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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Oktoberfest Beer Munchies
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Inside the OKTOBERFEST
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When you mix lederhosen, dirndl, oompah bands, guns, roast chicken, drunken messy mayhem with beer you get the 'world's biggest fair'; and Bavarians would not have it any other way. I hope to dispel some myths, while embellishing others about the Oktoberfest.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
It's a BOY - One of My Chicks Had a Sex Change!!!
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As I had suspected during the last couple of weeks...Chocki is a rooster!!!Yeap his bright red crest and waddle has really developed the last couple of days and his clucking has changed tone...I'm a little worried, I think he is the most domesticated one out of the 3 and I would hate to get rid of him. I have also noticed he plays with the rooster a lot more and they seem to follow him....
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Yee Sang - A Delicious Chinese New Year Tradition
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It is Chinese New Year and 2011 is the year of the Rabbit......A particularly auspicious tradition during Chinese New Year is to have 'Yee Sang' at a restaurant as a start of a 8 to 10 course Chinese New Year banquet. 'Yee Sang' quite literally translates to 'Raw Fish' is meant to bring good luck and prosperity. The 'Yee Sang' combined with the whole fish served later in the banquet represents abundance; while a whole chicken, usually steamed, served with the head and all symbolises completeness (chocki, daisy and blondie wouldn't like this one very much).
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Grubby Chicks
Hmmm, I caught my girls exhibiting some strange behaviour today, then I realised they were performing some sort of dirt bath ritual. As you can see on the video, they are rolling and covering themselves in dirt. After a little research, I found out chickens do this to keep any mites away. Interesting way of bathing. You learn something new everyday.
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Beautiful Black Salt
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While in France I got myself some "Cyprus Black Lava" salt or Sel Pyramide. The reason for its appearance is due to the flaky Mediterranean salt being mixed with activated charcoal that causes it to naturally crystallise in a unique and delicate pyramid shape and giving it a black colour.
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Crumbling Cookies
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It's Chinese New Year and as traditional holds, we have a little session to bake some cookies for guests who visit our house. This year, together with my mum, we baked a bunch of crumbling peanut cookies. They are pretty simple and the hard work is mostly in rolling the little morsels of dough to round balls.
Thursday, February 03, 2011
2,000 hits and 100 Users
I hope everyone has had a fantastic week. I just wanted to thank everyone for supporting The Gourmet Traveller. Yesterday was a monumental day, we achieved over 2,000 hits and over 100 users in just a month!
Keep coming back to the site and I will continue on our journey around the world discovering food, wine, photography and well....life.
I hope to continue entertaining you and please contact me with any suggestions. If anyone has any food stories or recipes they would like to submit feel free to do so and I will try and upload them and have co-contributors.
cheers
Keen
Keep coming back to the site and I will continue on our journey around the world discovering food, wine, photography and well....life.
I hope to continue entertaining you and please contact me with any suggestions. If anyone has any food stories or recipes they would like to submit feel free to do so and I will try and upload them and have co-contributors.
cheers
Keen
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Secrets of FREE and Cheap Flights
The sites
When you search sites like Expedia, Travelocity and Webjet, you do not always get the cheapest flights. I have a lot of people ask me how I manage to get around so much. Well it's a combination of cheap tickets and FREE flights. Yes I flew 3 free flights last year, (Vancouver to Puerto Vallarta - First Class United; Cancun to Vancouver - Economy United and Munich to Vancouver - Economy United). I will get into the free flights a little later.
When you search sites like Expedia, Travelocity and Webjet, you do not always get the cheapest flights. I have a lot of people ask me how I manage to get around so much. Well it's a combination of cheap tickets and FREE flights. Yes I flew 3 free flights last year, (Vancouver to Puerto Vallarta - First Class United; Cancun to Vancouver - Economy United and Munich to Vancouver - Economy United). I will get into the free flights a little later.
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Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Munching Around Munich
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Munich, home of the Bratwurst, Biergartens, Sauerkraut, Pretzel, Apple Strudel and of course BMW. When you visit Munich, it is inevitable you will get your hands on a Bratwurst sausage and wash it down with a luscious Bavarian lager. Where better to do this than at one of Munich's famed beer halls/restaurants or biergartens, eating at these brauhaus (brew house) is a fantastic way to eat delicious rustic food at great prices. There are many to choose from; the Hofbrauhaus is one of Munich's main tourist attraction and Paulaner with its Biergarten is also nice on warm summer day. The pick of the lot and where the locals from Munich always rave about is Augustiner-Bräu, it is Munich's oldest brewer at 680 years old. Augustiner's Helles is also the favourite beer of Münchners, just ask one and you'll find out all about it.
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