The weeks in brief: 24 December 2012 – 6 January 2013
ARGH. This post was meant to be published last Sunday and I’ve only just noticed it in my drafts. TOTAL FAIL.
Hello and happy 2013!
So this is what’s been happening over the past two weeks.
There was Xmas.
And then a post-Xmas lunch at Hellenic Republic with Dany and her papa and stepmum.
I enjoyed Hellenic Republic. Full post to come.
Of course there was catspam. 🙂
We had breakfast at Streat, where I ordered something I normally never order: crunchy granola with fruit and honey labneh.
It was really nice, but I felt a bit ill afterwards – maybe because of the milk. Eurrgh I hate milk.
I have blogged Streat previously.
There was a visit to the Cranbourne Botanic Gardens with mum and dad.
We spent all our time in the Australian Garden, which is really quite cool.
Worth a visit (if you like gardens and stuff).
There was also a late lunch at Food Republik in Box Hill with the parentals. I’ll blog that at some point.
Cherrie hosted a high tea and this was our spread. Pretty good, right?
I made mango and coconut friands and spicy cheese biscuits.
The friands were particularly good. Toot toot!
Alastair and I had brunch at Reading Rooms (again). I really need to blog that place.
Oh and then it was NYE.
We had a fairly quiet one. There was BBQ (thanks to Bro for manning it, as always), karaoke, and sparklers.
And then it was 2013. :O
On Friday – yes the 41°C day – I went on a road trip to the Mornington Peninsula with Maz, Taz and Haz (yay, the Dastardly Duo are together again!).
Our first stop was The Vintage Shed, where I found a set of sporks. YAY. (Yes, I did buy them. I’m starting to amass a collection!)
I didn’t buy anything else, though I was tempted…
Our next stop on our road trip was lunch at Montalto at their Piazza Cafe. This was our view – not too shabby, hey?
For lunch we had pizzas, fries and frittata.
Afterwards, we did some wine tasting.
Then we moved on to Red Hill Cheese for cheese tasting. I LOVE their cheese and came away with a jar of feta and a small wedge of their Granny Blue cheese (it’s the best).
Our next stop was for cake at Red Hill Baker. Sadly, they were only average and we didn’t finish them (not worth the calories, as Hazzie said).
We then stopped at Heronswood for a quick look around. It was HOT by that stage, but there was a lovely sea breeze up there. It’s such a beautiful spot.
It was so hot that all we could think about was ice cream (ice cream, I melt you down like ice cream). We drove down to Dromana and made a stop for cones.
I choose pistachio gelato and yoghurt with mango swirl. Sadly, it was just average (the pistachio didn’t taste like pistachio, and the yoghurt was too sweet) and I didn’t finish it.
That was our last stop before we all headed home. Thanks Maz for driving us around! <3
And that’s it! I haven’t done any cooking (except for Xmas and BBQ for NYE) because the parents are still here. This is how much mum looks after us (me): they were going to be out tonight so she even left me some food to cook. But they came home early (in time for dinner) so she just ended up making it. AHHHH. <3 I'll leave you with worried cat is worried catspam. (I have no idea what he was worried about.) How's your 2013 been so far?
msihua (@msihua)
January 13, 2013 @ 2:32 pm
hahahaa that cat of yours still makes me laugh and that picture.. hahahaAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Agnes
January 13, 2013 @ 8:56 pm
He is a dumb cat, but so so amusing. 😀
Sarah
January 13, 2013 @ 5:49 pm
Looks like it’s been a great few weeks! Vintage sporks!!!! So cool!
Happy New Year!
Agnes
January 13, 2013 @ 8:55 pm
You would not believe how excited I was when I saw the vintage sporks. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
And happy new year to you too! 🙂
Trish
January 15, 2013 @ 9:47 am
you know what – I hate milk too. Blagh!
I usually eat cereal with yoghurt.
I went to St Kats yesterday – you know what? meh… cant wait to hit up hellenic.
Yo to the sporks.
T x