Narrabeen Beach lunch and home cooking : September 29 2024

Birthday weekend and plan to head to the Northern Beaches for lunch with friends. Friends came to drive us down. Nice start

Lunch at a pub on Narrabeen Beach not for from where I once lived - view of the beach looking north to Turimeta Heads

Photos in the dunes - pigface. Where I come from we know them as vygies

Looks like a gazania but the leaves are not the colour I am used to. Green and not grey

Location shot - Sands Hotel, Narrabeen

This image had me chuckling - kookaburra on the unpatrolled beach sign. We had a good lunch - food was good and service was excellent and prices not bad

Did not get a lot of steps in. Did need a walk when I got home to get steps in

Pink galah on the verge opposite our place. Cannot recall taking a photo of them in ages. They are quite timid and fly pronto

Crossed the Pacific Highway to the Killara side - this house has now been sold - squeezed in between the apartments

Block is narrow on the street front but accessible from the driveway to apartments next door. Chance to put garages below with access from the diagonal that side

The block next door. Block size will constrain the size that can be built but they will go up

Apartments for sale one block down. All within 300 metres walk of Killara Station

Train every 15 minutes

House photographed a few weeks back going up to Greengate Hotel. Now painted grey

Front fence too

Got the steps in

Did cook dinner - first dinner with dairy in 3 weeks - at last my wife is getting past her bronchitis. Pasta with a cream sauce

Make a roux - melt butter - add flour and keep stirring. When butter starts browning add in sliced garlic, spring onion a leek

Then add in some milk and your preferred cheese. I used cream cheese but could use any you want - parmesan, goat cheese, brie. Leftover cheese works well.

For the other goodies, pays to fry up separately in butter - this time it was prawns, bacon, mushrooms, cooked chicken. The idea is having everything pre-cooked and warm for final assembly

Cook your favourite pasta. Stir that at the time you heat up the protein bits

Toss in the cooked pasta

Serve with ground pepper and grated parmesan
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