Happy Australia Day! Or if you want to sound like a local, Happy 'Stralia Day Maate. You should probably go make Lamingtons or Pavlova or eat a meat pie to celebrate. We however had Pumpkin Pie Pancakes for brunch and watched out the window as it rained, then pretended to clear up, then rained, then pretended to clear up. Around 5 we got sick of waiting for the weather to cooperate and headed into the city to sit by the water and drink cider and watch some jazz - the rain stayed away. Then we … [Read more...]
Ohh, look, pretty and sparkly
It's only the 3rd of January and there are Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns in the grocery stores already. Easter Eggs. Can we not even get through Valentine's Day first? Come on now, let us breathe! So, as an army of one with seven tonnes of explosives behind me, I'm staging a revolt for at least one day and reverting back to New Years Eve instead of jumping ahead to February or March. Now it's no secret that I love fireworks. They're like a shiny jewelery store window display x1000, but … [Read more...]
A taste of New Years
Just a quick peek into our New Years Eve and New Years Day for you... It started with a New Years Eve Day treat from Gelato Messina. A year of being 90% sugar and dairy free needed to end with this amazing stuff. I could work my way through the entire range in one sitting but instead, RJ and I split a cone of Bounty [Coconut Gelato with Chocolate bits] and Yoghurt & Cherry. After seeing the 9pm fireworks at home [just behind the trees, through the window, almost] we headed down to … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas!
There will be pics of a Christmas Eve feast, and a family Christmas Day lunch and of a couple of recipes of course, but for now... a Summer Fruit Christmas Card because nothing says Christmas in Sydney like mangoes and cherries... Christmas wishes from a Santa as old as I am, his reindeer side-kick and my new cupcake ornament from mom. The cupcake better watch out for that reindeer, fatty is looking hungry again... And a quick snap shot of the most gorgeous Christmas Day we've had in … [Read more...]
Hudson Meats – Mosman
bou·tique / bu 'tik / boo-teek / noun 1. a: a small fashionable shop | b: any small, exclusive producer 2. a small business that offers highly specialized services or products 3: a small business, department, etc., specializing in one aspect of a larger industry I've always been a sucker for a good boutique. The merchandise laid out just so; the shiny surfaces buffed within an inch of their lives; the way you find something new at each turn; the small touches that whisper 'come on … [Read more...]
Eat.Drink.Blog
Eat.Drink.Blog.Eat.Drink.Blog.Eat.Drink.Blog. True, it's what I do for some portion of pretty much every day, but this weekend I had the honour of getting together for a full day of food blog immersion with a group of like minded people from across Australia. People who are more prone to snapping shots of cake before tasting it, who don't mind the entree getting a bit tepid before even thinking about taking a bite, who look for tables with the best light - rather than the most privacy, … [Read more...]
Grandma Takes a Trip
Before we left on our little adventure there was, amongst other things, a small matter of what on earth to wear to Blogher '11. There were parties to attend after all, and I needed sparkly items ... and I'm sure there were a multitude of other reasons I made up at the time to justify why I had to go vintage shopping on the last weekend before we flew out ... 'Grandma Takes a Trip' in Surry Hills was recommended to me by a friend as a place to find something fun. I had been meaning to go there … [Read more...]
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