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Post by smokey on Apr 5, 2015 18:22:46 GMT 10
Hope everyone is having a great time over the long weekend Ive spent yesterday and today at other peoples BBQ's were all the cooking was done for me. Im starting to get withdrawals Saturday was homemade steamed pork dumpling, Vietnamese soft spring rolls, Grand hall gas bbq baked pork collar butt and spicey sticky chicken wings salad was the Wifes seven layer. Washed down with fat yak pale ale (she was driving) Today was grilled butterflied lamb leg and chicken , Brown rice salad, caramelised pumpkin / baby spinage salad and a very yummy bread and butter pudding made with hot cross buns. Washed down with a few Peroni Leggera mid strengths (I was driving) The stand out was the bread and butter pudding made with hot cross buns. Have a safe Easter all
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Post by osdave on Apr 5, 2015 21:48:41 GMT 10
Had a great weekend, although the cooking wasn't as good as it could have been. Friday lunch was garfish, which is an extremely underrated fish and therefore comes at a good price. Then spent the arvo cooking bits and pieces. Minced fish balls with mint and coriander and panko. Found this wet rub in Woolies the day before Added a tablespoon to a cup of minced fish and then coated the balls in bread cubes. turned out bloody beautiful. This was followed by calamari that was simply fried and then given a sprinkle of paprika and lemon. Then prawns that were given a coat of the Woolies rub. Cant fault this stuff it went over great. Then late in the evening Pilchards in a type of home made Romesco sauce. Bit of an epic day really. Yesterday was Weber pizzas for lunch then up to Mums where they ordered pizza. TODAY THE SHARKS WON Doing a small lamb shoulder tomorrow. Dave
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Post by smokey on Apr 5, 2015 22:40:30 GMT 10
Couldn't have been as it could have been? I see you did those mini Marlins the correct way. I know you know about how to prep these delights now. I have a special sharpend butter knife to do that with. Your not an old Fishnet member ? And God bless our mighty Sharkys. A great team just not switched on as until now. Im a Cronulla Caringbah old boy. My term of playing during the eightys was when we earnt the nic of the black cats. It was brutal.
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Post by osdave on Apr 6, 2015 7:07:25 GMT 10
You were given the name of the Black Cats by John Adamson (Ado) up at Sutho.
I spent the eighties "disliking" them and then late nineties my boys end up playing for them
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Post by ozymandias on Apr 6, 2015 20:52:04 GMT 10
Alas, I was working throughout the weekend.... Lots of silliness happening and we ended up moving hurt people all across the state.
Just got back home .. Planning to do something tomorrow
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Post by smokey on Apr 6, 2015 21:59:55 GMT 10
Obviously you line of work is in emergency services Ozy? I don't do Easter weekends away anymore. It's crazy.
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Post by smokey on Apr 6, 2015 22:20:24 GMT 10
You were given the name of the Black Cats by John Adamson (Ado) up at Sutho. I spent the eighties "disliking" them and then late nineties my boys end up playing for them That name rings a bell. In the mid seventys to early eightys my dad was an A and B grade coach for Cronulla Caringbah He did a one year stint at Sutho. not sure what grade he coached but his manager was called Les Barry and he dragged a whole bunch of CC players with him. I was the ball boy. he missed out on his Cronulla life membership for defecting until they begged him to come back. His name is Don Nash and I think CC still have the yearly Don Nash best and fairest trophy. He and the very early ccjrlfc actually were the group responsible for starting the Cronulla Sharks. I believe the deal was that the Sharks could go solo but the Junior grounds were to be perpetual ownership of said juniors. All those, The ones left still get together as half of them live up on the Tweed.
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Post by osdave on Apr 6, 2015 22:37:34 GMT 10
Name rings a bell and i kinda know some of the Barrys. You sound like you might be about my age - 47, or a bit younger.
As for the Junior grounds being perpetually owned by CC. The Sharks are now building Units and shops on top of it. Cronulla Caringbah have relocated to the fields out the back of Cronulla High School and have had a new clubhouse built for them.
Dave
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Post by smokey on Apr 6, 2015 22:53:41 GMT 10
Yeh, I'm 46. I suppose they made the board an offer they couldn't refuse. Nothing stays the same Im afraid. By the way, Is Sutho field still a concrete slab? I think I left more skin on it then what's in the cemetery next door.
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Post by gatsby on Apr 7, 2015 6:20:38 GMT 10
Hi,
Ozdave & Smokey - care to put up in the recipes section the garfish? I gather the preparation is tricky?
Well my Easter break was interesting Had some jobs planned at home & then a couple of days with family. So had Friday & Sat morning booked to do some outside painting - guess what is rained the full time Sat midday was a lunch with friends - guess what the place was shut & everything else in the local area Up to family in the Blue Mountains Sat to Mon - had the gear to make a current sensing light to provide an indication when the bore pump was actually running. Got a special current relay from the US. The relay has writing on 3V - 120V (no-where else) ahhhh well I've got it can only try. Build the unit up & tested it - worked OK but when I turned the pump off the light kept going - yeap blew the relay. Now have to get the expensive relay unit (also from the US & with a 6 week delivery delay). Monday came home early to do the painting (since it was fine) got it done at 2 pm. Had a thunderstorm roll through at 2:30.
Sometimes I just give up!!!
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Post by smokey on Apr 7, 2015 11:21:40 GMT 10
Gatsby yes I was refering to the preparation. Buterflying them and flattening them out so the bones crisp up. There is also a way to debone them. Ill try to find the link to it.
Found it. I find the kids will eat more if I debone them. This is similar to how I do it only I leave the tail on by breaking off the backbone when I get down to it. You can see how a sharp butter knife helps.
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Post by captaincook on Apr 7, 2015 17:40:52 GMT 10
Gar and Long Toms are two of my favourites, normally hard to get hold of but I grab them when I see them.
Cheers
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Post by smokey on Apr 8, 2015 16:02:04 GMT 10
Time to do a fishing session I think, all this talk of gars is too much to ignore
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Post by chrisg on Apr 8, 2015 18:32:43 GMT 10
I was going to just forget Easter - it seems to have a hex on me, rarely a year goes by that something doesn't mar the weekend. But being Gatsby had a stinker thought I'd report. Thursday am woke up with a really, really sore right arm and lower back, go see my doc, somehow bruised a tendon, could have been months ago, weird things tendons. But, I'd been unconsciously favoring it and managed to skew my lower back, so go see friendly muscle torturer aka physio. Wake up Good Friday am, pretty much immobilised, took me a few mins to make it to the shower and get some heat relief then find the Deep Heat stuff and mother's little helper, in this case Disprin. Just starting to feel semi-human and 'phone rings, step-daughter had been on a break in Hong Kong and taken a trip up to Shenzen, sort of the bus-ride to mainland China. I'd told her she would probably not like the place much, but it became a little worse than that, nasty thugs and she just wanted to get home - now !! Had one very painful in lots of ways starting with back did not like me sitting at PC then the airline site being flaky and no one answering phones several hours to get her confirmed on an evening flight out via KL. That sort of wrote off Friday. Saturday had a small job to do on a client site, just installing a new network, unfortunately on two floors - back did not like that, but between three of us fixed it. Took longer than expected so that basically wrote off Saturday. By now we had had two nights of take-away, which is some kind of record here, so determined for Sunday a full on meal. Back was less than enthused but a nice large well rubbed chicken on the Q with all the trimmings and an absolute kick-ass gravy pretty much restored my humour, especially when step-daughter came to join us, safe and sound. Monday courtesy of our lovely basically broke state government I had to spend assisting on the documentation of a tender response to help them do more for less - very boring crap, but, we may just win some biz. Left over chicken and the wife produced a great salad. Over-arching the whole weekend was a truly toxic email received on Thursday late that was an utter and complete misunderstanding that was not correctable until today, sort of crap I can't even be bothered explaining. So yeah, not my worst Easter but could have been better Not to worry - Anzac in a few weeks, that one is always good Cheers
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Post by smokey on Apr 8, 2015 18:56:21 GMT 10
jeez mate, stop going out to discos The young people there are geriphiles and will knock you around way beyond what ones body is capable. I suggest line dancing next time
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