The weeks in brief: 11 March – 24 March
Hi. Lots of random bits and pieces in the last two weeks.
Such as: cupcakes from Cupcake Central for breakfast. Peanut butter and jelly, and French toast.
Both flavours are totally breakfast foods, right?
I bought a Thermomix recently and it is THE AWESOME.
This was a Thermomix dinner one night – chilli con carne.
The weather has cooled significantly. 🙁 Before it got colder, we managed to have dinner outside one evening.
We also had dinner at Spicy Barbie Chinese Kitchen Dumpling Love.
Yeah yeah, I know you’re probably sick of hearing about it. (Hi lamb ribs!)
Can I interest you if I talk about a new dish though? Spicy beef – dry fried, spicy, lots of cumin. Really GOOD.
You know what this is. 🙂
Last week I went to Casa and Bottega for a croquembouche class (disclosure: invited event).
Look at it! I made it!
I sort of also made a salted caramel Easter egg at Cacao. I went to an event earlier this week with a group of other bloggers (disclosure: invited event).
I thought I was suffering from the world’s biggest sugar crash (due to a massive hot chocolate at the beginning of the evening) but it turns out that I was coming down with a cold, so concentration levels were: o_o
🙁
I feel bad that I may have seemed uninterested when it wasn’t the case. My head was just all meep meep meeeeeeeep.
Friday saw breakfast at Hammer and Tong with my friend Em. Feeling better, but not quite 100%.
And then I went home and prepared birthday lasagne for Alastair’s birthday. 🙂 🙂 🙂
I made so much lasagne… almost four litres of bolognaise sauce and a litre of cheese sauce.
And I got up early to bake cake.
AND I lugged beer home for him. Wife of the Year Award, thank you, thank you.
Birthday lasagne was amazing, btw. Well, I’ve been making birthday lasagne for the past seven (?) years, so if it wasn’t good, I’d need to have a big harsh talk to myself.
Finally, I’ll leave you with snuggleface. SNUGGLEFACE! 🙂
March 24, 2013 @ 11:02 pm
I want breakfast cupcakes! Also spicy Chinese, and lasagne, and beer, and snuggleface. Nawwww.
March 25, 2013 @ 5:41 am
Aw, poor sick BFF! I would’ve helped you eat all the chocolate and lemon curd meringue cake that your soul wasn’t interested in. Also the peanut butter jelly cupcake, because even though I’m 🙁 to cupcakes generally, I a always 🙂 to peanut butter.
Also, we used to always get dry fried spicy lamb in our delivered Chinese meals when I was growing up. So chewy and spicy and sweet and chewy. Weirdly wanting that now.
March 25, 2013 @ 3:13 pm
Ohhh that croquembouche class seems like lots of fun!! I’ve never been able to make any puff type things at home without it going all soggy on me hahaha oops maybe I should go do a class as well 🙂
How much fun was Cacao gosh I ate so much chocolate and macarons there that night!
March 25, 2013 @ 10:52 pm
Hope you’re feeling better!
Happy birthday to Al!
Also I need to get to Spicy Barbie Kitchen! I want those lamb ribs in my life!
March 26, 2013 @ 1:56 pm
What an absolutely delicious food week!
March 26, 2013 @ 8:07 pm
awww snuggleface.
March 28, 2013 @ 11:22 am
Yay for Thermomix 😀
you’ll be an Italian nonna soon with all that lasagne!
March 28, 2013 @ 8:23 pm
Woah to that croquembouche! And hello to the lamb ribs. I will never get sick of the lamb ribs.
LR4L!
March 30, 2013 @ 9:10 am
Super Wife of the YEAR!!! Clap Clap Clap! So impressive!