Tag Archives: Dessert

Alaskan King Crab, macarons and a chocolate meringue and orange chocolate ganache layered cake

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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)

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)

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

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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Four strikes Lemon Grass, four strikes…

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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.

Ice cream, whipped cream and toffee topping (iPhone)

White hot chocolate (iPhone)

Will we return? Yeah probably. We had the idea we’d order number 39 for takeaway and then go somewhere else to eat. That may be the solution.

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I had a little food with my desserts today

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I spent today in Brisbane with my daughters. It was busy with physiotherapy appointments, gymnastics training, birthday party sorting, birthday dinner attending and various opportunities to eat.

To be clear Miss10 is becoming Miss11 soon, however, Miss14 attended a birthday party today for a friend and I ended up on the floor in the shopping centre helping build the final present. Miss14′s imagination is amazing. She had this complex gift plan in mind and executed it with the help of many friends, helium filled balloons, packing boxes and a lot of tape.

After getting fairly sweaty and dirty, we said goodbye to Miss14 as she went into the party at a bowling alley and I took Miss 10 and Miss16 to Cold Rock Ice Creamery.

Regular Coconut ice cream and freckles

Coconut ice cream and crushed freckles.

Me eating ice cream.

Cold rock is about my favourite ice cream place. There is one right near where I live. Not much use though given how cold and dry Canberra is .

This evening we went to the local Returned and Services League at Kedron-Wavell Services Club. We went for Miss10 who will soon be Miss11 in a couple of weeks.

This was plate 1. Mainly seafood.

I really like my seafood, especially oysters, prawns and crab.

Bowl 2. Seafood chowder.

This seafood chowder was nothing special. It was a bit thin.

Plate 3. Pork sausage, onion, potato bake, mashed potato, seafood bite and squid.

The pork sausage was tasty and well cooked, although the casing was very tough. I love a good pork sausage.

Plate 5. I did not capture plates 4 and 6.

The stuff was fried nicely :-)

The roast pork was very tender, the crackling though was very salty.

Plate 7. Dessert.

Not enough colours I know. There was fruit but I didn’t get any.

Me eating dessert.

I was annoyed the chocolate mousse glasses weren’t out. I took trifle, pavlova, cream and ice cream.

Birthday cake and my parents' place.

This is a chocolate cake Mum made today.

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