Lunch
It’s been a while but it was time to try out our nearest Popeye’s chicken. Unfortunately the order was wrong and we got a mix of dark and white meat, not all dark as ordered! With that in mind and an inconvenient location, we probably won’t go back.
- Red Beans and Rice is $3.99 or $2 a serve
- The chicken is $4.00 per serve due to a combination of the wrong order, and higher prices at this location.
Lunch today was $6.00 per serve. We’ve heard of a more local “southern” food place, so we’ll most likely check that out as an alternative.
Dinner
And interesting mix of a Greek-focused potato salad with feta and olives, and a quintessential Australian dish: rissoles. For the uninitiated these are small, individual portioned meatloaves.
Rissoles are a simple recipe and very Australian. The recipe makes eight rissoles, or in our house, two serves! Rissoles are fried, not baked and the dusting of flour helps form a crust, which we all know is the best part of a meatloaf!
The Red Potato, olive, feta and mint salad is a great accompaniment.
The ground beef came direct from the farm in our Prather Ranch meat delivery. The potatoes came direct from farm via our friend’s CSA box. We sometime inherit vegetables when she has to leave town on various business trips.
- Dry aged 85/15 ground beef $8.57 or $4.29 per serve
- 8 oz Panko breadcrumbs are $2.99 and we used half, or 75c per serve
- A pastured egg is 50c or 25c per serve
- The onion is 6c per serve.
- The potatoes came free, but would normally add 30c per serve
- Feta comes in a $6.99 tub, but we used so little, it comes to 22c a serve
- Pitted olives come in $2.99 jars and one quarter was used, or 38c per serve.
The perfect sauce is my brother’s home-made tomato relish, another Australian tradition.
Although the photo shows a serving of three, foodie Philip managed to finish the others before the end of the night! Dinner tonight was $6.25 and very nostalgic.