Saturday, August 29, 2009
Adavera
Friday, August 28, 2009
The Gentlemen
Plate Up
Pearl Friends
Here's our lovely friend Daniel - proprietor of Pearl Cafe - our hero! Daniel has just come back from a tour of Europe to study what they do over there in the food scene. Daniel says they stayed in and cooked most of the time because he couldn't get over the amazing produce in the markets. Had a great time but it's nice to see him back.
Pennisi Treats
And the cheese 'fridge! Every cheese in the world I would say.
treattrackers went to Pennisi Cuisine today. What a great shop! You can get sachets of European hot chocolate for $1.50 and you should see the range of flavours.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Veggie View
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Health Food around the Corner
We've just come home from a trip to Shlix gelato in the valley. I had the wild cherry - it was so wild! Shlix is so trendy and yummy. The gelato is made from low fat milk so that's a bonus and they have no additives.
Here's two of the owners. They are nice guys from Israel and have opened their little friendly ice-cream and salad shop in Brunswick St. Our lovely Danielle really likes working there.
Danielle's new workplace. I like the trendy printing on their signs.
Busy Brunswick St on a Tuesday afternoon. Shlix - a cherry ice-cream pick-me-up for a tired Year 4 teacher.
Belle meets Selby. The children from across the road brought over their new King Charles spaniel puppy, Selby. Old Belle couldn't give two hoots. In fact she asked to be put out the back saying 'I'm not puttin' up with this!'
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Choko Heaven
Here's another old photo of the vine. Dad would harvest the chokoes in summer and we would eat them for months and give them away to all the neighbours. The best way to eat them was with the Sunday roast of mutton, lamb, or beef. After we got home from Mass, the vegies would go on. In those days the chokoes tasted great probably Mum was roasting them in lard!
Friday, August 14, 2009
Relations Visit
treattracker Mum has just had a lovely visit from her Toowoomba relations Michael Roser, Terri Roser, Grace Roser and lovely Lily. Grace and Lily have just moved to the big smoke to a flat in Auchenflower. Mum and Dad brought down belongings and money to help them get set up. What a nice cuppa we had. The girls are beautiful! Good luck to them.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Thynne Rd Treats
Antique Fun
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Deli Dreams
Friday, August 7, 2009
Gentlemen Pics
Coeliac Treat
One of our very first contacts for the Fossicking column in the Courier Mail when David Costello first took over from the retired Gail Boyd was the lovely Melinda Trembath. Because she had coeliac's disease she created a beautiful range of gluten free goodies - brownies, cakes, slices for the cafe trade. Since then Mel has gone from strength to strength and her latest is a range of gluten free crackers. Yes, now all of you coeliacs can have crackers and treats. This is a picture of the natural ones and we also tried the poppy seed ones. Didn't get 'high' unfortunately!
Feast on Fruit
Another one of our Saturday morning rituals - a trip to Feast on Fruit at Morningside next to the big Woolies. We buy cat and dog food and toilet paper at Woolies and the rest we spend at Feast on Fruit. It has a great deli at the back so we get great ham, olives, cheese from there. David Costello, who writes the Fossicking column in the Courier Mail every Tuesday loves this shop. He's been working so hard lately - not only as the foreign news editor but on the articles he writes for love as well. Here's links to two of the latest. One on tai chi which he has loved practising for years and one on the jus makers at Burleigh. http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25871552-5003426,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25876358-5013511,00.html
A Pearl to Start Weekend
Here we are outside Pearl Cafe for our Saturday morning breakfast. We had a crowd this morning with all the gang including Nicole Kidman lookalike Julie Anderson. She's gorgeous!(as are we all!)
Here's the gang again! Elizabeth liked the look of the healthy looking hanging plants under the awning!
What a beautiful cool August morning. The wind has changed to a winter westerly but we still can't miss our outing to Pearl. The council has done up the very beginning of Logan Road to perfection (after a long-drawn out process). Don't you just love the street light shade? They are so pretty and modern-all different shapes and colours. I love them.