Coffee Panna Cotta

I am hosting a dinner party tonight to celebrate Paolo's 30th Birthday, and afterwards we're going to some late night comedy as his gift. For dessert I decided to try and make panna cotta. It is such a luscious and light dessert. I hope he likes it. I made it last night, and it was really simple, and very quick to make. I used Lucullian's recipe at http://lucullian.blogspot.com/, with some very minor adjustments.

500ml cup fresh cream, I used thick cream (which probably accounts for needing more gelatin)
100ml milk
100ml very strong coffee
75ml cup caster sugar
10-12g gelatin leaves, I used the lesser amount but I think it probably needed the extra
Dark chocolate for decoration

Put the gelatin leaves to soak in cold water.

Mix cream, milk and coffee in a small pan, add sugar and bring to boil.

Squeeze the water out of the gelatin leaves and melt them in the hot coffee cream, stir really well and leave it to cool down a bit.

Pass through some muslin before pouring the cream into cocktail glasses. Refrigerate for at least 2-3 hours.

Decorate as you wish.



Enjoy!

Gotye

This is the latest offering from Gotye, in the band 'The Basics' (Gotye is a pseudonym for Wally De Backer). Can't stop playing it. And can't wait for the album. (I feel like I've used these words before on this blog.)

The Pyrophone Juggernaut

P came to visit and given it is the MAD MONTH OF MARCH in Adelaide, it was only appropriate that I organise a few Fringe shows to head out to.

Saturday night we went to see House of the Holy Afro. A show best described as "Afro Celt Sound System" meets "Ministry of Sound". Or if you don't know who they are, African music on acid will draw a pretty clear picture. http://www.houseoftheholyafro.com.au/

Sunday we spent a lazy day at a BBQ at mum's house before heading out to some comedy - Best of the Edinburgh Festival.

Monday (thank God for Public Holidays), we went to Grange Kiosk for coffee, Glenelg for some lunch and then we headed out to Semaphore Beach for some fish and chips and to see a free fringe event - The Pyrophone Juggernaut. More on that shortly.

Tuesday night we topped it all off by going to see Arj Barker. Professional comedians have real talent. They get on stage and drivel crap for an hour, and yet manage to keep the audience entertained the whole time.

Back to the Pyrophone Juggernaut... a "tightly choreographed percussive symphony spectacle". It was weird, but oddly entertaining. It looked a bit like a pirate ship from the future, and when the sun went down the show started. The musical instruments were metal and plastic pipes of different lengths placed to look like a massive organ; and wheel rims and other manner of metal objects. Blow torches were used to fire up through the pipes generating different sounds, among other effects.

At this point I think it best that the photos do the talking:















I love the Fringe, but soon, the Fringe will be over, Womadelaide truly done with for another year and the Clipsal madness forgotten, and Adelaide can wake up in 11 months time to start the March madness all over again.