Kuala Lumpur

Late night curry after clubbing

Okay. KL. What to do but eat? :) (oh or watch Rish eat when it gets too much for me!)

(Fittingly publishing this on Rish’s birthday! Happy Birthday dear! xx)

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Vienna

Ahh Vienna. Rish and I flew there straight from Frankfurt. We’d originally planned to spend time there with friends, but bag snatching and subsequent lack of passport put and end to that :(

We got some cheap flights to Vienna with Niki – a discount airline, where the hostesses wore pink hats and grey blazers, with skinny jeans and flats. Too cute! Read the rest of this entry »

Malaysia Airlines Sydney-KL-Frankfurt

Didya hear? I uploaded all my holiday photos to Flickr. Woo! Now, you can either be a keen bean and head straight on over there, or wait for the piece by piece installments that will filter through over the coming however long. I’ve decided to go city by city, but will give you the first post about a place I spent over two days – on Malaysia Airlines planes.

MH122 Sydney-KL June 28

Not the best trip – quite a full plane, and the IFE system for the block of seats we were in was screwy (cutting in and out, some buttons not working for Rish so no TETRIS). But they got the food right. For me, that meant they actually had Vegan food where promised. I care not so much about the meat side, I order vegan (VGML) for the lack of dairy and generally low-fat nature of it.

Dinner SYD-KUL. Generic overcooked veges, a pasta salad, fruit for dessert.
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Complete with Frozen Chook

Gotta love that Rotary still do chocolate wheels at the local shopping centre. I think this is $2 well spent!

(only difficulty was that I walked and had to carry it home, but like the Rotary gentleman told me I’m “young and strong”)

Now, what to make with it all? There’s some definite pointers towards soup with the carrots, celery, onion, pumpkin etc. But there may be some other options that don’t immediately strike me.

Suggestions welcome :)

Digestive 1st Cereal (Yes, Doctor-recommended)

In my list of recommendations from my most recent visit to the GP (along with a coeliac blood test and Buscopan) was to increase the fibre in my diet, and apparently this Digestive 1st cereal was the way to do it.

My doctor couldn’t remember the name of it at the time, just said it was from CSIRO and that it would have much more fibre than the regular muesli I eat. Oh and that if I do have coeliac disease it would probably make me feel worse.

I googled it from my phone, and bought it from Woolies.

I have to say, it’s very sweet (I’m used to the raw oats of untoasted muesli), and I had to get used to it being toasted. I would eat it if I need it, but I think I’d prefer my untoasted for taste and texture reasons. But if you’re a toasted muesli fan, you should probably give it a try. Or the Protein 1st or Heart 1st if that’s what you need!

(I’m back on untoasted this week!)

So Many Dates

The food festival day of the National Multicultural Festival was yesterday. Since I wasn’t there for the beer, unlike much of Canberra who drank their way through the day, I busied myself in the Middle East – working my way through the samples of coffee and dates that Iran, Jordan, Morocco, Iraq, Kuwait, the Emirates etc had on offer to me.

I think I had about 8 or ten dates, which is enough for my stomach to bear.

Some were really juicy
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Icing Biscuits for Therapy

There are so many language goals you can target by simply playing with milk arrowroots, icing, food colours and some lollies. I tend to have the kids requesting the items them want into order to make the iced biscuits of their dreams. Practising question forms, descriptions, listening skills, clear speech, and sequencing (you know, so they actually ice the biscuit before they try sticking lollies on). Then there’s describing to their parents what to put on their biscuit.

Then there’s the one where the therapist pre-prepares the biscuits and we run the “canteen” in the group session. The kids have to buy the biscuits, but they have to describe them pretty thoroughly in order to get the biscuit they actually wanted. Cupcakes work well too, depending on how motivated you are!

Of course, there’s always the checking for allergies and other food issues, but most kids are allowed one treat from the speech canteen :)

Zambrero *crunch*

Went in to meet Rish for lunch a couple of times this week, to relieve the boredom (I promise you, this was enough exertion for one day)… and Wednesday finally got to try Zambrero, the taco place on a corner at the Civic bus interchange. We’ve passed it a few times on a Sunday when it’s closed, with Rish saying “you have to go there with me one day” each time!

We both ordered a Dos Capas each – for $4.95 you get a taco with a tortilla to hold it all together. Good size for me… though I still managed to lose much of my cheese and sauce. A little small for Rish though, he would have liked two to himself, and while $5 is okay for a small snack, it’s prbably not really $10 worth for two. Not with Subway so close!

But it was crunchy and yum, and it’s always nice to get some salad in at lunch time. *crunch*

Easy Chicken

I love anything that involves throwing things in a pot, putting it in the oven, and showing up 1-1.5 hours later to eat it!

Let’s call it a “Taste test” with the eyes. What are the ingredients to this dinner?

Rish’s Gourmet Salad

Ahh we love to go “gourmet” around here. That means few ingredients, minimal chopping and impressive results. Like this mushroom, rocket and romano cheese salad. Dress with Balsamic vinegar. Nice.