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Wraps as a theme | Shout out @hilahcooking | #bestblogs13

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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.

On Thursday night I enjoyed an Elite Meats Black Angus and Burgundy sausage wrap

More prize meat from Elite Meats as part of my @2CC prize. Black Angus and Burgundy snags in a salad wrap. #dinner #yummy

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The sausage wrap was followed on Friday morning with a Mavi Breakfast wrap

Hey @hilahcooking this is my breakfast wrap full of bacon, egg, mushroom, hash brown, cheese and barbecue sauce goodness #breakfast #breakfastforwoojm #yummy

This is my wrap laid bare for all to see. The Mavi Breakfast wrap contains bacon, egg, mushrooms, hash brown, cheese and barbecue sauce.

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In between Hilah Johnson from Hilah Cooking posted a video on a Smoked Sausage Wrap

YouTube of Hilah cooking a sausage http://youtu.be/z15XchLnLqc

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.

Hilah Cooking http://hilahcooking.com/
Hilah’s smoked sausage wrap http://hilahcooking.com/smoked-sausage-wrap/

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On Sunday night I made a chicken and onion wrap

Tonight's chicken and caramelised onion wrap

#dinner my chicken and caramelised onion wrap #yummy

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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.

#dinner Black Angus and burgundy sausage wrap with caramelised onion, salad and cheese #yummy

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.

#dessert Bron's homemade non churn lemon curd and orange cardamom ice creams plus lemon and chocolate macarons #yummy

This dessert was amazingly good. Bron is a genius in the kitchen and a genius in general (yes her IQ is off the charts)

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My Easter wrap up

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Okay, I’ve already posted four blogs this weekend. This is my wrap up blog post to cover the stuff I didn’t mention previously in:

Hot cross buns and butter,
Who would be a ram,
Ribs and rumps, and
I love cake decorating.

So clearly we went to the Sydney Royal Easter Show in Sydney Olympic Park. I love shows. I reckon The Ekka in Brisbane is by far the best show in the world and then perhaps Sydney. I’m also very partial to the Royal Darwin Show.

The first thing we did was check out Flyball. I’d never heard of it before until I received a tweet from Al to check it out. It is basically dog drag racing and very entertaining. I took a few short videos and put them together.

We spent an enjoyable few hours watching some wood chop, ring events (Shetland pony showing), we explored the food and produce stall to check out the giant pumpkins, flowers, pies, other food and the cake decorating. We wandered through many of the animal pavilions and saw that ram. We also had to get a Dagwood Dog. When I say we, I mean me, and for those who don’t know me, whenever I go to a show I eat a Dagwood Dog. This Courier Mail article is helpful and points one of the biggest reasons why The Ekka trounces the Sydney Royal Easter Show, viz., the Strawberry Sundae at The Ekka. There is also a Facebook page for Dagwood Dogs. The Strawberry Sundae at The Ekka is made by volunteers and is made from fresh full cream milk and fresh locally grown strawberries. It is unique to The Ekka. When I worked at The Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, we used to get a tray sent back to the laboratory at lunch time every day of The Ekka as a treat.

Giant pumpkins, these were huge. One was 430 kg.

Me eating my Dagwood Dog

Up close with my Dagwood Dog

The under 21 Queensland competitor in the underhand event.

We got three chunky lamb shank pies for $10. A perfect lunch.

Choc vanilla ice cream sandwich. The perfect way to complete lunch.

On Sunday morning we visited the Lindt Café at Darling Habour for a chocolate breakfast and to buy some macarons. I had a iced mocha with chocolate profiteroles followed by a chocolate eclair with a flat white coffee. We also bought macarons. I bought Excellence 70%, Passion fruit, Vanilla, Pistachio, Champagne and Salted caramel. Nat at work is an expert macaron maker and she recommended the Lindt macarons and I have to say they were amazing.

Iced Lindt mocha

Lindt chocolate profiteroles

Unfortunately the profiteroles were served cold and not at room temperature.

Lindt chocolate eclair

Excellence 70% and Passion fruit. The passion fruit was best.

Champagne and Pistachio. The Pistachio was amazing.

Vanilla and salted caramel. I had a foodgasm after eating these. :-)

What can I say, it’s been a busy and enjoyable Easter. Today I did some work and tomorrow I’ll be back in the office thinking about the good times.

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I love competition cake decorating

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Okay it sounds weird. Not many men would admit it. My middle daughter loves cake decorating and my Mum was fantastic at it. I don’t do it, I just like looking at it at shows. Weather it’s The Ekka or the Sydney Royal Easter Show, I always look at the cake decorating.

I went a little crazy with the iPhone. I love the Mr Squiggle and Blackboard cake. The giant macarons also reminded me of tomorrow’s macaron visit. When there are too many images a slide show is best.

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Who would be a ram?

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We were at the Royal Easter Show today. I love looking at the farm animals. We were in the ovine pavilion and noticed the rams. I never realised that a ram’s testicles hung that low. Bron explained that any higher and they would be kept too warm given the whole idea of external male gonads is to keep them slightly lower than body temperature.

Take a look at this dude’s sac.

Have you ever noticed how low they hang?

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