Category: Food and Drink
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Penfolds – Organic – Clare Valley (Cabernet, Merlot, Shiraz) – 2003
I was initially intruiged by the “Organic” that this wine proclaimed on its bottle, that I neglected to read the ingredients – specifically looking for mention of preservative 220, which unfortunatly this wine has. However after allowing it to breath for an hour or so, much of this evil smelling and foul tasting (not to…
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Lamb Rogan Josh – Curry (Hot) recpie
3tsp lemon juice 1 cup natural yoghurt (we used european style [creamier]) 1tsp salt 2 garlic cloves, crushed 2.5cm fresh root ginger finely grated 900g lean lamb fillet, cubed (we just bought lean diced lamb) 4tbsp vegetable oil 1/2 tsp cumin seeds 2 bay leaves 4 green cardamom pods 1 onion, finely chopped 2 tsp…
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Salmon with citrus cous cous – Easy, quick and tasty as!
Ingredients: 2x 150gm salmon fish fillets – scaled with skin left on 1x packet “Ainsley Herriot’s – Citrus Kick Cous Cous” Green or Red Curry Paste Salad of some description Make 4x incisions (about 1/2 thickness of fillet deep) on each salmon fillet (skin side) rub 1-2 tsp of curry paste in to this and…
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Brown Brothers – Barbera (King Valley) – 2002
This red wine is the perfect complement to antipasto and tomato based pasta dishes. Its not too heavy, but neither is it sweet and fruity, it has some refined grown up fruitiness about it, that is hard to describe. Anyways this is a keeper and goes well with food and friends (friends eating food, not…
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Margaret River “Watershed” Sauvignon Blanc – 2005
This is a rather nice white wine from Western Australia’s Margaret river. It has a pleasent crispness to it, not sweet, not dry that is somewhat refreshing and goes very well with Tasmanian Salmon (which is what I had for dinner tonight). I highly reccomend this bottle for lighter meals, as a predominantly red wine…
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Elderton Barossa Shiraz – 2000
The scents coming from the top of this wine are amazing. There be spice, fruit (plum i think) and dark dark dark chocolate. I have had the cork out and it airing for the past 45 minutes, and currently the best of this wine is yet to come, and its coming, although some of what…
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Yalumba – Barossa Shiraz 2000
Booyah, this wine embodies body, a little sharp as it hits the pallete (which indicates to me that it needed a little longer decanting) and then you are in the body of this wine, which is very deep and chunky. Its smoothness lasts for quite some time before just at the end of the aftertaste…
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Mallee Estate – 2001 Shiraz
This was a very light bodied shiraz that had plenty of potential as it hits the tounge and olfactory senses, but at that point just as you begin to think, ooo this aint to bad, poof, it dissapears and all hope is lost, this is not saying that it is unpleasant or horrible, just dissapointing.…
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Jim Beam – Small Batch.
PLEASE DRINK RESPONSIBLY! Jim Beam small batch costs approx $50.00 across Australia, and I have only seen advertising for it over the last 18 months or so. The other day I decided to try this bourbon. This bourbon is actually a bourbon mixed with the Port liqueur and is somewhat darker than normal jim beams.…
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Coke Zero – Where does it rank on flavour and as a mixer?
Coke Zero – is cokes new diet drink on the market. It has some interesting things going for it – first the most important fact of all – it still contains caffiene, which was my biggest worry when I first heard about it. Flavour: Coke Zero when it first hits your mouth tastes like coke…