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Breakfast (by Joel)

Now we're having sourdough crepes for breakfast. It got me to thinking that I should start a crepe restaurant. I've been tossing around some ideas for names. Here are a few:

Holy Crepe
This is Some Crepe
I Don't Believe This Crepe
Full of Crepe
Tastes Like Crepe (could also use the other senses here too)
Ah Crepe!
Eat Crepe
What Is This Crepe?
Load of Crepe
Bunch of Crepe


I had so many more, I can't remember them all. I think the primary dish would be a beef dish called "Bull Crepe"

Time to eat...

The feast!

What a beautiful and delicious feast! Cooked to perfection, seasoned delightfully! It was a wonderful meal and a great way to celebrate our anniversary in the same way we celebrate our life together every day. And we finished it off with a sweet honey-date-ananas polenta that was fried in butter. Yummy!

In the meantime...

We had some delicious fresh kale and silverbeat to whet our appetites while the roast roasted, and prepped some lovely mini squashes for the side dish.

Preparations for the roast feast!

Here are a few photos showing the progression of the prime rib roast (although it hasn't got a "rib" like in NA, but let's just say it's similar). It was seasoned with juniper berries, rosemary salt and pepper. After browning it in it's roasting pan on the BBQ we covered it in onions and root vegies, then doused the whole thing in red wine to roast in the oven.

Happy Anniversary!

We just got a really wonderful heartfelt message from dad (Roger) to celebrate our anniversary and he suggested we post to share the day with everyone. What a fantastic idea. We're celebrating a day early (or actually two if you think about the time change!) because we just can't wait until tomorrow! In typical Marlene and Joel fashion, Joel has been researching the fantastic "mystery" anniversary dinner and planning a menu, which he only revealed to me this morning. Very early (2 am) this morning we were entertained with a real live soap opera outside our window of a girl weeping about some ordeal with her boyfriend. It was so intense that Joel and I actually stood looking out the window watching the excitement! Thank god those days are over! Sooo... we slept in until 8:30, but I think it was worth it. We then got up and had a few mugs of Yerba Mate tea (my first few real cups!) and sourdough bread french toast tower with honey, passion fruit and roasted bananas (all made by Joel while I hunted up a farmer's market).

The farmer's market was necessary because the venison Joel bought on Wednesday at the farmer's market went bad because the vacuum pack was punctured. dang. All the same, we found another (a third!) farmer's market to shop at. Here we found a butcher stall that sells grass fed - grass finished beef where we bought a prime rib roast. Fancy! We also bought two pineapples (ananas!) for 4$ and some seafood antipasti to accompany Joel's olive antipasti.

So the menu that was posted for me this morning went as follows:
1. antipasti
2. wilted greens
3. roast venison (or prime rib) and root vegetables
4. date, honey and pineapple (added later) polenta for dessert.

So the antipasti were had for lunch with a sparkling Shiraz (who knew!) on the balcony after our swim while sitting in the lovely sun. Now Joeli is making the polenta and has prepared the rub for the prime rib roast. I am writing this blog with aromas of cooking honey in the air (and sounds of David Grisman and Bill Monroe filling my ears) while drinking a juniper berry - rosemary maritini, with an olive. Here are a few early pictures.