New blog banner and date night

If you are a regular visitor here you would notice a brand new look for The Shady Pine. I was so excited to work with the talented Katrina from The Media Maid on a fresh new look for the blog. Thanks to Katrina's hard work and creativity, I could not be happier with the outcome. If you drop by Katrina's website and think she looks familiar, it could be because of her appearance in last season's show of The Block. I hope you like the brand new look as much as I do!

In other news, Mr Shady Pine and I try and have date night about once a week. Recently, Kravings @ Kurmond announced the release of their updated menu so we were keen to try it. This is a place we visit somewhat regularly so a new menu drew us in.

For entree we each had a plate of crispy wontons with a herb, garlic and cream cheese filling on a bed of tomato and saffron sauce. The wontons were really crispy and delicious and I could have easily eaten another serving of these.


For mains Mr Shady Pine had an eye fillet from the new grill menu. It was medium rare and cooked perfectly. For my main, I had sesame crusted salmon on a bed of noodles with ponzu sauce. I really loved the crispy fried enoki mushrooms that were on top of the salmon. Initially I thought it was just a pretty garnish but in fact it added a lovely flavour that compimented the overall dish.
Finally for dessert we shared a decadent semifreddo with homemad honey comb and crusted with dark chocolate. On the side was a piece of almond brittle which gave a really nice texture to the dessert.

Kravings

452 Bells Line of Road, Kurmond

02 4573 1211