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Enough of food, let's talk TV. I am enjoying Togetherness (Thursdays on Soho). I find the kooky cast of characters, one of them played by New Zealander Melanie Lynsky, both comforting and discomforting because they are very real. A line from the show has been with me over the pastcouple of weeks: "Just fake it: Do you see this smile? I am dead inside." This advice, given to someone having to take part in an event they had no interest in, applies to me and the golf, rugby, cricket, cricket, cricket, CRICKET that is on TV right now.
Country-appropriate snacks for the cricket. Photo / Bite magazine
Which brings me back to food and the people around me who are being good sports and letting the family eat dinner in front of the box more nights than not. My brother Warren, who will have that cricket on as you read this, has made up some chicken dinners that are easily eaten on your knee in front of TV. The green chicken curry and chicken rice bowl can both be served in bowls and eaten with a fork, which ticks my list of requirements for such meals but finger food works too - serve plenty of paper towels with his hot wings and herbed chicken, bacon and pineapple burgers.
Hospobaby's mushroom and prosciutto pizza and Aaron Brunet's trevally tacos also fit this category, Aaron also provides a very useful step-by-step on how to make your own soft tacos.
The Grove's Ben Bayley joins us this week following a fascinating trip to Ferran Adria's Bulipedia in Barcelona. It sounds like Ferran could be putting me out of a job, but I am very excited to read what he has planned and can't wait until 2021.
Herbed chicken and pineapple burgers. Photo / Bite magazine
Mushroom and prosciutto pizza. Photo / Bite magazine
We have also been in Melbourne for the San Pellegrino Young Chef competition and have secured Peter Gunn's winning recipe.
The Grove's Ben Bayley.
Now that we are a quarter of the way through the year Louise Thompson's column is timely - we need to start checking our own personal battery the same way we check our smartphone's. Read all about it here.
