Scar..Boys don't cry

A chilly Saturday night Josh, Cam, Rachelle and I had a lovely evening full of yummy gluten free pasta, delightful sangria, expensive Cognac, great conversation and the Cure- the sound track to our night. We sat outside with our little outdoor heater and talked about our dreams our own business and all the wonderful things we'd bring to the market, we talked about our favourite Cure song and why it was so special to us. We laughed, danced, took photos, drunk, joked and requested songs when the Cure album ended. When I was sitting there and even now thinking about it thats whats life is about enjoying your time with your closest and dearest friends and family. Josh, Cam and Rachelle and I are extremely close and we have such a great time with each other, I have these special planteers to share this memory with. I take a step back during the night and think my god, I'm so lucky to have such amazing people in my life. They all make me laugh, smile and enjoy life more. Eventually we started to get a little giggly shall I say and James Brown was blasted from the record player and we all danced like kids at the Wiggles concert. 

 Note: Please stay away from the flame.

I couldn't help but feel so good after a really great night with my closest friends, and I think that its just another memory to add to a fountain of memories with those three special people. I think about when I'm older and I'm telling my kids about the crazy antics I got up to this will be one of those memories I think of smile and well one time long ago we had a date with the night and the Cure were invited..... and one of us may have a reminder of that night forever!

So a toast to my three closest and dearest friends- thank you for the countless memories just like this one and I know we'll make many many more. I thank you for support, care, love, giggles, sense of humours, cravings, Camelot, dancing, impeccable song choice, breakfast, lunch and dinner dates. You will forever be my dear, best friends.

Chocolate Clouds

I have as everyone from time to time the urgency for a slice of chocolate cake, I needed a quick fix and had purchased a Macro gluten free packet mix choc cake. I was curious to see how it would come out ( hopefully not the consistency of rubber) and most important how good it would tasted.... Let me say it was well worth the $ 6.00, the 10 minute preparation and 30 minute cooking time. It was so chocolatey, so fluffy like a chocolate cloud. It definitely fulfilled my chocolate cake needs, and the men in the house enjoyed it throughly. I had one piece and the rest was gone, very fast. So I believe it was pretty good :-) The only problem was that it wasn't easiest to photograph it and make it look darling, the chocolate cake doesn't have beautiful defined curves or sculpted abs or a strong jaw but it is full of chocolate and tasted amazing. 

I purchased this lovely little treat from woolworths in the Gluten free section. 
I hope you enjoy as much as I did.


Adelle x

Brown Betty.

On a lovely Saturday morning myself, my dear friend Rachelle and my handsome fella Josh had an early  yummy breakfast- Gluten free pancakes! Courtesy of my lovely better half, we all enjoyed the fluffy parcels of deliciousness while discussing that gluten free looks and tastes fantastic and doesn't leave you feeling bloated and heavy. Now I maybe bias but Josh's pancake skills are pretty amazing, he can always make and flip a mean pancake and he's perfected the gluten free pancakes which can be very temperamental... While I decided to bring out my gorgeous teapot- Brown Betty to make a lovely large pot of Earl Grey. Brown Betty has been in my family for a long time, my father gave it to me to cherish just last year and it was given to him by his Father whose Mother was the owner.  My dad remembers His Grandmother using when he was little. It holds such value to me and my father and might I add always delivers a good pot of tea! Nothing I like more than a rather large cup and a even larger tea pot to start off a great morning. We all enjoyed and gluten free pancakes and tea, we were all very quiet at the table hehe :-)  

The key to fluffy gluten free pancakes are to beat your eggs with an electric beater and then add the gluten free flour and a little olive oil. I always like to add some cinnamon and/or nutmeg to add a little sweet flavour.

Adelle xx

Durian Durian

My handsome fella and I went to Kuala Lumpur this year, as you can imagine our memories are full of beautiful curries, noodles, claypot and wok dishes. But the most vivid memory I have in KL is when we ate Durian, a lot of people warned us to stay away. But walking down the street of the Golden Triangle, we were intrigued we had to try one so we asked a lovely little man to pick us out a smallish Durian from his cart. I remember the texture- like sorbet with a film covering, the taste and smell- like a off and dirty onion- BUT worse. It leaves the funniest taste in your mouth, but the thing I'll never forget is when we looked at each other and burst into laughter, this was the worst thing we'd tasted the whole trip, we laughed until we cried. They say every time you laugh you can add year's to your life, after our Durian encounter we'll live a very long time. It is my favourite memory from Kuala Lumpur, every time we talk about it we can't help but laugh hard again and again. Try it

  We Heart Durian

Its that bad...

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When I look back on all the breakfast, lunch, dinner or drink dates with my nearest and dearest, I think what we've consumed has become far more memorable with the juicy, exciting, scandalous or ridiculously funny conversation we've had. I'll be the first to admit I have enjoyed sharing some of the best secrets, news and stories over a good pizza or cider. A delicious meal or favourite drink, isn't just a meal or drink its a memory with your dearest friends, a exciting cocktail night with the girls or the awkward but thrilling first date, the crazy night full of devil fries, sangria and a dance floor with all your planteers. The real reason for pencilling in your date in your diary is the relationship you have whatever form this may take. For instance I spent a Friday night with a very close friend and over pistachios and wine. I told of how my mother once for a cousins 5th Birthday dressed me as a bum- somewhere between an unlucky New Yorker and Oscar the grouch. All the other girls wore fairy, princess and red riding hood costumes, but not me I wore a brown eye shadow beard! This  story was well received, my friend was rolling on the floor with laughter. Now I'd say we enjoyed sharing our embarrassing costume stories so much that we believed they were the best pistachios we'd ever had. Maybe this is just something I think about, but I remeber the conversation just as much if not more than the meal or drink consumed. Just this Friday gone myself and a few dear friends sat around and drank wine discussing the funnier side of being caught in interesting and awkward situations, needless to say I feel sorry for my neighbours. -Four 20 somethings giggling over a lot of wine and very funny stories, there the memories I want to stick.

These are a few of my favourite memories so far