Menu Tasting

Saltwater Blue Eye Fish Fillet on Smashed Nicola Potatoes, Watercress and Cherry Tomatoes

Grilled Beef Fillet

Summer Chicken

Green Salad

Chocolate Lava with Yea Cream (loved the dried raspberries)

Pineapple Tart and Sorbet

Cheesecake and Lemon Lime Sorbet

Where were we?

One of the best parts of the job in event management is menu tasting. 

Was at the MCG today with some colleagues picking the menu for an upcoming event.

It's hard work but someone's gotta do it.

Can you guess what we chose?

Spotted this pretty garden as we left the grounds and headed back to the office.

Needed to walk off the generous helpings of the very more-ish menu items we tasted 

- or inhaled with great appreciation.

Banana Chocolate Chip Mmmmuffins

Ok. These are seriously simple-to-make, yummy, moist cupcakes. Only hand mixing required.
www.taste.com.au/recipes/15298/choc+chip+banana+muffins

Starting School 2012

The kids headed back to school today. I mistakenly thought my son was supposed to start yesterday - the real first day of term. My husband went to all the trouble to get him and his lunch and breakie ready. Then he drove right past the school. My son called out: 'Why aren't you stopping Dad?!" He replied: 'Because there's 500 people missing from the school ground!' Back home they went. Today, my son didn't even make it into the school building before he hurt himself by falling and badly skinning his knee. He still went to Little Athletics in the evening, but it would have been sore to run and jump.

Up For Another Challenge?

Last Day 31 'Me Again' - pouring over "Design Sponge"

The Photo A Day Challenge is over! Or is it?

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You can dip in and out when you feel like it.

Check out her blog for more info 

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Or depict your day in photos.

Shall I do this tomorrow?

Treasury Gardens Oasis

Day 30 of the January Photo A Day Challenge

'Nature'

This is the green oasis in front of the Victorian Government offices in Melbourne

Family Fun and Fishing in Echuca-Moama

Colourful jumping pillow

Lagoon-style pool

Two-bedroom cabin with a front porch that housed family and friends for an Australia-Day dinner. Lunch was lamb on the barbie.

The next night we all dined at the Echuca-Moama RSL. The boys loved the playground and computer room.

The boys engrossed in sharing one electronic game in the cabin after dinner.

Vintage Picnic Case

Late Photo A Day 23 'Something Old' - I could have taken a pic of the moldy blueberries in the fridge but 'Inside my Fridge' is the theme on the 29th - and I didn't want to gross you out. So here's something old and pretty. Hope it gets you in the mood for Australia Day picnics on January 26th.


This is a circa-1950s Brexton picnic case with china and bakelite - never used. it's so romantic looking.


I bought it about 17 years ago from the family of two sisters who used to operate a china shop in our town a long time ago. They were selling the sisters' possessions and this was supposedly an item in their old stock.

Day 24 'Guilty Pleasure' - books and magazines. I am such a bookworm. 


Check out Design Sponge for Home by Grace Bonney, founder of the Design Sponge blog. It's a beautiful book that gives you a peak into the homes of some amazingly creative people, and includes some clever projects.