A Visit from Kris Kringle

I had a visit from Kris Kringle today - yay!



This will definitely come in handy!


Something seems to be missing...


...cupcakes? :)

Thanks KK!

MilkyWay vs MilkyWay Smackdown

"MilkyWays have caramel?!?" was my initial response when a friend from the States mentioned that she loved the caramel in MilkyWays. This of course prompted us to conduct a thorough taste testing and comparison of the Australian MilkyWay vs American MilkyWay. This said friend had also conveniently just returned from the States with a bag full of confectionery goodness so this was a good excuse to carry out this "scientific investigation" :).

First we have the Aussie MilkyWay: a milk chocolate bar with a lightly whipped nougat-ey centre.


The US version comes in two varieties (at least), regular and "Midnight", both containing caramel. The US MilkyWay felt more dense than the Aussie version although that may have been due to the caramel which comprises almost half the filling. The MilkyWay Midnight was suprisingly better than the original, having a dark chocolate coating and a stark white milky centre.


Although different to the Australian MilkyWay, the US version looks awfully familiar...


And so does the 3 Musketeers bar from the States...


The verdict: Same thing different smell...it's all chocolate!

Mimiito's Photos

Stumbled upon this site http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimiito/ via an SMH article. This woman posts photos of her kid's lunch boxes - cool!

Recreo

Hmm...??

Sussex Centre Food Court

Sussex Centre food court in Chinatown is a great place for quick, cheap Asian food. What more could you want?

Bibimbub from Woree BBQ

Gyoza from Mr Don

Spring rolls from Saigon Pho

Goi coun (rice paper rolls) from Saigon Pho

A Foodie Snapshot of our Port Mac Holiday

FFL (minus Rush and Jangers) recently took a break from life and everything with a trip up the coast to Port Macquarie. It was a fun filled week consisting beaching, cosmic bowling, putt putting, aqua golfing, monopoly (single and double), bop-it, shopping and of course, eating.

There was a little noodle shop on the outskirts of town that served a variety of noodle and rice dishes. Overall, the food was quite average but they had a kick arse Nasi Goreng which was a little on the greasy side but grease = flavour! It was so good that a few us went back there for our last meal in Port Mac.

Singapore noodles

Laksa

Nasi Goreng

Noodlers

Over near Flinders Beach was the Pasta Place (Palace?), a restaurant Ken had previously visited on one of his touch footy trips. A typical pizza and pasta place with the regulars.

Tortellini cabonara

Fettucini bolognaise

Non-descript pizza slice

Andy, with his on-going craving for pluto pups, couldn't resist temptation from the carnival which seems to visit Port Mac around this time of year.

Pluto pups

After several days of eating take-out and hamburgers we were all craving a home cooked meal and some greens! For a quiet night in, we cooked some bangers and mash and had it with a massive green salad and prawns.

Bangers and mash - yeah! With prawns and salad

Following the success of the previous nights cook off, Patrick cooked us a seafood feast consisting of battered fish, salt and pepper calamari, oysters, blue swimmer crabs and another massive salad.

Salt and pepper calamari with deep fried chilis

Fresh oysters from the Big Oyster - yum!

Blue swimmer crab

Seafood feast: Deep fried fish and calamari, blue swimmer crab, oysters and side salad.

Early one morning while everyone was still asleep, Irene and Andy snuck off for a romantic breakfast for two. Awww...

Patrick loves his tea...

Tea-bag(ging)

All in all, a fun but exhausting holiday with a great bunch of people - I love you guys!

A Deep Fried Xmas

Our christmas dinner:

Softshell crab tempura served with sweet chili mayo.

Mushroom, eggplant and sweet potato tempura.

Lamb cutlets with a garlic, red wine and Italian herb marinade.

Some greens to balance the grease.

The Xmas feast... for three :)

...And we finally have a blog

After months of saying we should start a blog for FFL, we have finally gotten off our arses and signed up with Blogger. Thanks to smelly nerd, we now have a lovely (*cough* hideous *cough*) pink and green backdrop to write about the thing that brings us together - food, food and more food.

Stay tuned for more foodie posts...