What I make for dinner when I'm alone: leftover rice, sauteed Brussels sprouts and heated tuna/potato patty from a deli downstairs. Haven't figured out how to keep the Brussels sprouts from going dark-ish green while they cook - bright green and they're still a bit too raw and bitter. Wondering if that's the reason some of the slightly fancier restaurants sometimes serve their brussels sprouts as individual leaves... Today's experiment - how many oysters are enough?
2 dozen.
But first - a day with lots of cute and furry animals
In all fairness, the unmitigated pigginess was inspired by the fact that when we got to Taronga Zoo yesterday morning, most of the animals were having their breakfasts and when we left, they were eating lunch.
The koala is Darwin - just finished his breakfast so he was feeling happy and mellow. The Tasmanian devil was looking for breakfast. Mava (?) the California sea lion (complete with massive bark) was jumping for treats and the snow leopard was having lunch when we left.
Starving and tired, quick dinner near Chinatown - one of the few places open all day for food, instead of 5pm (or later) for dinner. Dinner was rice and veggies in a hot pot, plus BS's favorite man doo. Early dinner, then asleep in time to qualify as senior citizens. I think our dinner was too early for an early-bird special...Total Indulgence
Today was Darling Harbour and indulgence day - a dozen Coffin Bay oysters and a dozen Sydney rock oysters for a taste test...the Coffin Bay ones are yummier - so another 2 dozen to bring home for dinner.
GY started with a meatloaf sandwich - my first meatloaf, with onion gravy which I actually made for dinner a few nights ago. He didn't like the amount of alcohol in the gravy, but it was much better once we put it on the meatloaf. Then coffee in the city, before the walk around Darling Harbour and towards the Sydney Fish Markets. We took a wrong turn, but eventually got there.
2 hours of grazing - a massive lunch rush and we got there just in time to get our starters, then he went in to get something else because the table we found were for Peter's customers only. Deep fried snapper and fries to follow the 2 dozen oysters. There was a discussion as to whether that would be too many oysters, except that we shared a dozen before the symphony the other night and we could have had more. The snapper was deep fried whole, so we had to take it apart. Luckily, one of us knew how to debone the fish.
A few laps around the Sydney Fish Market later, some mussels, then shopping for tonight. No point in shopping when you're hungry, you end up buying lots of crap. We bought fresh scallops, crab meat and more oysters - because a dozen each wasn't enough. Of course that much food means that a massive nap is in order before we even attempted to do a little bit of grocery shopping.
GY made super crispy bacon bits and baked some of the oysters - close tie to see what we preferred. I think we'll have to repeat the experiment, but probably not for a while. He doesn't want to seem to see another oyster for at least a few months and I have to admit that I'm ready for a change.
So until next time...oink, oink.
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