Batman!

I've been pretty slack lately, but I've been super excited about this post for a while so I'm just gonna stay up and do it!

I love Batman, he's my favourite superhero, you may have noticed my batman ring in previous posts? So when Chemo Boy suggested we do a Batman theme I was super excited. After the initial excitement came the question: "How do we even do a Batman theme?" We had to get creative. And you're also going to have to get creative to see the links between our food and Batman, but I'm such an awesome person that I provided some helpful pictures.

The Theme

Batman

The Menu

This is what we started with. I love seeing what you start with and then seeing the end result. I've probably said this before, but it's one of my favourite things about cooking. It's amazing what you can do.

Entree

Face Soup

There's a batman comic where the Joker Rips off his own face (only to collect it later from police evidence) and then captures all of the Bat team and holds them hostage at a creepy dinner where he leads Batman believe he has made a soup out of all of his friend's faces. Full disclosure, I haven't actually read this comic, but I've read about it and seen some pictures and it looks like it would give you nightmares. 

It's Tomato Soup....

Chef's Rating: 7.5 out of 10 Detached Faces

It was a very enjoyable fresh tasting soup, you could barely tell it was made from human flesh

Main

Harvey Dent Steak with Poison Ivy Salad

You can see what we were going for right?

Chef's Rating: 6.5 out of 10 Comic Book Boobs

These were pretty last minute ideas, I think we could have done the steak better. But it had cheese on it, so it redeems itself.

Dessert

Batman Cupcakes

Old School Batman - Because Grey Doesn't make for nice cupcakes

Chef's Rating: 8 out of 10 Batarangs

Chocolate Cupcakes with White Chocolate bits and Lemon and Mint Icing. The icing was definitely interesting, sort of refreshing. 

I will leave you with this image of one of the creepiest super villains of all time. Sleep well kiddies.

Not the post you need, but the post you deserve

I'm too tired to write up a full post right now but I'm too excited to not post this picture.

Don't judge me too hard, it's late.

Talk to you soon!

Opposite Day

I don't think I really need to explain the idea of opposite day to you do I??

Theme

Opposite Day

The Menu

The Main

Sweet Lasagna

I know this doesn't make it look great but trust me, it was delicious.

This is just layered stewed apple, custard, cream, puff pastry and lychees. There was supposed to be rhubarb but I forgot that you can only get it in winter *mega sad face*. So Chemo Boy bought us a can of lychees instead.

Chef's Rating: 9 out of 10 shiny silver balls

Because you can never go wrong with puff pastry, cream and custrard

The Dessert

Savory Cake

This was just your normal cake, but with tomatoes, basil, bacon and cheese instead of sugar. It was good. Kept me going all week.

Chef's Rating: 8 out of 10 deceivingly looking Christmas Cakes

The Drink

Blue Curacao

I know this doesn't look very exciting. And it wasn't. But do you know how hard it is to come up with an opposite day drink? That you can still drink......

So we went with Blue Curacao, because it took me many years before I realised it was flavoured orange. What?!?

Chef's Rating: 2 out of 10 Oranges

Blue Curacao and Soda water doesn't taste that great

This one was a short and sweet one. I recommend you all try these two recipes. Not the drinks though. Don't try the drinks . 

Good night my sweet sweet angels. 

Broke Uni Student

It was O week here in Australia this week so I thought we should celebrate, even if neither of us attends a university anymore. It was time to pay homage to the brave young men and women on the front line, putting their wallets at risk to gain a higher education. I want to show them that you can still make a nice meal from not very much at all. (This theme may or may not have come about because I was having a broke week this week having just been to soundwave..... Happy Accident!).

The Theme

Broke Uni Student

The Menu

The Entree

On Sale Biscuits with Reduced Price Dip

You don't have to spend a lot to look fancy - it's all in the attitude. Look at biscuit circle - hardcore. 

Chef's Rating: 8 out of 10 Crabs

You can't really go wrong here, unless the dip you bought has actually gone off. I wouldn't recommend that (I'm not that cheap, no matter how big my nose is!)

The Main

Fancy Spaghetti on Toast With Mash Potato and a Side of Beetroot

We Turned this.....

.... into this! And that's why I love cooking.

Most of the ingredients were things we already had or they were on special or reduced. Even all the veggies were from a Woolies reject bin. It's all about timing.

Chef's Rating: 7 out of 10 Empty Pockets

The mash potato was smooth as a babies bottom (thanks to the rad mashing skillz of Chemo Boy) and the Spaghetti was spicy and cheesy, just the way I like it. The beetroots were weird and under cooked, I didn't know what I was doing with them. I'll be honest, I only bought them because they were in the produce reject bin and didn't really cost me any money. Be adventurous!

Drinks

Passion Pop

Chef's Rating: 6 out of 10 Hammered Girls

Passion Pop is a classic, you can't really go past it. And as cheap and nasty as it is it really is great value for money. It does the job quite well and really, for that price I would expect it to taste a lot worse than it does. Here's to Passion Pop!

Fancy Goon

Chef's Rating: 5 out of 10 Swaggering Boys

Now that I'm a little older my bang for your buck choice is those fancy box wines. Still quite cheap for the amount of drinks in them. Drink one box and you're having fun**. After the passion pop it actually tasted quite sweet, tooooo sweet and was a little hard to drink . Slightly disappointing. 

**Drunken Armature Hour Supports the responsible consumption of alcohol. Know your limit.

Good night you poor poor souls. May the uni gods be shining upon you. (Yes... that makes sense...)