Food anyone?

[The OB]

....... So when you go to the central market, is that like an area that has a string of restaurants to go to? I am curious what that is.

Hi ski, sorry for the delay in responding but I thought I would snap a few pics of the central market food pavilion for our visit the next day (this morning our time) to better answer your question. When we "eat out", not that often, we like to go somewhere nice, usually local restaurants or pubs for a meal, but when we go shopping at the city Central Markets, we go to the adjoining International Food Pavilions for an Asian style lunch. Nothing fancy and we don't want that. You'll see from the attached snaps its a noisy, bustling, dormitory-style tables and chairs kind of place for honest, inexpensive, very tasty food and it's fun. We have had write ups in our paper about some city restaurants here "named and shamed" after inspectors found mouldy stored food, vermin droppings etc. You won't find any of that at these food halls. Food preparation is open to public view, and due to the large turnover the food is fresh and good, with the real opportunity to saviour genuine Asian recipes. Here are a few pics to see what I'm on about:

We found a spot, it was crowded (big football match on, the first at the newly-built sports stadium). Wife had a nice Mee Goreng and myself a Seafood Laksa. Not too shabby!

Hi Andrew - here on the Atlantic East Coast, flounder (of course many varieties & names) is a bottom feeder from the ocean; both eyes are on top and their color matches the sea floor (see pic below); along the mid-Atlantic coast, the term 'flounder' is used for this fish; up in the New Jersey area (where Susan grew up), 'fluke' is basically the same fish; her father always had boats and we would go fishing for fluke - you had to anchor & drop your line to the bottom. SO, not sure if the fish you are talking about above is the same? Not having been to Aussie land, I've not (unfortunately) been able to eat the fish from there (one exception is that I've had Australian barramundi several times). Susan's flounder was 'flash fried' and was fillets - now they offered to prepared it several ways and if I'd not had flounder the previous night, then I would have chosen the 'whole fish' (sans head) pan seared - I love whole fish and would have easily accepted leaving the head on! Dave View attachment 54813

Hi Dave,we were talking things Flounder there a while back. Managed to get a very nice specimen, at that city market this morning that was just begging to make friends with the fry pan. It'll make a nice Sunday night dinner. Agree with you! The whole fish is the best way to fry them.

Cheers, Andrew Sent from Oz using Tapatalk

 

[Ser Aphim]

Yum!

 

[skimonkey]

Hi ski, sorry for the delay in responding but I thought I would snap a few pics of the central market food pavilion for our visit the next day (this morning our time) to better answer your question. When we "eat out", not that often, we like to go somewhere nice, usually local restaurants or pubs for a meal, but when we go shopping at the city Central Markets, we go to the adjoining International Food Pavilions for an Asian style lunch. Nothing fancy and we don't want that. You'll see from the attached snaps its a noisy, bustling, dormitory-style tables and chairs kind of place for honest, inexpensive, very tasty food and it's fun. We have had write ups in our paper about some city restaurants here "named and shamed" after inspectors found mouldy stored food, vermin droppings etc. You won't find any of that at these food halls. Food preparation is open to public view, and due to the large turnover the food is fresh and good, with the real opportunity to saviour genuine Asian recipes. Here are a few pics to see what I'm on about: We found a spot, it was crowded (big football match on, the first at the newly-built sports stadium). Wife had a nice Mee Goreng and myself a Seafood Laksa. Not too shabby! Hi Dave,we were talking things Flounder there a while back. Managed to get a very nice specimen, at that city market this morning that was just begging to make friends with the fry pan. It'll make a nice Sunday night dinner. Agree with you! The whole fish is the best way to fry them. Cheers, Andrew Sent from Oz using Tapatalk

Thanks Andrew--I wondered if it was like a good court type set up like we have here. The food must be very good with all those people there. Helps too that a game was going on at the same time! Your meals looked delish. I don't know about you, but they always over serve-so we always leave with doggy bags to take home!

 

[skimonkey]

@ Leelai--we do have canned beets here. I guess I was thinking of fresh beets, boiled, pickled and prepared earlier to put on sandwiches! I do like beets, especially on salads. Have never tried it on a tuna salad or burger, but sounds delightful. Love the garlic add on too!

No dunking hard boiled eggs in beet juice here. However-Easter is coming so soon we'll be coloring Easter eggs!

 

[giradman]

Hi Dave,we were talking things Flounder there a while back. Managed to get a very nice specimen, at that city market this morning that was just begging to make friends with the fry pan. It'll make a nice Sunday night dinner. Agree with you! The whole fish is the best way to fry them.

Cheers, Andrew

Hi Andrew - looks like a GREAT market and indeed the fish labeled 'flounder' are the ones I recognized as the same type - hope that you enjoy! Dave

 

[leelai]

@ Leelai--we do have canned beets here. I guess I was thinking of fresh beets, boiled, pickled and prepared earlier to put on sandwiches! I do like beets, especially on salads. Have never tried it on a tuna salad or burger, but sounds delightful. Love the garlic add on too! No dunking hard boiled eggs in beet juice here. However-Easter is coming so soon we'll be coloring Easter eggs!

I may just have another of those sandwiches today......I have a craving for beetroot now!

Easter is fast approaching, we mostly do red eggs here and Greek Easter aligns with our normal Easter this year....so only 1 celebration for Easter for us this year.

 

[leelai]

Tonight's dessert for our guests

A chocolate swirl baked cheesecake

 

[giradman]

Well, we did our bi-monthly visit to Costco - last night I steamed up some Dungeness Crabs for us - just a pic below of that animal up close - Now these come pre-cooked, so could just thaw & eat, but I like to steam them for about 12 minutes & just let them cool for about a half hour - delicious!

Tonight, my first grilling task for the new year - Australian Lamb Chops - simple recipe (marinade of olive oil, fresh-squeezed lemon juice, salt & pepper, and Herbs de Province) - I let the chops sit in the frig for about an hour and then warm up to room temp; some of the marinade is reserved for basting the chops while on the grill - high heat and about 4-5 minutes per side for medium - just had a salad + a Pinot Noir for me (La Crema, California) - next weekend will be Beer Can Chicken! ​Dave
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[ardchoille]

Tonight's dessert for our guests

A chocolate swirl baked cheesecake



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You can never go wrong with cheesecake!

 

[suenc]

Great job, dear. Finding good meat and fish is the biggest challenge. Why didn't we know about Costco sooner??

 

[leelai]

Well, we did our bi-monthly visit to Costco - last night I steamed up some Dungeness Crabs for us - just a pic below of that animal up close - Now these come pre-cooked, so could just thaw & eat, but I like to steam them for about 12 minutes & just let them cool for about a half hour - delicious! Tonight, my first grilling task for the new year - Australian Lamb Chops - simple recipe (marinade of olive oil, fresh-squeezed lemon juice, salt & pepper, and Herbs de Province) - I let the chops sit in the frig for about an hour and then warm up to room temp; some of the marinade is reserved for basting the chops while on the grill - high heat and about 4-5 minutes per side for medium - just had a salad + a Pinot Noir for me (La Crema, California) - next weekend will be Beer Can Chicken! ​Dave . <img src="http://www.ipadforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=55105"/><img src="http://www.ipadforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=55106"/>

As usual Giradman you have made me so hungry and now I'm hankering for some seafood......so it's off to the shops for me now!!

Your lamb chops sound divine also!

You can never go wrong with cheesecake!

Absolutely.....it's a great cake but only if it's baked for me!

 

[The OB]

Well, we did our bi-monthly visit to Costco - last night I steamed up some Dungeness Crabs for us - just a pic below of that animal up close - Now these come pre-cooked, so could just thaw & eat, but I like to steam them for about 12 minutes & just let them cool for about a half hour - delicious!

Tonight, my first grilling task for the new year - Australian Lamb Chops - simple recipe (marinade of olive oil, fresh-squeezed lemon juice, salt & pepper, and Herbs de Province) - I let the chops sit in the frig for about an hour and then warm up to room temp; some of the marinade is reserved for basting the chops while on the grill - high heat and about 4-5 minutes per side for medium - just had a salad + a Pinot Noir for me (La Crema, California) - next weekend will be Beer Can Chicken! ​Dave
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Two of my favourite foods in one post. Excellent!
Andrew


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[giradman]

Two of my favourite foods in one post. Excellent!

Hi Andrew - I guess that 'great minds EAT alike!' Dave

 

[ardchoille]

I put raisins in my salad. Is this popular, or am I just weird? I've been accused of the latter.

 

[MoonlitSonata]

I put raisins in my salad. Is this popular, or am I just weird? I've been accused of the latter.

I like raisins in certain salads, like carrot salad.