Blog-tober - The Quandong

Today's bonus was being taken out for lunch. As work group, Sparks and Ladders shouted us lunch. Expecting pizza or a parma, I was thrilled to find that we were going to a fine dining restaurant near work.

Three hours later the team waddled back to the office - utterly replete after a wonderful meal.

The three course menu was inventive and interesting - yet not devoid from being recognisable food.

For starters, I had calamari stuffed with chorizo with a squid ink sauce. Glorious. I forwent the purple risotto - though the scallops looked amazing.

For mains, free range chicken and an American salad stack with ranch dressing. This was served with roasted pink eyed potatoes and a rocket, blue castel and berry dressing - well balanced and lovely. The guys around me had steak - the only thing they complained about was the meat came medium or well done - and not mooing.

Then it came time for dessert.

Most of the table ordered a deconstructed cheesecake - with baby wild limes and macadamia. It came out looking like a puddle of cream with sand - but it tasted amazing. I managed to snaffle a spoonful off a colleague.

Me, I chose the white caramel delice with a chocolate crisp and quandong coulis.

I thought a quandong was a small marsupial. I was wondering how a desert of salty caramel and white chocolate would go served up with Skippy.

Or maybe they used the milk of a quandong to make a coulis.

Turns out I was wrong.

I was thinking of a quokka.

 Or a quoll:

It appears that a quandong is an Australian bush fruit, also called a bush peach - but to me the coulis tasted something like a mix between a blood orange and a raspberry (though according to Wikipedia, that suppository of all useful knowledge, the real fruit tastes like peach, apricot and rhubarb). Very yummy.

A quandong.

No way this was going to jump of the plate and try and tell me that there is a bushfire at the bottom of the gorge and there is a bushwalker trapped with a broken leg nearby.

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Well, this brings me to the end of Blog-tober.

I did it.

Just (okay, two days I failed, but I doubled up on the blogs the following day).

Now if I can continue to write daily and get a bit more of this bloody novel done.

Thanks for putting up with me over the last month.

Pand