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Dinner at Eat 86 | @eat86 @EatShootBlog @hercanberra

On Thursday evening Bron took me to dinner for my birthday (which was last week). We went to Eat86 in Braddon. This is relatively new and a new venture for the people who run Ellacure in Bruce.

Having enjoyed previous meals at Ellacure and hearing great reviews from work mates plus reading a blog post on Her Canberra by Trish, I was really looking forward to a nice meal and night out with Bron. Bron had heard good things so we were pretty confident of a great night out.

On walking in you can feel the vibe of the place. The staff are friendly and helpful. We had a table reserved near the bar and fairly central in the restaurant. The menu is written in chalk on the wall and as items run out they are rubbed out. We were advised to try a couple of cheaper meals and one large meal as a guide for the evening. We went for the ceviche, pulled pork terrine and ghetto beef.

These were all delightful. The ceviche was amazing. It was refreshing and full of heat but the chilli didn’t linger and was certainly sharp but not unpleasant. It was a perfect entrée to the evening. I love terrines and the pulled pork was pretty special. I’d happily eat more of it. Finally, the ghetto beef was perfectly cooked. The beef was tender and tasty and chewy in a really good way.

All these images are from my Instagram feed. Click on the image and read the comments.

The ceviche was a perfect start to the meal

The pulled pork terrine broke apart and could be scooped up on the bread

The ghetto beef is a must have

The serving sizes are modest and so by the end of these dishes dessert was not an option but a viable proposition. I chose a caramel popcorn sundae and peanut brittle. The restaurant was pretty dark so my iPhone photography wasn’t too flash. That said, the Instagram comments were pretty good. Click on the image to see the number of likes and comments.

Dessert. Nothing more needs to be said.

Okay onto other things.
It was noisy. My tinnitus was bad that night. I had to concentrate on looking at Bron’s lips the whole night. Not a bad thing
Dunny score was 4.5+ out of 5. The music is piped into the dunny. The pedestal was of high quality. The towels were paper. The + comes because of the Aēsop hand products provided. This was a very good touch. If there was a Dyson air blade in there it would have received 5+/5
Nakpin score was fail. Bron believes I’m too harsh in having only a pass/fail for napkins. To me cloth is pass and paper is fail. Fair enough, these were thick paper napkins and better than most. What do you reckon?

Would I eat at eightysix again. Most certainly I would. I’d like to try a seat at the bar looking into the kitchen. If not for anything else, the lighting would be better for my iPhone camera. I feel embarrassed my images do not do the food justice. This is a great place to eat and I look forward to returning again and again.

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Eat86 http://www.eat-86.com/
Trip Advisor http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g255057-d4162515-Reviews-Eightysix-Canberra_Greater_Canberra_Australian_Capital_Territory.html
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Eightysix/480462502008403
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My girls and Dreamworld

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Friday of my holiday started slowly. Mum and Dad slept in and I watched a couple of episodes of The walking Dead series 3 on my iPad. We went grocery shopping for dinner and other things. The girls would be arriving that afternoon and I was cooking dinner. It’s been such a long time since I’ve cooked them dinner. They each love salmon so that was a natural choice. Bro41 was coming over with his three kids too so I had ten to feed.

At lunch time Mum and Dad introduced me to one of their staples, Knackwurst on toast. Given recent snag stand adventures, a snag on a Friday seemed to make sense.

Knackwurst with barbecue sauce on toast.

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Friday afternoon grew dark with rain clouds.

Dark rain clouds.

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It didn’t take long for it to rain.

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Between Mum and me, we made coleslaw, a simple lettuce and tomato salad, sausages, salmon, eggs and prawns. The sausages were mainly for my nephew and nieces who can be a little particular.

My plate. The girls loved dinner and having Dad cook for them. They loved the salmon.

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There is not much better than an old fashioned bowl of vanilla ice cream with chocmint ice cream magic and a chocolate wafer.

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Saturday morning arrived and we made ready for a day at Dreamworld in Coomera in the Gold Coast.

We had a left over baguette from Friday night and I made the girls vegemite bites.

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We got to Dreamworld and the first ride we wanted to ride was the Buzz saw.

This is a pretty good ride.

If you want to follow where we went feel free to check out my Foursquare history at https://foursquare.com/garydlum/history

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Not quite Yummy Lummy

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The Cyclone roller coaster

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The Rocky Hollow Log Ride is always fun and a great way to get wet on a hot day.

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Lunch was a pretty ordinary double cheeseburger.

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I don’t post many images of my girls.

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Escape from Madagascar roller coaster. A slightly more gentle ride.

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The Claw gives you a really strong sense of weightlessness.

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The Thunder Valley Rapid Ride is quite gentle but a good way to get soaked.

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A much more fun ride if the Mick Doohan’s Motocoaster.

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I also captured some videos and posted them to YouTube.

http://youtu.be/9BrW3wFUiDk

The Tower of Terror II. You go up backwards and come down face first. It’s great.

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http://youtu.be/SQDxf8w2J-I

The Giant Drop takes you high up the tower and then drops you. It is an amazing feeling to almost free fall.

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http://youtu.be/DoXZw2z7P08

The Claw is a very special ride. It certainly gives you a strong sense of weightlessness and it worth the long queue to get on.

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http://youtu.be/QdgKXxVF_dw

The tigers at Dreamworld are a great attraction. Here is a short clip of two of them having a little fun with each other.

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The gates closed at Dreamworld at 1700 AEST. We went and had another go of the Tower of Terror II.

After Dreamworld we checked into the Mantra Broadbeach on the Park. We reserved a two bedroom apartment. It is a well set out apartment and we’re very comfortable.

For dinner I’d made a reservation at Hog’s Breath Cafe Broadbeach.

I promise I ate with my mouth closed.

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I asked for a steak. It was fantastic.

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Miss15 asked for a barramundi burger. She reckons it was perfect.

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We then asked to share a Hoggies’ Rocky Road Sundae. It was massive.

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At the bottom is solid chocolate brownie.

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According to our server we finished in record time.

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This fine piece of public art is outside our apartment’s restaurant, viz., Moo Moo.

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It’s been a great day and we’re off to sleep.

These are the images from Dreamworld’s cameras. Please click on each for the description.

Places and things described in this post

Dreamworld
http://www.dreamworld.com.au/
Google maps http://goo.gl/maps/kLVA5

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Hog’s Breath Cafe
http://www.hogsbreath.com.au/
Google maps http://goo.gl/maps/v7Ufr

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Week 51 2012 Christmas party season

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Saturday night I went to a Christmas barbecue with some friends. It was a good night with lots of tasty food and good company. I’d like to say it was unseasonably cold, but this is Canberra. It’s snowed close by on a Christmas day before. What can I say, I’m looking forward to being in Queensland for Christmas where the weather is more to my liking.

Again like Friday night I was a bit slow with my iPhone and I didn’t capture images of the nibbles. There were lots of nibbles. Lots of nuts, dips, cheese, pâté, crackers, bread, chips, and stuff. For dinner we had a barbecue with steak, hamburger patties and sausages plus potato bake, coleslaw and other salads.

Like a lot of my previous posts I’m using images from my instagram profile. You can get more information on each image by clicking on it to see comments from other IGers.

The spread

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My plate

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Some of my friends queried my burger contents of steak, sausage, hamburger pat tie, coleslaw and potato bake. I thought it all went well together.

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For dessert we had pavlova.

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I was cold

I was cold. I’m glad I brought a hoodie and was given a wrap.

View the twitter conversation here and here and here

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I spent most of Sunday relaxing. I did a little grocery shopping and then got into watching series two of Breaking Bad. This is a surprisingly good series. Like The Walking Dead I’m addicted.

I felt pretty full from the night before so my breakfast and lunch was an iced coffee banana smoothie.

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You can tell it’s Christmas with cars wearing reindeer antlers and candy canes. I’m not a fan

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I love pineapple and a pineapple smoothie was in order for afternoon tea.

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I took home a left over potato bake from Saturday night so now I have potato bake for a few nights this week.

This meal was a piece of salmon, some potato bake and some salad.

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On Monday morning as I was checking out my post office box the new art was standing proud, all shiny and new.

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One of my work friends turned 32 on Monday.

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Monday evening’s dinner was a rasher of pork, some salad and some potato bake.

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I read today the new terms and conditions of use for Instagram. If Instagram wants to use my images I really don’t mind, I can’t imagine any of them are worthy. My only concern is that some of my images contain people and I may not always have permission to include them. Many IGers moved to Flickr. I received more e-mails from Flickr in the last few days than in the few years I’ve had an account. http://www.flickr.com/photos/garydlum

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Tuesday night’s dinner was a piece of salmon, some salad and the last of the weekend’s potato bake. The drink is made from pineapple and mint leaves plus some lime cordial.

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On Wednesday I forgot to make my lunch.

This was a smoked salmon and capers quiche from Urban Bean Espresso Bar. It was very nice. The raspberry soft drink was also pretty good too.

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Food regret

Jess went out for doughnuts and I said yes. I shouldn’t have. It came from Breadtop in Woden. The Breadtop franchise has grown well in Australia. See below for details.

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A friendly visitor

This cute blue tongue lizard greeted me when I alighted from my car in the apartment garage.
Wikipedia entry

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Wednesday dinner was a pork rasher and mango salad. It was delicious.

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On Thursday we had our branch Christmas morning tea.

Many sections, branches and divisions have out of office get together. When we’ve tried that in the past something has gone wrong like a health emergency necessitating staff to return to the office. It’s just part of working in an emergency management team.

These were amazing. Cylinders of crunchy nutty brownie goodness topped with a chocolate ganache with a white chocolate tipped strawberry which is sitting in a white chocolate disc for stability. The person who made these has made some great strawberry based treats in the past, especially her chocolate drizzled strawberry and marshmallow kebabs. I think nearly everyone in the branch has a cooking or food bent. It’s amazing.

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Everyone in the branch received an end of the year award.

I think everyone knows I love capturing images of food and then posting them to Instagram.

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At lunch the other SES (Senior Executive Service) staff from the division went to lunch. We went to The Palette which is in the Beaver Galleries.

I’m sorry this is so blurry. I was so excited to be having crumbed lamb brains with a capers and vinegar side. The piquancy of the capers and vinegar offset the fattiness of the brains perfectly. The brains were lightly crumbed and not overcooked. Kept into small portions like these, the taste is delicious and not overpowering. Lambs brains brings back great childhood memories of Mum cooking crumbed lambs brains with a white sauce with onion and parsley.

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The Beaver Galleries are a landmark of Canberra art and culture. I’ve been there a couple of times now. The gallery is full of exquisite pieces. That said, the prices are very high.

One of my favourite food bloggers is Hannah of Wayfaring Chocolate fame. Earlier this year she did a review of sweet selection at The Palette

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The trifecta for Thursday was Christmas dinner with dear friends.

We started with freshly cooked prawns. These were cooked in sea water, yes sea water that had been specially collected.

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The main was a roast pork and vegetables. The crackling was sublime.

The peas were home grown in the garden along with the snow peas.

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For dessert we devoured a violet crumble semifreddo.

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While Friday was not the last day of work for 2012, it had a very holiday feel. Ursula, our branch executive assistant gave me a toy car filled with lollies for Christmas.

I played vroom vroom throughout the day.

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I moved offices as part of my new role. In my old office I had a big pin board on which I could hang my favourite flags. The top one is Queensland’s flag. A quick search of this blog will reveal how I feel about being a Queenslander and Queensland.

The bottom flag belongs to the Northern Territory of Australia. Brisbane may be my home town and I am a passionate Queenslander, however, Darwin is my spiritual home, it’s where my soul lives. For that reason the flag has always been hung upside down in my office. An upside down flag is a maritime distress signal. I want to return home. I expect Australian readers to recognise it’s upside down, for my non-Australian readers, the stars represent the Southern Cross and it is upside down.

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We’d heard some weeks ago about the Snag Stand. A new franchise from Sydney and Melbourne had opened two outlets in Canberra, one very close to where we work.

They cook and assemble onsite. It’s a pretty busy place.

The menu for the Sydney outlets is here and for the Melbourne outlets here. They don’t have the Canberra ones posted. I assume they are similar.

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We brought our food back to work.

I chose a Swiss Bratwurst. It was topped with a really yummy Sauerkraut

It was excellent. Not too big and not too salty.

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Last night I needed something light.

Organic free range chicken drumstick and salad.

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This morning on my walk I tried the new Instagram Mayfair filter when saying hello to the Owl Statue.

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I hope at the end of next week to write a short piece about 2012. It won’t be much. Hopefully I’ll be enjoying myself in Brisbane where it will be warm and moist.

Places and things mentioned in this post in more detail.

Breaking Bad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/
http://www.amctv.com/shows/breaking-bad

Breadtop
http://www.breadtop.com.au/
http://www.westfield.com.au/au/retailers/breadtop/woden
Google maps http://goo.gl/maps/Z5Bdv

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Beaver Galleries
http://www.beavergalleries.com.au/
Google maps http://goo.gl/maps/Di7Yr

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The Snag Stand
http://snagstand.com.au/

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http://www.westfield.com.au/au/retailers/snag-stand/woden
Google maps http://goo.gl/maps/Z5Bdv

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Tantrum Thursday

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From Saturday at 1045 AEDT

Okay an update. At 0830 AEDT a Telstra technician, Grant, called my mobile telephone and said he’d check the exchange. At 1030 AEDT Grant called and said he’d found a loose wire and everything should be fixed. Guess what, it is! I have my line, ADSL and wifi. Grant called at 1040 AEDT just to make sure everything was working. This is Good. Thank you Telstra.

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From Thursday night

I need to rant. I got home from work and went through my usual routine of turning on my modem/router so the home wifi would start to work. I turned on the iMac only to discover that there was no signal. The modem showed a problem with the telephone LEDs. The telephone line was dead. I called Telstra (the main provider in Australia) and after a couple of failed attempts of calling the fault line I spoke with a man who was trying to be helpful but his accent was very thick and I think my strine was also too much for him too.

After 30 minutes of line testing and me pulling out devices and cables from sockets in the walls he determined there was a problem he couldn’t work out. He’d send a technician as soon as possible. I had high hopes someone would come tonight, after all I’m a loyal customer. The earliest someone can come and see me is Saturday. No specific time could be provided although it’s likely to be the morning.

I vented on Twitter and Facebook which always helps. I was interested in the number of people who no longer rely on a landline and seem to be happy with wireless broadband.

I’ll let you know how things go…

Five years living in Canberra

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Today marks five years I’ve been living in Canberra. In 2007 I moved here from Darwin after living there since February 1996.

If you follow me on Twitter or you’re a Facebook friend you’ll know my natural habitat is any place that is warm and moist. I like living in warm humid small friendly cities. Having grown up in Brisbane (not that Brisbane is small, it’s larger than all the capitals in Australia in terms of geography), I reckon if you can survive a February and March you can live in any humid city.

Canberra is not warm and moist. Canberra is friendly but it is mostly cold and dry. I’ve lived with very dry skin all my life as well as allergic rhinitis. A dry climate is not a natural habitat for me without pain and discomfort, and medication and bucket loads of moisturiser.

Aside from the weather, Canberra is a good place to live. It’s small, it’s almost rural, it’s designed and best of all the people are friendly. Not Darwin friendly mind you, but pretty friendly. I like that as the national capital we have Eastern Grey kangaroos living all around us as well as foxes, wombats and echidnas. Having had the opportunity to visit cities like Washington DC, London and Ottawa, Canberra is not an architecturally grand or even beautiful city. It doesn’t have the capital feel that Washington DC and London have. None of that matters though, it’s our capital. More people should visit Canberra to see what goes on and then go and visit Darwin and Brisbane and far north Queensland to warm up and see really beautiful parts of the best country in the world.

So how much longer can I live here? I like my job, I like my friends here, but I don’t like the weather.

I like that one twitter follower once called me Canberra’s eating machine. That will do me

Daydream Island

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I’m on holidays. I’m with Miss11 and Miss15 on Daydream Island for two days. It was a great day getting here today. We flew JetStar from Brisbane to Proserpine, took a bus to Abel Point Marina and then a ferry to Daydream Island. I’ve been capturing lots of images and posting them to instagram and cross posting to Twitter and Facebook. When I get a decent wifi connection I’ll blog with photographs.

It’s bed time. Tomorrow I hope we can go to Knuckle Reef. Today’s tour was cancelled because of poor weather and rough seas. Tomorrow will be rough again but hopefully sunny.

Good night.

Gaz

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Chocolate overload…Never and Facebook likes

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I have great friends. This morning Bron brought me in one of your chocolate balls from her birthday cake.

White chocolate covered cake ball (iPhone)

Then work mates who were having a section meeting brought in the morning tea they had prepared.

This looks like a chocolate flying spaghetti monster (iPhone) Thanks Amy

Then there were dates, more FSMs, rocky road and Lindt passion fruit chocolate (iPhone) Thank you HECM section friends.

It was a great chocolatey day.

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Shout out for @kecozaphoto

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I have a friend at work. Her name is Nat. She’s new to twitter (@kecozaphoto) and instagram (kecozanat). I recommend her for following. She has a great website and Facebook page. Check out her photography and lens bling at http://www.kecozaphotography.com.au/ and https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kecoza-Photography-Capture-Life/118674384815323

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