| Kajikit |
We've been getting renovations done on our house, including a shiny
new kitchen. What's really frustrating is that the kitchen is
finished, but we still can't use it because the rest of the house
isn't done so all of our dishes and the entire contents of the pantry
cupboardare packed up in boxes and stacked in the loungeroom. So I've
got this shiny new five burner gas stove staring me in the face and
nothing to cook on it!
I just went to Sydney for a week and I hoped that when I came back
we'd have a fully functional kitchen, but no such luck... it's freezer
food yet again. (We stocked the freezer with casserole, chilli,
lasagne and a little chicken, but after three weeks we're all entirely
sick of it!)
On the whole, food in Sydney is very expensive. I was there for a week
and I had a couple of dreadful meals - packet fish and chips at a pub
in the Rocks that my poverty-stricken relatives dragged me to... at
least that was cheap, and it's what you expect to get from a cheap pub
meal. The worst meal I had altogether wasn't cheap at all. I wanted
to eat by the harbour to enjoy the view so I stopped at a cafe on the
waterfront down by the opera house, and paid $20 for a plate of
'homemade' pasta and a glass of orange juice. I hoped for something
expeensive but filling and delicious, but alas they gave me a
miniscule plate of some kind of stuffed pasta with cheese in it and I
think I paid a dollar a piece for it! The way I see it, I was really
paying for the view...
I had two lovely meals in Sydney though. One was a takeaway salad from
a place called the Pasta Pantry - I wish they had that chain in
Melbourne, because they sold a whole bunch of different types of pasta
and also salads. I chose a Moroccan pumpkin cous-cous and mixed roast
vegetables, and I reheated them because they looked to me like they'd
be nicer that way. They were DELICIOUS! The other wonderful meal was
a roasted chicken breast with crispy skin, served on smashed potatoes
with sage and with a red wine jus. It was another architechtural
presentation, but it tasted gorgeous and I freely told them it was the
best meal I'd had all week. It was also one of the cheapest - going by
Sydney prices $16 for a main course is on the cheap side, and this was
delicious. If you happen to go to Darling Harbour, this was at the
cafe at the Maritime Museum, and it also had a nice waterfront view...
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~Karen AKA Kajikit
Lover of shiny things...
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kaji@labyrinth.net.au :
|| We've been getting renovations done on our house, including a shiny
|| new kitchen. What's really frustrating is that the kitchen is
|| finished, but we still can't use it because the rest of the house
|| isn't done so all of our dishes and the entire contents of the pantry
|| cupboardare packed up in boxes and stacked in the loungeroom. So I've
|| got this shiny new five burner gas stove staring me in the face and
|| nothing to cook on it!
||
Karen
There is an aussie yahhoo group you may like, called aussie renovators.
It's a good list of Australian renovators.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AussieRenovators
(If you are interested)
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