Today I headed out in the stormy weather to get some groceries from a few places before arriving at Ben and Ivy's place for another 'ready, steady, cook' night. First, I went to Mondo's in Inglewood. I was so eager to find some game meat, particularly crocodile, as I had just watched them cooking with it on 'Ready, Steady, Cook' on TV before leaving home. I was disappointed to find that a package of frozen crocodile meat was about $60. I'll have a look around elsewhere before getting it from there. I don't know how much to expect to pay for crocodile meat, but I would love to try cooking it at least once. I've eaten it before when I was younger and don't remember much of it. On the bright side, I found a spatchcock! I bought one so perhaps I will do a roast on the weekend for myself. I was disapointed when I got home and went to put it in the freezer - they had charged me $8 when the printed price on the label is clearly $7.50 - argh!!
From there I travelled further down the road to go to Charlie's, Bayswater. I stocked up on cold sliced meats, grated pecorino, provolone, goats cheese, and splurged on some marinated olives and baby octopus. Now I'll have to find a nice bottle of red to accompany them. I also bought some ingredients for dinner.
At Ben and Ivy's place, I had to sort out my own groceries from the ones I had bought for Ben to work his culinary magic on.
spinach
broccolini
potatoes
chicken drumsticks - not pictured
I also bought a paif of pig trotters to see if Ben could do anything with them. Alas, he freaked out at the sight of them! muahaha I ended up taking them home with me.
We were famished, so I quickly put together a little platter with the cold meats and cheeses. We also made a roll with some some of the meat, butter and cheese and polished those off before Ben got stuck into cooking dinner.
Ben started by having me peel some potatoes while he removed the bones and skin from all the drumsticks. Ivy and I were amused, since it would have just been easier to cook them as they were! But no, Chef Benoit wanted to remove the skin, cut the meat off the bone and dice it up. He used most of the chicken to make a delicious curry, and the rest of the chicken he used to make fresh spring rolls.
broccolini and capsicum
served with Roti
stuffed with chicken, spinach,
broccolini, rice noodles
served with a dipping sauce
Ivy and I spent the rest of the night watching TV while the boys tried to set up Ben's new computer. Who wants to cook next!?
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