Cured goose breast with chicken liver parfait, poached rhubarb, black pepper and ginger bread
Dinner at Aria Sydney with Miss M. The food was beautiful, we had an amazing time and I had a rather memorable Syrah from Santorini ;) The chicken liver parfait was DIVINE!
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Today I came across some amazing aerial photography by Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
Tarmac 2, Paris-Roissy Charles de Gaulle, France
Tarmac 3, Paris-Roissy Charles de Gaulle, France
Tarmac 7, Airport Montevideo, Uruguay
Tarmac 10, Airport Phuket Town, Thailand
The planes are the painter and the result is a series of overlapping marks representing time, space and movement. Usually seen from afar, surely we overlook how beautiful these patterns can be. How inspiring!
Related links: Yann Arthus-Bertrand at Galerie Louis Carré & Cie
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I spent my weekend at the Gold Coast with some friends in a haze of adrenaline and sunshine. Kind of wishing it were longer – it already feels like it happened ages ago!
We hit Dream World with a mission: to hit up as many rides as possible.. starting with the Giant Drop. I haven’t had this much fun in an amusement park since, well, the last time I was here when I was 12? 14? I barely remember. And S found this awesome gadget called Q4U which virtually holds your place in the queue while you do other stuff. It was the best $7 I spent that weekend!
In the end, only N and I went for the last remaining ride of the ‘Big 6′ – The Claw:
What a rush! I shouldn’t have – it did us both in :/
We also had time to have a game of laser tag, possibly more awesome than paintball.
It was a brilliant weekend up at the coast. I think I’m gonna plan a Summer further up the coast just to hang out on the beach and be a bum for a week.
Looking forward to the coming weekend – Miss T is dropping in on me and we’re really looking forward to catching up over some beers!
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The project that I started in May is finally complete! Having never done anything that involved bone before it involved some trial and error but I’m glad it’s finally complete.
First, skull was stripped and dipped in acetone.
I then had the idea of filling in the eye orbits and nasal cavity with a putty filler, but after sanding it down realised that it would not withstand any sort of impact or moisture so I had to take it all off and clean it again. Then I used a moulding epoxy which did the trick.
I then painted it in a similar base colour to match the Swarovski crystals I picked out. In hindsight I could have done a better job with the epoxy and sanding down.
These are black diamond Swarovski crystals.
After that it was a long process of gluing the crystals on. I used E-6000 glue which is the best glue I could possibly have picked out for this project.
Finally complete! The small cavities were the hardest and takes a lot of patience.
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Once in a while me and my friends get together and cook. We had a Japanese night recently at Adrian’s – oishii!
Raymond making chicken teriyaki sushi
My karaage chicken – really simple to make and one of my favourite Japanese dishes of all time! All it takes is some grated ginger (I use old ginger for an extra kick), mince garlic, soy sauce and salt and pepper for a basic marinade. I also add a bit of mirin and use a mixture of arrowroot and tempura flour for frying. I also prefer using chicken thigh over chicken breast for texture.
Joseph sneaking some sushi :)
Dinner – still in progress. Siti is chopping up some chives in the background for the veal tataki with truffle salsa and Adrian thoughtfully stocked up on plum wine. There is also a whole heap of food not in the picture – we made way too much food but managed to devour most of it. The okonomiyaki and tataki were my favourites.. I ate until I couldn’t move!
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