It’s been a pretty hectic weekend, mostly filled with looking after Misty and Star and introducing them to each other. A bit of tussling and chasing around but they’re now happy to each wander around the place and do their own thing – so I couldn’t ask for more, considering it’s only 24 hours of meeting each other! Hopefully by 2 weeks or so they’ll start loving each other and become best friends 🙂

Star likes nothing more than walking around looking for me, then putting her paws up onto my legs and looking at me… then I pick her up and she curls onto my lap to sleep. It’s really sweet.. if I pick her up and put her on the couch next to me, she’ll wake up, look around, then crawl back onto my lap and snuggle back down. Soooooooo endearing!! So far, Misty’s the one that looks for me when she wants to play and go mad, and Star’s the one that looks for me for quiet-time and sleep.

Anyway, a weekend wouldn’t really be a proper weekend without some food pics, right? Right. So here we go…

Makan @ Alice’s
Shop 3, 262 Pennant Hills Rd
Thornleigh, NSW 2120

Alice’s doesn’t need an introduction nor full review IMHO, if you’ve been reading this blog for awhile 😛 It’s a staple of ours, we go there every 2-3 weekends for our “Singaporean food fix”. A family-run restaurant, they’re tucked away into the corner and pretty obscure.. so Chris almost always is the only Caucasian person there. The good thing about that is that they recognise us and always greet us with a cheery “Oh! Hi!” They’re also accustomed to Chris order – which NEVER EVER changes and is rattled off by him “I’d like a char kway teow please, medium spicy and no bean sprouts. And a sago with gula melaka with not too much gula melaka, can you bring it out a little later for dessert” *lol*!

Me? I try and eat my way around the menu… so this time, I chose Roti Chanai with Chicken Curry. It was friggin’ sublime!!!!!! The roti was all buttery and puffy, and the chicken curry was really really soft with the perfect spot-on curry flavour (not the absurd-tasting “curry” that food courts here love to serve). I only wished the portion of curry was twice the size.. it was so good I didn’t wait to stop eating!

Also got a Yam cake thingy.. I forgot the actual Chinese name. A lady was there and saw me buying it, and asked me what it was. I was trying so hard to describe it!! “errr.. it’s kind of a cake. But not. Umm.. it’s savory.. not sweet… you can cut it up in cubes and eat it after it’s been warmed back up… really good with the chilli sauce. It’s just really really nice!” And that’s all I can do to describe it for you too 😛 All up, 2 mains, 1 dessert and 1 yam thingy was AUD$28 which is pretty decent.

Two pieces of roti canai bread served with chicken

Yam cake thingy

McDonalds

Couldn’t be bothered to put an address above.. since you’d be living under a rock if you haven’t heard of it, ha ha! Realised with complete shock that I hadn’t had Maccas in… over a month? At least? So it was hi-ho hi-ho it’s off to Maccas we go! Maccas always gives me fond memories of when Chris and I were living on campus.. we’d have what we call Maccas Feasts, where we’d order Quarter Pounders, Nuggets, Fries and Coke. We’d bring it all back to one of our rooms, lay it all out on the bed (because our college rooms were crap and didn’t even have chairs to sit on) and sit and watch a DVD whilst we pigged out. Ahhhhh…. those were the days.

Anyway, so we did just that and ordered our regular selection of food. Maccas is like a drug – the more you eat it, THE MORE YOU WANT! I really could eat it every day, in fact, I used to through Uni.. but I don’t anymore. I miss it. Food was terrific as usual and we were given a free! Cadbury chocolate brownie with ice cream and chocolate fudge. Yummers!!

My all-time favourite burger – Quarter Pounder!

Mmmmm… ahhhhh….. *drools*….

Chicken nuggets – love these with curry sauce and sweet & sour sauce

Triple-treat Cadbury brownie with soft-serve ice cream and choc fudge

Macro Cafe
13 – 19 Willoughby Rd
Crows Nest, NSW 2065

Since deciding to become somewhat healthy (uh.. ignore the McDonalds feast above please), I’ve become quite fascinated with the Macro organic store. I’d bought groceries there before but never actually ate at the cafe and thought it’d be a good idea to negate the ‘bad’ food we’d eaten the previous day 😉

I was annoyed when the girl at the counter put a completely random item in the machine and thus overcharged us – without an apology when I pointed it out (and I only caught it because I was watching like a hawk). Was further annoyed when Chris’ dish never did come out.. and only after I asked the guy what the hell was going on. He, however, was a complete sweetie and immediately brought it out (amidst a flurry of apologies) and even offered both of us a “free coffee or tea”, which we declined but I thought was really nice 🙂

Food was great though, after that annoying hiccup(s). I got the organic mushroom, tomato and pesto flan with a serve of pumpkin salad. I’d asked for the flan to be warmed up, but again the stupid girl made it only lukewarm. Nevertheless, the flan was fantastic, though it would have been better hot! Lovely and tasty and the pastry was thick and buttery. The side salad was pretty big and a meal in itself – wonderful soft pumpkin, nuts and mixed lettuce.. yum!

Chris got the organic spaghetti with beef and mustard. It came with a massive helping of shaved cheese on top, but when stirred it, the cheese disappeared and just gave the pasta a lovely rich flavour. The pasta was unbelievable!! I believe it just had olive oil and mustard seeds (and perhaps some other ingredients/flavours I couldn’t identify) but it was so flavourful and the perfect comfort food. There were thick chunks of beef in there – I normally don’t order beef outside, as it’s often tough, but this was so so so tender and soft it just melted in our mouths. Lovely 🙂

organic mushroom, tomato and pesto flan with a serve of pumpkin salad

organic spaghetti with beef and mustard

Macro Cafe

The organic supermarket, bought some lovely fruit & veg there!

All washed down with a Mocha Truffle, creamy hot cocoa
combined with espresso, milk, whipped cream and sprinkles. Divine.

Since I had some lovely organic groceries.. I wanted to make a fresh & healthy dinner. Decided on an all-organic pan-fried herbed salmon with avocado salsa, corn-on-the-cob and salad. All up, it took 10+ mins to cook and maybe another 5-10 mins to put everything together – simple, healthy, and deeeelish!

Pan-fried herbed salmon with avocado salsa, corn-on-the-cob and salad


Pan-fried herbed salmon with avocado salsa, corn-on-the-cob and salad (serves 1)

1 salmon
1 tsp coriander leaves, chopped
1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
1/2 avocado
1/3 red onion
Dash of tabasco
1 corn
Spinach leaves
1/2 tomato

1) Rub coriander, cumin, mustard seeds, salt & pepper on salmon
2) Panfry skin-side down for a few mins until crisp, then flip
3) Mash avocado with red onion and tabasco, add pepper to taste
4) Microwave corn with husk (silks removed) for 5 mins on high. Stand 3 mins.
5) Place everything on plate and serve with spinach & sliced tomato

Very true, IMHO!

You Are a Frappacino

At your best, you are: fun loving, sweet, and modern At your worst, you are: childish and over indulgent You drink coffee when: you’re craving something sweet Your caffeine addiction level: low

What Kind of Coffee Are You?