Disappointing dishes all round...with the exception of lamb roast!

I am in some serious need of 'Chloe time'. You all know exactly what I an referring to; sitting on the couch all alone in your trackies, re-watching the tv show you have already seen a 100 times (for me it's Sex and the City), eating junk food and not feeling guilty for it.  These last few weeks have really kicked my butt and when my body starts to break without any reason what so ever, I know it's time to give it a rest.  Either that or I'm getting old...and I refuse to believe the latter! Apparently my ankle thinks it has had enough exercising or just general standing and has turned into a swallon kankle.  So I am taking the opportunity to catch you up.

Can you believe I have two Sunday recipes to share, plus I have eaten out at least 3 times since I last checked in with you.  Before I go on about me I must tell you about one very impressive meal I had last week.  We went around to a friends house for dinner and I was greeted with the most delicious tasting lamb roast.  The meat was cooked perfectly and I promised I would mention it in my blog.  So for anyone else that knows our friend Nathan Harris, please make sure you request he cooks you a lamb roast the next time you visit!

Now to back that up with my own cooking two days later was always going to be an ask. I was so happy with my beef and ale pie a few weeks ago I desperately wanted to try another.  This time I went for a chicken and leek with a parmesan shortcrust pastry.  The pastry was much harder to work with and I don't think the filling was as nice either.  I enjoyed the flavour and have used this combination many of times, like I'm sure most of you have, but it just didn't blow me away. I generally prefer to use chicken fillet not chicken thigh and it was really noticeable to me.  Dylan totally disagreed so each to their own I guess! 

I seem to be enjoying the pub classics at the moment so please don't be disappointed or bored when I tell you I have had very standard meals out recently including a chicken parma from Irish Murphy's and a beef burger from the Lake View.  The parma wasn't the best I have ever had by a long shot and my chips were terrible so it was pretty disappointing for something I always enjoy and probably only have once every six months.  I think I will have to have another soon to really get that craving out my system. Now the burger, It was $10 burger night so I you would have been stupid to try something else off the menu.  The flavour was so delicious, can never go wrong with a good chutney, but the quality was average.  I am not going to complain as for a $10 burger it was pretty alright. Moral of the story, don't expect too much when eating cheap pub food!

I am sensing a pattern with this blog and I think the best word to describe it is disappointing!  I am not usually such a negative nancy so I thought for sure I was going to have an amazing lunch to write about when I headed to L'Espresso.  After my first experience for dinner a few weeks ago was amazing, I was expecting the same.  Let me start this by saying the quality of food here is awesome, but after trying the twice cooked sausage served with lentils and pesto I was shocked to be left feeling rather unwell for the rest of the day.  It was a really oily meal and tasted like it lacked a flavour. 

I think that is enough disappointment for one blog so finally my most recent cooking adventure was beef wellington on Sunday.  I was really really happy with this but I feel like it took a lot of energy and work.  I would definitely make it again but perhaps individual serves. 

Tomorrow I am heading off to Wodonga for Uni Games so no new recipes this week.  I can't imagine I am going to have a lot of time to get out there and try the delights of Wodonga but I am sure I will have a great week.  I am however already looking forward to some more serious Chloe time when I return. Until then, I will put a smile on my dial and I hope you do the same x.