Food

The food here is incredible.  Not just the minced wallaby mind you, but the produce and especially the other meats and the seafood.  There are several different kinds of oysters here and I am trying them all.  There is little in the way of additives here (if you avoid the processed foods) and most people buy their produce from the local market (not the IGA but the Fishwyck market) much like you do in Europe.  Now Fishwyck is also known as the center of the porn distribution industry here in Canberra, but that's in a different spot from the market (otherwise it would be really distracting - but believe it or not there is an adult store that is - I kid you not - a "Factory Outlet").  On Sundays at 3 PM everything goes on "way sale" - that's at the market, not the factory outlet - because they are closed on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and have to get all the stuff out the door.  So the cheapskates start lining up at 2:30.  This past week we arrived in bad weather, exactly at 3 PM just as the butcher took 30% off everything.  We now have a freezer full of meat.  Poor little wallabies.

The seafood here is the best I have ever had anywhere.  The oysters are incredible, the Barramundi is always fresh, and there is a blue-eyed cod also called Trevalla that I have fallen in love with.  If Mom was here she could have her Red Snapper every night and no more Red Lobster dinner specials on Sundays!  The best seafood restaurant in town is five minutes away - Cape Cod (no kidding).  My local friends remarked that the Yank had to come to town to tell them where to eat.

Prawns, not shrimp;
Blue Swimmers, not crabs.

Kranski, not a Polish sausage.

This, by the way, is the buffet at the Annual
Procrastinator's Reunion.

That's a joke - see all the empty chairs?

A crab who insists he is not for sale
and I believe him.

Never eat anything bigger than your head.

Olives from the tree
in our back yard.

Paella at the National Folk Festival,
Canberra, 2010








"Why are you taking a
picture of your food?"

Fishwyck Market,
Canberra

Debbie and her shopping.

Pacific (Tasmanian) oysters.  In my opinion the best -
it tastes like you are eating the ocean.

Clyde River Oysters.

Don't play with your food, Charlie.

OK, just this once.

We scored a major pack
of T-bones at the Sunday
discount at Fishwyck.

Miss Debbie's apple pies?  This is what happens when you get a box of apples at Fishwyck for $6.