Busy weekend
Sean's now on the Sydney Seafood School mailing list, and got sent a last minute special offer for a crab cooking class on Friday. I decided to take more photos than last time but ended up forgetting my camera completely.
The class was slightly longer (3 hours rather than 2) and I was less impressed by the chef than I had been by Jade Chen from Blue Eyed Dragon. However because the class was longer we got to make 3 dishes, which were:
The risotto was quite nice, apart from the preserved lemon and the crab cakes were pretty unexciting. The soup was a real winner though and even worth all the time you have to spend getting the crab meat out of the shells.
When Sean left the UK, his work kindly bought him some vouchers for an Australian bookshop. As it's coming up to a year after the vouchers were issued, we thought we'd better go and spend them! So on Saturday we went binge book-buying in Dymocks.
New books!
On Sunday we went for High Tea at the Opera House. I was suitably armed with the camera for snapping shots of tiered cakes but I only managed to get a couple of shots of Sean and then the battery ran out.
Sean inside the restaurant at the Opera House
Still the sandwiches and cakes were served as separate courses so there was no fancy display to photograph. The sandwiches were a bit avant-guard and consisted of things that should have been in a sandwich but were just presented on a plate. We got a very nice crab and coriander sandwich, but then a vast mound of smoked salmon on a tiny piece of bread (it was impossible to pick up and eat), some chicken mayonnaise on a lettuce leaf, some slices of beef and a piece of toast. It would have better with the beef inside a sandwich, the chicken inside a sandwich and to have done away with the toast.
This was made up for by the cake selection of:
And non-stop refilling of champagne (we were only expecting a glass!).
You'll just have to imagine what it looked like, unless I can talk Sean into going again.
Sean's now on the Sydney Seafood School mailing list, and got sent a last minute special offer for a crab cooking class on Friday. I decided to take more photos than last time but ended up forgetting my camera completely.
The class was slightly longer (3 hours rather than 2) and I was less impressed by the chef than I had been by Jade Chen from Blue Eyed Dragon. However because the class was longer we got to make 3 dishes, which were:
- Crab Cakes (with Coleslaw)
- Crab & Preserved Lemon Risotto
- Crab and Asparagus Soup
The risotto was quite nice, apart from the preserved lemon and the crab cakes were pretty unexciting. The soup was a real winner though and even worth all the time you have to spend getting the crab meat out of the shells.
When Sean left the UK, his work kindly bought him some vouchers for an Australian bookshop. As it's coming up to a year after the vouchers were issued, we thought we'd better go and spend them! So on Saturday we went binge book-buying in Dymocks.
New books!
On Sunday we went for High Tea at the Opera House. I was suitably armed with the camera for snapping shots of tiered cakes but I only managed to get a couple of shots of Sean and then the battery ran out.
Sean inside the restaurant at the Opera House
Still the sandwiches and cakes were served as separate courses so there was no fancy display to photograph. The sandwiches were a bit avant-guard and consisted of things that should have been in a sandwich but were just presented on a plate. We got a very nice crab and coriander sandwich, but then a vast mound of smoked salmon on a tiny piece of bread (it was impossible to pick up and eat), some chicken mayonnaise on a lettuce leaf, some slices of beef and a piece of toast. It would have better with the beef inside a sandwich, the chicken inside a sandwich and to have done away with the toast.
This was made up for by the cake selection of:
- Strawberry tart
- Lemon tart
- Chocolate tart
- Pistachio macaroon
- Vanilla macaroons
- Hazelnut madeleine
- Raspberry souffle
And non-stop refilling of champagne (we were only expecting a glass!).
You'll just have to imagine what it looked like, unless I can talk Sean into going again.
posted by Zoe at 5:19 PM
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