I wish that I could post beautiful pictures of snowy scenes in Lockhart because I have this theory that you can't take a bad photograph of snow. It is too picturesque and photogenic from every angle but alas, it doesn't snow in Lockhart. We have to make do with frost.
However, winter has arrived at last and I was holding off releasing the Blue Bird's winter menu 2014 until the weather was more conducive to warming soups and roasts. I am now delighted to at last be able to say that our winter menu has kicked in and here are a few tempting morsels from it.
Soup every day served with home made ciabatta bread. So far I have made the good old favourite from last year, Pumpkin and Sweet Potato Soup and Rich Creamy Tomato (not your average tomato but our secret recipe). A new flavour tried out this weekend, Creamy Corn, went down well with a couple of corn lovers. The weather was so icy over this weekend just gone that I had all three varieties on the menu.
Pies, pie, pies! Home made, of course. The flavours vary but the warming spicy aromatics of the Moroccan Chicken have been gobbled up and the traditional Roast Lamb Dinner with peas and potatoes included as part of the pie are satisfying appetites.
Home made Lasagna is coming into its own as hearty hot food is preferred over light summery meals and the spicy kick of our new pan-fried Mexican Burrito filled with chilli rice, beef, capsicum and corn offers that warming feeling from the inside out.
