Wine food and words
Ah Wednesday, you come around so fast. Gotta love a good hump day though. I’m counting down to the weekend!
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Best starter ever. Discovered this thanks to a friend back in Wellington. It’s from Donna Hay, but I can’t for the life of me (or 3 minutes of googling) find it online. I think it’s from her Seasons book, but I may be wrong. It’s also meant to be served with a tomato/basil salsa of sorts, but making that would mean delaying eating this, so nah.
People, I give you prosciutto and mozzarella bruschetta. Prepare to impress your friends.
A strange week of eating, given I started it off with a stomach bug, but I’m very happy to say there was some deliciousness, some food with friends and the boyfriend, and some fun food.
Here it is!
Feb 19 - Bacon sammich. Nom nom nom.
Brown butter. I’d heard of it, but never used it before. And then a recipe came into my life. I made it. It was good.
Now I can see an obsession forming.
The bf and I have taken it upon ourselves to date through the alphabet in 2012. 26 dates, alternate hosts, themed to a letter of the alphabet.
I started back in January with A, and took him for wine tasting at Ascension vineyard, followed by Ale tasting and lunch at Hallertau.
A few weekends ago he returned the favour, giving me Bagels for Breakfast in Bed, and then taking me for a day at Browns Bay Beach. He looked after all the little details, and made it a totally B day. It was bonza!
My turn again, and on Wednesday night I gave him his C date.
There’s this girl… We met at school when we were 10. Neither of us had a camp buddy yet and when I found this out, I walked up to her and suggested we pair up. Come to think of it, I’ve met a few friends by walking up to them and suggesting it. Weird.
This girl is awesome. In the 17 years I’ve known her (WOW I don’t think I’m old enough to have known someone for that long??!) she has quite determinedly done her own thing. She is hilarious, she has an amazing sense of style, is busy as f**k 99% of the time and is quite simply, fabulous.
Plus, we have matching freckles on the palm of our left hands. Totally meant to be.
And Tuesday was her birthday.
Morning lovely people. This is no random Wednesday here in New Zealand. Today marks one year since the devastating Christchurch earthquake that killed 185 people, and injured countless more.
Loss on this scale really helps put things in perspective. You’re awesome ChurChur.
So the plan. It was grand (not really), it was achieveable (totes), it was mine.
Ah, how the best plans fail.
It’s been a good week. It’s the first five-day working week I’ve had in about a month, but it’s actually felt the shortest. Here’s the food that happened.
Feb 12 - dessert
One of my favourite things to do on a Friday (or in reality, all week long), is plan the upcoming weekend’s plans, no matter how small or silly!
Sometimes that plan is as simple as ‘relax’, because, after weeks and weeks of activities and weekend’s away, sometimes I just want to blob on the couch, eat junk, consumer pink drinks and do nothing.
This weekend it’s:
So yeah.
Last night, in an attempt to justify not going to the gym, again, I said I was thinking about not drinking booze Monday through Thursday.
That’s so not going to happen.
I think it’s pretty awesome that as the weeks go by, I’m not short of anything new things I’ve discovered or am excited about - even though they can be little, silly things. I’m not surprised by the surplus of ideas I have for the wants section. After all, I’m a female. I know it’s bad to have wants (children in Africa starving…) but I’m not saying they’re all fulfilled!
Live a little folks, and read my Wednesday write up. It’s good for you, just like chocolate and wine.
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Do you have a particular food, that when you think about, you just go ‘ick’. Like the mere mention of the word or an image entering your mind, just gets you all down and out, wanting to cry or throw a major tanty? Is that weird? Well that’s how I feel about sandwiches.
There’s this drink.
By mixing it, you automatically unite all females in a 10km radius. It’s quintessentially girly. I say that because it is pink. Pink = girly. Duh.
Picture this: A sunny Saturday afternoon. A vineyard. Wine (because we’re in a vineyard…). Music. People.
This was my Saturday and it was funtastic. The boyfriend, a mate and I headed along to the More FM Vineyard Tour, featuring Annabel Fay, Sweet Mix Kids, Tiki Taane, Aloe Blacc and John Butler Trio. The music was perfect for the setting – the kind where you set up your picnic blanket kingdom, kick back with your glass (bottle) of wine, listen to the tunes and have nonsense conversations with your people.
It’s Saturday. I woke up at 11am. That was pretty cool. There was no toast in the fridge, so I made pizza for breakfast. Not breakfast pizza though which I’ll definitely make one day, just pizza with tomato sauce and mozzarella. It was awesome. That was breakfast.
I’ve got to stop starting these posts with “omg we’re in week X already!!!”. So I’m not going to this week. I’ll just say it was fairly uninspiring eating. Soz.
Sunshine. Wine. Goss with a good friend.
I challenge you to find something better. You won’t. Unless you find a basket of cute kittens, cos that’d be up there. Yesterday those three things (not the kittens) were just what I needed and made me happy.
Onto my third short week in a row, but alas there are no more until Easter now. May have to suck it up for a few months!
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Yep. That’s gotta be the worst blog title ever. I am nothing if not terribly cliched. But that’s what brings you back. Hang on. Are there any repeat customers out there? Anyhow.
What brings you here today is cheese. Of the haloumi variety. And it is goooood.
