On Monday afternoon Peter and I were able to go on a lunch date thanks to Andy & Nicole who watched our kids. Man, we are so thankful to have time away together and have a complete conversation :) We ate lunch downtown Toowoomba at a place called The Stone Grill. We got to cook the steaks ourselves on 400 degree stone slabs. We then went to Picnic Point to talk about our current Bible Read Through - good stuff!
Today is Australia Day. I have been asking around to find out what Aussie dishes I needed to perfect while we live here. One common one is the Lamington, however all the women I talked to said they don't make them themselves. My friend Heatha was inspired so invited me to her house today to make them by scratch! She made the comment that she was thankful I was here to inspire celebration for Australia Day...ahh.
Before we started I snapped a quick pic of Hudson and Welly, who are both pretty adorable in their logo t-shirts :) A fun Welly quote to her mom heatha, "Mom, it looks like Hudson got stuck in a 'making-people-cute machine'. "
Here is Christina & Heatha - we were so thankful to learn that Christina is an Aussie who has actually made Lamingtons from scratch before!
You dunk them in chocolate, let it dribble off then roll in coconut - delicious!
The finished product
Here is the write up about them from Wikipedia :)
The Lamington is named after Lord Lamington, who served as Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901. According to legend, Lamingtons were first served in Toowoomba when Lord Lamington took his entourage to Harlaxton House to escape the steamy heat of Brisbane. The Lamingtons' chef at Queensland's Government House, Armand Gallad, was called upon at short notice to provide something to feed unexpected guests. According to the Melbourne Age newspaper, Gallad cut up some left over French vanilla sponge cake baked the day before, dipped the slices in chocolate and set them in coconut (an ingredient not widely used in European cooking at that time). Lady Lamington's guests then asked for the recipe.
A further alternative origin is that Lord Lamington's cook, presumably Gallad, accidentally dropped a block of sponge cake into a dish of chocolate. Later on it was discovered to be very nice with desiccated coconut sprinkled over the top.
Ironically, Lord Lamington was believed to have hated the dessert that had been named in his honour, referring to them as "those bloody poofy woolly biscuits"
1 comment:
sounds like a perfect way to spend australia day!!
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