I know that we city-dwellers (or most of us) have been spoilt. After Hurricane Sandy whisked across the island, tearing up trees and tearing down light poles, we have been the lucky ones (despite our loud complaints that we didn’t get power back the following day…) Now it is a week away, and after our determined attempts to sweep up the yard it now looks reasonably tidy. Garbage and forlorn piles of foliage now fringe Kingston’s roadsides. We are not expecting a garbage truck any time soon. There are only twenty for the entire city, says the government agency. I suppose they weren’t expecting a hurricane? No warnings?
So, my husband whipped up a little something over the weekend, which went down very well. My dear brother and his Australian wife recently gave us a marvelous cookbook, “Bill’s Sydney Food: The Original and Classic Recipe Collection.” I refer you to page 25: Sweet Corn Fritters with Roast Tomato and Bacon. Well, we skipped the bacon, but… for a first attempt, it was pretty darn good. The cookbook also does lunch and dinner recipes too, so we plan to delve further into its yummy depths..
Why Bill’s, you may ask? When we were staying in the great city of Sydney three years ago, in the cozy neighborhood of Darlinghurst, the bohemian-chic little hotel we were staying at referred us there for breakfast. We had just arrived, at six in the morning, after a twelve-hour flight from San Francisco. We were feeling light-headed and slightly crazed after the longest flight we had ever taken, on the largest plane we had ever seen. Bill’s breakfast brought us back down to earth, deliciously. We stuck with Bill’s the day after, and the day after that. The freshness and simplicity of the food, and the cool but light-filled restaurant and pleasant service easily seduced us. We were good for our days of sight-seeing.
More on post-Sandy pleasures in my next post!
Related articles:
http://www.bills.com.au (Bill’s marvelous website)
http://www.amazon.com/Sydney-Food-Commemorative-Bill-Granger/dp/1741965543 (Bill’s Sydney Food)
Petchary's Blog 
They do look muy delicioso… Are you in the group shot? 🙂
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Yes, they were very tasty. I am in the group shot – on the left siting round the table. Since then I have grown my hair – I look rather different!
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Okay with longer hair now? Good for you. Now, if my stylist would stop frying my hair, it might grow longer too. She is from one of the Parishes… and she’ll kill me if I tell her I forgot! 😆
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Yes, at least for now – but after three years I am feeling I would like to have a short, short crop!! So it might all go soon! I am so sorry you are getting fried on a regular basis. It sounds painful. Now which parish would she be from… St. Mary? St. Ann? Trelawny?… I could go through them all…
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St Mary’s sounds familiar… 😉
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I’m glad that you guys are okay.
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Thank you! Yes, as I said we in the city are OK. But if you look at my post on Sunday, thousands of Jamaicans are still without electricity and/or water, and hundreds are homeless. Not to mention the damage to our infrastructure… Mostly in the rural areas.
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I missed your last post. The whole thing is just horrible and I’m sorry to hear about those people. I’ll keep them in my prayers.
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Yes, it has been another painful experience for Jamaica (and for our neighbors in Cuba and, especially, Haiti). Thanks so much for your kind thoughts…
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You’re welcome. 🙂
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Sandy seems to have had her (or was it his?) sights on bigger fish.
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Yes – although more people died as a result of Sandy in the Caribbean than in the United States. I’m tempted to say that we are much less important, being small Third World countries.
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