Its been a few weeks since I blogged. During that time we went to Melbourne on business and also caught up with our boys and their families while there. Not much food reporting to do as we self catered on the first night in our apartment and then youngest son served up a delicious barbeque and middle son took us for pizza - all of which was great. We are learning to be cautious while travelling because tasty edible food is hard to come by on the road and the old local bakery isn't that exciting in most towns. Having said that there is a good one in Tailem Bend - you have to deviate off the main highway but a decent coffee and lovely cake is to be had.
Summer is ice cream time in our house and I've just started the first batch for this year. I have some ripe to nearly overripe nectarines so have just put a mixture in to chill before churning, to make nectarine ice cream (peaches can also be used). I also have some apricots so will be making roasted apricot ice cream with those. Favourite is salted caramel, a good quality vanilla ice cream with caramel sauce swirled through it.
It is also nearly Christmas, so the puddings were made yesterday.
Every Monday I meet a group of friends and we lunch at cafes around the Mitcham/Clarence Park area. The problem is that there is very little choice on the menus, and its very much the same old, same old. You can get a quiche of some sort (usually roasted veges because they can't think past that), a sandwich or roll up that is always full of stuff you wish wasn't in there or a squashed toasted sandwich. Fresh bread, a filling like ham or tuna and fresh salad would be lovely, but no we get smashed avocado (not mashed, smashed), chili sauce, aioli, bacon, cheese etc etc, all on one sandwich. Most cafe owners are just plain lazy.
Thank heavens for a little coffee shop in Stirling that is owned by a couple, one of whom hails from Seattle - much more imaginative choices there, including some delicious american style sandwiches like the hot philly cheese steak sandwich with caramelised onions - YUM.
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