I found a piece of rump and a little piece of fillet in the freezer and marinated them with some bottled Teriyaki marinade, as well as two chicken drumsticks. I had some chicken breast and wanted to do a Thai inspired marinade to go with the salad that the family requested, that I'd made before (with the elusive slow cooked pork balls that I now can't find the recipe for). I mixed some fish sauce, lime rind, white wine, fresh chopped garlic, chilli (out of the garden!), and ginger, with fresh coriander (home grown too) and soy sauce. Cut up the chicken and put on short bamboo skewers and marinated them for a while. They were a hit. I often use bottled chilli, garlic and ginger for convenience in a marinade but the fresh really made a difference. My chilli bush got hit by frost and I doubt it will come back. I'll get another plant and put it in a pot so we can put it somewhere sheltered during the cold months. We had our bbq with the Asian salad, wombok (Chinese cabbage) shredded, with shredded carrot and cucumber, slices of red onion, fresh coriander, snow pea sprouts and the lovely dressing of fish sauce, lime juice, fresh chilli seeded and finely chopped, finely chopped garlic, sugar and salt. The kids actually asked for it so I'm wondering if I can try some other Thai style recipes on them.
We've had an ongoing problem with our drains here, and it got really bad on Friday but once again we could not get a plumber to come out. There are allegedly about nine plumbers for this town and district but they must be very busy if they can turn off their phones and not return messages. The plumber that the landlady uses is arrogant, and was drunk the first time I tried to get him out at 4pm on a Friday afternoon. We ended up ringing the council emergency number and the fellow was here in minutes, but the alternate plumber finally showed up and unblocked the drain temporarily. It looks like they'll be digging up our yard to get to the root of the problem. Literally the root as that is what is causing the blockage, the huge old oak tree up by the exercise yard. We had raw sewage all over the small yard and the smell was coming into the house in the end it got that bad. I suggested to the landlady that she change plumbers.
We had plans to go for a drive and do some crayfishing today but Phill threw up a rock yesterday mowing the lawn and shattered the driver's side window in the car (yes we do have a carport AND a garage but the car was sitting in the driveway as he cut the grass). Think we'll just have another lazy day. The kids made up pancake batter last night so that will be breakfast, with our lovely fresh lemons off the tree for juice with a little sugar. We all prefer that to maple syrup lately.
That's Nigella, isn't she lovely?
We planted some snow peas and some sugar snap peas along the side of the carport where there is wire and a bare grape vine for them to climb up. We had some in Junee that never quite made it to the dinner table, but that was fine with me, it was great to see the kids picking the sweet, crunchy peas off the vine and eating them. I enjoyed eating them that way too.
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