a quiet start to the trip away: a slice of passionfruit tart from a bakery in berrima.
two weeks in a sparsely-furnished house in still-wintery north-eastern country victoria, we knocked together such treats as:
a homemade vegetable soup standing triumphant on the base of a tin of five-bean mix. five!
a grand breakfast of fried egg on buttered toast, mushrooms and bacon.
a main course that was supposed to be a grilled lamb chop, but really, it was the enormous tin of sauerkraut.
…which lasted for another couple of meals, including this grilled chicken wing with three white vegetables. yes, i’m counting the mashed potato as a vegetable.
there were cakes of course, many other cakes, but they were eaten too quickly to be documented, which is a pity because the gooey chocolate nougat cake, as big as a car tyre and covered in a mound of shaved chocolate, was a sight to behold. there were scones with cream and lemon butter. there were meat pies and pasties… which, if i lived in the country is surely what i would become. pasty.
there was breakfast at the tourist cafe in cooma (also serving greek meals and continental meals), which was so old skool that the mushroom omelette had the consistency of a kitchen sponge studded with tinned champignons, because indeed the cook had used tinned champignons…
see? see that rubbery little mushroom?
…and everything on the breakfast menu came with buttered white toast and chips. which ordinarily would have been a cause for celebration, but i was already full from the massive swirl of soft serve ice cream floating atop my iced chocolate, and so. uneaten chips. most unusual.
ah, the country.
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oh i love your holiday/road trip food posts. i remember previous holiday cakes with some fondness.
of course mashed potato is a vegetable. isn’t it amazing how much saurkraut they can pack into a small space?
mmm that passionfruit tart looks great – as does the vegie soup. did you share the bowl with the baby?
side commentary:
heya santos, how is the green-tea lamington going? it looks like i will have something done this saturday…
santos: hello! hem, i suspect you like the holiday posts because of the higher picture-to-word ratio. 🙂 ah, i should have photographed the beestings (cake-custard-cream-almond praline) and the lumberjack cake (golden syrup, toasted coconut) and the apricot tart (tinned apricots, frozen meat pie crust, whipped cream) and… and…
meanwhile, i’ve been enjoying your eating tour of manila.
saffron: in fact, the baby had her own bowl. it’s the one with the rim of bunnies.
the passionfruit tart was a light, glorious thing. definitely the golden lining to the stodgy pastie cloud i had first.
i am very looking forward to saturday! 🙂
ooh. must step up to the plate then. green tea lamingtons, you say? are red beans involved, or merely optional?
Yes, I thought that the bunnies belonged to the baby. It was the two fluro spoons which made me think you were sharing 🙂
Saturday will be fun. I am looking forward to some pretentious chevre 🙂
Santos: It could be optional I guess 🙂
Wow I am smiling all over the place.
Hope that Saturday is enjoyable! I make a guess and suggest that it may be food related! hehe.
Fancy grade sauerkraut? Does this mean a decorative ringpull?
The passionfruit tart looks sensational, esp all those real McCoy pash seeds. A sight which is missing from vanilla slices throughout greater Sydney.
no, no decorative ringpull. in fact, no ring pull at all. the lethal serrated edge of the lid is from being stabbed open with an old fashioned pocketknife can opener.