Well it’s not Christmas anymore! So I can show you what I bought my boyfriend as part of his Christmas present.
Haigh’s Super Frog – Milk Chocolate
I’ve been staring at these frogs every time I pass by the Haigh’s store in the Strand Arcade. They are so shiny and… giant!
The Haigh’s frogs come in three sizes, small, midi and SUPER! And in three flavours too, milk chocolate (gold foil), dark chocolate (dark brown foil), and mint! (tree frog-green foil!)
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My friends that know me, know that I have an extreme weakness for anything involving schnitzel….
Actually any sort of crumbed chicken.
No wait, anything that’s been deep fried.
My inner foodie tells me it’s bad to order the same thing over and over again, right? I should want to try something new and exciting! But screw it… I just really love schnitzel.
So it was no surprise what I ordered when we went to the Glenmore Rooftop Hotel.
Chicken Parmigiana – $17.50
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Nothing says Christmas season to me more than seafood, summer fruit and beach picnics with friends!
Fresh cherries!
These fish skewers were made by my friends B & J. B caught the fish on a spear-fishing trip to the Coral Sea! The fish we ate is called Mahi-Mahi. It was so good!
Snakebean’s “Crispy Skinned Chicken – With crunchy green mango salad” $15.50
The photos in this post have been kindly provided by my friend V
Two friends and I visited Snakebean Asian Diner after a fantastic night checking out the College of Fine Arts Annual. I can’t believe it’s been so many years since it was our Annual…! Makes me feel old. Anyway, it’s always great to see what the students at COFA come up with for their graduating show. But walking up and down the hallowed hallways of F-Block makes for hungry Melly.
All three of us were STARVING by the time the Annual finished (at 8pm! So early! More time for drinking at the afterparty I suppose!). But having been students at COFA for 3 years, we knew there wasn’t too much choice in the immediate vicinity besides the usual stalwarts: the trusty Indian Home Diner, and the ever ubiquitous Oxford St kebab shops. With one of the people in our little group gluten and lactose intolerant, that also meant the Pizza place nearby was out. So down towards the party-end of Oxford St we went!
Snakebean Asian Diner is a small, unassuming shopfront in the busy strip of Oxford St. With hunger-fuelled eagle eyes, we kept a sharp lookout for the tiny flag and pop up sign that marked our destination.
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Speaking of the Periodic Table of the Elements in Cupcakes that my friend Kimmy made for her 18th birthday party, here’s a link to the Woman’s Day Periodic Table of Cupcakes (found via Metafilter)
Gorgeous! I especially love the look of these Garden Patch cupcakes! I will have to try them! So cute and creative. And the perfect excuse for mud cake!
So I logged on to flickr this evening, and was thrown to see a ginormous spike in page-hits!
It seems like my photo of Kimmy’s Periodic Table of Cupcakes has been making the rounds lately 
But besides being lucky enough to be there and snap the photo, I can’t take credit for this at all! The brilliant idea and execution were the result of a fantastic effort by my good friend Kimmy. Being a bit of a chemistry nut, (and a bit of a general nut too, let’s be honest 
) she’d decided that there was no better way to celebrate her 18th birthday than to recreate the periodic table in cupcakes!
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High Tea at Park Hyatt harbourkitchen&bar
How can you not love High Tea? It’s a great excuse to dress in fancy clothes and eat cake. My friend, who works at the Park Hyatt in the Rocks in Sydney has been raving to me about the pastry chef at the hotel’s restaurant, harbourkitchen&bar, Fabien Berteau. After learning that Berteau had come to the Sydney Hyatt after working at the venerable Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme – it’s safe to say that my expectations and curiosity were high (to say nothing of the fact that he is reportedly quite easy on the eye!)
So when it came time for my mum’s birthday this year, I knew just the thing to treat her to.
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Continuing from my Macaron saga – I had great fun matching up the pairs the next morning. Thanks to my unique piping skills, no two macarons were the same shape or size!
For the filling – well…so delighted was I by my lack of total failure the night before; my inflated over ambition again raised its head. No plain buttercream for me! Non non! It must be “Mango and Vanilla Mousseline” buttercream frosting, mais oui!
Yes, well… you can imagine how that went. I don’t even want to post the recipe in case I tarnish the writer with my failure. On the plus side, I ended up with a giant bowl of very delicious tasting mango-flavoured gloop. So to salvage it, I mixed everything with a block of philadelphia cream cheese and pretended that was the original plan.
LO AND BEHOLD – I PRESENT TO YOU:
MACARONS WITH MANGO CREAM CHEESE FILLING
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During my time off, I decided to set myself a few goals.
Goal 1: Do not spend every day sleeping until noon, only waking to eat oven fries and fishfingers and catch reruns of Bones.
Goal 2: Master the art of macaron making. Find previously unknown but prodigious talent for baking French sweets. Open Patisserie. Become beloved celebrity chef -> succeed in life.
Goal 3: Clean my room
