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A photo of a bowl of porridge with two slices of butter on top and sprinkled with brown sugar.

Yesss, first porridge of the season. It's meant to be fairly miserable this weekend so I figured it was a good time for it.

Posted on 13 May 2023, 9:17

A photo of a birthday cake in the shape of an electric guitar. The body of the guitar is a rich turquoise colour with a white pick guard, and the pickup, neck, and headstock are chocolate icing that's been totally darkened with black food colouring. The volume and tone knobs are yellow M&Ms, the frets are just regular chocolate icing laid across the neck, it's also got six pegs that the strings would go around made out of the same icing, as well as three tuners on each side of the headstock that are made out of marshmallows attached to toothpicks. There's also four strings on it, just made from cotton.

Growing up in Australia in the 80s and 90s, nearly everyone's parents had a copy of the Women's Weekly's "Children's Birthday Cake" recipe book: https://www.womensweeklyfood.com.au/australian-womens-weekly-childrens-birthday-cakes-29679 I had multiple cakes made from it, but the most distinct one that sticks out was actually one my sister had for one of her early birthdays, it was a swimming pool that was filled with jelly and had little figures swimming in it (#18 in the link above). Mum used my Lego figures for it and I remember being very annoyed about them being dunked in jelly, so mum made that same cake for me for my 30th: https://www.flickr.com/photos/virtualwolf/8668152138/ I figured for my 40th I should have another cake from the birthday cake book, and they actually have a guitar as one of them! It's an acoustic though, which I have absolutely no interest in, so I asked mum if she could make it an electric one instead, and boy did she deliver! 😂

darkroom food mum and dad's cake

Posted on 30 April 2023, 19:07

A photo of an oval-shaped ceramic dish with moussaka in it, alongside a slice of bread.

A photo of a big shallow bowl that has warm fig and date pudding that's in the shape of a muffin, sitting on top of a butterscotch sauce. Next to it is a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream with a sliced piece of strawberry on top.

And now we finished everything off with Greek! It's just so consistently excellent.

darkroom food portrait mode castle hill moussaka greek pudding

Posted on 20 April 2023, 20:53

A photo of a square white baking dish with something that's been topped with egg.

This weekend is one of our semi-regular visits with the nearly-sixteen year-old, and we made bobotie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobotie) again! The house smells amazing right now.

our house darkroom food portrait mode bobotie

Posted on 8 April 2023, 18:51

A photo of nine Tupperware containers in three-by-three pattern, each filled with half rice and half a rich red chicken curry with peas, green beans, carrots, and corn in it.

And three and a half hours later the chicken has pretty much fallen apart, and we're done! I'll be having it with eggplant pickle and Greek yoghurt and it's going to be gooooooood.

our house darkroom food curry

Posted on 2 April 2023, 15:48

A big saucepan with a rich red chicken curry cooking in it. There's green beans, corns, carrot, and peas visible as well.

Absolutely miserable weather here today, good day to put on a giant batch of chicken curry with tons of veggies to have for lunches during the week.

our house darkroom food portrait mode curry

Posted on 2 April 2023, 11:38

A photo looking down the the middle of two lanes of a dark bowling alley, with someone mid-bowl on the left.

Aw yiss, team event today! First was ten-pin bowling which was excellent fun as always. We've got quite the multicultural team and had a number of people who'd barely played before, but I gave them some solid tips and everyone ended up getting at least one strike, and they all posted quite respectable scores by the end of the second game. 😁 Bowling was followed by a sadly very average half rack of pork ribs at Meat District Co.

work food portrait mode bowling ribs

Posted on 28 March 2023, 15:33

A photo of the New South Wales senate ballot paper expanded to its full width, with a ton of boxes to tick on it. It's in a cardboard voting booth and is large enough that the sides of the paper go up the sides of the booth (the booth is maybe 60cm wide).

A photo of my hand holding a bread roll with sausage, bacon, egg, onion, and tomato sauce on it.

Well, that was the longest I've had to wait to vote, but I was still in and out in under 20 minutes. Comically large senate ballot paper: check. Democracy sausage: check.

democracy sausage darkroom food

Posted on 25 March 2023, 11:23

A photo of the screens inside the restaurant showing what the menu is. Everything (screens AND restaurant) is decorated in a Middle-Eastern fashion, primarily with blues and golds.

A photo of a takeaway cardboard food container with three pieces of lamb mince with herbs and onions in them, alongside fries drizzled with red chilli sauce and yoghurt, and there's very pink cabbage sitting next to the fries. It looks fantastic and tasted even better.

I'm in the office today to play some multiplayer Magic the Gathering after work, we went out for lunch to this place called Kabul Social that does Afghan food and hot DAMN is it amazing! I got the lamb box and it was spiced to absolute perfection.

sydney work food portrait mode kabul social

Posted on 21 March 2023, 13:15

A photo of two round golden-brown loaves of bread covered in flour, sitting on a cooling rack.

Finally did another batch of bread, and hot damn does it look good. My bread log says the last batch I made was right before Christmas! (I've been enjoying making big batches of rice-based lunches in the pressure cooker and just bunging that into the microwave to have for lunch when working rather than making bread, so I can spend less time getting a toastie prepared and cooked and more time doing drum practice.)

our house darkroom food portrait mode bread

Posted on 19 March 2023, 11:52