Blogging To Fame

Blogging to fame seems like the latest hit. With over $80000 in prizes to be won, it’s no wonder. I have signed up and ready for the ride. I would also appreciate your vote. Go ahead and click this icon and fame me

How Hard Is It To Get Some Bread

This little rant came about just yesterday. How hard is it to get some bread? Let’s find out……picture this, I’m at home at about 9am when I receive a call from Monika whom is at work doing the breakfast then morning tea scones & spinach parcels and then lunch assorted sandwiches for one of our conference groups. The call was to let me know that all of the fresh bread that was delivered had got used and that I should consider getting more today before I came to work that afternoon so as to have it for breakfast the following morning. Ok fine. Delivery usually gets to us about 7.30am a bit too late for those early risers. A great thought came to me.

Abalone

ABALONE; Abalone are a species of shellfish (a mollusc) other mollusca are snails, clams, squid, cuttlefish and octopus are to name a  few.Abalone have a rich colored inside of the shell often called ear-shell because of it’s shape, or the more common name to us as “paua shell” in New Zealand. The meat of the Abalone is considered a delicacy. Abalone are mostly found in cold waters of New Zealand, South Africa & Australia, also China, Taiwan, Japan & Chili. Green lip & black lip are found around our shores, from mid NSW down & around to WA. The Abalone is very versatile in that the shell, mother-of-pearl is also widely used in jewelery.

Coffee Machine

Today we received our brand new “Boema” coffee machine, and I’m looking forward to sampling the goods later. But first, a few tips on your research before you go ahead and purchase a coffee machine. Ensure that you have enough space, sounds silly but it is true they do come in various sizes & power 10, 15, or 20 amperage, you won’t be able to just plug it in and go.

Mother’s Day

After another busy Saturday night with a wedding for 106 in the conference room & 82 in the a la carte restaurant it was back in the kitchen for the wedding breakfast followed by Mother’s Day brunch. Having had a week of last minute event’s what could be more fitting than rain on Mothers day. Jude deciding to

Staff Turnover

I have managed to upload some photos & the movie does actualy play.

This bloging does require some serious time investment, please don’t forget that I do have to run a very busy kitchen, which at present is going through some staff turnover.

Don’t look at this

Warning, explicit writing in this chef’s blog. It will make good reading to those in the industry, (bring back memories for some of us) will make you think

slowly but surely

exactly that,

this web site can be a real pain, but if you have some patience I will get it done properly.

I’m having trouble trying to personalize the site. Some of the video’s are working, I will be trying to