Adelaide Pho and Vietnamese Pho

We travelled all the way to Vietnam to find out if Pho there is better than here. Yes, that is the reason why. More below.

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Coffee and Vintage

I finally had time to visit Relax in Vintage. This charming little place makes you forget that you are in the middle of The Myer Centre in Rundle Mall. Nikohl  made one great of a (soy) coffee and the cakes were delish! What a great place to catch up with friends and play a game of chess while admiring the amazing vintage pieces for sale. Coffee and vintage, such a pefect match! I'll be seeing you very soon.
I'm wearing a cropped Witchery knit , Ma's Raybans, Nudie high kais, NAVY docs and Rocco bag.

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best yiros & more yarn-bombing

Best lamb yiros in Adelaide @ Nik's BBQ on the Lake - thanks to Bill and his staff, Soy coffee frappe @ The Coffee Club and more yarn-bombing to keep the rocks and tree warm during the winter @ around the corner from home.

Best hot chips and alannah hill

This is my duck made from veggies, chicken and chips from the best chicken and chip shop in Adelaide 

-    somewhere in Campbelltown...

PS. Why is Alannah Hill's job advert in Vietnamese?

Carrot cake cupcakes

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We baked carrot cake cupcakes with cream cheese and lemon icing. Yummm. Not bad for our first carrot cake. We collaborated a few recipes. Here's the recipe:

You Will Need (Makes 20 mini cupcakes)

1 cup Brown Sugar, 1 cup Veg Oil, 3 Large Eggs, Pinch Salt, 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder, 2 cups Self Raising Flour, sifted, 2 cups finely grated Carrot, 1/2 cup Walnuts - finely chopped, 1 tsp Cinnamon, 1 tbs Orange Rind

Cream Cheese and Lemon Frosting

300g Icing sugar, 125g Cream Cheese - cold, 50g Unsalted Butter -room temp, 1 tbs Lemon Zest

Directions

Heat oven to 180c. Beat sugar and oil until thick, then add 1 egg at a time and keep beating for a few more mins. Add the rest of ingredients.Mix with wooden spoon until all combined. Bake for 15-18 minutes, or until light golden.


Update: It was better tasting the next day. I want more!

Red velvet cupcakes

This was our second attempt at baking cupcakes. This time it was 'Red Velvet' with cream cheese icing.

I think we're starting to get a hang of this baking business. Nom nom nom.

PS. Like my nails?

cupcakes

This was our first attempt at baking cupcakes and using a piping bag. As you can see, it was difficult finding the prettiest cupcakes to take photos of. We branded each one as unique. We used chocolate buttercream icing and pink icing which isn't strawberry, it's actually lemon cream cheese.

Friday night two thirds

For 2 months we've been wanting to go to Chocolate Bean because C had a relapse on the night of the half. I had to have my own regular soy latte and shared a large chocolate and gingerbread flavoured drink..wow was it huge. Sharing a brownie was a bad idea. I wanted more. I think we'll be baking brownies soon.
Oh, and Miss Gladys? G Star...really?

2012 Diary update: I feel bad, but I already found a new diary. It's navy, just bigger than A5 and 25% off. It's called the 'Cool Diary' by teNeues Verlag. A 'cool copy' of a Moleskine. Oh, and we saw Star Wars Moleskine journals. Pretty cool.

flourless choc hazel cake

C's ma found this flourless chocolate-hazelnut cake recipe in the paper a while ago and thought we would like to try this out since we have been trying to cook more lately.

It may look ugs but it was rated pretty high. Go us!

shiki

Christmas dinner with the Polys @ Shiki.

congrats in advance

Angie is "off to put my life savings on red in Vegas" - for 3 months, not forever. I'm sure you love birds have lots to catch up on. Keep us updated with your food blog and congratulations in advance!

We went to The Griffens Head on Grenfel St. I had a shitzel, but the porterhouse parmi wasn't bad. I'll get that next time.

Burgers and coffee

Omg. I rate these 3 mini burgers and this soy latte. It was the first time I've ever had soy in my coffee.

I'll be having soy from now on with pretty high expectations. Mmmmm. Go Coffee club ;)

Blue treats



We finished Breaking Bad, so it's back to Star Wars.....

Yummy blue iPhone, snacks during movies and I found the nerd's collection.



Moch aaah

Made by my man.

Like the best choc in the whole wide world

Okay, I the ORIGINAL Cherry Ripe is better. Not this dark cherry one.

Homebrand self-saucing choc pudding

Pretty tasty!!

Ingredients - use as much Homebrand products as possible (serves 6): 2 cups self-raising flour, 4 tablespoons cocoa powder, 1 cup sugar, 160g butter, melted, cooled, 1 cup milk, 2 egg, lightly beaten, ice cream to serve

Sauce: 1 cup sugar, 4 tablespoons cocoa powder, sifted, 2 cups boiling water

Method: Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease an 16-cup capacity ovenproof baking dish. Sift flour and cocoa into a large bowl. Stir in sugar. Combine butter, milk and egg in a jug. Slowly add to flour mixture, whisking until well combined and smooth. Spoon into baking dish. Smooth top. Make sauce: Sprinkle combined sugar and cocoa over pudding. Slowly pour boiling water over the back of a large metal spoon to cover pudding. Place dish onto a baking tray. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until pudding bounces back when pressed gently in centre. Serve hot with vanilla ice-cream. Hint: Pouring the boiling water over a spoon prevents the water from disturbing the sugar mixture too much.

$4 pizza

Midnight snacking on $4 pizza & Water for Elephants. Cute kids and their marriage dreams. Snakes at Uni. I want a pet snake.

Good FOOD and wine show

So A and I with her fellow minions decided it would be a great idea to score some free grub while testing out some wine today. Trick is it wasn't free, so we had to eat our $18 worth. We watched celebrity chefs, Tobie and Ainsley. A waved her arms erratically when the host asked to see who wanted to come to the front on kind of special seating arrangement, which quote Ainsley looked like "the X factor" panel.