The teriyaki salmon was good. This is how the marinade is supposed to look, not the bottled crap that you buy in the supermarket. The recipe is actually super easy, so if you want to taste authentic teriyaki salmon it’s better to make it yourself.
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Masuya – Platter
We’re getting to the serious end of the meal now, starting with an awesome sushi and sashimi platter. Very fresh and very tasty indeed.
Masuya – Salad
The Japanese aren’t really known for their salads, but they actually eat more of it than you think. We started off the meal with a simple teriyaki chicken salad, with what might be sesame dressing. And of course, our cameras were at the ready.
Masuya – Drinkie
It’s Friday night and a buddy’s birthday, so we headed to Masuya’s, a good Japanese restaurant in O’Connell St, for a feast. I’d only been once before for lunch, but it’s birthday girl’s third visit. To start off, a colourful drinkie. Cheers!
Beach Wedding – Food
The spread for this wedding was much more casual that the last wedding I went to. We shared platters of seafood and antipasti for entree and fruit, cheese and mini tarts for dessert. In the middle was a choice of chicken, steak or fish mains. I chose the fish, which didn’t turn out to be a good idea. Not enough sauce, although I had no complaints about the portion size.
Double Choc Chip Dessert
My mate and I baked double choc chip cookies one weekend. I had one left and decided to create a little dessert with ice cream and strawberries.
Wedding Banquet – Cake
And to end… the wedding cake. They can be quite simple of gargantuan affairs. This one is the latter.
It apparently took the cake-maker a month to create this. Taking a closer look, you can see why.
Admittedly, it’s a bit too showy for me, but hey, to each their own.
Wedding Banquet – Desserts
If the mains were wonderful then the desserts were fantastic.
I had a trio of creme brulee: vanilla, coconut and raspberry flavoured morsels. The vanilla one had the best flavour.
But my neighbour’s chocolate mousse bomb was just, wow. It was rich, smooth, not too sweet, and completely decadent.
Wedding Banquet – Mains
Of course, it’s inevitable that I post photos of the food.
Let’s just forget about the entrees because I forgot to take photos of them. For the record, I had the duck, which was done Peking style and nicely cooked.
But it’s the mains that I was hanging out for.
As the menu states, this is Chicken Ballontine with Apple, Fennel, Celery, Shallot and Green Olive Salsa. I didn’t have it but my neighbour commented that it was cooked nicely, and the salsa was especially good.
This is what I had.
Barramundi fillet, potato dauphine, broad bean and crab bisque. The fish was cooked to perfection. The potato dauphine was kind of like a posh pomme noisette to me, but I loved the flavour of the bisque. Delicious.
Cupcakes – Part 3
With cupcakes baked, we began the all important bit – decorating!
There was a choice of marzipan and butterscotch icing, and 3 types of chocolate, along with other goodies.
Some people took decorating very, very seriously.
Me, I found that I have no patience for really fiddly things, so my cupcakes turned out a bit, er, dodgy. But there were some that looked great and rather professional.
Static and Silence 