Takeaway

Footy food for state of origin 3

Posted by Gary

Check out the Stop Press at the end of this post.

So for the first two games I had chicken wings. Tonight I felt lazy and thought takeaway was the answer to my footy food dilemma. But what to buy?

I thought fish and chips with potato scallops or pizza or beef rendang or Thai curry or even Chinese. But then it came to me, Turkish. I haven’t had a Turkish takeaway for ages. I have a Turkish takeaway close to where I live but it’s rubbish so I went to my favourite Turkish takeaway, viz., Turkish Pide House in Jamison.

I didn’t want to eat too much so I thought I’d get a couple of chicken kebabs and some zucchini balls.

The Turkish Pide House is well known for its generous servings. I didn’t realise I would be eating six zucchini balls each the size of a cricket ball.

Before we get to dinner here’s some of what I ate today…

Humpday breakfast. Salmon on VitaWeat.
Humpday breakfast. Salmon on VitaWeat.

I am so blessed by great work friends. Look what a friend gave me this morning. It was delicious.

Thank you Cannoli from a work mate
Thank you Cannoli from a work mate

So here are a few photographs of dinner. Six zucchini balls and two chicken kebabs with rice, salad and garlic aioli.

Footy food. Turkish takeaway including chicken kebabs and zucchini balls.
Footy food. Turkish takeaway including chicken kebabs and zucchini balls.
Footy food. Turkish takeaway including chicken kebabs and zucchini balls.
Footy food. Turkish takeaway including chicken kebabs and zucchini balls.
Footy food. Turkish takeaway including chicken kebabs and zucchini balls.
Footy food. Turkish takeaway including chicken kebabs and zucchini balls.
Footy food. Turkish takeaway including chicken kebabs and zucchini balls.
Footy food. Turkish takeaway including chicken kebabs and zucchini balls.
Footy food. Turkish takeaway including chicken kebabs and zucchini balls.
Footy food. Turkish takeaway including chicken kebabs and zucchini balls.

What footy food did you eat for state of origin 3?

Stop Press

The good news dear readers is that the Mal’s Mighty XXXX Maroons defeated the NSW Blues 52:6 in a comprehensive victory that demonstrated excellence in attack and defence. I usually prefer a tight tough game with a small margin, however, after a lot of trash talking by NSW supporters and especially the NSW Captain it was sweet to see Cam Smith, Jonathan Thurston, Cooper Cronk and Justin Hodges have a brilliant game. A lot of people dislike Justin Hodges but he is one of my favourite players. His ‘never say die’ attitude like all the Maroons (unlike some Australian tennis players) makes him the champion he is.

What is the best sandwich ever? Eating while watching #MKR

Posted by Gary

The best sandwich for me is a battered fish and coleslaw sandwich with white bread. I’ve written about this sandwich on the old Yummy Lummy blog. 

This morning I came across a post by Pat Geyer aka the Ranting Chef about a competition he’s running on his blog about sandwiches. It got me thinking about having a sandwich for dinner. 

A lot of options went through my mind but after a late meeting I thought it would be easier to go to the Jamison Takeaway and pick up some fish and potato scallops.

Here you go my new and improved favourite sandwich. Please check out the story from the old blog for the history to this and for more information on the Jamison Takeaway which I reckon is the best takeaway in Canberra.

Battered fish, potato scallop, kale coleslaw, Persian feta on a fried sesame seed bun NIKON D7100 with 40.0 mm f/2.8 at 40mm and f/8, 1/125sec, ISO 400
Battered fish, potato scallop, kale coleslaw, Persian feta on a fried sesame seed bun NIKON D7100 with 40.0 mm f/2.8 at 40mm and f/8, 1/125sec, ISO 400
Battered fish, potato scallop, kale coleslaw, Persian feta on a fried sesame seed bun NIKON D7100 with 40.0 mm f/2.8 at 40mm and f/8, 1/80sec, ISO 400
Battered fish, potato scallop, kale coleslaw, Persian feta on a fried sesame seed bun NIKON D7100 with 40.0 mm f/2.8 at 40mm and f/8, 1/80sec, ISO 400

So I fried off the sesame seed bun in some grapeseed oil and on the top piece I spread some Persian feta. On the bottom half of the bun I put a potato scallop and then some kale coleslaw and the added the battered fish. 

I can highly recommend this sandwich.

What’s your favourite sandwich?

My first @menulog experience #menulog

Posted by Gary

Tonight I tried menulog for the first time. I recall Shari from Good Food Week writing a review about menulog in August 2014 and I’ve been meaning to try the service ever since. I’d recently received an e-mail from menulog about a prize for a MacBook Air so I thought I should give it a go. My love of Mac computers put me over the line 

It’s pretty easy to get into menulog. Just enter the postcode you’re wanting the food from or delivered to and a list of available restaurants is displayed. I heard from a friend that when she travels for work if she doesn’t want to go out she looks up the menulog app and orders straight to her hotel room. You can choose from delivery or pick up. When I looked up the delivery options none of them struck me as food I wanted tonight. I looked at the pick up list and Malaysian Chapter caught my eye immediately. We’d been to eat at Malaysian Chapter in September 2014 and I really enjoyed the experience. 

The ordering system is really easy. Click to select exactly what you want and everything is calculated in real time as you go. As a first time user I also received a 15% discount which was nice. 

I chose pappadums, beef rendang, coconut rice and roti. The total was $20.78 after the discount and I asked for the food to be ready at 6 pm. I should mention I was able to do the ordering while on a break at work and everything was dead easy. I paid by PayPal which made life easier. If you don’t have a PayPal account you can pay with nearly all available credit cards.

As I started driving home I received a text message confirming my order.

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When I arrived at Malaysian Chapter my meal was ready and I was out of the door in a jiffy. 

I could have eaten the food straight from the takeaway containers but I’m a sophisticated food blogger 

Beef Rendang on coconut rice with roti and pappadums from Malaysian Chapter in Belconnen NIKON D7100 with 40.0 mm f/2.8 at 40mm and f/8, 1/60sec, ISO 400
Beef Rendang on coconut rice with roti and pappadums from Malaysian Chapter in Belconnen NIKON D7100 with 40.0 mm f/2.8 at 40mm and f/8, 1/60sec, ISO 400

So how was it? Well the menulog service worked like a charm. No complaints there. The food? The food was good. Takeaway is never as good as the full restaurant experience and my only yearning was for more sauce with the rendang so there could be more to soak into the yummy coconut rice. I think the roti would have tasted better in the restaurant but it was still nice. 

Will I use menulog again? Yes I will. Will I eat at Malaysian Chapter again? Yes I will.

Tell me dear reader, have you used menulog? What was your experience?