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Brekkie was an omelette on toast with a few baked beans cooked for me by my beloved, a request for Fathers day! Lunch yesterday was at my daughter's and we had Italian style. First was a garlic bread with 2 types of cheese melted over it. It looked decadent and tasted like heaven! Then followed by a chicken pasta dish which was great too. Not very hungry last night so I cooked up some garlic prawns and rice.

We were gonna make pizzas last night but weren't that hungry so made potato and leek soup which was our tea.

Well worms are good protein at least! Left over "worms & gravel" for lunch...Yum! (by the way, that's a little Diggerism to amuse the grandkids) We were discussing going out for tea last night when friends rang and wanted to meet up for a meal so we headed into an awful night driving into town. I hate driving at night in rain! We went to the local club an absolute institution in our town, food always excellent and a bit cheaper than the average. Sort of place where it's intimate and friendly and the staff know us. I had the house hamburger which is monumental! Couldn't eat all of it but it was lovely ($18)

"Worms & gravel" last night! Well thats what I used to tell the grandkids it was but otherwise known as spaghetti & meat sauce. Very nice too.

I had a frozen diet meal for lunch yesterday, Mongolian Lamb & noodles....it was utter crap! Not so for tea though as we had roast lamb & veggies.

You would get "Blue Swimmers" down your way I'd reckon 4H? I caught a bucket full in about an hour and they made a lovely entree for 4 of us. Yum!

Mmmmmmm! Crabs!

We were in town seeing our travel agent yesterday and popped into an Asian cafe for lunch. I had satay chicken & fried rice which was lovely though the style is Malaysian, and a tad too hot for me. Last night Gael did chicken schnitzels with scalloped potatoes, peas, carrots and corn on the cob. It was magnificent! I love summer here where our local fresh corn is dirt cheap, I'd eat it every meal if it was up to me!

Chips to us are what you Americans call "Fries" and it irritates me to the end that McDonalds call their chips fries in this country!

Last night it was an easy one! Gael made herself an omelette and I cooked up two fat beef sausages (snags in our vernacular) some chips and to golden home grown eggs. Runny yolks over chips, some tomato sauce and it's Digger heaven! Could you really eat all that Rabs? Interesting seeing the potato crisps with your meal, we have those as a snack before meals, not usually with them. Do you call them chips or crisps?

Yesterday was out usual egg & bacon rolls a Saturday morning routine. Gael was off to a pastel workshop so I cooked and they were damn fine, if I say so myself! Lunch, left over Asian style chicken & noodle stir fry...Yum! Followed by an apple and a handful of tiny teddy chocolate biscuits. Tea Gael did eye fillet with mushroom gravy, small roast potato pieces, peas, carrots & corn. Her sauces are legendary! My blood sugar is currently coming out too low so I've been adjusting insulin and scoffing chocolate far too much but low again. If it's still low tomorrow I'll drop down another couple of units. I've been eating everything in sight too. Dunno what we will have today , have a rummage around in the fridge later!

You devil you~

Out to dinner with friends last night I had Asian style seafood curry & rice...it was OK but wouldn't rave. I attacked the chocolate machine at the venue and came back to the table with bulging pockets. I think I ate 3 there and more over coffee back at our friends place. Expected blood sugar to be ballistic this morning but in fact it was quite low for the 4th day in a row. Gonna have to drop my insulin back a bit I think.

Last night Chicken Mississippi and fried rice...was velly, velly nice!

Last night was a lamb roast.....Yum! (Bella gets the bones today)

Inexcusable ! WE stopped at Gympie coming back from Hervey bay a couple of weeks ago, found a nice looking well presented pub and decided to have lunch there. I ordered off the specials board, "Chicken Tenders, Chips & salad" for $12.90, good deal I thought. When it came there was a mountain of chicken tenders, could hardly jump over it! Problem was it's been deep fried almost to extinction! Breadcrumbs were burned and the thinner parts of chicken crumbled they were so over cooked. Gael's meal featured raw veggies! I told the waitress when she was clearing up and the comment was "Right", no other reaction. Now as passers by it didn't matter to them that we wouldn't return but it does matter if locals have that experience as they simply wouldn't go back. Presentation of the pub, staff, prices, all good. They may have had quality ingredients but the last little bit of the package ruined all that had been done before. What a shame.

Dinner out at a local pub last night, I had "Chicken in Pyjamas" (parmigiana) but it was tough and tasteless. I can't believe that they can't cook chicken these days....it's not rocket science! There was too much, I couldn't eat it all and then there was the "salad". Whatever has happened to salad these days? I got a pile of stuff looked like it had been ripped from the paddock and covered in God knows what. We used to get an identifiable leaf that I grew up knowing as lettuce. It was crisp and it was juicy. Sometimes there would be some coleslaw in the leaf, some tomatoes and a few other veggies, maybe some hard boiled egg or shredded carrot? I used to enjoy salads, but not so any more. They are just a lame attempt to include something green on the plates but it's too boring having this mass of green stuff, no variation at all. If I'd had a bag I would have bought it home for the rabbits! On the other hand it's Saturday here so it's eggs & bacon!!!!

What Deb jacked up on the cooking after you got her a nice new kitchen? Scandalous! Grin~

It's big part of Aussie life!

Tea at the Ballina RSL last night for me was a steak sandwich with lots of caramelised onions and chips. The steak was in a turkish bread roll. Wasnt bad at all.

Homemade bread takes some beating! I do a pretty mean beef, bacon & onion pie myself, if I can blow my own trumpet!

Making our way down past Brisbane heading for northern NSW yesterday we were caught on a congested freeway for about 2 hours, and when we finally at the end were relieved to find a service centre with some "food" choices. I say food choices advisedly because they were Mc Donalds and KFC, The KFC we had was less than thrilling! Our destination was the northern NSW town of Ballina and not sure where to eat we usually gravitate to the RSL an Australian institutution! Returned & Services League sometimes known as "Rissole" coloquially are usually a safe bet for a reasonable feed at a reasonable price. We got off to a good start when the doorman made a fuss of me because of my veteran TPI status, so I was feeling good for the evening. The Ballina RSL is an impressive place, very big and very flash! Specials noard had good options and I ordered a Beef & Guiness pie, Gael ordered a Chicken, leel & mushroom pie. When they came they were HUGE! Bloody nice too! Incredible for about $12.95 each and I cant see us cooking tonight either.

How did she get the "Mac" in the muffin? Wear a kilt while she was making it? Grin~

At the bowls club yesterday again in a group of 14 and for a change I had the beef pie, it was lovely and very filling. Then I assaulted the chocolate machine, you know where the grab picks up small individual choccies and drops them in a hopper, and had to put $10 in coins through to "win" enough to supply the whole table. Not necessarily cheap chocolates but it was good fun doing it. For tea we had left overs.

Plenty of "waffling" going on around here!