Smart dessert.

I'm a huge fan of icecream covered in chocolate sauce. I really do love it, and was treated to a delicious, healthy version of my usual binge treat (I've been working on improving my health for the past seven weeks).
This fantastic dessert, which my mother made for the family, has a low fat and sugar content, but tastes exactly the same as its heart-attack inducing evil twin.

I'm making myself want one right... about... now.
Bye bye x

Sushiyama.

I come bearing more sushi from the wonderful Sushiyama in Greensborough, this time with a bit more variety. From what I've seen others do, this is a sushi mix often eaten as a single meal, however I find it a bit too filling, and usually divide it into two smaller meals.
As well as this, many people are intimidated by the 'raw fish' perception. I have read too many times that sushi smells bad, and causes illness. Neither of these are true unless the sushi you are eating is not fresh. First of all, sushi is not raw fish. Sushi consists of sushi rice and a variety of fillings/toppings - these may be raw or cooked fish, beef, chicken, tofu, egg - just about anything. And secondly, fresh raw fish does not smell of anything but the sea. In any case, it is rather delicious and very healthy!

California rolls, egg roll, salmon nigiri, prawn nigiri and white and red tuna nigiri with soy sauce, wasabi and pickled ginger.

Well lovelies, I'm off to try to find Melbourne's most tasty kebab.
Eat well!!

Invisicado salad.

Don't you love it when you see a recipe's title and think, "That sounds nice!"

My mum thought exactly this when she saw a prawn, mango and avocado salad recipe in a magazine. Whilst at the deli purchasing the prawns, she sent Googs and I to buy the fresh produce and gave us the recipe. Later, halfway through making the salad, she called me into the kitchen and asked me to read through the ingredients. There was no avocado in the ingredients list. No avocado in the method. This was a prawn, mango and avocado-less salad, but for some reason they felt like chucking it in the title because it sounds good, or something.

In any case, it was a delicious salad, a la mother dearest!
Ciao for now.

Hello, sushi.

Sushi is a wonderful thing.

Having come a long way since it's beginning as fermented fish and rice preserved in salt, comtemporary sushi was an early form of fast food invented by Hanaya Yohei in the mid-19th century. It was made using rice and freshly-caught fish from the Edo-mae (Tokyo Bay), and although the fish used in modern sushi is no longer from Tokyo Bay, it is still formally known as Edomae nigirizushi. Though there are several types of sushi, the two main forms found in the Western world are nigirizushi - an oblong-shaped mould of rice with a topping draped over it - and makizushi - a cylindar of rice and various other fillings wrapped in nori (seaweed).

And now, by some miracle of nature, sushi has found its way into my life and my very-pleased stomach. Here is a photo of my breakfast from this morning: California rolls on the left and salmon and prawn nigirizushi on the right. They were lovingly (and deliciously) handcrafted at Sushiyama in Greensborough.

Be back soon with more tasty photos of yummy food soon enough!