Food Porn. and dining with friends is good.

this isn't a great or philosophical post.

this is food porn.

one of the great things about having a food loving friend visit is that lots of good food must be eaten.

we began the visit with a trip to Yo Sushi and a total blow out.
have some pretty pictures of noms. but most things ended up disappearing before the camera could get out.  like the duck. and the squid. and the soft shell crab. and the mixed fish maki.

and some things you somehow manage to hold off and photograph even though you can't resist the wonderful burst in the mouthiness of the roe.

 considering I've photographed two dishes here, the picture of the spoils just goes to show how hard it was to hold of long enough to get a photo

is that eleven dishes? and Miso soup.
it was great to have someone there with similar taste, so we could share dishes and therefore eat more things.

can you believe it, later that day we had Curry at the White Hart Inn, Chilsworthy
The White Hart
we can't miss the curry nights. even if we're too too full.

and yesterday. well. yesterday. let me tell you about La Bouche Creole.
La Bouche Creole

a wonderful little restaurant in Launceston. it's a bit small and cosy, and almost feels a bit like you're a guest in someones home. the people there are so friendly, and remembered us from a visit last summer.

first of all. the bread. now you tell yourself not to fill up on the bread, but it was SO good. and had just been made a matter of a few hours before. it had a scattering of sea salt, and the butter was creamy and light and lovely. how can you not fill up on bread when it tastes so good.

then. OH MY MULTIPLE DEITIES THE GUMBO. the Gumbo was SO good.
it's a lot lighter than my Gumbo, a little more of a soup than a stew, but I could have eaten it all night. it was so so good. with lots of big cubes of fish, prawns, crab, oh glorious glorious. it was a tomato-ey one too, which again is rather different from how I do it, but I loved it very very much.

you can probably see how I started it, then remembered to take a picture.

it was SO good.

then I had slow roasted babyback ribs, AND chicken in voodoo barbequeue sauce, some REALLY nice fries and coleslaw. again, really good.

then my friend and I shared a chocolate and pecan brownie with coconut ice cream. even though it HURT.

so there's my few days of absolutely gorging myself. we had a light lunch of goats cheese, smoked austrian cheese and water biscuits. which is always nice.

I don't KNOW if I can do much for dinner tonight. but yum.

I'd also like to throw in a recommendation for Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. which, according to my friend who did American Studies at University is "quite historically accurate"
so there you go. that thought amused me greatly.

please feel free to share some of your own food porn with me.