Death Row Dinner: Part 1

This was an idea conceived over a delicious feast in the Cinque Terre: What would be your final three course meal if you had the chance to choose it (and eat it!) before you died?

Rather than cooking the whole meal yourself, we invited Fraser and Kelley to join us in each cooking a course over four separate evenings. The rules also stipulated that your course needed to be accompanied by a drink match and music.

For the first round:

Course One: Kelley
The Ultimate Steak Sandwich accompanied by an Otago Pinot Noir (always a goodie).

Course Two: Hamish
Scallops cooked three ways, with  Dark & Stormy cocktails (first enjoyed with Boston and Fraser in Bermuda).

Course Three: Gabrielle
Snapper, Beurre Blanc sauce and Panzanella salad (Bread & Tomato salad), with an Italian Soave wine.

Course Four: Fraser
Deluxe Chocolate Fondue (a family favourite), with homemade prune ice cream served with Baileys drizzled over the top.

We also able to finally use the Wedgwood dinner set which was purchased on a very quick trip up to Stoke prior to leaving the UK.

 

 

Letterbox Wildlife

Our friendly letterbox huntsman spider:

Mabel the Monkey

My first attempt at sewing in about 10 years! Mabel the Monkey was made for the future little Miss Rodgers :)

Easter in Bright

We're back in the rat-race now which means we're back taking holidays when everyone else is escaping the city!  So, we've spent Easter in Bright - in the north of Victoria - and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.  The usual ingredients of a good weekend - and a good easter - were present: good food, river walks, red wine and deli food. But our long weekend threw in a couple of bonuses by way of a late booking at a cottage overlooking Mt Beauty that turned out to be tremendous, a road that could have been built for the sole purpose of early morning cycling through the Tawonga Gap, unseasonally warm temperatures and of course, coverage of the golf from Augusta to accompany our piggy Easter breakfasts.  We'll be back Bright, we promise.

River walks

Long vineyard lunch

View from our cabin

Early morning visitor