Pattycakes loves sweets, and we encouraged her to order whichever dessert took her fancy. She ordered the banana and passionfruit crepes. They came with a plump strawberry garnish and a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream. I had a mouthful – it was beautiful! Really REALLY sweet and passionfruity-bananary. Jac ordered the trio of […]
Yesterday, we took Jac’s mum (we call her Pattycakes) out to dinner at The Witch’s Cauldron in Subiaco for her birthday. We started off with a drink each: a glass of house red for Pattycakes, a glass of cranberry juice for Jac and a glass of Diet Coke for me. Yeah yeah yeah boring! I’ll […]
Mum’s birthday cake was homemade by the wife of one her work colleagues. It was covered with thick, smooth, rich butter cream icing.* Oh my god, it was gooooooood. It was so good I actually ate a whole piece. Usually I just have a bite out of Jac’s (part of the secret to not becoming […]
Last year, we celebrated my dad’s 60th birthday at a dinner with family and friends at the Swan Lake Chinese Restaurant in Churchlands (savoury post here, sweet post here). On Saturday evening, we returned to celebrate Mum’s 60th (her birthday is actually tomorrow!). The people on my table patiently put up with my photographing of [&hel…
I would’ve posted this on Sunday but I felt too tired to do anything really. Let me share my exhausting Saturday with you! We went to the shops on Saturday morning because we had a few unexciting things to do, like go to the post office. Of course, we were starving, having been really slow […]
We went to Jac’s mum’s for dinner on Easter Sunday. She had some Easter chocolate muffins in a tupperware on the table. I thought they looked rather like Playboy Bunny muffins. What do you reckon? Jac’s mum made a simple but delicious dinner of braised chicken with vegetables. She served it with mashed potatoes and […]
On Tuesday night we had dinner at my younger sister Juji’s new place, which she’s sharing with her boyfriend and two other friends. As regular readers will know, Juji is a great cook (between Jac, Juji and my mum, I’m kept very well fed!), so I was really looking forward to it. As expected, Juji […]
This morning, we went over to my grandma’s place. Jac helped trim my grandma’s money plant*, which was going gangbusters in the front garden bed. She also got rid of this weedy shrub thing (can you tell I’m not a gardener?!), turned the soil over to dig up and remove the weedy shrub thing’s roots […]
This morning, we went over to Jac’s mum’s place for Jac’s brother Brad’s birthday breakfast. We brought along our electric banquet frying pan and our aprons (incidentally, the aprons were made by Jac’s mum!) and got to work in the kitchen. Jac fried the many rashers of bacon in the electric fry pan, and fried [……
Yesterday evening, we all got together again for dinner on CherryRipe’s last night in Perth. (This sentence originally read: “Last night, we all got together again for dinner on CherryRipe’s last night in Perth”). We had a curryfest cooked by Mum and Juji, complete with basmati rice and papadams. We usually have the plain pa…