Polenta & Herb Crusted Burramundi , roasted potatos

The Herb Crusted Burramundi with roasted potatoes and veg, super easy and so yum!

•  100g instant polenta
•  Grated zest of 2 lemons, plus lemon wedges to serve
•  2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh herbs (such as chives and parsley)
•  2 garlic cloves, crushed
•  2 eggs, beaten
•  4 x 180g skinless barramundi fillets (or use other firm white fish)
•  1/3 cup (80ml) olive oil
•  300g grape tomatoes
•  300g flat beans, sliced on an angle
•  Lemon wedges, to serve
• Source for recipe 
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• I added Vegeta, Italian herbs and chives for taste into my polenta mix.
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Olive Bread & Potato Soup ( Krompir Juha / Supa)

Louise and I made olive bread(rec here) and it was so very delicious and Louise suggested I use snap seed as I was complaining to her that my photos are lame and not blog worthy.. oh well.  These aren't that much better but who cares... look at the delicousness

My olive bread 

Louises Olive bread

My potato soup

(I don't have Louise's picture of it but I'm sure it looked similar)

Punjene Paprike - stuffed peppers - Balkan dish

Louise and I did another challenge, this time we made Punjene Paprike / Stuffed Peppers.

This is a traditional Balkan dish recipe here. Except this recipe is WRONG and the sauce needs to be doubled for it to work.

 I also cooked my meat first,  added the cooked rice and other seasonings, combined onion and garlic .. then i filled my peppers. I sealed them with tomato slices before placing them in the sauce.

Mine!

Louise.

IT WAS AMAZING

Next up, its my turn to pick a dish. Wait till she see's what I have in store for her.

Challenge update

Louise and I have done:
Roasted Cauliflower, Tomato and Goat Cheese Casserole

See my less glamours version below (still turned out amazingly yummy)

I decided to add 2 different types of cheese to give it a bit more taste and I'm glad I did. Goats cheese will not bind the ingredients as well. 

This is definitely going on my list of Paleo meals as its basically veggies and cheese.

and my version:

Paleo carrot cake

To travel is to live

Remember this post : Travel blues

Well, I did something about it these blues and we booked an amazing trip for next year, which I will no doubt blog all about once the planning starts.

We will depart Melbourne in July and head for Japan. From Japan I will head to Europe where we will spend the majority of the trip and then from Europe we will go to Singapore and then back home.
Choice of stop overs did take a bit of time deciding, I was considering Dubai, but I have decided to leave Dubai for next time as its a more common and much easier stop over...and lets face it Japan is pretty awesome!

As it stands so far we have booked:

                                                                           Tokyo

Beautiful Zurich. We will no doubt visit the swiss alps, but more on that at a later stage.

      

Prague

        

Vienna

        

Singapore

Watch this space though, because this is only the surface of whats yet to come.

I am currently in the process of organising Tokyo so I will post more about that later :)

Food glorious food

Still living.. but busy with food glorious food.

Louise will kill me that I am blogging about her if she ever finds out but we have been having cook offs and I've been so busy cooking.
Some of our meals include: (excuse the dodgy photos)

                                                            Our Quinoa dishes

Polish sausage pasta

Chard rolls

I made garlic and corn bread :) (Louise didn't know!)

Stuffed chicken rolls

We also made cinnamon rolls and next weekend we have a 3 course cook off.. stay tuned :)

Mexican

                          Im always looking for someplace new to indulge in my love of food.
           
                            This weekend  we attempted a 9 course Mexican Degustation at El Sabor.
                                                      (and no this is not a sponsored post)

                                                      The food was simple but delicious

Don't forget the Sangria!

                                                  At this point, i got too full to take photos.

The verdict is, I highly recommend for those who like Mexican and are looking for a cosy joint with nice music and pleasant staff. The best part was the last course, Churros !!