Kristmas Kooking at Keira’s
11 down, 15 to go!
In a little over a year, The Alpha Crew has experienced the eleven flavours of the world from A – K, travelled all over Sydney to the recommended restaurants and had several affairs with several bottles of wine.
K is for a dish starting with “K” or from a country starting with “K”
Keira’s pad, Neutral Bay
Organised by ZINKS on a Wednesday night, December 2009
7 kooky kooks:
L-R: Ari, Sez, Adz, Dave, K, Nat, Lanz
Kitchen Knockouts:
- Sez cooked kisir, Turkish-style cous cous.
- Dave created dolmades filled with lemon rice and mince meat wrapped in fresh vine leaves, complete with homemade tzatziki. Traditionally eaten in Kuwait. We’ve would have also accepted “Kolmades”.
- Ari brought … a Persian melange of beef, rice and beans cooked by his mum.
- Alanna brought Lebanese Koftas made by her mum but cooked by her in my kitchen. Delicious hummus topped it off.
- Nat made Knicker Bocker Glories, a Christmas coloured dessert of green jelly, strawberries, vanilla icecream toped with a creamy wafer, made famous by Paddington Bear who ate them by the beach.
- I made Korean Kongguksu, a soy bean milky noodle soup garnished with kim chi (fermented cabbage) and boiled egg. Traditionally eaten ice cold in the summer by working class, and Kkaeguksu, a sesame seed chicken noodle broth traditionally eaten by the elite class in Korea who could afford chicken to make the broth instead of the standard soy staple [hat trick of a "K" dish from a "K" country cooked by "K" Yeah...no-one appreciated it as much as me! Nerd...]
- Adrian bought Korean takeaway….[from a restaurant we probably would have gone to for our usual style of alpha dinners.]
Sez's dish.
Dave's dolmades.
Ari's (mum's) plate
Zinks' Korean
Lanz's koftas
Nat's Knicker bocker glories
My Korean Kongguksu
My sesame Korean Kkaeguksu
Kudos:
10/10!!
Pros: What a great night to end the year. So much fun, great food, fantastic company. A different take on the alpha dinners.
Cons: Really, can’t think anything. Even the after dinner games were good!
After-party antics:
Games of Cranium and Charades until almost midnight.
Eating: Nothing, am in bed. But am getting hungry after posting this. There are some leftover kolmades…
Drinking: Nothing, am in bed.
Listening: to the whirr of my fan and enjoying the cool tickle on my face. I love sleeping with a fan!
