Australian food : Roo meat on your Bimbo pizzas?

 Marc (cooking a tortilla) and Justine in our sharehouse kitchen

(Am I right boyyyyys?)

G'day to everyone !

Today we are all gathered to talk about an important subject, food. It was a secondary aspect of my life when I was France, since I just had to come home and eat very nice meals cooked by the Sergio or "steak-haché petit pois" by la Coco.

Mon cours de cuisine, Kéda Black

But when I arrived here, I was on my own. Had to do pretty much everything myself. Independence mannnnnnn. So I started to cook small meals, thanks to my amazing cookbook. http://www.marabout.com/livre-les-basiques-kada-black-281641.html

Wrote by Kéda Black, the photographies are really amazing and the explanations easily understandable for a list of 90 simple and elaborated meals. My cousin Marion showed me it before I left in January and I really not regret buying it.
I already did : Gratin dauphinois, poulet rôti, crepes, gateau au chocolat, coquilles saint-Jacques, pates bolognaises (sauce tomate maison), quiche lorraine, vinaigrette, mayonnaises and many others. I know these will sound very easy to some of you, but just remember I start from scratch so I'm getting accustomed to cook. Our house owner calls me French master-chef but it is way too overrated.

Thai dish

We had for a month a "cooking roster", where everyone in the house had to cook one day for the others. I tasted some Australian fish BBQ, Japanese sushi, Korean stir fried vegetables, Malaysian chicken and some other I can't really remember. But each was definitely really good.

Love it, hate it, fear it !

Overall, Australian cuisine is very special.
Whether it is crappy barbecue with dirty filthy sausages or really salty (and disgusting) Vegemite, you may have a hard time with their specialities when you arrive here.
However, let's no be too adamant, because I discovered some culinary wonders here : Garlic bread, Bimbo 4$ excellent pizzas, Kangaroo meat, cheap Thai restaurant with extra spicy food, Laulau-made lasagne's, huge sushi rolls (take 3 at 2,5$ and you will probably be full). Eating healthy at less than 7€ is really cool. Maccas (Australian slang for McDonald) and Hungry Jack's (Australian official name for Burger King) can't compete with that!

Though, I miss Swiss and French cheese, our good chocolate, the cheap drinks (they don't have mint-based product here : cordial, alcohol, gums, NOTHING. I'm desperate). I think I'm going to eat Fondues, Raclettes and Tartiflettes even if we are in the middle of the summer when I get back to France.

See you guys next time (for what should be the last article!)