Funny feet

What big feet you have! Hehehe!

Sunday breakfast

After church this morning, met up with Charli to go to Balaclava to try out breakfast at Las Chicas - it is supposed to be good. Sadly we didn't end up eating there because the wait was so long that they had to ask us to go elsewhere. Wonder how we would ever get to try it out since we cannot make reservations.

We had breakfast at Gattica instead, a little bit further down the street. The food tooks ages to come and was ok. Nothing really out of the ordinary.

I had pancakes with chocolate sauce, strawberries and mascarpone cheese
Charli had corncakes with eggs and bacon












Later on we went to Chapel Street and passed by a pet shop where there were cute kittens! This one was a Himalayan Birman cross.

Vintage bunny

Bunny #6 made from vintage fabric that I just bought.

Busy Saturday

Darlink went to Sydney on Friday for work and is spending the weekend there. I entertained myself fully for today - did baking in the morning, shopping in the afternoon and started making a stuffed bunny in the evening.

Here is the recipe I tested out from the Macro Wholefoods newsletter.




Note that this didn't have any butter or oil in it. As such, it is a little dry but the dried cherries I used (in place of cranberries) added some bursts of flavour.



Met Charli in the afternoon for a walk to Brunswick Street and ended up at Red Tongue for lunch (at 3+ after a lot of stops along the way and Charli more than $100 poorer :D).



This is what we both ordered because it sounded so good but turned out a little small - puff pastry, asparagus, smoked salmon and hollandaise sauce.



After lunch, we crossed the road to Hunter Gatherer and found that they sell vintage fabric there! Of course I got some. A stuffed bunny is in the process of being churned out as I type this.

Pffft!

Bobbi bunny says hello! :P

Happy Chinese New Year!

CNY is here again! Over here we haven't really felt any of the festive mood at all, unlike in Singapore where everything would have built up to somewhat of a frenzy over the past few days and people will stuff themselves silly over the next few more. When we went out this afternoon past Chinatown, there were stalls set up selling Chinese-y stuff, foodstuff and a stage for performances. But it was way too hot to be any fun. It was a scorcher of a day. On the brighter side, I have CNY goodies coming from Singapore courtesy of Charli who is bringing them from Mammo! :D

We had dinner with Johnny and his new housemate John (also). Heard firecrackers going off just now in Chinatown as well.

Here's some pig stuff that I currently have on my table.

In the mood

Dressed up Bobbi bunny's cage for Valentine's Day! Like she has any idea...hehehhe!

Fleece bunny

Made a new bunny today! This was made out of fleece that I bought so that Bobbi bunny could have something to play with as well :D

A nice evening out

After 3 days of working late, we made a special effort to get to the St Kilda Beach Night Market. This week is also when the St Kilda festival is happening so I thought there might be a little more festivities there.

We bought a nice cake and a cherry tart from the Monarch cake shop (for breakfast), had dinner at Grill'd and then went to take a look at the market.






Yummy-looking cherry tart









There is a nice atmosphere at this market compared to others we have been to. There were performers, people and kids dancing to the music, people sitting on the lawns (or what was left of them) and the nice smell of hotdogs in the air. As the weather the past few days has been quite cool, it made for a really lovely stroll around.

Stalls there have a hippie feel to them - vintage clothing, handmade jewellery, leather goods, craft items, bags, tie-dyed stuff etc. There was even a drink stall selling chai!





I got a nice skirt/top/dress for $30.

The Bunny Cushion

She looked like a rectangular cushion sitting there...

Mummy's bunny

This was what I made for my mum's birthday!

Furry patch

Bobbi likes to sit with her butt stuck up against the grilles of her cage resulting in fur bunches poking out :D

A Bobbi binky

An attempt to photograph Bobbi binkying. Really quite blurry but at least we can tell which way she is facing :D Hehehe!

My second bunny creation!

A busy day!

Darlink went to watch the Australian Open today with his colleagues so I had to entertain myself for the day. Spent the afternoon baking a banana walnut & chocolate loaf and also made my first stuffed bunny. I am quite proud of that one! :D

Banana, walnut & chocolate loaf

Bobbi with work in progress

Stuffed bunny

Mission impossible?

Here you see Bobbi bunny sitting on the 3rd floor of her cage. She likes to sit here to get my attention and pokes her head out of the gap to get head rubs. We always thought she would not be able to get out through that gap because it only measures 8cm wide but just now she did! She was excitedly trying to follow me around in her cage and somehow leapt out through the space! Then she gleefully ran around the house...:S

Just hanging around (Part 2)

Relaxing on level 2 with her front paw hanging over this time.

Strawberry & almond tarts

Just tried out a new recipe I saw in the Sunday newspaper magazine. These looked really yummy and they are too when you eat them warm from the oven! :D The sides of the pastry didn't stay up like they were supposed to though. I think it was because my cutter was smaller than 8cm.

Ingredients:
* 1/4 cup almond meal
* 1 tablespoon plain flour
* 30g unsalted butter, melted
* 1/2 cup caster sugar
* 15 strawberries, hulled and halved
* 2 x 200g sheets ready-prepared shortcrust pastry, thawed
* unsalted butter, melted for brushing
* caster sugar, extra for sprinkling (optional)

Method - makes 10:
1. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C. Place the almond meal, flour, butter and 2 tablespoons of the sugar in a bowl and mix to combine.
2. Place the strawberries and remaining sugar in a bowl and toss to coat.
3. Use an 8cm cookie cutter to cut out 5 rounds from each of the pastry sheets.
4. Spread the pastry rounds with 1 teaspoon of the almond meal mixture and leaving a 2 cm border, top with three strawberry halves.
5. Fold up the sides to partially enclose the strawberries. Brush the pastry with butter and sprinkle with the extra sugar.
6. Place on a baking tray lined with non-stick baking paper and bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden.

A quote

Saw this quote on TV just now - He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how -- Fredriche Nietzche. Thought it made a lot of sense once you think about it.

Enjoying her new home

How she tries to get my attention...or maybe she is just happy to see me. :D