03/07/2026
Hi Chef Wayan Danny
Tonight we are off on a 6 hour flight across Australia to Bali ( I wish ) our fav flop and drop destination. The land of smiling faces, amazing produce, small family run warungs, Hatted restaurants, and accomodation choices that make your head spin. The wine is really bad though .
Years ago I was gifted a Balinese cookbook written by Janet DeNeefe. Long story short….young Melbourne teenager back packed to Bali, met Ketut, went back 6 months later and married him, had 4 children, opened restaurants, cafes, cooking schools….whew she was busy.
So out comes the Bali book and Chef Wayan has decided to make her Balinese chicken curry, which includes making the curry paste from scratch and behold…no trip to Woolies was necessary thanks to Matt “ The Tree Fella “ I have a Bay Leaf tree, Kaffir Lime Tree, Lemongrass, Chilli, all happily growing within picking distance of the kitchen. His stock of edible trees and shrubs are far superior to anything from Bunnings. Matt is located in Kendall…..go have a look. Matt also kindly supplied the banana leaves for plating.
Anyway…
Curry paste made, chicken and other ingredients prepped and chef is ready to create magic tonight.
He also made a local Balinese dessert of poached mango in a coconut lime milk stuffed into crepes.
HOLY MOLY !!!!!
Chef Wayan has created my favourite Friday Foody menu yet…..give me more crepes 🤣
NOTE….Drinks tonight were again Wild Turkey…stressful cooking settler apparantly. and Heineken beer which cleansed the palate beautifully.
NOTE…. Customer came into the shop this week and is convinced I do the cooking not Danny. I promise you I do not participate in Friday Foody Fun cooking at all. I do vigorously yell from the sidelines but apart from that I sit and drink my week away 🤣 oh and shop and clean up his mess.
NOTE….The pics at the end are when Danny goes to our friend…you guessed it , his name is Wayan…villiage. Everyone participates in shopping,chopping,cooking and eating this includes a Bintang beer or 10.