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Review: Kendo's Irish Cafe

  Review of my recent visit to Kendo's Irish Cafe, 476 New England Highway, Toowoomba, QLD 4350.  This little cafe's location is great, it's right in the heart of Toowoomba's CBD. And when I say little I mean small - I almost walked right past it. But it's cosy. It's pretty basic in fact even a little bit rough around the edges but has a lot of potential. The staff were quite friendly and the atmosphere is nice. The table we sat at was dirty and when I wiped it with my napkin the napkin went brown. And I noticed a lot of crumbs and dirt on the floor on the front area, which is bit of an eye saw. Also the tea cup I was given had a coffee smudge on the lip of it - ewww considering I was having tea... Other than that the kitchen looked clean enough. We had chips and gravy which was really good. I've been told the gravy is guinness flavour - I can't really tell but I liked it.
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Lipton's Decafeinated Tea

I recently found out that cafeine reduces iron intake in the body. And for someone who is frequently iron deficitient and drinking between 5 and 10 cups of tea each day this is probably an important point to concider. So I went on an internet hunt to find decafeinated tea. I found Twinings and a few other overseas brands but the two main brands I found in Australia were Lipton and Tetley. Difficult to trach down in the grocery store, but luckily tracked down some Lipton Devaffeinated tea. I had previously been told that it's not too different to normal tea so I wasn't to worried about it not tasting right. To my suprise they taste like normal tea, maybe a bit like a homebrand tea and it's smells ever so slightly odd but still easy to drink. I'm sure it's the sort of thing that takes a few weeks to be come 'normal'. As a decaf tea, although I don't have anything to compair it to, I give Lipton 4/5 and in the scheme of all teas I give it 3/5. I don...
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Wine Review: Jacob's Creek Cool Harvest Pinot Grigio

About $11 from BWS, we gave this a go just recently after having done a wine tasting and discovering that there are actually wines that taste good and even great. Interesting Wine Fact: Colder grapes have higher sugar levels. So wine makers try to harvest the grapes when they are frozen (great in places like Germany where they can have grapes frozen on the vine) or cold - at dawn before the sun comes up and makes them warm (. Cass - 6/10 - Sufficiently sweet, still a bit rough, which seemed to get stronger as we got through the bottle (could just be me). Still nice and clean, went down easy. Bede - 6.5/10 - Not bad for a pinot grigio but not amazing. Looks like water...
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Yummy Honey Carrots

How to make delicious carrots that everyone will eat! Peal and very finely slice a carrot or two. Throw them into a pyrex jug and squeeze in enough honey to coat all sides of the carrots. Give the a bit of a stir to get the coverage. Place some glad wrap over the top but leave a little gap or pike some holes for ventilation.  Microwave for a couple of minutes, careful not to over do it as it will make them very soft. Hard to put a time on it because the amount of carrot and honey is different every time.  When you are satisfied with how it is cooked throw in some sesame seeds and stir through. Serve with what ever else is going :) Yummo!
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My old garden in it's prime :)

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