Gifts from the Doctor

Pomegranite Malasas

Great addition to your kitchen, i've used it so far for Marinating Meat and Salad Dressing.
I will post soon with pictures of the food I've made.

Its quite tart but you add things to break it down. I've found orange or mandarine juice really helps and works so amazing together especially that mix as a salad dressing.

FCUK

Looking for a winter top to wear to dinners and parties i came across this gem.

I think i was looking for something to buy for hours on Saturday and Myer let down, David Jones let down.
So since i parked at Melbourne Central i was determined to buy something from there.

FCUK at Melbourne Central this knit was cute and appropiate for winter outings, i had a 32nd Bday party to go to thatt night.

Bend and Strech and Bend and Strech

Pilates times

I've started Pilates to help me with my neck.

Its an interesting form of exercise cause I had a private lesson and thought what a pathetic workout and then i paid for those words the next day with pain in places i never knew it could be.
I'm going to Soma Pilates which I'm liking, will give more updates later.

So far i feel like I've had great improvement with Chiropractor (i was super anti the chiro) and I'm hoping Pilates will keep me away from them now.

Beet me

Baked Chicken and Roasted Root Veges






So this is the usual meal at home Meat Veges Salad small amount of cheese. So not much you can really change to make it amazing except for the veges. Beetroot is fun to cook with..... fresh people fresh.

This is a very easy easy recipe and i stole/got inspiration for the chicken from non other than Martha Stewart. YAY she was fun to watch. There was this celebrity (z list) cause  I've never seen her (obviously i know all the good ones... cough cough anyhoo she is staying on the z list).
So Martha was bossing her around and she was doing all types of wrong and it was funny cause Martha tries to be nice but gets very bossy and then the zceleb felt bad and then Martha apologised and then repeat cycle.

I would have roasted the Beets whole in foil with herbs inside the foil but that take too long to cook. So i chopped them up. Then everything went red... but i like it.

Ingredients

Chicken Breast

Mixed Salad

Feta (I'm obsessed with Meredith Diary i think i need to do a solo blog just on their products)
Parsnip

Sweet Potato

Honey

1/2 Lemon

Oregano

Olive Oil

Salt

Pepper

Method

Preheat Oven to maybe about 180 (I'm not sure my oven doesn't have the numbers on the dial)

Cut the root veges up into smallish sizes

Place veges in a oven dish

Coat with oil (not to much)

Heat honey in microwave

Pour honey in over the veges (not to much)

Add a small amount of oregano

Mix around so all the veges are coated
Pop tray in the oven

Place the chicken into a oven dish
Coat chicken with oil
Cover with oregano (i used dried.. that's all i had)
Cut the lemon and squeeze the juice (cut the lemon half into half again)
Pinch of salt and pepper
Turn the chicken and mix around and so forth until both sides are covered evenly
Between the chicken breasts place the lemon that you used
Bake in the oven i think it took around 30 mins to cook

Get a plate
Put the chicken on it
Mixed Salad
Crumble feta on the salad
Put the roasted root veges on the plate
Happy eating everyone, for some reason the chicken stayed super moist and the veges also were covered in beetroot juice and tasted really really good. The Bf is not so keen on the parsnip but i really liked the texture and flavour they added to the root vege mix.

Guess whats in the cocktail

So After Rockpool The other week we went to a french place i think, seriously cant remember what the place is called but its right next door to Rockpool, I could look up what it is called but that would take effort on my behalf and i'm not feel to good today.

Anyhoo it was for a after dinner drink. 

So i could barely read the menu because it was dark and well i need different glasses for that, i told the optometrist that i absolutely refuse to get bi-focal glasses. Anyhoo again

CS and D choose for me and i had to guess what was in it. 

I get excited by this stuff. I hate secrets and surprises but this one was a goodie

So my first impressions of the drink what a earthly fruit type thingy, obviously from the colour there were limits to what that could be so i thought it was pomegranate... then second taste different and the flavours came out. So can you guess.... probably not cause your not drinking it.

Raspberry and Pepper infused Vodka.... I guessed it.... proud moment for me. sniff sniff

(please note that is my BF and we all cant stop laughing at the way he is holding his girlie drink. Its more than likely a apple martini hahahahahahahahah kisses)

So in this photo i think i was channeling the thinking man. i'm an idiot i know.

Outfit 

Glasses.... Dita

Bracelet diamonti thing i stole from my sisters girlfriend, me likies it a lot

Blouse.... Mimosa

Jeans.... Nudie

I'm in love

I haven't put photos of Batman up in ages so, let me be a doting mum.

Batman was seriously sleeping against the window.

Licking her chops after fetch, we give her a treat when she brings the toy back!

My lovelies 

Couch is the Leo MkII from  Arthur G

Cushion .... i picked it up at Spotlight (Myer had it too)

My lovies again

Pick me up you Italian goodness

Tiramisu

Tiramisu is now on the top of my dessert list, which is not hard as i haven't bean able to eat dairy in many years (so pretty much anything is awesome, except let me say how i do not like creme caramel seriously now what is the point of glorified custard..... please note i had this at Rockpool and well i think theirs would be one of the best, so that is at the bottom of my dessert list. end rant)

At Siglo 2 weeks ago i think.... memory fuzzy drunken goodness with Kieran, CS and D drinking we had to try the best springrolls in melbourne (you must try them definately takes out the #1 position in Melbourne) and their dips are really good. I heart Siglo if you cant tell already.

Frist i will mention the drinks you must try their Cigar Lovers Martini, cant remember what was in it but it was seriously good. Also the standard drink for me is a Grey Goose Vodka Martini, i was a gin martini person but had way too many of those, hehehehe

Back to dessert we all had tiramisu and i loved it loved love love heart lick the bowl loved it

Inspiration came to me (like a light bulb above my head ) I had to make one. Did my homework read heaps of recipes (2 days of full on reading) and i came up with this one.

So planned cooking never really turns out for me as you can probably tell the tiramisu is missing a layer..... not only was my tin too small for the next layer i didn't have enough of the marscapone mix left and i purchased way too many lady fingers.... hehehe but saying that i surprised myself and it tasted amazing, hence the post.

My delay in posting means that i have been able to create a real tiramisu because i doubled the proportions to fit in a 40cm circular tray (It was giantor, greek easter so many mouths to feed)

Ingredients

1 packs  Lady Fingers (Savoiardi)

Coffee (what ever you have so i had greek coffee and added a little nescafe... i would have preferred espresso)

Drambuie (their are many options here but i seriously recommend using drameuie)

2 Marscapone Cheese (each container is 250g)

6 Eggs

1 cup Sugar (preferrable caster but i used normal sugar)

Deep Tray (super deep or individual bowls/cups/wine glasses)

Cocoa Powder

1 block Dark Chocolate

Method

Start by making the coffee (it has to be cool when dipping the biscuits), use what ever you have and make a bowl of it, better to make more coffee than not. I'm guessing the amount would be 2 mugs worth of coffee... strong.

Add Drambuie to the coffee to achieve the desired taste (this has to be what you want the biscuits to taste like, try to get a nice balance between the coffe and drambuie)

Set a side and let it cool completely

Eggy Weggy time

Seperate eggs into two mixing bowls (egg whites should go in a larrger mixxing bowl)

Add 1 cup sugar (i probably 8/10 of the cup because the biscuits are cover in sugar) to the yolks

Beat (using a electric beater) yolks and sugar until sugar disolves this will take about 10 mins

The yolk mixture will be creamy and thick

Add the marscapone cheese and mix well (use the beater, its quicker)

Clean Electric Beater and dry completely

Beat egg whites to stiff peaks (I hope you all know the rule about this, no water can be present other wise they will not beat proporly)

Fold in the yolk mix (do this very slowly to retain the air in the egg whites, google how to do this)

Once combined set a side

Dunk the ladyfingers into the cooled coffee and drambuie mix 3 times each

Place lady fingers on the bottom of the tray (doesn't matter if there are gaps)

Pour half the egg/marscapone mixture of the top and smooth out

Biscuits should be covered and you should have a depth of about 1-1.5cm (or more if you want)

Dust with cocoa

Repeat

Refridgerate for 24 hours if its in a big tray otherwise no less than 4 hours. It needs this time to set the egg/marscapone mix

Before you serve Grate over with the dark chocolate

ENJOY everyone, i can honestly say i love love loved it