Mum's roast chicken.

Mum made dinner last night.
Roast chicken with pear & ginger jam in the stuffing, baked vegetables (potato, onion, sweet potato, pumpkin), cheesy cauliflower, broccoli and asparagus. Delicious.

Hot chocolate.

A gang of girls calling themselves "The Sunday Witch" have been kitchening.
Their last effort - a hot chocolate.
Mmmmm.
It's been a long time!

M. Sharky, all et up.

Yama stayed for dinner: m. Sharky, potatoes and salad.

We gave the rest of m. Sharky away to the other writers. That was fun. They came around to our place to pick up their bbq packs of m. Sharky.

M. Sharky is all et up now.

Eye BALLS, yes, bit of a giveaway.
Ew.

Mr. Sharky.

Last weekend we attended the Bugsplat Quiz Night at the Bugsplat Builder's Arms (a pub: they sell drinks there) and during the auction hysteria we bid on a small (relative) shark.
We bid $20.
Nobody bid higher.
We 'won'.
Mr Sharky. Frozen.
We picked up m. Sharky yesterday, and when we got m. Sharky home we realised - m.Sharky too big! to fit! into freezer! So m.Sharky started thawing. In the fridge.

Trouble rang up Nell. She's such a good cook. Nell told us lots of Sharky tricks.
We have cutleted m. Sharky into 21 slices. We have soaked these cutlets in COLD WATER. We have rinsed several times. We have drained. We have floured. We have pressed herbs and spices into the skin. We have sqeezed lime and lemon all over them. We have dipped them in egg and then in flour and spice. We have wrapped them up onto little plastice plates. Bright Green!
The scariest thing was m.Sharky's eyes popping out and revealing themselves to be round.
We now have a jar of sharky stock and seven plates of bbq ready fillets.
Clever Us.

It all looks fabulous.

Soup stone.

I love it when we're overdue for a shop and need to use things up.
Yesterday we made lentil and lamb soup.
Today we made silverbeet and cheese lasagne.

Tamarillo & mint.

I made roast lamb, the usual way; lots of garlic and rosemary, sesame oil and pepper. Angelata made a side dish of baked cauliflower & yogurt and another of tamarillo & mint (which needs to rest for at least an hour) and when Zil arrived and agreed to dinner we added potato and carrot to the roasting dish. Zil liked everything, but especially the tamarillo & mint.

Now I have a lamb bone to make lamb and lentil soup with. What a wonderful way to spend a rainy Monday morning.