Corn

Wandering around Sydney late Saturday morning. Caught a bus into Chinatown. Got some corn, spring onion, watercress and tomatoes from Paddy's Market. A quick bite to eat and then home. Hungry again in the late afternoon, so roasted the corn and made a sauce of finely chopped spring onion simmered in olive oil with a shake of fish sauce and some white sugar to balance it out. Who needs butter? The blackened cobs swimming in the sauce had us licking our fingers. This was followed by "shaking beef"... cubes of fillet steak fried over a very hot flame with slices of onion, with butter and black pepper added just before serving on a bed of watercress and sliced tomato, with a dipping sauce of lemon, sliced chilli, white pepper and salt on the side, and some steamed rice to balance out the flavours as we eat. Delicious.

Oh, apart from that, we spent the day:

• Writing "Quantum Light Cycles" for the one-key comp.
• Playing "Lost Cities" and "Carcassonne".
• Listening to "Gaming Steve" on the new iPod shuffle.
• Watching D. crack 160,000 on the downloadable version of Meteos.
• Watching the "Iron Chef" (what else)?