MoVida, Surry Hills

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cordero moruno – whole shoulder of lamb marinated in Moorish spices cooked in a josper charcoal oven

All I can say is… I need to go back to Movida during the day, so that I can take prettier photos. I mean, just wait til you see the crappy state of these photos! I’m ashamed. But alas, I’ll take one for the team and post these anyway because blurry or not, you need to know how amazing Sydney’s newest “it” restaurant is and in all honesty, I’d go again during the day. Or at night. Or even during a black out.

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recipe | flourless chocolate and peanut butter brownie

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People often look at Panu, and then they look at me (or my blog or my instagram feed). And they wonder how on earth he looks the way he does when he has to live with me.  Not that there’s anything wrong with living with me. I cook, I clean, I don’t snore and I even smell quite nice, or so I’m told. And on the odd occasion, I also bake some awesomely delicious things.

What does Panu bring to the relationship? Well, he has a mad six-pack.

So I’m not complaining.

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recipe | “cereal milk” milkshake

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I have a conundrum. I didn’t know what to call this… beverage. Not that I had many options. What it is is a cereal milk milkshake. But that sounds rather silly, don’t you think? I want to call it a cereal milk shake instead. Which is factually wrong, because the milkshake itself isn’t really made of cereal. It’s made of cereal milk. So, it should be a cereal milk milkshake.

I just don’t like the sound of that.

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