I've been slack with the posting, but by the time I realised that my super reduced chicken stock would have been an awesome thing to record step by step - it was finished.
However, there is always the trusty old Mornington Peninsula trip to record - an orgy of wine buying and food eating over the cup day weekend!
S and I stayed at the
Mornington on Tanti which I believe used to be a very dodgy TAB bar/pub.... but which has been renovated and while still containing a TAB bar, it was actually pretty nice (cheap, too, which was the main attraction!). Surprisingly enough, the pubgrub wasn't too bad.
L-R: S's sizzling barramundi, shared garlic bread, my chicken kiev
And the breakfast was even better, but I didn't take pictures of that. Disappointingly, the wine list was very short on MP wines, most of the available bottles coming from Yarra Valley or NZ (blergh).
We spent Monday night driving down there, had our lovely meal with a couple of bottles and then watched some television (Matt Preston... yum!) and generally had a girlie night.
The real fun was on Tuesday! First stop after breakfast:
Foxey's Hangout, my favourite MP winery! The best sparkling white and pinot gris evah (well maybe not evah but definitely up there on my list, more for the whole experience than just the wines). Free coffee from one of the brother-owners, too (after we bought several hundred dollars worth of wine)
View of the vines at Foxey's
We did quite a few other wineries while we were down there and naturally the cheese shop - but the highlight, as always, was lunch at
Pier 10. Not any kind of posh, high-end winery but really good value food and a lovely pinot grigio (and where S and I first learnt the difference between gris and grigio - even if the bloody yanks don't agree - hey, S?)
L-R: eye fillet with tomato onion relish and asparagus, confit duck legs and cheese platter
It was a great day and it felt like a whole weekend rather than just a minibreak! I wish I could afford to buy a house down there!
