Rosa's Kitchen

It is true. We eat out ALL THE TIME. Melbourne food is good, it needn't be expensive, there are more places than we could ever eat in (and we are trying to eat in them all), we have no mortgage, no children and only one dependent.

I shall make no more excuses. Especially when the place in question is Journal Canteen. It it my favourite place and I've only been twice.

On Tuesday we had a quick lunch perched on bar stools at the counter. He had an entree size spaghetti with pesto, tomato sauce stirred though and some breadcrumbs on top. Whatever. I had the antipasto plate. Large, of course.



It was similar to the plate we had had once before (see many blogs ago). The absolute highlight was the dressed courgette strips. The nice man in the kitchen said that you use a mandolin to slice the courgette in to thin slices and salt them overnight. Rinse and squeeze out till dry the next day and finish with garlic, olive oil, balsamic vinegar and mint. I love pickles and these were a fine fresh sweet vinegary delight. The fried chat potato slices with tiny salty pieces of bacon were also good. Oh, and the fresh tomato, bread, caper and olive oil salad couldn't have been any better. I'll shut up now. Go!