Comments on: I don’t want to skite http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/12/15/i-dont-want-to-skite/ writing, reading, eating, drinking, sport Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:53:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: AndrewN http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/12/15/i-dont-want-to-skite/comment-page-1/#comment-74185 AndrewN Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:19:16 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/?p=2815#comment-74185 I'm so, so jealous. Dec in Sydney sure beats Seattle. Grey, wet, cold 28F. Not a sandy beach in sight. To add insult to injury - you are going to *that* place. I’m so, so jealous. Dec in Sydney sure beats Seattle. Grey, wet, cold 28F. Not a sandy beach in sight. To add insult to injury – you are going to *that* place.

]]> By: Justine http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/12/15/i-dont-want-to-skite/comment-page-1/#comment-74175 Justine Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:58:54 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/?p=2815#comment-74175 Judith: I don't think A&U would stretch to Tets. This is on my own dime. Amber: How odd. I think of spatchcock as very English. Here's what the OED says: 1. A fowl split open and grilled after being killed, plucked, and dressed in a summary fashion. Also attrib. Orig. in Irish use, later chiefly Anglo-Indian. So it turns out to be Irish first. Is a very yummy way to cook birds. Though mostly it's chicken. Brent: Don't look to me to try the chocolate for you. Ewwww! CW: I think my parents booked the table about six months ago. Malcolm: I plan to. Tets is one of my fave restaurants in the whole world. I first ate there many many years ago when it was still in Rozelle and I was little. Judith: I don’t think A&U would stretch to Tets. This is on my own dime.

Amber: How odd. I think of spatchcock as very English. Here’s what the OED says:

1. A fowl split open and grilled after being killed, plucked, and dressed in a summary fashion. Also attrib.
Orig. in Irish use, later chiefly Anglo-Indian.

So it turns out to be Irish first. Is a very yummy way to cook birds. Though mostly it’s chicken.

Brent: Don’t look to me to try the chocolate for you. Ewwww!

CW: I think my parents booked the table about six months ago.

Malcolm: I plan to. Tets is one of my fave restaurants in the whole world. I first ate there many many years ago when it was still in Rozelle and I was little.

]]> By: Malcolm Tredinnick http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/12/15/i-dont-want-to-skite/comment-page-1/#comment-74174 Malcolm Tredinnick Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:51:49 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/?p=2815#comment-74174 Okay, I'm jealous. Do enjoy yourself. I've eaten there once and it was a delight. Okay, I’m jealous. Do enjoy yourself.

I’ve eaten there once and it was a delight.

]]> By: CW http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/12/15/i-dont-want-to-skite/comment-page-1/#comment-74173 CW Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:59:40 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/?p=2815#comment-74173 Noice! Enjoy! By the way how long ago did you request a table? Noice! Enjoy!

By the way how long ago did you request a table?

]]> By: Brent http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/12/15/i-dont-want-to-skite/comment-page-1/#comment-74172 Brent Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:52:05 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/?p=2815#comment-74172 "Finally, early season berries with orange and Grand Marnier jelly and champagne ice cream, a floating island with vanilla and praline anglaise, and a flourless chocolate cake with a bitter chocolate sorbet and orange ice cream." Let us know which of those you try. The rest sounds somewhat disgusting to my blue-collar midwestern-US palate. But I love a good desert. And I thought about it. I AM happy. And I'm glad you're happy too. I'm also certain you're happy you're not HERE. It was 8°C (practically balmy) this morning and is now -11°C. “Finally, early season berries with orange and Grand Marnier jelly and champagne ice cream, a floating island with vanilla and praline anglaise, and a flourless chocolate cake with a bitter chocolate sorbet and orange ice cream.”

Let us know which of those you try. The rest sounds somewhat disgusting to my blue-collar midwestern-US palate. But I love a good desert.

And I thought about it. I AM happy. And I’m glad you’re happy too. I’m also certain you’re happy you’re not HERE. It was 8°C (practically balmy) this morning and is now -11°C.

]]> By: Amber http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/12/15/i-dont-want-to-skite/comment-page-1/#comment-74171 Amber Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:16:15 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/?p=2815#comment-74171 Wow. Sucks to be you. There are several things on that menu of which I have not the slightest notion what they even are. Including 'praline anglaise'. And I _am_ anglaise. And spatchcock sounds like some sort of sporting terminology: "Oh, dear, that _is_ a shame; he's batted an absolute spatchcock there..." Wow. Sucks to be you. There are several things on that menu of which I have not the slightest notion what they even are. Including ‘praline anglaise’. And I _am_ anglaise. And spatchcock sounds like some sort of sporting terminology: “Oh, dear, that _is_ a shame; he’s batted an absolute spatchcock there…”

]]> By: Judith http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/12/15/i-dont-want-to-skite/comment-page-1/#comment-74170 Judith Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:40:08 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/?p=2815#comment-74170 I hope the publisher is paying, Justine! I hope the publisher is paying, Justine!

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