Monthly Archives: November 2013

Street_ADL!

So life is a lot like an RPG where talking to townspeoeple/shopkeeper gets you rep and unlocks information to get you to new areas lol!

So I got an early heads up about a restaurant that was opening, and managed to visit on day 2 of their soft launch. Apparently called Street_ADL, it’s a wine bar that will have an indigenous Australian degustation restaurant, which I’m really looking forward to as when I hear “indigenous Australian” I think kakadu plum, quandong, saltbush, bush tomato, and Billy Kwong. The chef of the restaurant is also apparently renowned for working in famous restaurants, but I fail and don’t actually recall the names.

As only the bar was open and the restaurant still in progress, I decided to check it out. I’ve been liking grenache recently, but I still fail and only managed to drink half a glass (I had more planned for later!) and decided to check out the bar food. First thing I spotted was pork crackling, oh yes! Perfectly salted with some sort of pate-like dip.

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GINger cured salmon???

For a while now, I’ve wanted to see if I could ever make a vodka ceviche, because it sounds like fun. I may not be able to consume copious amounts of alcohol, but that doesn’t stop me from cooking with it! Or in the case of a ceviche, not even cooking it!

Me being me, recipes are just guidelines. I take one look, then do whatever I feel like. Which can have disastrous consequences.

In any case, I tossed together some really random things and decided to go with gin cured salmon.

Salt, sugar, basil, pepper, gin, lemon juice and a tiny dash of ginger (just so I could write GINger).

This was me tossing everything into a container. I took no note of how much salt and sugar was in here, and I assumed I had to have enough liquid to cover my fillet. Perhaps I should have paid more attention to the recipe I consulted…

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Mr Black Co

It has arrived! Batch 1 of the most fantastic combinations ever… and I’m on a no coffee spree again too -_-

It is definitely awesomely tasty, so this one goes into storage being batch 0001 and all, so I’ll keep it forever and ever. Pretty pictures! But the glass was so shiny it was hard not to get a reflection I didn’t want, so the best I could do were macro shots.