Tag: yum
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Highest of High Teas
For Justine’s Eclectic Corner #10 Tea Time Event, I am bringing us a decadent and elegant high tea. Last weekend was a weekend full of celebrations – my best friend’s birthday dinner, drinks, lunch the next day, shopping, and then we celebrated her mum’s birthday on the Sunday with High Tea. What a beautiful high…
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A croquembouche for tea?
If you haven’t had tea with Justine yet, you’re missing out. Today (a day late!), I’m bringing a special birthday cake to Justine’s Tea Time #3 – always a fun event, with some delicious recipes, teas, cakes, and other assorted goodies 🙂 My croquembouche was a surprise gift from my parents for my most recent (milestone)…
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Melbourne Food – Yum!
I was on a flight recently where the captain advised that it was a fully air-conditioned flight and we should make sure to keep all the doors and windows closed – LOL. Here are a couple of photos from this current trip to Melbourne. We went to two of my favourite restaurants while I was…
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Photo101Weekend3: Hone Your Eye?
I’m not sure I’ve really addressed the brief today, but I wanted to try my hand at photographing food with a little more panache than usual. I’d like to have a go at styling and setting up a food “scene” sometime soon, but today I concentrated on the food itself, the composition and cropping to…
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Sydney Food : Conrad Piggins.
Conrad Piggins is close to our head office in Warriewood. On Wednesday nights, they do a Chef’s Night Out. I’ve done something similar in Queenstown, New Zealand – it was called Trust the Chef and it was great. The Conrad Piggins experience was slightly different – it was basically a set menu for $45 and…
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Sydney Food : Gigi’s Pizzeria.
There were three of us for dinner and one wanted pasta, absolutely. I didn’t mind either way and we ended up here at Gigi’s. My other friend had been here before and said the pizzas were amazing so we met there the night of the recent storm in Sydney. A bit tricky to park but…
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Sydney Food : The Cubbyhouse Lounge Bar.
Located at The Spot in Randwick, this a lovely little cafe with some great modern food. We were walk-ins, but my two companions had been there before. Here’s the menu: The venue is nice, cosy but with plenty of room. Lovely chandeliers: The Duck Tarts were absolutely delicious – flaky bottoms, juicy duck and full…
Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist 