Cupcakes

My housemate was baking cupcakes for a friend's 21st, so I decided to get in the way with my camera to play around with black and white. And then I helped iced some. And then I ate some. And they were good.

Thai photos

Here are a couple of photos I took while doing a food review for work a week or so ago. It got me thinking... being a food photographer would be a pretty awesome job. Food doesn't talk back... it doesn't blink when the flash goes off... and you would get to eat the yummy food after the shoot. Sounds like a pretty sweet gig really. Dealing with the chefs might not be so fun though.

Dinner Party

We had a lovely dinner party at a friend's house last night to celebrate one of my friends shoving their foot in that heavy entry level door of the media. Mel and I got all domestic during the day, making salad and vegetarian fresh spring rolls and lemon slice to take, because it was too hot to venture out of the house during the day.



The party was held at my friend's house in the fancy part of Redfern. Shame about the sawn off shotgun wielding madman and police road blocks plaguing the suburb that evening. At first we thought the police helicopter had just heard about our amazing cooking... then we thought that maybe something more serious was going on outside. Oh well, just another night in Redfern. More tea anyone?





It was a lovely evening. Good food, good company, great conversation. Very civilised, despite the kerfuffle outside. The police helicopter continually flying over was slightly disconcerting though, but easily ignored. We were lucky that we got a cab without too much hastle, retiring to the safety of the Inner West.

Domestic Goddess!!!

I'm back in Sydney and things are pretty dull. I've got the house to myself as the others are away, the office is pretty empty as many people are still on leave so work was quite a drag last week, and yeah, there's not really much to do.

So tonight I decided to make an exciting meal for myself that would be a time consuming exercise.

MENU:

Hungarian Paprika Chicken served with handmade cottage cheese dumpings with lemon slice for dessert.

Quite an undertaking! But all went well. I had to make the dough to make the dumplings, something I've only done once before in my life in Year 8 Home Economics.



I made everything from scratch, which I am very proud of. Here is what my main meal ended up looking like, it was very tasty!

And here's a picture of my lemon slice in the fridge chilling;

Yum! It was fun, kneading the dough was quite theraputic, and licking the icing bowl reaffirmed my sense of self worth... and the Hungarian theme (minus the lemon slice) took me back to those wonderful days spent in Budapest. The only thing missing was a bowl of steaming hot proper (that means spicy with paprika) Goulash to go along with the chicken and dumplings. This postmodern girl was reclaiming traditional femininity... for a short time only!

All in all, I was quite impressed with my domestic skills, especially since they are so rarely practiced!

Here are the recipes I used;

Hungarian paprika chicken

Cottage cheese dumplings

Lemon slice