homage to the simple things in life

 

thank you angry chicken! i really like your style. you are a machine. and now because of your groovy blog i have made butter. you can see in the middle the separation between butter and buttermilk. and then the lovely bread i made to go with it. soft and delicious it rose to the occasion. ha.

it was very simple as promised. didn't take long at all in the fiend's lovely kitchen aid. the getting the water out bit was a touch tedious. but only because i'm the most impatient person in the world. but it went down a treat with the flatmates.

success.

butter.

equality for books

 

have read the book grocer blog before, it's funny. esp the shark bit.

and then i found it on sydney road. lovely sydney road.

and all the books are priced nice and low and reasonable, so you know any paperback you like is only going to be $6 and any hardcover is only $10. and i liked two paper and one hard. picklehead is already very funny and moving and foody. the bookbinders with the surname damage is the king of thing i like. there's a word for that, when your name suits your ocupation. the fiend knows it. i can't remember.

delicious things that have happened around our house

 

a quick round up of some tasty treats to remember

backyard antipasto and crumbed treats from piedimontes iga
when the fiend made croissants from scratch
a baked egg pastry delight and homemade panini loaf
birthday cake for the shark (bought from dexter's lovely cake lady)

we heart fowlers

the fiend boyfriend managed to get a hold of a whole bunch of fowlers jars. do you know about these? they are (were?) a wondrous home preserving system, with a very cute and domestic lady in the manual.

and you get to preserve all the wondrous foods of the rainbow, from everyday fruit and veg, to soup and meat and cooked spaghetti (!)

we're starting small. 5 litres of tomato sauce.



stay tuned.

a lovely musical lunch break

Wandered over to City Library yesterday to grab the latest in a certain trashy vampire series that i am admittedly hooked on (despite not really liking the main character OR her love interest hmm, but it does have an element of suspense that keeps me on). When I got there, so lovely because someone was upstairs playing the piano. I remember this happening once before and snapping the lovely old lady doing it with her gorgeous long white hair and nimble memory fingers and no sheet music. magic. and i've even tracked down my pic from then, see? and lucky because i didn't venture up this time, just listened from the queue. que-ue.

degraves always lures me but i rarely ever eat there, partly because i can't decide, partly because of the outdoors smokie people. then what i thought was still degraves, but is actually 'centre place' or 'centre plaza' or something, i happened along a crazy busy fast moving mass of people paying for food, so i joined it and worth it because, yum. flaky pastry cheese and spinach for primo price of $2.50. I think i'll have to go back. just for the photo mind you. BUT there was also a girl playing a sweet violin right nearby, so i got to listen to her while playing crumb face. happy lunch!

kitchen superhero: australian garlic

Found some! It's not common, as you may know. I've been on the look out since reading this article and then randomly at my friend's local grocer, there it was.



Pretty huh? I wanted to marry it, but my lamb got to it first. So I gave them a congratulatory gift of rosemary sprig and left them to it.

Plus some loverly tomats from the garden:



and delicious slow cooked lamb casserole. which i didn't get a snap because it was too yummy i guess and we got distracted. but that's the way it should be with delicious dinners.