We went out today!
We left our cars behind and took the train down to the city for a good walk around.
I wanted to see the chinatown markets, and was sorely disappointed. It was just a really boring trade fair! yargh. I mean, the australian tax office had a stall. That's how exciting it was. Really poor attempt at cashing in on chinese new year festivities shoddy shoddy money making lousy merchandise cheap ass decorations nothing to eat but fishballs and fried dimsum. pleah!
Then, we wandered down to the David Jones food hall and things got much better. We had lunch there because i was very curious to find out what a ploughman's* lunch was. Turns out, its a bunch of salad leaves, couple of gherkins, a slab of pate, a squashy but sweet preserved onion, slice of cheddar, a couple of crackers and some baguette slices. Kind of interesting. I like dishes which come unassembled without instructions. Fun. Like lego.
On our way out, we collected a bottle of walnut oil, Tetsuya's truffle salsa (!!!), and chocolate! and then more chocolate! and when we left the food hall to wander around outside guess what we passed?
Max Brenner!
Hello!
We probably would've gotten more chocolate if the Lindt concept store had been open. It's probably better that it wasn't. We do still have a slab of that Lindt 70% stuff as well as the fantastic candied orange and almond slivers one... Hmmmmmm...
At last count, we'd bought several truffles (darkchocolateandchilliganache, lushlemonganache, hazelnuthedgehog, darkchocolatewithmarzipan, and two shiny little Godiva nuggets), a tin of Valrhona Carre de Caraibe dark chocolate squares, and a small box of Max Brenner beauties (darkchocolatewithorchidoil, whippedmilkchocolateganache, milkchocolatewithcaramelisedpecans, milkchocolatewithwalnuts, darkchocolatewithroastedcoconut, darkchocolatewithspices, um. i forget the rest.)
So! we have enough chocolate to last us for a little while. Perhaps a week or so. :P
In other news, we also went clothes shopping and Bear has now got something red to wear! heheheh!
* (if i remember correctly, its pronounced ploh-man... hangon oops Bear says its PLOW-man! Remember! the Man Who Drives The Plough! argh. I think Bear is fed up with me asking... but its hard to remember! sniff.)
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Ploughman's Lunch seems to be the French Provencal version of Thai Som Tam (assuming I am spelling Som Tam correct - I mean the papaya / chilli / rooty-leafy-thing / garlic burns-your-whole-head-off-but-tastes-so-good!)
By this I mean you just sort of make it in the field during a break in Quaint Farming Practices that no-one actually does anymore, ie. picking stuff by hand and getting around on foot. So lunch is preserved or picked-in-the-field stuff that doesn't need refrigeration. My Mum is a big fan of Ploughman's Lunch because it is French Provencal, and therefore better, than anything else. A fair enough reason - I like Som Tam for about the same reasons (also shockingly-hot food just sort of works in the tropics).
The addition of chocolate is a stroke of genius though. I suspect that you could follow a traditional Som Tam with some of that Michael Cluziel 95% hyper-chocolate, except you could eat whole chunks of it...
you know, i have seen what looks like 100% valrhona on one of the simon johnson adventories... i'm not sure How that would work, although it might explain that bitter chocolate sorbet at Tetsuya's!
argh. INventories.. not adventories..
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