over kill

It would be fair to say that I have spent the last 2 days bingeing on really delicious food, thats my defense... it was all very delicious. The more delicious food I have the more I want, its a problem. Last night Errol took me out for a big fat slap up meal, which included breads, starters, mains, desserts and even sides, not forgetting the cocktails too. We had it all. It was soooooo good, I can't even tell you.We had a starter of calamari and tempura soft shell crab, both were utterly divine... the soft shell crab surprisingly good indeed, I'd have it again tomorrow. Then for main we had a plate of garlic yabbies (more meaty fresh water shrimp) on rice, this was super nice and we also had a hot and cold seafood platter. This was quite the feast. It had everything, calamari, mud crab, tiger prawns, yabbies, barramundi , mussels, oysters, bugs (a small lobster local to here) and scallops as well as a selection of tropical fruits, salad leaves and chips. Words cannot describe how good this was, I'm not usually a big seafood girl... but this well and truly converted me. Everything was cooked to perfection. If all this wasn't enough we even opted to go for a sharer dessert too. I wouldn't be lying if I said I struggled to move after I left. I didn't feel guilty one little bit though. It was well worth it!

Anyways today I thought I'd take it easy on the eating front, which I did until dinner time. I had a nice easy breakfast of egg yoke on toast. I don't like the egg white and I hate having to wait for a whole egg to boil so I've just started poaching just the yoke and then when its half cooked spreading it on toast... delicious. Just like dippy eggs or eggs and soldiers without the dipping part. Most people think this weird, I do realize. But its not weird, just clever. Thats what I say.

Today we decided to finally head up to the village in the hills called Kuranda, we've all heard loads of hype about it. Apparently its suppose to be a hippy mecca of Queensland and what not as well as having loads of cool interesting little cafes and restaurants around. Well. We got there and actually thought I'd arrived in the wrong place. The place was dead, most of it had been shut down or had closed, it was basically a selection of dodgy looking markets, stalls, shops and horrible smelling chinese restaurants. Nothing that was sold there anyone really wanted and definitely didn't need. Strange. There was one OK shop, that Errol bought a walling hanging/bed throw from, its pretty cool. Thats about it though. I guess it did get us out the house for a few hours. The most disappointing thing of all was that we forgot the camera. The view from the hill on the way to Kuranda over Cairns and the bay was simply sensational. We'll have to go back for a snap on a clear day. We also went to barron falls, which are big water falls into barron gorge that you have to walk too through the rainforest canopy... a few other nice pictures we missed that'll we'll definitely have to go back for.

So we got back in tonight feeling pretty hungry, between the two of us we made an awesome garlic mushroom and prawn white wine sauce pasta with corn on the cob. I was super full after this. A few hours later this had worn off and Errol and I ventured out to go get pudding. A feast is what we returned with. I made the best pudding ever, a hot chocolate muffin with a bar of chocolate melted on top served with super good vanilla ice cream. I definitely felt guilty after this, not to mention the fact I've been stuffing my face with shortbread biscuits here and there. 

Tomorrow will be a better day, no more naughtiness.