Living the radelaide

So work has called me to Adelaide, to like, do things and stuff, including eat, cook and explore. Oh, and actually work.

But during non work hours it turns out I really don’t have time to work on the story that will never end. Instead I’m constantly debating where and what to eat, which cafes to go to, and whether I can find enough food to cook up something and somehow save money.

So my experiment has been living without “sugar” (have honey and agave syrup instead), making wholemeal spelt pancakes and messing with other things, such as undercooking fish :)

Here are some of the things I’ve done. I wish I had a nice picture of some food from a cafe called A Mothers Milk – they make some amazing baked eggs mmmmmmmmm but instead all I’ve got is a very bad shot from the outside:

And Coffee Branch was a little espresso shop, which features a single and a house. I tried both, their single was a yirgacheffe natural, but that was so Sydney months ago! Not my normal preference, but when I had the two side by side, I preferred the single.

During my first week there Bar 9 also had a “twilight supper” where they were screening Spirited Away – it was in English but it was still awesome because I got loads of coffee and some truffled popcorn! By the time I finished work to get there, they were actually all out of the truffled stuff so they charged me a couple of dollars less, but there were still remnants of truffle oil in it!!!

When my brother came over to visit, there was also lemon curd, orange, vanilla bean mascarpone, macerated strawberries on english muffin to be had!

Also visited the Coffee Barun, who did an awesome “Barun breakfast”. They had a huge variety of espresso roast beans for sale, but alas, only yirg natural for their filter so this made me sad.

And what do I order at a place called Argo Espresso? A filter, of course!

Also went to First Pour and Paddy’s Lantern, but no pictures of that. First Pour is interesting because they don’t really do food; just pastries. Paddy’s Lantern is cute (love their logo) and the one thing that I learned was that cold brew is something different from cold drip! I tried some and realised that it was different, so then I asked them how they made it, as when I was drinking it I noticed it had that liqueur tone so it was definitely brewed via a cold water method for a long time, but they just chucked grinds in water and let it sit rather than going through a drip, which explained the colour and sediment. It’s a nice easy way to make something like cold drip!

I also managed to stumble upon Nic & Rocco’s dessert shop (from My Kitchen Rules) bought some macarons and tiramisu etc. They were cute and nice, but sadly, I think Zumbo and Cre-Asion are both better, and more true to the flavours that the macarons are (e.g. real strawberry instead of tasting strawberry flavoured).

And now to home cooking 101! And how I miserably fail at it. Actually, I’m probably better than I think, but at the same time nowhere near as fantastic or genius as I think. A general rule is that I only do savoury, not sweet, as sweet has too many rules and measurements. However my spelt pancakes are pretty good.

Anyway, so I finally got to try my hand at ceviche! I’ve always wanted to make it, and turns out the only mistake was that I chickened out and didn’t buy any chilli.

My recipe was basically:

– Snapper marinated in lime juice for about 45min (cause I only had a little bit)

– Cucumber

– Heirloom tomatoes

– Coriander

– Red onion

And some salt and pepper. Here are pics! It turned out quite tasty, just needed more heat.

Don’t mind the knife, it was there for something else. I used a new knife that cut the fish quite nicely!