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Australian Food Blogger Award@ La Mint Restaurant

January 22, 2010 / Sydney Food / 4 Comments

I managed to score myself an invite to the launch of the first Australian Food Blog award category, hosted by the Australian Association of Food Professionals at La Mint Restaurant in Darlinghurst with my friend Forager.

I’ve never been to a food blogger meet-up before, so was super-keen to check it out and meet some more bloggers.

The event was hosted by Australian Pork, and we were shown the new Australian Pork TV commercial before it aired on TV.

Afterward, I stayed for dinner and got to know some excellent bloggers like Peter G from Souvlaki for the Soul and Ed Charles from Tomatom. The food was also excellent – a whole page of the menu devoted to vegetarian options. Yay!

I was inspired to start a new blog just for food, as I find there is a huge lack of Australian food blogs out there. My new blog is Peas For Me – check it out!

Post-wedding Lunch and Bridge Climb

January 4, 2010 / Love, Sydney Life / 0 comment

Since we knew we wouldn’t get to spend anywhere near as much time with our guests as we wanted to, we arranged a post-wedding lunch at Bungalow 8 for anyone who was free to come. We didn’t ask for RSVPs, just hoping that we didn’t turn up by ourselves, lol.

We were surprised and delighted to find about 15 friends and family make the effort to stop by, including several overseas guests. Result!

We had a fabulous relaxing lunch, finishing it up with some wedding cupcakes left over from the night before.

OMG SO good.

Shanghai guests Chris and Bev.

With Lisa and Beck.

My family!

Masa, my NYC guest.

After lunch, Masa, Michele, Liz and I took off to do the Harbour Bridge Climb. Yes this was timing lunacy, but couldn’t be avoided. Masa and I had booked in to do the climb the week before but had such terrible weather we postponed to the Monday after the wedding, when Michele and Liz decided to join us as well.

Masa and I in our sexy suits.

After the climb, I returned home, legs shaking, delighted that we were heading off on our mini honeymoon the following day …

Blue Mountains with Masa

December 29, 2009 / Sydney Life / 0 comment

Masa, the first of our overseas guests, arrived on Sunday. I wanted to show her the parts of Sydney she hasn’t seen before, so we have embarked on a few epic road trips beginning with the Blue Mountains.

After a bit of a late start, we ended up for lunch in Katoomba, checked out the Paragon Cafe for their chocolate, then went down to the Three Sisters lookout. It was a stunning day after such gloomy weather, and we had a fabulous view over the valley.

We then went on one of the many bushwalks in the area – from the Grand Staircase to the bottom of the cable car back to Echo Point. We stumbled upon another chocolate shop on the way out of Katoomba, then drove home, completely wrecked!

Yay, Masa’s in town!

It doesn’t get more beautiful than this.

Google Christmas Film Fest

December 11, 2009 / Family, Sydney Life / 1 Comment

The annual Google Christmas party was a blast this year. For a totally different approach, we had a Google Film Fest night at Fox Studios where we walked the red carpet dresses as our favourite film characters (I was channeling Cher from Clueless), were entertained by a live band, then settled in to watch movies we’d made while snacking on popcorn, lollies and ice cream. Except for the lack of vego food and the unexpected cold breeze, it was my favourite Xmas party to date.

Fantails!

Let the movies begin!

With my friend Katia, dressed as “Juno”

“Whatever!”

Netball Victory

December 11, 2009 / Sydney Life / 0 comment

In an amazing way to end the season, our team has a fabulous win in the grand finals. Yay!

ARIA Kitchen Table

December 8, 2009 / Sydney Food / 0 comment

A special dinner out with my work team to celebrate an award we won. We booked the kitchen table at Aria. Totally delicious dinner – would definitely go back!

Kitchen Table at Aria

November 28, 2009 / Sydney Food / 0 comment

A quick post about a dinner at Aria. It was a work dinner as a prize my team won, and we were seated at the amazing kitchen table, so we were able to watch the chefs making our food. Absolutely fantastic night. Look at the food!

Sculpture By The Sea

November 15, 2009 / Sydney Life / 0 comment

It was a stunning day today so Alec and I head off to see Sculpture by the Sea at Bondi. Half of Sydney had the same idea as we did, unfortunately, so it was pretty crowded.

It was a lovely day out still, wandering around sculptures and enjoying spending time together.

Khacha Thai, Date Night

November 8, 2009 / Sydney Food / 0 comment

With Alec working long hours recently, we haven’t had much time to spend together just hanging out. Alec took me to dinner Friday night at one of our fave Thai places in Crows Nest, Khacha Thai. They have amazing service and the food is beautifully presented, plus super tasty.

Vege spring rolls – love the rose!

Vege pad Thai.

Five colours mixed vegetables.

Soft shell crab.

Pigging out at our feast.

Completely stuffed.

Wonderful date night – thank you Alec!!

Fisherman’s Wharf Seafood Restaurant

November 7, 2009 / Sydney Food / 1 Comment

After my dress fitting last Thursday, I met Lisa and Emma for yum cha at the Fish Markets. Unfortunately I was confused by their website, and they actually only have yum cha during the day – d’oh! We stayed for dinner anyway, and had a vegetarian feast.

Vege sang choy bow – it’s so hard to get this! So tasty.