smoked salmon appetizers with crème fraîche

more bugs

life: friends, family, mint, berries and vodka

fully prepared smoked salmon bites

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mushroom caps with raisin, pine nuts, parmesan and spice

pasta first, then...?

catching up

There are many images to upload since my last post in June 2007 (it's now 2008!) so I will avoid excessive description, if I provide any at all. Hopefully this year will bring a greater sense of attentiveness to this blog.

 

 

 

new place to buy wine

I am very excited about the new Dan Murphy's which opened in QV today. It means that I no longer have to travel far to get wine or pay ridiculous prices at Safeway Liquor. On the way home from coffee, reading, writing and also being distracted by arguing about the state of the world at Mr. Tulk with my partner we stopped to check it out. I couldn't leave without a bottle of Elderton Shiraz to drink before going out tonight.

my partner made an excellent cypriot-style leg of lamb

The meal began with a rocket, parsley, cherry tomato and fried halloumi salad dressed and seasoned with olive oil, lemon, salt and pepper.

I wasn't allowed to read the recipe but I understand that it comes from one of my cookbooks called "Cooking from Cyprus" by Nearchos Nicolaou. The lamb was undercooked according to the recipe and how I remember meat being cooked back home but then again I had to wait through most of my youth before I lived abroad and got the opportunity to try how much better meats like lamb taste when they aren't overcooked. I was apprehensive about the wine, an unfinished bottle of Earth's Portrait, 2006 Chardonnay from the other night, but it worked well for me.