Cooking with Brent Savage of Bentley Restaurant

All things vegetable.

I was the breathless anticipation  

Beetroot with red chard, soy beans horseradish

Celeriac, Mushroom & Almond ‘cannelloni’ with saffron braised eschallots

Pumpkin Cake with pumpkin ice cream, beurre noisette, cumquats

The most inspiring meal I have eaten!!  The food was magnificent so unbelievably good, I was not in awe of the ingredients but what Brent created was amazing.  I will write more when I recover.

Facebook Course

I have completed my 1^st day of my Facebook course with Janet Hoddinett at Macquarie Community College, and I am feeling much more confident and enthusiastic with Facebook.   Now I know Facebook it always changing and has two formats it is less confusing.

Antigravity Yoga – Frolic in the air

Had a wonderful start to the day with our yoga class we have 7 students now and I think that is enough for the class as the room is not that big.   Gerri, Patricia, Roseanne, are new and like the class.

Watched Four Corners “Sex, Lies and Julian Assange”.   With Julian Assange still holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, reporter Andrew Fowler goes to Sweden to examine the allegations of sexual crimes, and the claims of American involvement. 

iPad & stuff up with my credit card

I had a great workshop with the iPad in the City store on Sunday, learned heaps and it was a beautiful experience. 

  

In stark contrast to my experience with Westpac.   I was trying to use my credit card at Morris & Son’s and it would not go through.  After several attempts the store phoned Westpac and waited 34 minutes before I was connected to an incompetent or untrained person who waisted another 20 minutes talking gobbley gook.  I said 'that sounds like buck passing to me' where  she launched into the exact  speal she had just given me; that related to nothing.  The goods had to stay in the store.   If it was a restaurant it could have been very embarrassing as Westpac did nothing at all to rectify or help the issue.

Quite Day Playing with Vertical Mouse

Lunch at Skiffies

Carolyn & I had a lovely lunch at Skiffies, it was a marvellous: sunny clear day and dinning on the water at Skiffies was amazing.   There is such wonderful ambiance there with all the water sounds lapping the shore and the birds calls it is a very gentle, mellow and calming it appease whatever was concerning you.  I find it so relaxing and beautiful just to be there and soak up the gentle sun, and be entertained by the pelicans.  It was wonderful and relaxed me for the whole day.

I was very interested and excited about Carolyn’s new iPhone which she just happened to have with her at lunch.  It does everything except make you coffee in the morning. I think the iPhone suites Carolyn.

My vertical mouse arrived day from eBay unexpectedly quick and I am delighted.  It doesn’t do everything my other mouse did especially with photos and cut and paste, which is a pity but it certainly very comfortable.  It is too hard and time consuming to put a photo of it up using the mouse which is a big disappointment.  I will Google it and see if there are other ways of doing things.  It seems to me that although it is a vertical mouse it hasn’t got the latest technology and once you have used the advanced technology it much harder to come to term with products without it.

maggies pages

Arrived at Pinctada Resort Cable Beach Broome sightseeing tour and camel ride along Cable Beach, now that I have done it, I will not ride a camel again. Pinctada is the name of the oyster that produces the famous big pearls, it was owned by Pascarly pearls.

Kathy's 80th Birthday Lunch at Four Season's. Nancy & I took Kathy out  she has just returned from a birthday holiday with all her grand children, that was the best present Kathy could have received.

I saw "Take This Waltz" takes its title and mood of romantic fatalism from the Leonard Cohen song heard during a lovemaking montage of indeterminate reality/fantasy status.  Is a comfortable marriage really marriage enough?

Margot, as played by the unerring and complicatedly honest Williams, might never be content.

Is Margot a flake, or a woman simply following her heart, right behind her loins? Not all of "Take This Waltz"  The actors are excellent. Rogen falls very comfortably into the role of a 29-year-old who has fallen very comfortably into a living thing — a marriage — and stopped working on it. Williams is the ringer, a welter of difficult, delicate feelings in search of a resting place.

 

Margot, as played by the unerring and complicatedly honest Williams, might never be content.

It avoids the standard formula and is a compelling dance, with just the right touch of the unconventional. 

 

The Daniel (Luke Kirby), with whom Margot finds instant attraction.  Films exploring female sexuality, where Take This Waltz differs from other movies.   Daniel, who pulls a rickshaw, He  loves Margot, and when he can’t seduce her body, he very effectively seduces her mind.

It is emotionally self-aware film  and all three leads brilliantly convey the subtle nuances of characters caught in the various stages of a love triangle.

We had a nice Italian lunch in Norton St and talked a lot.