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Home made caramel brownies by my cousin Jane Considering the fact that I was in Melbourne for work, and ate in two nights out of four, I managed to fit quite a lot of foodage into my free time. Which was mainly Saturday. I do myself proud sometimes. Join me on my instagram journey! Enjoy! .
Tuna tartare with crushed green pea salad I need to go back to Melbourne. Working there for three days last week was but a tease, and though I managed to stuff myself full of dumplings, noodles, pastries, chilli, hot dogs, cupcakes, Malaysian and my Mexican cousin (yes, I ate my Mexican cousin, but no I don’t have one. Go figure.), the short trip has whetted in me an appetite for more things Melburnian, like more awesome stuff from Burch & Purchese, for example. Amongst all the deliciousness, there was one unanimous winner (as voted by me, and my multiple personalities). Cumulus Inc., recommended to me by one of the very few people I blindly trust, was stellar. .
Seared calamari with a lemongrass & lime dressing and a green chilli mayonnaise Who ever said country bumpkins didn’t know how to eat deserves a slap. And now that I’ve called them country bumpkins, I think I’m going to get a slap, but it’s Townsville… so you know what I mean Not that we always ate fancy, we also had some hotdogs from a cart by the beach. As you do. Anyhow, this is pretty much a Townsville food porn post (less writing, more drooling), so without further adieu… feast away! .
I am utterly suicidally depressed today. The last four days have been spent in tropical North Queensland, where in winter it’s a perfect blue-skied 27°C with sea breezes lolling me to sleep (in bed, on the balcony, in the hammock, anywhere). But that’s not even why I’m suicidal. We spent the four days with my family, including my beautiful 16 month old niece who’s just started walking and talking (OMGCUTE) and now that I’m home I miss her with a heart ache that I haven’t felt since… since the last time I left her. Gah, how a little person does this to me, I don’t know. BIG SAD FACE anyway. .
Last weekend, our little crew of eight adults and three kids went road trippin’ overnight up to the Hunter Valley. Why only one night? Because we hadn’t been away with the kids before and now that we know what champs they all can be (no tantrums, no crying, heavenly!) we’re planning a longer trip away! .
Every once in a while, everybody needs to take an emotional day. To de-stress, to unwind, to rebalance a life that is far too skewed towards work work work and not nearly towards me. Which is why I started my day today with a 90 minute massage, and now, at 5pm I am Way Too Sleepy to work. Yes, some genius idea. So anyway, I’ll blog instead to stay awake. (note: 5pm might be home time for most of you but this is basically 9am in my day so like, I’m screwed.) .
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Every time we go to Townsville to visit my brother and sis-in-law, they take us out to fantasmical (totally a word) places and we are pretty much always impressed with the meals we have. The food is modern, edgy, creative, totally what you would find in a “big city” – but alas, they are also catching up to big city prices.
