A little experiment

I've been wanting to try Israeli couscous for a while but have never gotten around to it or found a recipe that really inspired me. However, this weekend I have decided to start my diet (again) and went through the pantry and put all the food I shouldn't eat in a box and taped it up and put it on top of the cupboard. To avoid temptation, you see. And in this culling, I found my packet of Israeli couscous and I was determined to cook it.

I scoured the internet and my collection of food mags (I was sure I saw a nice recipe using it, but I think it was actually a tuna pasta dish) and the recipe I decided to go with was this Israeli Couscous Salad from Recipezaar. It was a nice and simple salad with a lovely red wine vinegar and lemon dressing. It's delicious, I've been taking it to work with a green salad and I love it!


I have been pretty lax with my posting lately, but I haven't really been cooking anything that interesting either.

I have a recipe for herbed semolina breadrolls in one of my Italian cookbooks, I experimented converting the recipe to work in the breadmaker. Turned out pretty good. If I hadn't been making it after work and it would have been too late to do it properly, I would have just done the dough in the breadmaker and baked the rolls in the oven. Next time!


I bought Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food recently, and in my pre-purchase investigation I came across his recipe for Sticky Lemon Chicken. It is so good, I have made it so often since I found it.

And, thanks to timesonline.co.uk, you can watch Gordon cook it!! The Times website isn't working for me, so here it is thanks to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srPSYZGhL98&NR=1

Fireworks

Brisbane's Riverfire was on this weekend, and DD and I went for a drive looking for a not too crowded place to check out the fireworks. This was my fourth Riverfire in Brisbane and I can't get over how everyone just stops when they get somewhere with a bit of a view. Where I used to live, there was a perfect view on the crest of hill, but only when you were in the middle of the road. People would just stop their cars to watch. Crazy!

This year we weren't near the hills, so there wasn't any need for crazy parking. We found a nice riverbank with a pretty good panorama. It was lovely, even if DD was getting a little bored to the end. He perked up when the F1-11's did their dump and burn though.

I took the camera, but the pics didn't turn out real well. Here's the best.