We had sundowners at the Beresford Hotel one weekend. I absolutely loved the courtyard area with the lanterns; gas heaters made it warm enough to not hide underneath our jackets.
Someone left a MAC compact on the table. After a few hours asking the people around us and no one turning up I thought I’d take it back to trade in for a lipstick (MAC has this great recycling program called Back 2 MAC – link is for US only I think, though I’ve been bringing my empty MAC containers back to their stores for years).. anyway a few days later I opened the compact to clean it out and it was brand new, with the plastic protective sheet still on.. how odd!
Love this light!
We had way too many beers for a quick Sunday arvo drink; unfortunately I was seated next to one of those gas heaters and got drenched by beer.. twice! People kept leaving their drinks on the base of the heater which slanted outward and wasn’t an even surface to begin with.
We also had some shoestring fries to snack on, thankfully, which N very thoughtfully procured from the bar. Me and Jo are obsessed with shoestring fries at the moment and have been ordering it everywhere we go. So far our fave are the Tuscan fries with chili and herbs at Alio in Surry Hills where it comes perfectly seasoned! Yum!
Still having some server issues and manually posting images at the moment – have a backlog I don’t even dare look at. Hope it gets sorted soon. This week has been dragging on a little. We were at Aroma Fest over the weekend where I had about three too many coffees and had a caffeine headache :/
Having some minor server issues; apologies if you have been getting some time outs on the blog.. hopefully it will be fixed and stable soon!
The weekend was amazing! It started with a slow-cooked caramelised pork belly I made at home that lasted me two lunches. It’s another one of my grandma’s fail-safe recipes that I love to make – mostly because it’s so indulgent and I love pork belly. It’s not the healthiest thing for me but mmm I can’t really get past layers of delectable pork fat :P
On Friday night I caught up with some friends for dinner at Miso in World Square. The signature Tonkatsu was really good! I am not a big fan of the sweet sauce the pork is served with but they make a really good version of it and I couldn’t really complain at all. The flavours were perfectly balanced and the pork was nice and crunchy on the outside. The black sesame smoothie was rather memorable – I love black sesame and if you do too it’s worth checking out. I wish I had some pictures from that dinner but felt rather self-conscious whipping out my camera, though on hindsight I should have since my friends have also been known to take pictures of food! In the words of my girlfriend Lynn, that’s the only way to remember what you’ve had – so true!
The boy had his first Saturday off in ages so we took the car out and ran some errands. It was nice having all Saturday with him. We went to Fratelli Paradiso in Potts Point for “breakfast” but by the time we got there they were already doing lunch so we got right into it and ordered a feast! I love the food there – the risotto was beautifully creamy and the calamari was so fresh! And as always a blackboard of the day’s specials in a foreign language always makes me feel like I’m being particularly adventurous. Everything is more charming in Italian, no?
We let off some fireworks on the beach for H’s birthday on Saturday night and watched George Calombaris and Gary Mehigan cook live at the annual Good Food and Wine Show at the Sydney Convention Centre on Sunday. Needless to say we all left with a haul of food goodies! George and Gary were pretty entertaining – there was a segment on smoking salmon with tea leaves that I cannot wait to try at home. This coming week is going to be a busy one for me at work – deadlines!
So glad that the weather has been behaving all weekend. In the afternoons when the sun’s out I almost forget we’re dead in the middle of Winter. Hope it continues – am very much looking forward to the next weekend.
Also, the awesome C has hooked me up with beta keys for Cataclysm.. I am going to be quite happily doomed, I think! It’s been a while :)
Pics soon.. Sx
