Chocolate Rum Balls

What with the feeling of Christmas coming and the love of chocolate in most of us, I thought that I would share with you this simple recipe for Chocolate Rum Balls. Do your self a favour though, get your hands on the best chocolate that you can, believe me it makes the difference in almost all chocolate recipes.

You will need; 480g Butter, 8 Egg yolks, 150g Cocoa, 500g Icing sugar, 6 shots Rum and 1.2 kg Chocolate grated.

This should make you 160 balls, depending on how much you eat and how big you roll the balls!!

Big Tables

Well what a week. Busy with conferences and a la carte. One chef down but still pushing on. Tonight Saturday was a relatively easy one all things considered. The wedding was simple and ran smoothly, only 86 with pre dinner cocktail food followed by one main meal alternate drop. The restaurant was fully booked and all was going great until the two big tables hit. One suffered unfortunately, they had to wait, and were a little upset about that, understandable. Hope it was worth waiting for anyway. Big tables are just a pain, they are often “messy”. We are now coming into the festive party time and that means big groups, some with set menus, which are great but you do get the ones that chose to go a la carte. So it’s head down and into it.  The boys let off some steam with some serious cleaning with water every where, all good. Time for a cold beer now. Check out the clip from tonights Saturday service click the link video action…….

Potato in Ice

Well today some of us went back to work after having an extra day off. Much appreciated by all, some wish (need) another! It was a long day with lots of prep to be done, naturaly after a closed day.

This picture of a potato in a cm thick round piece of ice was taken this morning. Obviously due to the doors to the walk-in cold room being closed for the day. We keep potatoes peeled in buckets of water. (just goes to show what difference it really does make to keep the doors closed!)

The Nation Stops

Today, the nation stopped for approximately 2 minutes. Each year on the first Tuesday in November one of the worlds greatest horse races takes place in Melbourne at Flemington, “The Melbourne Cup” Today was no exception.

It was extra special for myself and a group of others as we were able to attend the local race meat in Rockhampton at Callaghan Park. You can probably guess that due to the fact that myself and the team were at the races that we were closed for the day!!!!! It is quite unheard of to close for a day but not only did the nation stop, but so did the restaurant. That is the power of this race in Australia. We made full use of our day out together and began bright and early with a casual game of golf. Enjoy this quick video of the boys.

Nothing To Rant

Day off today. Keeping busy setting up my Blog. Lucky my wife Monika is computer savvy and helping me getting organised. I must admit that I was a bit lost before she stepped in. Ahh…well we can’t be good in everything we do can we
It is a beautiful day and it’s heating up fast. Summer isn’t too far away and even though I love the heat, cooking in summer sometimes is hell. The temperatures in the kitchen easy reach 50* Celsius. Yep, no aircon here baby!

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