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Bron cooking up a storm | Dumpling Inn Macquarie | #bestblogs13

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In last night’s post I mentioned that Bron was cooking up a storm for dinner. She told me she used every plate in the cupboard to do this and truly it was one of the best home made meals I’ve ever eaten. Bron has been experimenting with Mexican cuisine a little lately and for dinner we had a Mexican theme.

For starters Bron made some home made corn chips using tortillas

Home made corn chips

Bron made home made corn chips. They were #yummy

These were amazing with sour cream and some of David Lebovitz’s http://davidlebovitz.com guacamole

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As part of the main course Bron prepared some corn fritters. I’ve always loved corn or zucchini fritters. They are just fried loveliness.

Corn fritters

Bron is cooking corn fritters #dinner #yummy

Nothing like the sizzle of fritters

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Gratuitous video of corn fritter frying

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Alongside the corn fritters the Pièce de résistance was a pulled pork stuffed avocado coated with egg and fried

Main course

#dinner Bron made corn fritters and pulled pork stuffed avocado with @davidlebovitz guacamole and sour cream #superyummy

Served with David Lebovitz’s guacamole and sour cream

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There was some pulled pork left over so I finished it off with some sour cream and guacamole

Left over pulled pork

I got Bron's left over pulled pork, @davidlebovitz guacamole and sour cream to finish off #superyummy

This was so yummy

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For dessert Bron made a caramelised white chocolate and lemon curd with double cream tart

Dessert

Bron made #dessert Caramelised white chocolate and lemon curd tart with double cream #superyummy

Dessert was eaten as we watched Game of Thrones Series 3 episodes 2 and 3

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After a good sleep Bron made breakfast

Poached egg and marmalade on toast

Bron made me a poached egg and marmalade on toast #yummy #breakfastforwoojm

Nothing like a good breakfast

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Cracking open the egg revealed a perfect runny yolk

Poached egg

Perfectly runny egg yolk. Thanks Bron. #yummy #breakfastforwoojm

A yellow runny water fall of happiness

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For lunch we’d booked a table at one of our favourite restaurants in Canberra, viz., The Dumpling Inn. We hadn’t eaten Yum Cha for what seemed like an age.

Yum Cha is one of life’s joys. A meal of guaranteed happiness.

Char siu pork

#lunch char sui #yummy

I love walking past Chinese restaurants and seeing char siu pork and roast ducks hanging in the windows. I love finely slice char siu pork with noodle soups.

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Steamed pork ribs

#lunch #YumCha pork ribs #yummy

This was nice but a little grissly

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Rock salt chilli chicken drumettes

#lunch #YumCha rock salt chicken chilli drumettes #yummy

The flavours were amazing with this dish and very similar to their rock salt calamari. The chicken was so tender it was fall off the bone good.

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Sticky rice and pork dumplings

#lunch #yumcha sticky rice and pork balls #yummy

This is similar to a sweet dish my grandfather’s brother Les used to make with coconut and sugar

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Char siu boa (one of my favourite foods)

#lunch #yumcha char sui bao #yummy

On a cold night, a few of these make a remarkably good snack

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Every culture has a wrap :-) Peking duck pancakes

#lunch #yumcha Peking duck pancakes #yummy

Pure happiness in a wrap

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Steamed pork dim sim

#lunch #yumcha steamed pork dim sim #yummy

These were very nice with hot chilli sauce

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Crispy skin roast duck

#lunch #yumcha crispy skin duck #yummy

Mmm…crispy skin duck. What more can you say?

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Custard tarts

#lunch #yumcha custard tarts to finish #yummy

I really liked Bron’s Portuguese custard tarts, these were good too

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We left The Dumpling Inn feeling very satisfied. I’ll let you in on a secret. Before I walked in I loosened my belt a notch to avoid any in-restaurant embarrassment :-)

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So it’s been an amazing weekend in food. What we really need next weekend is an amazing weekend in exercise. I hope you all have a good week ahead.

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My weekend in food | McDonald’s Lamb burger | Yum Cha at the Dumpling Inn

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It feels like it’s been weeks since I last posted on my blog. The last week has been busy at work and I needed to bring work back to my place this weekend to finish some of it off. I spent Friday at Queanbeyan for a meeting at the Australian Civil-Military Centre and was hanging out at lunch time to visit the Central Cafe and have the mixed grill again.


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In the end we had sandwiches with plates for vegetarians, piscatarians, halal, gluten-free and other. It’s a good thing I’m no longer doing a lower carbohydrate, higher protein approach to eating.

On the Friday night I went with Bron to the Canberra Southern Cross Club at Jamison for dinner. I was hungry and ordered some deep-fried crumbed calamari and a rare eye fillet. Afterwards Bron prepared a brownie with caramel and ice cream.

On Saturday we thought we’d succumb to the advertising and try a new burger McDonald’s has been advertising. The Lamb burger which is meant to be made with Australian lamb. It was okay. It was large and the pattie was a little on the dry side. The red onion lingered on the breath too.

For dinner last night Bron made pork rashers with hoisin sauce and a hazelnut mini-tortes, one with cherry jam and cream and the other with salted caramel.

This morning I woke up to fathers day and spoke with my father and received a call from my daughters. For a Spring morning it was pretty cold here in Canberra.

The frosty view from my apartment

The frosty view from my apartment

To keep warm I needed rolled oats, bran and brown sugar with some cinnamon

For lunch Bron took me to a Yum Cha lunch at the Dumpling Inn in Macquarie.


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We love Yum Cha at the Dumpling Inn. Today the service was a little slow but they were really busy. We ate and ate and ate and then were happy :-)

Sticky rice

Meat balls

Deep fried prawn goodness

Yummy chicken wing

Dim sim and prawn dumpling

Sesame prawn

Spring rolls

Duck pancake

Barbecue pork rice noodle

Pork bun

Custard tart

This afternoon I had to do some work and wanted something light for dinner.

I made a burger and then had one of Bron’s left over mini-tortes made of hazelnut meringue, chocolate, cherry jam and cream with a flake.

The burger was made with lean beef mince, jam, avocado, lettuce, cheese and barbecue sauce.

It’s been a good weekend :-)

I hope you had a good one too.

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A big day for Chinese food | Noble Palace | Dumpling Inn

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Yesterday was a much better day at work compared to Wednesday. I woke up feeling ill with a sore throat and a headache yet I was euphoric because Queensland had defeated NSW in  the first game of this year’s State of Origin series.

For lunch we went to the Noble Palace in Phillip. Seven of us enjoyed lunch to thank a dear work friend who had acted up for an extended period of time and performed superbly. We enjoyed Hong Kong roast duck, Crispy skin chicken and plum sauce, Sizzling Mongolian lamb, Peking shredded chilli beef, Pork fillet with chili lemon grass, and rice (I could have forgotten a dish). One of our party also had a vegetable and noodle dish which she generously shared. The Noble Palace is a well known Chinese restaurant in the Woden district and consistently produces high quality meals. They also do wonderful yum cha.

Duck, beef and lamb (iPhone)

Last night Bron and I went to the Dumpling Inn for dinner. This Chinese restaurant is a fantastic suburban venue. It’s relatively small but like the Noble Palace consistently produces high quality food including yum cha on weekends. Last night we enjoyed duck pancakes and fried flounder with rice.

Preparing a duck pancake (iPhone)

Finished duck pancake (iPhone)

Left over duck (iPhone)

Deep fried flounder (iPhone)

After dinner we had dessert at Bron’s. This was some leftover vanilla cheesecake with salted caramel sauce and berries.

Vanilla cheesecake with salted caramel sauce and berries (iPhone)

Because I can’t help myself I’ll share an image from a friend at work from today.

 

Enough said for now :-)

 

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