My love interest, food: Fairfield South American Food Festival

I absolutely love trying new food. Food festival in my area? I'm there.

I heard about this event in June and was so excited knowing that it was sooo soon!!! I didn't expect anything big though, but it was still pretty suhhweeet.

So last night..... To say the least, I went to bed at 6ish.... Oh was I over my head thinking that I'd be able to wake up and meet up with Steph at 9:30. :( I'm bad.

We ended up heading out at 10:30. Our whole point of the day together was to have breakfast at this cafe and check out the festival. But entering the cafe, it wasn't very intriguing.... So we left for the festival!

 At Golo, So many pretty trees!

I wanted an adorable breakfast... Yeah... They didn't have it..

Strrraaaight to Spencer st!

 We were there pretty early. The festival starts at 11!

'One play per person'.... I ended up playing three times, Steph once.

 Yeah... We lost all 4 times...  The guy ended up giving us the toys hehehehe

 Yay!

Awww, you are such a beautiful colour!

 Prancing down the road!

Selling Beef and Cheese Empanadas

Got me self a beef one

They didn't have many food stalls... just 5!

 Sweets!

 They sold a heap of hot food here... The time I wanted to buy food, they weren't selling anything :(

Starting up the charcoal chicken at the back!

 Dranks

Very beautiful sweets!

Got myself a dessert... Funky name! 'Prince Humberto' lol

 Steph brought me some sweets that her bf's sis got from her trip to Chile! Such a sweety.

It was nice but got sick of it....

I really wanted a drink.... Felt weird seeing all these drinks I dont know!

And sauces....

Handmade bits and bobs

This was adorable. The kids were to kick the ball into the goal to get a little prize. The guys were so enthusiastic hahaha

Jam tarts. I wish I had the stomach to try everything! I was so full :( bummer

Great idea to have shelter, tables and chairs for people to chill!

 The tea tent where they told us a bit about 'mate' tea and tried it out ourselves!

Some hot water

And sugar... And the stirring thing is a spoon and straw at the same time!

there were even these little flaps to hold the cup. So cute!

hehehehehehe

They also had chairs and mats so people and sit, drink and chill!

funky spoon.

People prancing outside Neeta City

Looks DELICIOUS. Need to try it one day...

Also took this photo from outside the window hehe.

All my goodies.

Old man is pimpin with his gold cane! Love it

Big version of my toy :D

Cultural performances

 Quenching my thirst

Got home and snuggled with my dino.

Also got my Bellabox in the mail! The bonus... this chocolate

 Was so creamyyyy.... yum!

Awesome day! Realised, I always have awesome days with Steph (yes u hehe).

Pancakes on the Rocks, Northmead

I've been to Pancakes on the Rocks twice before this, I've never thought it was very nice at all. Every dish (and drinks) they have seem a bit off... besides the wedges of course, but this time that I went down to Pancakes, their wedges weren't very nice either.. The only dish I look forward to!

Dinner and we weren't sure where to head, impulsively went down to Pancakes on the Rocks at Northmead.

 Iced Mocha ($3.95) and LLB ($2.40)

We ordered pizza and the usual wedges, I wasn't expecting much but how can you stuff up pizza? 

 Chicken and bacon ($17.95) 

Chicken breast pieces with bacon, fresh and sundried tomatoes, marinated mushrooms, tomato salsa on a guacamole and mozzarella cheese base. Topped with sour cream, guacamole and shallots.

Pancakes have just withdrawn my theory that pizza cannot be ruined.... oddest combination going on here, come on, sour cream and guacamole? How does that go?

 Wedges ($6.95) + Sour Cream & Sweet Chili ($2.00)

Ehhh. So of course we had to get one of their classic plates of dessert. I must be pretty damn hard to please. I thought this was not nice at all, my friend though opposite.

 Devil's Delight ($13.95)

To die for...Our chocolate pancakes with strawberries, cream, chocolate ice cream and drizzled with chocolate sauce.

Didn't sway me at all.

I should just stop ordering any pancakes/crepes/pizza sort of dishes at Pancakes. Always dissapoints me. The only savoury dish that was close to okay was their Chicken and Mushroom crepe. Their Seafood and Mexicana crepes are pretty dissapointing. I will get ribs next time! Better be good.

I've always heard of Pancakes on the Rocks years ago and only got around to going down there recently, I do not understand what's so special about this place. Ya'll ridiculous.

Recipe: Making Easy Wholemeal Quiches!

Hi guys!

Sharing one of my favourite and most easiest recipes with you!

Takes about 20 minutes to make (15 minutes cooking time).

You can substitute anything with anything.

Spam, tuna, bacon, feta, other types of cheese.... You name it!

I haven't tried it with white bread before.... I think wholemeal would give it a better crunch (do I sound like an excelling lil food critic yet?)

Nom nom nom!

Salami has always been my favourite type of meat :D
I bought swiss cheese at the deli yesterday, can't wait to try it out!

Ingredients:

(Makes 6 mini quiches)

*2 eggs

*6 slices wholemeal bread

*1/2 cup cheese

*3 slices of salami (or some spam, tuna....)

*tablespoon of butter

*green onions (optional)

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 160 degrees
2. Making the crusts, cut circles as wide as you can reaching the edges of all six slices of your bread!
3. Melt a tablespoon of butter in the microwave for 10 seconds
4. Line butter on six of the muffin slots
5. Butter your bread (optional)
6. Combine two eggs, green onions (optional) and cheese into a bowl and mix!
7. Squish the bread into each muffin slot, making a little dip for the mix to go in.
8. Chuck everything in, the little salami bits too!
9. Top it off with more cheese (optional)
10. Pop it into the oven for 15 minutes
11. Enjoy!

Windows movie maker always kills my quality btw :(

This dish is absolutely excellent for me because I am never able to finish a whole loaf of bread, it's a great (and fun) way to use it all up!

Now I'm going to skip over to Moon Fest! Yay! FOood!

How to: Growing scallions in water! + Progress video!

I go through stalks and stalks of green onions whenever I cook. It's ridiculous! So I decided to try this method after purchasing a bunch of green onions for $1.49 at my local grocer, cut it about two inches from the roots and set it in water.

These babies will be the key to our success, pretty little roots.

Okay so the way the scallions grow is from the holes! Pretty cool!

Method:

1. Grab your scallions and trim them put to the lighter green/white bit.

I trimmed just above where they split!

 2. Fill up the container/cup you want to use with water. Half a cup of water will be fine (but it depends on how narrow your container is). I used a greek yogurt container from Coles! I've always used this container to store my nuoc mam :D, super handy!

 3. Emmerse the trimmed scallions into the water, root side down of course.

And that's it!

 GROW MY PRETTIES!

 Yay, there you go!

I propped them at my kitchen window sill because they look cute like that :)

The one on the right, I did 2 days before the left one! You can see how much it's grown :)

Annnd zoomed in,

See how they're growing from the inside?!

Progress video whats up!

Byyye!

Edit: Things I've noted after all this...
*The plant will eat up the water! You need to refill it every few days..
*I've snipped mine off three times and it's still growing!
*It makes a pretty sight on your kitchen window sill ☺

How to: Shapeshifting Strawberries

49c a punnet at my local grocers? Well, my golly, I'll buy one please!

Tis' the strawberry season to be jolly. I've never liked strawberries but with these outrageously low prices these past few weeks, I will love them (until they learn to love themselves ...okay no more references.)

To make them that little bit more appealing to eat, why not make them pretty?

Sprinkle em over your breakfast!

Each strawberry will make 3-4 hearts depending on one of the two methods you follow.

Remember to wash them before you begin! We will be eating them straight away :)

Heart Shaped Strawberries

Method 1:

 1. Grab a strawbaby

2. Tops awwwf!

3. Slice from top downwards , make sure you start from the outside of the white circle, 1 millemetre inwards.

Once cut, you will have three pieces.

4. Piece 1: - So pretty!

5. Now cut a little v shape with your knife

Repeat step 5 with the two other pieces.

 Piece 2: Slice just the same

 Piece 3: Slice!

And you will end up with three beautiful simple heart shaped strawberries. Wasn't that easy!

Now, method two, the difference between the this method and the previous one is that we will be slicing it into four instead!

Method 2:

1. Tops off and slice in half

2. Grab one half

3. Slice a millimetre from the edge inwards from the white circle

4. Slice! Like this!

5. And cut into a 'v'

Repeat steps 2 - 5 with the other half.

And you have beautiful strawberry heart shaped treats!

Now sprinkle em on your food for a sweet treat...

Dig in!