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Just in the door from the Italian place (La Trattoria) in town - the food was really good considering the dingalings started a new menu today - why oh why would you do that to your staff on a Saturday? The poor young bloke in the bar was so far out of his depth being his 2nd day I was really quite sorry for him.

My Barramundi fillet with dill potatoes & lemon butter was cooked to perfection except my lemon butter sauce was entirely missing. The eggplant was missing from my SILs parmigiana. The gnocci was ok despite being bought in, the gorgonzola sauce was really good. I also tasted some gnoccie with a speck, asparagus white wine sauce that was nice. Apparently the bolognaise was awful, and I have to say Im always dissapointed when I pay $7 for a bowl of fries that look just like they are from Maccas - hate shoestring fries...

This place isnt particularly cheap either - entrees start at $17 & mains start at $25. Bread was $6.50. Not expensive by any means but not cheap either. The servings left us hungry - you definitely need bread, entree & main - I could have done dessert & coffee but was out of funds.

Tonight we are having a couple of friends round to watch the fireworks from our house - we have grandstand view of town's show - its
Chirizo and sweet potato soup (JO) followed by
Fish pie (JO from Ministry of Food), baby carrots and brocolli
followed by coffee and biscuits and cheese - they dont do puddings!

Hey Mr Spice - some dude on the telly was making leek rissoto this morning... cant remember which chef it was... but it looked absolutely fab... might do that during the week! 

Tonight is smoked salmon tagliatelle with creme fraiche, lemon juice, parsley and baby spinach...

I have venison sausages for tomorrow night... might roast them, and then finish them off in a stock, wine, onions, herbs & cornflour sauce... served with roasted potatoes, boiled green beans with garlic, and some red cabbage...

Frenchie

MsP made a great Thai curry with pork last night, but we thought it might have needed a bit more curry paste, so tonight we sauteed a little more pork, and then deglazed the pan with butter and two teaspoons of curry. Then for myself, i deglazed that with some oil and 4 Thai dragon chiles, and served separately. I can't wait to taste!

We are having chicken snitzels tonight - will make a mushroom sauce & roast potatoes. Steamed veg or salad?

Ended up remembering some eggplant so I crumbed that as well & made parmigiana - had salad & veg.

Last edited by frizz1974 (Sun 08 Nov 09 9:14am)