I’ve noticed that a number of my dear commenters don’t have a Gravatar! I would love to see your pretty faces next to you comments!
Here’s a video telling you how awesome gravatars are.
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January 2010
One of many lunches out over this Chrissy/New Year was with my family at a new cafe on Darby Street, simply called The Kitchen.
I started with a soy latte (they recently had to switch off the Bonsoy) while waiting, cos it takes a little longer for my sister to get going now there’s also a baby to bundle into the car too!
hehe Liam.
Menu
I had a pear, honeyed walnut and blue cheese salad. Oh yum!
Rish rocked up later and had a pizza with King Prawns and Salami!
Then his mum came, and tried to steal the baby… not that my father was going to have any of that, and whisked him off to the car later :p
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Rish’s mother goes a bit over the top when she buys chrissy presents for her boys, and in amongst the wrapping paper was a package of squid ink pasta. I haven’t tried it before now, so was quite curious about how it would cook up and, more importantly, taste.
It was very quick to cook – 7 minutes to a good biteyness. Cooked up some chicken in a Barilla ricotta/tomato sauce, and made an awesome coloured salad with mushroom, feta, avocado, roquette, baby spinach, egg tomatoes and cucumber to make me not feel so pasta-ey.
The taste – well it just tasted like normal, nice, pasta. Looked really cool though. Any suggestions for how to cook up the second half of the packet?
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I was a very happy girl when I found soy based gelato on Lygon Street. I think I had coffee and hazelnut flavours. Nice to have them without then getting an upset stomach in return!
It had a slight different feeling on my teeth, but it’s easy to get through that because of the flavour!
Casa Del Gelato 163 Lygon St, Carlton Victoria.
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There’s NO way I’d ever buy sunglasses this huge. They’re freaking me out (as are my shoulders)
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Rish gave me some little plants for xmas to help along my little pot plant garden. There’s a rose, some rhubarb, strawberries and a plant with teeny tiny flowers :)
We also nabbed some irises from his Mum’s garden in Newcastle to plant in our yard.
Getting there!
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Back from a very quick dr’s visit. I was pleasantly surprised that I got in so easily – with a doctor new to the surgery so isn’t booked up yet.
Seems to be a generic viral infection getting to my throat and mucous-producing bits. Enough to knock me about long enough to be given til Friday off work on a medical certificate.
One thing I hate though it when I’m asked whether I would like antibiotics or not. Just tell me if you think I need them, if I need them I’ll take them if I don’t I won’t. Don’t ask me because you assume I want pills because it’s a great placebo.
We had that exchange, during which he confirmed that no, he didn’t think I needed them, but still offered to write a script for antibiotics in case I got worse, to which I replied that if I was worse by Thursday, I’d be coming back and could get given something then.
So, rest, watching the cricket, zooper doopers and mangoes til Friday.
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Arrived home this afternoon to find this on my doorstep:
My brown paper package gift from Valerie!!! Perfect timing – if it had arrived last week, it would have sat outside until we arrived home from Newcastle.
Rather Australian card there ;)
Jam Packed! (Rish likes the bubble wrap! Thanks!)
Awesome bird necklace and earrings. That purple is completely my colour :)
Another pair of earrings. Birds, too. Really hard to get a pic of though, sorry
The pegs have magnets to hold notes to my fridge :)
Something heavy in this!
Coasters! No wonder the postage was so high, silly thing!
Home mixed spices!
Valerie and her friend have their own Etsy store: Spunk and Sass Designs :)
Thanks for the awesome gifts :) Always fun to see what you will get in these things!
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Christmas/New Year was full on, and full of food.
Unfortunately, I woke up feeling “more hungover than New Years Day” on he 2nd, and I have abit of a throat infection. Blech. So I’m uploading photos to Flickr now, but will spill out the posts as I feel like it.
Happy New Year!
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