chocolate.
Chocolate
Who am I to object
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Wednesday night Bron came over to help put together my Ikea bookcase from the weekend.
Laying out the fasteners
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We took a break for dinner
Lamb Cutlets
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Bron made homemade non-church ice cream. There was violet crumble and Queensland nut ice cream.
Ice Cream
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The finished product
Bookshelf
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Thursday morning office coffee
Bertie Beetle
Bertie Beetle is having its fiftieth anniversary this year. Check out the wikipedia entry.
Thursday was a pretty long day, we’re ramping up at work to monitor the situation with Influenzavirus A H7N9 so when I left work I felt like takeaway
Fish and chips
Nothing better than freshly cooked battered fish, potato scallops and chips. I love potato scallops. I have friends from Victoria who call them potato cakes which cracks me up. A good potato scallop is hand cut, not too thick and not to thin. The best I’ve ever had came from a cafe in Brookside Shopping Centre in Brisbane.
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After the fish and chips I ate the rest of Bron’s ice cream straight from the plastic container
Ice Cream
This was Queensland nut caramel. It was delicious.
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Breakfast on Friday was a Mavi Breakfast Wrap
Breakfast wrap
These are so good. Sadly I ate this without Bron. I had an early start and needed to work through.
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Coffee
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On Friday evening after work I went to the local club with Bron to have dinner
Reef and beef
This is a scotch fillet and prawn cutlets with chips.
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So how is my ManFlu? It’s okay. I’m still coughing and spluttering. I should be fine by the end of this weekend.
I’m travelling for work at the moment. I’m attending a meeting at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. I flew with Qantas from Canberra to Sydney (QF704) and then onto Dallas (QF7).
The morning of my departure started well. Bron offered to drive me to the airport. It was remarkable seeing some people at the airport I never expected to meet there.
I hadn’t had breakfast so I had a yoghurt and coffee.
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Bron gave me some popping candy truffles she’d made on Sunday. They were delicious.
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I flew from CBR to SYD on QF704 and had a snack.
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Normally when I fly to North America I fly with United Airlines because they offer the best fare of the day. For this flight Qantas offered the best fare. This meant I could enter their international lounge at the Sydney International airport.
You may have noticed a rubber duck in some of the images. He is Dead Duck Dilbert (aka 3D) and he’s like a travel gnome. My work mate and instagram buddy @kecozanat suggested we have a branch travel mascot. 3D won the gig.
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In the Qantas lounge you can get a nice lunch. I chose a crumbed fish burger and chips. The burger was pretty much like a McDonalds fillet of fish only with tastier mayonnaise and better fish. The chips were good but not Urban Espresso Bean Cafe good.
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Flight QF7 was pretty uneventful. It was bumpy throughout the flight but not scary bumpy.
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I ate well.
A lovely yellowfin tuna and Moroccan eggplant as an entrée followed by a main course of crumbed pork, fennel jam, potato gratin and roasted carrots. The pork had great flavour and was tender although a little dry (not to be expected when flying).
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and some cheese
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Breakfast
I enjoyed some muesli and a savoury breakfast waffle
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Getting into Dallas Fort Worth airport (DFW) was pretty hassle-free. I did wait for my bag for some time. I think it was the last one off the conveyor belt. I caught the light rail from the international arrival terminal to the C concourse and found the American AirlinesAdmirals club to have a quick soft drink (diet coke).
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I was booked onto AA1884.
That’s it out on the tarmac having it’s front door looked at.
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In the end, a new aeroplane was sourced.
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We waited for a while. I notice in the US the cockpit door is often open on the ground.
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There was bad weather in Atlanta brewing so the Captain announced a ground stop. We waited on the tarmac for over two hours. The rules say you can’t be on the tarmac for longer than three hours so American Airlines cancelled the flight. I was worried I’d have to spend the night in Dallas (secretly wanting to so I could explore) and make my way to Atlanta the next day. In the end I found a seat on AA2222.
We don’t have SkyMall in Australia. I love flicking through this catalogue.
It didn’t. I went to baggage claims and was told it was on AA1602 and if I wanted to wait it would arrive later in the evening (close to midnight). I waited. If you are a regular reader you’ll know I have a long history of bag problems on aeroplanes, especially flights to and from North America.
So around midnight I checked into the Emory Conference Center Hotel. It’s nice. Best of all free high speed wifi throughout the hotel.
I woke up and needed coffee
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Then breakfast
Tomorrow I’ll try grits. This morning I had a cheese, mushroom and tomato omelette with bacon and a spicy pork sausage plus a breakfast biscuit and gravy and breakfast potatoes. Sorry to my US friends, I’m not a fan of the breakfast biscuit. This was quite soggy and the gravy I think will sit in my stomach for days.
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This is what the morning looked like at about 0800 EDT.
The local birds are singing and chirping. It’s quite lovely.
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That’s it for now. I’ll update soon. I hope you have a lovely day or night whenever you’re reading this.
After the last blog post last weekend I finished with an image of chicken schnitzel. Here it is cooked with some fried eggs. Yum comfort food.
Chicken high schnitzel with fried eggs
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On Sunday morning I had breakfast with Bron and we went to Black Pepper for Eggs Benedict.
I always ask for more Hollandaise sauce
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I went to work on Sunday to catch up on some work. Fortunately I had a snack there.
An extreme chocolate whoopie
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From my garden
I do nothing to the garden bed in my apartment. I do not even add water and look at what grows.
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Sunday night dinner of salmon salad
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Monday was a public holiday. I visited Bron and we had her homemade hot cross buns
These were really good. I had two and lots of butter.
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After another day at work on a public holiday I made chicken salad
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Tuesday night I felt a little blergh and just made chicken and potato gems (tater tots)
I felt better after eating this.
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Bron has been busy making macarons. Look at these babies. Salted caramel, rose water and vanilla.
A salted caramel maracon.
This is the best salted caramel macaron I’ve ever tasted. These were so good. I love the way the flavours change as I bit into them and then as my tongue made contact.
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My personal passport expires in about eight months. It is easier to renew it before it expires. I pick up my new one in a couple of weeks.
Most of the travel I do is for work and for that I use an official passport. My current personal passport expires in January 2014. Given a passport cannot be used for the last six months of its ‘life’ and because renewing a current passport is many orders of magnitude easier than renewing an expired passport, I thought it was time.
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Nothing beats a sausage roll for a quick lunch
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It was nice having a WIZZ FIZZ lollipop
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Thursday morning treat from Bron
Now this is the morning after the meal at Morks so I wasn’t that hungry but who can resist macarons.
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It was Jacqui’s birthday at work. We didn’t our usual Pay day Pie day, instead we had a burger. You may recall Jacqui from last week’s post.
This is an Urban Cheese. It is a cheeseburger from Urban Bean Espresso Bar. It has an Angus beef pattie, tasty cheese, bacon, fried egg and beetroot. The chips came with homemade mayonnaise.
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I just had a salad for dinner
Followed with macarons
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Mmm…Friday morning rituals. Mavi Breakfast wrap. This one was amazingly good.
The owner made this one and we reckon he put in more bacon and mushrooms.
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Hot chip Friday lunch of course
You’d think I would have had enough of these but no.
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Saturday morning breakfast
This was a mistake. We had breakfast at Gourmet Deli in Belconnen Westfield shopping centre. This place has great coffee and is a fantastic delicatessen. This breakfast was a little too ‘greasy’.
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For dinner on Saturday night I was at Bron’s place. Bron has been thinking of making Jamie Oliver’s Yorkshire puddings again. She’d made them a little over a year ago and we blogged about it.
Here are some very short video sequences of the puddings being poured and rising in the oven. I have uploaded them on Vine but don’t know how to embed Vine into this blog so I’ve embedded YouTube uploads.
It’s very hard to describe just how nice it is to have the tangy trout and horseradish along with the crisp fresh fluffy pudding
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Dinner is served
It looks great doesn’t it?
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Bite sized morsels of happiness
This is perfection between my fingers
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Oh yeah there was a pear and walnut salad
This added a lovely touch
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Dessert was Bron’s amazing sticky date pudding with butterscotch and custard
This is I think Bron’s signature dessert. No one makes it better. The butterscotch sauce is to die for. The custard is perfect. The ice cream was Madagascan Vanilla Bean.
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Sunday breakfast was simple and in two stages
Poached eggs are so yummy
Check it out. Hot homemade hot cross bun.
I hope you agree this looked so good. It tasted better.
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After a walk today I needed a snack.
Australian Havarti cheese on toast
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For dinner tonight I made some honey soy salmon and a salad.
I like the sweetness of mixing honey with soy on the hot fry pan and reducing it.
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For dessert Bron gave me some of her sticky date pudding.
It was a nice big piece with extra butterscotch sauce and custard. This was just so good.
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So ends this post.Thank you for reading this and going through my instagram experience. I’d also invite you to view my Facebook page and if you like it please click the LIKE button. Thanks.
I hope everyone has a great week at work. I know I’ve been finding my new role a challenge and it seems there is a lot of fatigue around not just in my workplace but from what I hear and read around the place. I hope everyone finds balance in their life. Take care. Live long and prosper.
On a good note, the Brisbane Broncos defeated the St George Illawarra Dragons this week and the Gold Coast Titans defeated the Canberra Raiders. It was unfortunate that the Melbourne Storm defeated the North Queensland Cowboys. I don’t feel that bad though because Melbourne are my number four team. For those who don’t know me well my top four teams in the National Rugby League are 1. Brisbane Broncos, 2. North Queensland Cowboys, 3. Gold Coast Titans, and 4. The Melbourne Storm. For Soccer it’s the Brisbane Roar. For the Australian Football League it’s the Brisbane Lions and the Gold Coast Suns. For cricket it’s the Queensland Bulls. For Rugby it’s the Queensland Reds. For State of Origin it is the Queensland XXXX Maroons. One day I’ll reveal the teams I detest.
Since returning from a weekend in Brisbane I have posted so many photos to @instagram. It really is an addiction. This week I went past 2300 photos and 68 000 tweets. Of course most of the images are of food. I had also hoped to make an effort this week to eat better. You know more leafy greens, more fibre and less fat and cholesterol. I don’t think I was very successful. My waist has started to thicken a little and my trousers are feeling a little tighter. I have been walking and exercising, I need to increase that and decrease the food intake.
This tasted so good I’ve asked Bron to make it again (and again and again).
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The next morning (Thursday) I made my iced coffee banana smoothie with left over beetroot.
Looks like a strawberry milkshake.
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Thursday morning was a beautiful blue sky morning in Canberra. I started a new hash tag #coldanddry Those who know me know I like #warmandmoist
Blue skies. One of the beautiful things and why I #likeCanberra
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Some light reading with a coffee
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On Thursday evening Bron and I went to dinner with a couple we’re friends with to The Chairman and Yip in Civic (P and LP are our special friends we often have dinner with at their place). We arrived at 1800 AEDT for the Early Bird Specials (because we’re old people). We chose the Early Bird Banquet. We’ve previously eaten there.
Look at this lovely stuffed mushroom.
It was amazing. In the background is some steamed wonton and fried calamari.
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For our entrée we had 1. calamari tossed with spicy salt and chilli, 2. steamed wontons dressed with hot chilli infused oil, and 3. grilled field mushrooms with cashew and herb pesto.
For our main course we shared 1. sesame crusted salmon with cinnamon infused soy, 2. portuguese spiced corn fed chicken, 3. beef and scallop ground pepper hot pot, and 4. pumpkin and cucumber with caramelised chilli and kaffir lime.
This salmon was a little over cooked but the taste was amazing.
All in all the experience was really good. The Chairman and Yip is well worth visiting for dinner, even the early bird dinner. The service is fast and the wait staff are friendly. It’s definitely worth the $38.50 per person for the flavours.
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We went to Koko Black for dessert. Koko Black is an institution in Canberra and one of the places to go for a chocolate hit after dinner or after a movie at the Dendy cinema.
I had a chocolate affogato. Delicious. I’ve been told because it has no coffee it’s not really an affogato. Who cares?
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Another shot of coffee on a Friday morning before breakfast.
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For Friday breakfast we have restarted our Mavi Breakfast wrap tradition, with a change.
We now share it so we don’t feel so full all day. Connor wasn’t cooking this morning so it was a little loose and had too much barbecue sauce. That said, the bacon, egg, cheese, mushrooms and hash brown all tasted good.
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For lunch we were meant to do @snagstand but didn’t get to because we were busy. I elected to have a pie with @jacquimkane
These was a cheesy bacon and chunky beef pie along with an extreme chocolate whoopie and a Bundaberg ginger beer (nectar of the gods).
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In the afternoon we had planned a little afternoon tea, really a birthday party for @jesskirkham88 who was 25 on Friday.
Flowers from Jess’s husband
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Preparation for the party begins
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More preparation
Note the sausage rolls are made by Jess’s mum. They were delicious.
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Mars bar cars
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Fairy bread. Jess is an expert at making fairy bread.
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Someone made a rookie mistake and cooked cheerios in the microwave oven.
So how did it compare. It compared very well. The service was friendly and attentive and timely. The staff appeared interested in the customers. They were also helpful. Two of our party asked about gluten-free options. On asking about a redistribution of crispy egg noodles, this was greeted with enthusiasm so everyone else received extra noodles and as a lovely touch we received a large extra plate of noodles and fried basil. Without asking we had more than enough rice which was a constant problem at Woden. The dish, i.e., #39 tasted better too. More spicy and more flavours. My only concern was the restaurant is quite small and therefore because of its popularity it’s very noisy. With my hearing deficit and tinnitus I had trouble hearing my friends. I had placed myself next to a wall mirror to improve my photography which meant my bad ear was ‘facing’ my friends. I know what you’re thinking Gary puts photography ahead of friends…
We will go back, probably multiple times. I would recommend Lemon Grass in Civic over Woden and independently as a Thai restaurant in Canberra.
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We all wanted #39
When dining at the Woden franchise we had come to love #39 the creamy red curry. We had even set up a WhatsApp group called #39. We were all basically keen on #39.
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Everyone except me had wine.
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Yum, creamy red curry with beef and lots and lots of egg noodles.
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Sadly it came to an end.
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For dessert we went to Koko Black. I didn’t mind two nights in a row.
What should I choose?
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I went with the vanilla ice cream spectacular.
The caramel sauce was smooth, warm and sweet and oh so good. We joked a bit about warm smooth purulent discharges.
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I also had another chocolate affogato
I felt pretty full after this.
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On Saturday morning I went for a walk
The sun rising over the Belconnen Arts centre
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Hello Mr Owl
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Coffee at Gormet Deli in Belconnen
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At lunch time I had a coffee with Bron. I love lunch with Bron at Ricardo’s Cafe.
