Kensington Pride Mangoes in August! Seriously? Is this for real?
I was doing my normal grocery shopping this morning, you know, the Saturday routine, when I came across these Kensington Pride mangoes at $4 each. So expensive and so out of season. I can only speculate the weather in the Top End where the best mangoes are grown has been good.
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Friday night out
I received an invitation to dinner by my friends Peter and Li Peng (aka Jasper and Myrtle). We had a great night chatting about stuff, catching up on stuff and learning what is going down with Australia’s most award winning bean to bar chocolate makers. I’ve known Peter for a long time and Li Peng for a good number of years too. When I first met them, I would never have guessed they would be these world conquering chocolate makers from Australia’s national capital.
Award certificates
Peter and I have a strong affinity for seafood and one of our favourite meals is a prawn sandwich.
Prawn sandwich
Freshly boiled prawns with butter and fresh bread and a little vinegar. Salt and pepper also help make a great sandwich.
Peter cooked an Asian noodle and mince dish for the main meal. We joke because Peter likes to add plum sauce to everything. Li Peng claims a real Chinese person wouldn’t add plum sauce. To prove the point, I add plum sauce and hot chilli flakes to my plate
Noodles and mince
Peter and Li Peng both know how much I love a vanilla slice, so for dessert, we had a vanilla slice or what my Victorian friends ingloriously call a snot block from Flute bakery.
Vanilla slice
It was a great night and I really love times with Peter and Li Peng.
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Breakfast
It’s become a bit of a ritual to eat a slice of raisin toast with some butter while sipping on a latte at Everbean Espresso Bar on a Saturday morning.
Raisin toast
Joy of vegemite joy
While in Coles buying groceries, I came across a real favourite. Vegemite and cheese scrolls. If you look at my Yummy Lummy Instagram feed you’ll see I regularly have these for lunch as a BLT from Urban Bean Espresso Bar. If you’re ever in the Woden town centre at lunch time, check out their Facebook page for the daily chef’s specials.
Vegemite scrolls
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Lake Ginninderra
After the grocery shopping, I went for a walk around Lake Ginninderra and shot a few photographs.
Photographs from around the lake
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Lunch
On Twitter this week, a friend suggested I try a Hash Brown Big Mac combination. It was delicious.
Hash brown Big Mac combination
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Saturday afternoon fun and games
I spent the afternoon enjoying Jasper and Myrtle Chocolates and watching Star Trek on Netflix.
My version of Netflix and chill
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Dinner
Dinner tonight was a simple roast chicken with a cob of corn on some crispy noodles. I like cooking chicken this way by cutting out its vertebral column and flattening the chicken to make it cook more evenly.
Roast chicken with corn and crispy noodles
And so ends another quiet Saturday. I still feel blergh and I hope I stop coughing up lung butter soon.
I reckon I might have to buy one of those Kensington Pride Mangoes tomorrow. It may help me feel better.
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So enjoy your posts Gary and hearing what you have been up to. Great chocolate I agree.
Thank you very much Sue, likewise, I love reading of your experiences and trips.
Thank you G.
I’m always startled by the blue sky in your sector. I think it must be bluer on that side of the equator…..
Once again, delicious post. I’ve never thought about cutting the chicken to cook it. Sounds like a good idea (I generally just pop the whole thing in one of those plastic cooking bags and let it go!). I’ve been on a Kit Kat spree lately, but I don’t eat too many at a time, unless they are the Halloween sized ones! (Diabetes and all…)
I would have thought near the north pole the sky would be crystal clear. I’m guessing the clarity relates to pollution levels too and the northern hemisphere would be more polluted in general because of the greater population. There is little mixing between hemisphere of atmosphere.
The inside of my oven looks messy, but I like cooking meat without those bags. A good pair of kitchen shears is necessary though to cut through the raw chicken carcass.
Ohhhhh, cutting up with shears. That would be an interesting thing to do.
The sky can be blue up here, but it is a different color of blue. Yours is almost surreal looking at times!
I used a bag for the pork things I cooked!!!!
Ohhhhh, cutting up with shears. That would be an interesting thing to do.
The sky can be blue up here, but it is a different color of blue. Yours is almost surreal looking at times!
I used a bag for the pork things I cooked!!!!
Once you get the feel for the shears and chicken you’ll be fine at harvesting vertebral columns 😃
I wrote a long reply to this last night and it didn’t ‘take’. So annoyed! lol
Sorry about the glitches with comments Kris
It may have been on this end. I just shut down the laptop and went to bed. Probably a good thing! It is 230 in the am at the moment and tomorrow mum starts her radiation, so I probably should toddle off soon!
Good night. Sleep well.
{{HUGS}} A bit more and I’m out.
Mangoes cost $4? We would eat a lot fewer mangoes if that’s how much they cost here!
We pay so much for fresh fruit and vegetables here.
I do remember seeing $29/kilo bananas while we were there (granted, there was a typhoon that had destroyed most of the bananas that year, but it was still outrageous). We regularly pay 29 cents per pound for them here – I have to remember not to complain about fruit prices!
After Tropical Cyclone Larry, banana prices did hit all time highs. There was also a blip after TC Yazi.
These mangoes are being exploited because it’s so unusual to see them harvested in August.
It was 2011, so it must have been TC Yazi – we ended up having to move our fishing trip around to deal with the aftermath of the storm, and it was still a couple months after when we visited.
Those tropical cyclones pack a big punch.
Sounds like a good Saturday, Gaz. I haven’t notice the mangoes on my trip to Woolies and Coles today and yesterday. But there are a lot of strawberries out and about. Plum sauce on Chinese food? I’m okay with it if I want my food to be slightly sweet 🙂
Now, maybe you should make Maccas a Saturday lunch each week 😀 Get better soon, rest well.
Thanks Mabel. I don’t need more temptation to eat Maccas each weekend 🤣😋😳
I’m very tempted to buy a mango tomorrow 😋😋😋
You should. You can cook with mangoes. And also make mango smoothies 😋
I think I’ll put it into a salad 😃