New Year’s Eve 2018, ChillaxBBQ in Bali

I had an idea to cook something for Ruther’s 50th, so ordered in black pudding. It ended up as a NYE banquet, cooked by Marky Mark and I – so yes I am nominating this as a ChillaxBBQ event – this is New Year’s Eve 2018, ChillaxBBQ in Bali. Marky Mark and I battled through with limited utensils (AKA one blunt knife), no oven (AKA the villa bought us 2x BBQ’s) to bake, no chopping boards, no cloths, hey let’s face it we had nothing.

The previous day I grabbed some spices from a local store. We ordered in some meats, fish, fresh herbs and veggies from the villa guys, bless them. They also made us 4 varying in spice heat Sambals. Damned fine they were. Marky Mark and I got creative and turned out a bloody good mini ChillaxBBQ for our mates ahead of the ‘memorable’ firework display. Here we jolly well go. New Year’s Eve 2018, ChillaxBBQ in Bali.

New Year's Eve 2018, ChillaxBBQ in Bali — Not a bad little array of raw ingredients. We can absolutely get something going with this. The stuff is so so fresh. The Galangal still smells of soil, it must have been dug up that day. Squeeze it and juice comes out. Amaze-balls freshness.

We popped these on the grill in batches. Whilst we were away we had a cat burglar. As in literally. A feral jungle kitten broke in to the kitchen, pulled a whole fish out of the pan, un-wrapped it from the banana leaf and ran off with the whole fish. Little shit!!!