This week in brief
Summer summer summer is here! Warm days and sunshine always make me happy. 🙂 But rolling on… here’s a bit of my week.
On Thursday, I met up with I-Hua, Thanh and Michele for a quick and dirty dinner at Lau’s Family Kitchen. We only had an hour to spare, so we ordered, ate, and got out quick smart. We all enjoyed the food so it was a shame we couldn’t linger.
We had to leave in a hurry because we were due at a Nuffnang event at The Stokehouse. I hadn’t been to The Stokehouse before – it’s in a fantastic spot. I went a bit photo crazy with the sunset.
I couldn’t help it – it was such a beautiful night. Really warm and balmy, so there were heaps of people out and about.
As the sun set, it became more and more gorgeous. See?
SEE? Okay, this was the last one.
But back to the event – we had five Schweppes cocktails matched to five Stokehouse desserts. Unfortunately as it got darker (and as I drank more) photos got harder and harder, so this is pretty much it. Heeeeee.
Last night I hosted a margarita evening where we had home made tacos for dinner. I cooked up chicken, pork and prawns, and we built our own tacos. I even made a batch of corn tortillas (thanks to Bro for standing over the frying pan and cooking each one).
And margaritas! They were awesome – we started with frozen mango margaritas, and when that ran out we moved to normal ones.
Mazza brought along a massive tres leche cake. It was delicious. Who would’ve thought cake soaked in a mixture of three kinds of milk could be so good?
Unfortunately, I still have half of it sitting in my fridge because she refused to take it home. 🙁 Does anyone want some cake??
After dessert we ran out of lime juice, so started mixing up random cocktail concoctions. DANGER DANGER. Dany said this one tasted like Benadryl cough syrup. Hah.
I must say: it was pretty potent.
Today we went to I-Hua’s place for a coffee party. I felt fine this morning, but the car ride there broke me. 🙁 I felt quite shit when we arrived, though I felt better when I found out that Bryan was also hung over today – misery loves company!
I-Hua and her Boy cooked up a feast for lunch. One part of the feast: salmon patties and avocado salad.
But best of all: FRIED CHICKEN. They made FRIED CHICKEN. I felt so much better after eating it. I-Hua and A: you two are some weird psychic geniuses. It was exactly what I needed!
After lunch, we played with I-Hua’s new coffee machine, and had jelly and panna cotta for dessert. Oh, and a paleo carrot banana cake that I made, but it looked butt ugly, so I didn’t take any photos of it.
Right, right, that’s it. How was your week? 🙂
Adrian (Food Rehab)
December 12, 2011 @ 5:17 pm
Shame I missed the cocktail event due to othe plans but it looked to be fun! Love the sunset!
Agnes
December 18, 2011 @ 8:48 pm
You definitely missed out – it was great fun 😀
Hannah
December 12, 2011 @ 8:20 pm
Even though the sunset itself did get more gorgeous, I actually like the first photo you captured the best, with the rays shining down through the clouds. Bravo, Lady Photographer Queen!
I think right now is a good time for me to be not in Melbourne. You know I’d put my hand up for that cake, but I’m guessing Tres Leches would be even worse for my lactard self than cheesecake.
P.S. Paleo carrot cake recipe please? 🙂
Agnes
December 18, 2011 @ 8:48 pm
Thanks BFF, I do like the first photo too 🙂
I’ll email you the recipe – be warned, it comes out FUGLY.
msihua
December 14, 2011 @ 11:24 pm
I feed you well! It’s because we’re nearly the same person that I knew you needed the Fried Chicken 😛
Agnes
December 18, 2011 @ 8:49 pm
Hehee, yes that must be the reason! Fried chicken ftw. 😀