Bacon Potato mash

A very rare event for a friday night - I cooked dinner. Usually, I don't have the stamina to do such things until after I've eaten (at which point cooking dinner is somewhat moot).

Anyway, a Bacon Potato mash it is - and here is the recipe:

Ingredients:
750g Potatoes (pref new season's)
4 eggs
6 Rashers bacon
1t Salt
1T Cayenne Pepper
1t Cracked Pepper
1T Paprika
1T Mustard
1/2 Cup Mayonnaise
1T Fresh Parsley Leaves
1Cup Celery
1 Red onion

Method:
Boil the potatoes, but not entirely to mush.
Boil the eggs.
Dice and fry the bacon.
Mix the herbs, spices, mustard and mayo in a mortar and pestle.
Chop Celery, Parsley and Onions.
Mix, mash, and serve...

The last portion :).

In search of decent Fish and Chips

Fish and Chips are great, with one caveat - they must be made properly. Otherwise they are god-awful.

Over the last few months I've put up with a lot of the later - the problem is, the Seafood Bazaar in Rototuna was sold - to people who don't know how to prepare fish, nor chips!

I may have found a replacement - the Provincial Chip Co in the Cambridge Road shops in Hillcrest. (The premises used to contain Hillcrest Fish Supply, which wasn't bad either).

Sorry, no photos because the weather tonight is awful - a cyclone is rolling in - but the place is small and tidy, and very clean (easily the cleanest fish and chip shop I've EVER been in), and sells chips, a variety of fish, and a few gourmet-ish burgers and the like. I've only ever had the fish and chips here though.

My snapper was nicely crumbed, and the chips are real hunks of potato (none of this re-constituted rubbish), and everything was deep fried as you would expect, but most importantly, left to drip - you won't find grease on the paper or cardboard the chips came wrapped in.

Add some tomato sauce (or my preference, mayo), and you're set. If you're looking for a fish and chip shop in Hamilton, this place is worth the drive across town. 8/10.

A first post...

This blog is intended as a repository for my thoughts (and some of which I'm not so much the owner of)...

In any case, the following are interests that might be covered at some point in the future:

Eating, and Eating out.
I started collecting business cards of resturants I visit a while ago... the stack is now 15cm tall, and I have favourites all throughout New Zealand and Australia.

Architecture and Art.
OK, so my work involves IT and Accountancy... boring! One of these days I'll trade for a job that involves creativity and less pay. At this time I'm not ready for that leap of faith yet.

Lego.
One of the few outlets for my creativity is my Lego collection ... which is perhaps too large in some people's minds, but not mine. Unfortunately, I spend far too little time with it... but, I do spend some time with it, and live vicariously through people on the web.