The week in brief: 30 April – 6 May
Hello and happy Sunday! This week: it was pretty quiet. YAYAYAYAY. Oh yeah, there was dessert too.
At the beginning of the week, my work BFF and I had lunch at La Chicas (again). We both had the lamb salad special – cured lamb, rocket and pear with honey and dukkah. It was great. So simple, but delicious. I must recreate it at home sometime.
Dinner one evening was a simple steak on a warm wombock and carrot salad with some crumbled blue cheese. Oh man, I love blue cheese.
On Friday, Alastair and I went to Mr Hive Kitchen & Bar for a dessert degustation with Haz, Gazman, Adrian and CnC. We had THREE courses of dessert – all before we had even eaten dinner. Whoa. This was the hazelnut souffle and there was much, much more. So much sugar…
Afterwards we went roaming in search of much needed savoury food. We tried to go to The Sharing House but it was full, so we went to The Boatbuilders Yard instead. Alastair and I shared a burger.
Mhmmmmmmmm burger. YAY salt!!
Yesterday’s breakfast was fried eggs, bacon and avocado. Plus coffee, of course. I probably should’ve used a larger plate. Hehehe.
And dinner was beef stew – just a random mixture of stuff I threw into the pressure cooker. (I still love my pressure cooker.) This was also tonight’s dinner. Woot.
Today I spent a quiet day at home and even did some baking! I trialed a persimmon cake – my friend gave me a box of Hachiya persimmons from her garden. I don’t really like eating them that much – I prefer the non-astringent type when they’re still a bit crunchy, so into a cake some of them went. It was okay. I think it can be improved. I still have some that are waiting to ripen so I might try again next week.
And here’s your weekly dose of catspam. 🙂 🙂 How was your week?
May 6, 2012 @ 10:24 pm
Do want that souffle! The burger looks good too. Nice reverse dinner there. 😀
May 7, 2012 @ 5:08 am
I bought a pressure cooker this week – Hello 50 minute lamb shanks! what is that first picture of?
catspam hehehe
T x
May 8, 2012 @ 11:54 am
YAY pressure cookers rock. I’m such a convert after being scared of them for years.
The first pic is from the Sofitel – the lobby (?) on the 35th floor 🙂
May 7, 2012 @ 9:56 am
Great looking souffle! I thought you guys would have gone for dinner before dessert… but then again, you don’t want to end up too full to enjoy it!
May 8, 2012 @ 11:54 am
Oh no we’re hardcore (or a bit crazy). 😉
May 7, 2012 @ 11:41 am
You can’t go wrong with a 3 course dessert degustation for dinner! 🙂
May 8, 2012 @ 11:55 am
Hehee it was pretty epic. 😀 it was so good to eat something savoury after!
May 7, 2012 @ 1:03 pm
gosh….I had a huge headache the next day after our dessert detestation. It was like I was hungover.
May 8, 2012 @ 11:56 am
Dessert hangover – uh oh. And I thought you were completely into your sugar!
May 7, 2012 @ 7:45 pm
Your persimmon cake looks very pretty. Though, I am not sure I would like it. I had my very first persimmon yesterday. My grandma’s neighbour gave us a whole bag of them. It was weird…tasted like nothing. Perhaps it was not ripe?
May 8, 2012 @ 11:10 am
Another delicious week!
Really need to try La Chicas one day 🙂
May 10, 2012 @ 1:08 am
Glad to hear the persimmons are being used up –I’ve never had persimmon cake. The home cooking looks really delicious! A 3 course dessert meal –followed by a burger..—hmm, what can I say????
May 11, 2012 @ 2:48 pm
Oh dear holy monkey blue cheese and dessert-for-dinner YES forever.
Also, squelchy persimmons are yooky. Fuyu persimmons are also YES forever. xo
May 11, 2012 @ 11:33 pm
My god… we do eat a lot in one week don’t we?