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From: Melbourne, Australiaabout me
Michelle (jam) is a kiwi living the urban dream in Melbourne, Australia. She works for Melbourne University as a Multimedia Designer and Developer. She didn't like food for a very long time, but rediscovered a joy of putting simple, fresh tastes into her mouth thanks to Jamie Oliver's accessible recipes, beautiful food-photography, and awesome Tefal wok/frying pan! She is crazy-go-nuts about blogging - and can also be found at thejamjar.com
Jamie Magazine
My wonderful roommate brought me home Issue One of Jamie and I spent a lovely morning with coffee and this gorgeous magazine.
(yes, leftover pizza IS the breakfast of champions!)
Fifteen Melbourne
I've been squealy and excited all week. Fox, Willo and Jet (my housemates and their dog) bought me a 4 course degustation meal at Fifteen Melbourne for Christmas, and today was the date of the meal. I'm a Huge Jamie Oliver Fan (HJOF) and even the thought of going outside on Melbourne's hottest day in recorded history (46.4°C) wasn't going to stop this much anticipated meal.
Fifteen is down a flight of stairs off a Collins Street laneway in Melbourne's central business district. I'm not sure if their air conditioning was failing, but it was a bit warmer than we would have liked - our waiter, Elliot apologised for the temperature but I didn't catch a reason for it.
The meal was lovely, if a little confused in course and drinks order at the beginning - our entrees arrived before our predinner cocktails - and things felt a little rushed, but Elliot was ever present, making sure we were okay - amiable, and relaxed, and the meal smoothed out to a delicious pace.
The company was sterling, as usual. Fox and Willo are such wonderful dining companions. It really was a very very nice Christmas present.
You say tomato, I say potato.
My tomato plant has two tomatoes slowly ripening on it. The plant looks geriatric and frail, but it still spits a new shoot or two out each day and actually has flowers on it at the moment.
This weekend I've decided it's time to say goodbye to the plant. I would like to plant another one later in the year, but in the meantime, I read this http://sunnyo.blogspot.com/2008/04/grow … atoes.html
and wondered if it were feasible to do inside.
Beautiful Tomato
oh how i love thee..let me count the waysnom nom nom nom...hehhhe!!
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Two Thousand and Great!
It's a new year - HAPPY NEW YEAR! Yes, I can still say that even though I'm a bit late - it's still January.
I flew home to Auckland, New Zealand to have Christmas with my family. My son was kind enough to give me Jamie At Home for Christmas, and after looking through the pages in the morning, decided to cook the slow cooked lamb for Christmas dinner that evening.
It is such a simple recipe that I could do that on Christmas Day - decide to do it then do it! I was lucky that there was a leg of lamb in the fridge though - a vital ingredient of the dish.
The lamb cooked all afternoon while I watched the whole first season of Dr Who. I've grown up with the Doctor - Jon Pertwee and those cyborgs scared the living bee-jesus out of me but I could never look away even when I was hiding behind the sofa. I had a massive crush on Tom Baker when he made the character of The Doctor his own. But when the series was resurrected a few years ago with but never did see the first episodes when the series was resurrected a few years ago with Christopher Eccleston taking over the role.
It was really good - and awesome to watch back-to-back like that: clean Christmas house, smelling of pine and roast lamb, family all around, Dr Who on the telly - sort of a perfect Jamjar Christmas Afternoon.
I tucked traditional vegetables around the roast about an hour and a half before dinnertime, and they roasted to a gorgeous colour, full of flavour. While the roast was resting, I made the gravy and the meal came together in a glorious, pull-apart meal we all enjoyed immensely. There wasn't a single piece of meat left on the bone of that lamb roast by the end of the meal - we saved the bone for the dog and she spent the last of Christmas evening gnawing away to her heart's content.
PS: my tomato is growing, due to a snap in the main stem because the fruit was too heavy and I was too lax in my staking. But the fruit are still growing and the leaves are still green though I think they're working pretty hard - my tomato plant is a battler! It's about 1.5. tall, and has about a dozen green tomatoes.