Day 14 Tuesday

Our weather pattern has changed this morning with a strong southern system right up the coast. As a result, we have some cloud and cooler days. I have just finished most of my meal deliveries to happy customers and just got an order for four dinners over Easter. The menu is:

Appetizer

Seafood Bisque

A rich Provincale soup with Australian seafood, tomato, saffron and garlic

Entrée

Atlantic salmon rillettes with sourdough blinis

Mesquite hot smoked Atlantic salmon, flaked and mixed with butter, sour cream, chives, lemon juice and sweet paprika. Served on sourdough blinis

First Course

Slow cooked beef in Spanish sherry and shiraz

Tablelands beef slow cooked in a rich Pedro Ximinez and shiraz sauce and served with garlic mashed potatoes

Second course

Chicken Wellington

Breast of chicken, mushrooms and prosciutto wrapped in filo pastry and served with a creamy mustard sauce and garden salad

Dessert

Peach and nectarine tart with Chantilly cream

To finish

Mango and cardamom syllabub

On top of this, Lady P wants three duck meals over Easter (a la orange, Peking and risotto); we have a dinner on Saturday and brunch on Sunday. This isolation is very stressful.

Our Esplanade and the carparks are very quiet at last. Yesterday, I saw a number of police patrols and one hopes they issued lots of $1,300 fines!

I see the sharks of Queensland killed another poor soul yesterday. The Marine Park Ranger was known to one of my customers this morning, so a sad start to the day. We will all sit back now and hear all sorts of stuff from the ‘experts’. Hey Tas, maybe you could ask Brendan Favola or Sam Newman what the problems with sharks are up here?

I guess they could also give their thoughts on Pell’s conviction squashing.

And another thing – apparently, we are now referring to Boris Johnson as BoJo. Bloody hell what’s happening to our language. I think I will refer to myself as RoPhi. What would you call Sheila Ithkas?  And another thing – after more than 90 years, the Apostrophe Protection Society has closed. WTF! W’sHTTW?

It’s hard to believe that it’s April already. Where’s this year heading? (3 apostrophes).

The summer BBQ season doesn’t truly kick off until Sam Kekovich gives us a good old Aussie grilling about lamb and the highly anticipated ad by Meat and Livestock Australia has just dropped for 2020 - encouraging us to put the devices down and ‘get real’ with lamb this year.

Kekovich said. “It’s all about putting down the devices and reminding us just how important it is to reconnect face-to-face - over a great piece of lamb.”

It’s not just all talk for our ‘Lambassador’ - Kekovich isn’t on social media and believes ‘an entire generation’ has lost the ability to converse face-to-face.

Now, we all love lamb but connecting face to face in the COVID-19 real world is going to be hard Sam. Time you got yourself a smart phone and some apps.

Time to post now. So, remember ‘Eat lamb you bastards.”