Breakfast Bungkai

It was the Queen's birthday yesterday and since PNG is part of the Commonwealth, we had a public holiday! A public holiday here has a much different type of feeling than in Australia. There's not as many places to go adventuring so we created our own fun - most of this revolved around food... Julian, Shannel and I went out for lunch at a Chinese restaurant - which was so incredibly delicious! One dish had coriander in it - where in the world did they get coriander in Lae?!?! I've never seen it. And fresh coriander too. Winning!

Then for dinner we decided to have a breakfast bungkai - breakfast for dinner is always a great idea! Pancakes with maple syrup, waffles with strawberry coulis, egg quiches, baked apple pancake, chocolate pastry puffs, pumpkins scones, smoothie, hash browns and some fruit. All topped off with iced tea and cold water. I must say, yesterday was a FANTASTIC food day. That always makes me happy - which was especially good since it was Oma's birthday - so a great reason to do something out of the ordinary!

The team looking pretty happy with the menu

I experimented with pastry and chocolate to make these chocolate puffs. All it involves is cutting puff pastry, popping chocolate bits on top, giving it a lid and pressing a fork along the edges. Brush it with some butter and pop it in the oven for about 12 minutes and wa-la! Pastry puffs that are super delicious, according to all of my taste testers :) Not really in the health food category though....

Baked apple pancake

Waffles!!! We made a gf mixture which tasted just like the real thing! So exciting! 

Part of the clean up crew

It was a really fun public holiday and I'm definitely keen to do a breakfast bungkai again. Today is vegie day though :) Hope your public holiday was equally as fun!