Cooking Weekend

Kate and I spent the weekend serving (literally) our brothers and sisters at Cumbo Uni Church. We cooked for them on their weekend away while they heard talks on Eschatology or 'the end times' (I had to ask). They had a great time and so did we. It was great to be a part of a small Uni Church again after our Mars Hill Anglican Church experience at Macquarie Uni a few years ago.




The highlights were pancakes, lots of apple crumble and choc chip cookies. This one is from the dough that didn't fit on the trays - so we made a huge one!!!






We also went to Fresh on Sam and Soph's recommendation. I had a piccolo of their fair trade Sumatran Single Origin and of their House blend. Both very good! Amazingly we ran into Libby and Matt as they were also following Sam and Soph's advice while in the mountains for the CMS Federal AGM (I think?!?!). They were roasting as you can see on the embedded blogger video below (new feature!)

New Tastes

The McDonald's 'Name It Burger' now has a name - 'The Backyard Burger'. I had one this arvo so I could park in the Macca's car park (and 'cos I wanted to try it). It's very tasty and I like the name.

I'm about to have dinner and try a new beer that I picked up in Leura on the weekend. We were up in Katoomba cooking on the Cumbo Uni Church weekend away. As we were there I felt it necessary to make a visit to one of the top beer selections in the Sydney metro area - Leura Cellars. The beer is made by Saltram's, a winery in the Barossa. It's called Pepper Jack Hand Crafted Ale and it has Pepperjack's Barossa Valley Shiraz in it. Should be interesting...