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The Australian Fluffernutter sammich

Posted by Gary

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I have never heard of a Fluffernutter sandwich until I read about it on Little Monster Girl. Creator of Little Monster Girl, Jennifer explained what a Fluffernutter is. I’ve never seen marshmallow fluff in Australia but we do have peanut paste. I teased Jennifer a little about how I would make my own version and then I discovered on Wikipedia I really have no original thoughts. Anyway, I’m labelling this the Australian Fluffernutter sammich although I did suggest I would call it The Jennifer.

Sammich because this is an awesome sandwich and not the other (sexual) meaning of sammich. I’ll let you look that up on Urban Dictionary.

So without marshmallow fluff I used whole marshmallows and melted them under a grill. I also wanted to make this a fancy fluffernutter so I used raisin toast for some extra sweetness. I always like to have Nutella with my peanut paste (or jam or marmalade) so I added some Nutella. If I was going to toast this by pan frying it then for an Elvis Presley vibe I decided to add a banana. How awesome is this sammich???

So it always helps to have everything ready. Here are two slices of raisin toast on some baking paper. You can see I’m using Nutella, peanut paste, and Coles marshmallows.

Fluffernutter

I arranged the marshmallows in a pretty pattern and spread some peanut paste on the other slice of raisin toast. This then went under the grill and you can see a pattern of marshmallows and peanut paste on raisin toast.

Fluffernutter

I then added some sliced banana and Nutella

Fluffernutter

The finished product was pretty slippery. I had trouble cutting it and keeping the slices of raisin toast together.

My Fluffernutter with marshmallow, peanut paste, Nutella and banana on Raisin toast
My Fluffernutter with marshmallow, peanut paste, Nutella and banana on Raisin toast
My Fluffernutter with marshmallow, peanut paste, Nutella and banana on Raisin toast
My Fluffernutter with marshmallow, peanut paste, Nutella and banana on Raisin toast

So what was my verdict? OMG this is a great sammich. The marshmallow, peanut paste, Nutella and banana all go so well together. Frying it all in a case of raisin toast just makes raisin toast better.

So what do you think? Would you make an Australian fluffernutter sammich?

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What I ate today

Posted by Gary

Well I have nothing really new to write as a specific topic post today. Although I did vary my slow cooked congee recipe which turns out to be a great tweak. If you look at last week’s chicken congee post you’ll see the chicken necks were put in with the rice, quinoa and chicken thighs. The congee while tasty also had a few bits of neck bone in it after I fished out the necks and removed the sweet juicy neck flesh from the bones. The star anise also broke up a bit and I nearly had a dental problem with a small piece of star anise. My solution tonight was to suspend the necks and stars in a metal basket above the rice, quinoa and chicken thigh meat.

In other good news I had my stove top repaired by Len of Maritex Electrical Services. My stove top failed on Wednesday evening. Can you imagine me without a stove top? I also went for a walk around Lake Ginninderra today and I’m trying out a new mapping plugin. I hope it works (it looks like it works in Chrome for Mac and Firefox for Mac but not Safari).

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For breakfast I enjoyed peanut paste and marmalade on a toasted English muffin. For lunch I had a chicken breast schnitzel on a poppy seed bagel with a little light cream cheese. I enjoyed an afternoon snack of Nutella on VitaWeat biscuits. For dinner I slowly cooked chicken congee. I reduced the fat content by not using a whole chicken and limiting the flesh to thigh meat and I made the stock from necks and star anise.

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It’s been a good day. I finished watching Season 1 of Daredevil on Netflix and started watching Season 3 of Orange is the new black.

I hope your day went well.

What did you eat? What did you do today?

Nutella Sandwich at Ricardo’s Cafe Jamison Plaza

Posted by Gary

This Nutella Sandwich was awesome

I met Bron and Max at Ricardo’s Cafe today for some morning tea. I incorporated a walk around Belconnen at the same time.

Nutella sandwich from Ricardo's Cafe
Nutella sandwich from Ricardo’s Cafe

The Nutella sandwich has salted caramel ganache in between to macaron shells. In the middle is a Nutella mousse. It was delicious. I also had a flat white which was a really nice coffee today. 

 

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I captured some images while walking.

Black swan
Black swan
Big Splash
Owl Statue
ACMA
ABS House
Sentinel

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