Xen-Den Suite Video
June 8th, 2009 § 4 Comments
Troy Roberts brilliant suite for Jazz Quartet and String Quartet is now on youtube. Footage is from the CD launch at the Charles Hotel on Jan 19th, 2009.
Troy Roberts Double Quartet, Live @ The Perth Jazz Society, 2009.
This music is from Troy Roberts’ new album, “The XenDen Suite”, and 8 part suite written in memory of the late Alan Corbet (1964 – 2008)
(available at www.cdbaby.com/cd/troyroberts2)
Troy Roberts Double Quartet
Troy Roberts – saxophones
Konrad Paszkudzki – piano
Peter Jeavons – bass
Daniel Susnjar – drums
Semra Lee – violin
Stephanie Dean – violin
Alex Brogan – viola
Eve Silver – cello
all music recorded and mastered by Lee Buddle from Crank Recording
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part 6 “Scotsman’s Waltz”
Turban Chopsticks Laksa
June 1st, 2009 § 5 Comments

Seafood Laksa
At a shopping visit to Mei and Suresh at Turban Chopsticks recently we were given a jar of their curry laksa mix.
The recipe was simple enough.
1/2 jar of laksa mix
1/2 can of coconut cream
2 cups of water
to which we added
Egg noodles
Fresh bean sprouts
2 tablespoons fish sauce
4 spring onions
3 fish fillets
12 fresh prawns
light fried tofu
laksa mint
sugar snap peas (or cucumber)
prawn sambal
Slice the fish fillets into pieces and fry gently in a wok until just cooked through. Set aside. Add the laksa mix and fry for a minute or so. Add the prawns so they’re covered with the mix and fry for 30 seconds. Add the coconut cream and two cups of water. Bring to boil. Add fish pieces.
Blanch bean sprouts, sugar snap peas, and sliced tofu so it’s warmed through. Heat egg noodles in boiling water for a few minutes.
Arrange noodles in bottom of bowl. To this, add a handful of sprouts/peas/tofu mix.
Pour hot laksa mix over the top and add spring onions, laksa mint and a dollop of prawn sambal (to taste).
We had a bottle of Magpie Estate ‘The Salvation’ Barossa Valley Gewurztraminer with it. As Christa Deans from Rolf Binder wines says, “Very much made with Asian food in mind. A perfect compliment to light-medium spiced dishes.”