Four Days, Fifteen Snaps

 On Friday I treated myself to sushi for lunch, since I'd been so busy decluttering all week and there were no leftovers at home anyway.

 

 

It was pretty good!

 

 

I also decluttered some belts:

 

 

 

Once upon a time I had a hanging rack thing on my bedroom door for stuff like dressing gowns and scarves, but we had new doors put in a while ago and the rack doesn't fit any more.  I moved my scarves to the wardrobe and hung my dressing gowns from the picture rail on the wall behind the door.

 

 

I used 1980s-style ornate picture hooks because I just have such good taste when it comes to interior decorating.

 

 

This went on for a while but on Friday I realised I thought maybe, just maybe, I could hang the whole hanging rack from the picture rail.  And as it turns out, I was right!

 

 

I chucked the pink dressing gown because it's scruffy now and I retrieved this vintage nylon number from a storage box.  It doesn't have a hanging loop so I put it on a hanger suspended from one of the picture hooks.  I love storage solutions!

 

 

On Saturday Jim brought me some flowers.

 

 

Then I went to my Nana's place to pick up some trifle, and when I got there look what she was doing:

 

 

Reading Expect Cowgirls!  And having Happy Hour.

 

Hello Nana if you're reading!

 

 

She had some Christmas decorations up too.

 

 

 

Here is the trifle:

 

 

Yum!

 

 

Afterwards I went to my cousin's place for a BBQ.

 

 

On Sunday I went to the pub for Ben's birthday.  Happy birthday you lemon!

 

Meg looked so good in her Summery maxi dress:

 

 

 

FF looked nice too:

 

 

Just kidding, that's Emily! Could've fooled me though.

 

 

I had one of these lovely cocktails.

 

 

It was called a Russian Rose but it tasted quite like a cosmo. Tasty

 

 

And when I came home look what I found:

 

 

Festive! Thanks Mummy!

 

 

On Monday I made my usual lunch:

 

 

A handful of rice crackers (these ones are Peckish brand, try them!), a tin of tuna, thirty grams of cheese.  It is a quick and easy but super tasty lunch and I love to eat snacky things because it's like being on holidays.  Kind of a bogan antipasto.  And good news if you're on a diet, because if you buy the light tuna like I do this meal will only have about 1000 kilojoules.

 

 

Speaking of diets, that night Jim and I had dinner at the $3.50 sushi place in Cronulla then went to San Churro in Miranda for dessert because I'd had churros on my mind for days.

 

He had the sundae:

 

 

 

Naturally I had these:

 

 

They were so delicious! I'm pretty sad that adults can't get the kids' churros anymore though, they are a much easier serving size, and cheaper of course, but the best bit is they come with sprinkles!

 

 

Anyway what have you all been doing, anything?

Scavengebeer Hunt

I had my birthday celebrations last weekend! First the girls came over in the afternoon. I wasn't expecting anyone to get me a present but I got these lovely flowers:



And all this- macaron mix, photoframe, goodies from Lush, Coca Cola Lipsmackers, Scrabble teatowel, make-your-own-snowglobe kit, delicious cookies.

Plus this Harry Potter balloon!!

I made this sweet potato fritata which was yummy but way too difficult to make.

I need to find another recipe for this. Anyone got one?

The girls all brought food too, including this lovely chocolate birthday cake.

I think it is a Nigella recipe.


And here is a cracker with my favourite homemade carrot dip, which nobody but me seems to like. More for me!

You just puree a few cooked carrots, mix them with Philly and add a bit of garlic. I add Sambal Olek too for extra deliciousness.


Then we went out for a Scavengebeer Hunt - like a scavenger hunt, but with drinking!

I got SIX BOXES OF OREOS!!!!

We had to solve clues to get to a bunch of different places and drink at each of them. One of them was Carmen's; I never thought I'd see this:

(It's still a hole.)

The girls' team did heaps of extra things for bonus points too, including a photo hugging an old lady, a photo with a fireman, swapping shirts with a stranger, having a drink with a cocktail umbrella in it, and having a drink with an actual umbrella in it:

We were the last to arrive at the final destination but we scored so many bonus points that we won!! Good work girls! Chasing a firetruck down the street really paid off.

Afterwards we went to Rob's (thanks Rob!!) to party down.

Thanks everyone for coming and being so much fun!! And thanks James for organising the whole thing, you are the best.

Hello, and The Ship's Pizza Secrets Revealed

Hello!

I have decided to start a blog where I will discuss my interests, including, but not limited to: shoes, shopping, thrift, books, eating, cooking, trivia, board games, giraffes and stationery. Probably there will be some Harry Potter as well.

Today my boyfriend gave me these lovely flowers. They came with this crazy rainbow elephant attached! He brought sushi as well, I didn't take a photo though so use your imagination. It was delicious.

In other news I made a delicious homemade pizza for dinner. I have a bunch of pizza-making tricks up my sleeve from working in a pizza shop, so if anyone is reading this, you are about to get the inside scoop.

I used the recipe on the pizza flour box for the dough, I think it was:

• 220 grams pizza flour


• 1 tsp salt


• 1 tsp dried yeast


• 160mL lukewarm water


• 1 tbsp olive oil

Sift the flour and salt into your Kitchenaid bowl. Dissolve the yeast in a small bowl with a little bit of the water, then add the rest of the water to it. Make a well in your big bowl and tip in the yeast/water mixture, then add your oil. At this point I deviated from the recipe - instead of doing whatever complicated stuff the people at the flour company wanted me to do, I just turned on the Kitchenaid for 5 minutes. Then put the bowl in front of the heater with a teatowel over it until the dough is twice its original size.

When you roll out the dough, you have to put it on your pizza tray BEFORE you put the toppings on!!

You can buy special Pizza Sauce, but trust me, what you really want is regular pasta sauce. Spread it right to the edges then sprinkle cheese all over your pizza base. Then chuck on some sliced ham, corn kernels and caramelised onion, or anything you like I guess, and put more cheese on top. Put it in a hot oven 'til it's cooked (ten minutes maybe).

Eat the whole thing.