Strog

  1. Use Greek yoghurt, in the sauce and on the top to finish.
  2. Cook your piece of meat whole to medium-rare, let it rest, slice it and add it to the sauce right at the end .
  3. Use lots of pepper.

Shrimp Boil

Take 1 not enough Old Bay

Take 2: A LOT better, a lot more Old Bay and also added some crushed chilli

Amazing Chicken!

Little Lebanon (I believe the area is officially Joondana, but its across the road from Dogswamp)

Just fucking awesome chicken. grilled over coals, its smokey, juicy, seasoned awesomely, has a nice sauce on it. God damn this is great chicken!!’

Things I ate March #1

Hungry Jacks GRILL MASTERS SPICY CHIPOTLE ANGUS.
Eh, this was ok, pretty minimal burger, the battered and fried jalapenos were a nice touch. LOOKS LIKE CRAP!

Charcoal Chicken Place Tuart Hill – 1/2 Spicy Chicken and 1/2 Ribs & chips.
This was good, probably not as hot and fresh as from Dianella which has such insane turn-over, but still really good.

KFC Cola BBQ Wings

Its actually pretty good. Its Sweet, a little bit like plum sauce, has a “cola” kind of flavour, it mixes well with the spicey wings. Would be nice if there was more of it on the chicken pieces, or if it was sold individually so you could add more yourself. I like it.

Fermented Stuff

UPDATE: 4/10/19 – Kimchi is good, but a bit salty. The heat is good, the spiceyness and flavour is good, the pineapple was a good addition. But its a little bit too salty.
The cauliflower is good, kinda funky, I will be adding it to vinegar to sit for a while before consuming.

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Made some lacto fermented cauliflower and some mixed-vegetable Kimchi

Kimchi is cabbage, brussel sprouts, carrots, onion, spring onion and pineapple, garlic, ginger, Korean fine chili flakes ( gochugaru) and rough ground chili flakes, and fish sauce, rice flour. I added some gochujang as well.

The cauliflower is a lacto ferment 2.8% brine or abouts. Both have a little chili flakes added, a few pepper corns, one has dill and the other tarragon. I added a few carrot sticks to hold it down under the liquid.

RoyAl’s Chicken & Burgers

Went to the one in Northbridge. Situated on a side street it has a small interior, just a few seats and a kitchen area but casual bench seating outside.

I got the Chicken Royal burger (buttermilk fried chicken, fancy sauce, remoulade sauce, lettuce and tomato) and 4x of the Buttermilk fried thigh pieces dirty style (coated in hot sauce, these also came with a jalapeno blue cheese dipping sauce.)

The burger was very nice, the Fancy sauce was excellent and there wasa hint of mustard possibly from the remoulade sauce, the chicken tender juicy and crispy, enough salad, toasted bun. And $12 is decent these days.

The 4x pieces of buttermilk fried chicken thigh that had been dipped in hot sauce (aka dirty style) was nice too, chicken the same quality as in the burger, definitely coated in hot sauce so not as crispy, it was like Franks or such, not too vinegary and also not overly hot. These were $10 and I actually got 5 pieces for whatever reason. The jalapeno blue cheese dipping sauce was very excellent.

So $22 all up for a lot of nice chicken. Well worth it.

Notes on sauce: Fancy sauce, also known as Fry sauce is usually a combination of one part tomato ketchup and two parts mayonnaise, with many variations which add additional ingredients to the basic recipe. Remoulade sauce is an aioli/mayonnaise based sauce similar to tartare with sometimes mustard or curry or chopped pickles added and also existing in many many variations.

KFC – Zinger Pie

This is definitely a chicken pie, so much so that it doesn’t do anything else but be chicken and pie crust. Well, except for the mild heat from some chili source. The gravy needs more flavour. It should be the standard KFC gravy, thats more salty than this. The heat isn’t bad, its mild but noticeable and consistent.
This needs more flavour!
It needs chunks of zinger crunchy coating floating in it!

Addendum: I purchased 2 and ate one when it had cooled down to just above room temp, still a little warm, and it tasted a lot better for some reason.

Halva

Or halawa, haleweh, halava, halvaa, helava, xalwa, helva, halwa, aluva, chalva, chałwa, alva, halvah, khalva…

Its good, its a consistency I have never experienced before in a food. Its kind of like nougat but…not. Its like a real dense macaron maybe.

Liquid Smoke

Unsure what Im going to do with this yet. Hard to find this stuff in stores here so got a bunch online to experiment with.