Aussie Cusine

Continuing on where we left off Kim and I are really having a great time so far- Australians are very, very hospitable. We have been invited over to several peoples houses for tea (dinner) and social events. We have had the pleasure of attending a couple of very nice authenic Aussie BBQ's (barbies) as they are called down under. And yes we even did have some shrimp on the barbie and some great delicious kangaroo burgers! We also have sampled some of the tasty Australian deserts such as pavlova, (an egg and sugar pie- sort of like a hardened angel food cake), tim tams (a chocolate biscuit), and of course great wines. South Austalia produces some of the best wine in the world, and there are a ton of wineries, tastings, and festivals celebrating their great world famous wines in the south Australia region. The most famous is the Barossa Valley, but there are many others such as the Claire Valley and some in the Adelaide hills area. One neat thing is you can get bottles of wine called Cleanskins which are outstanidng wines from some of the best local wineries but without the label (so you don't actually know which vineyard or winery it is from but these are 40-100 dollar bottle of wines in the US that we can get for 10-15 Australin dollars- so it is quite a good deal). Kim and I plan on doing some wine tours in a few months when it cools down some and the weather moves into fall. Drinking red wine when it is nice and cool outside seems more enjoyable then in 100+ degrees. So all things considered the food and people have been fantastic, it is a little different, but I am actually starting to prefer some of the cusine in Australian over American food- although I do miss a nice mexican meal back in Denver- but hey that's not really American food either, hmmm... well more to come later....