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A photo of a very large burger with lettuce, cheese, and onion visible from the side. A big bowl of chips is visible behind it.

A photo of a stylised sculpture of a black and white whale, it's short and stubby and has big teeth for some reason.

We are in Canberra! First order of business was lunch at Brodburger. Pretty delicious, though not the BEST burger I've had. We went to check in at the Hyatt and they weren't able to give us the room we asked for, and also they weren't ready for early check-in like they said it should have been so we went to the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery. They were both pretty dinky, and fully half the National Gallery was closed. I took a handful of photos which I've uploaded to Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/virtualwolf/albums/72177720309063596), and I loved this little whale sculpture by Horace Wikmunea. The Portrait Gallery was actually significantly more interesting, though still far smaller that I was expecting. Then we got back to the Hyatt and waited for ages for someone to actually come to reception to check us in, got our room key and went to the room, and realised it was directly overlooking the breakfast area despite us having specifically requested a quiet room. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Went back to reception and got moved to ANOTHER room, this one actually quiet, and now we're killing time until we head out for dinner with @[email protected].

Posted on 15 June 2023, 16:30

A photo of fifteen lightly golden cut rounds (basically scones but more savoury) sitting on a cooling rack.

And FINALLY, a batch of cut rounds! ::collapses::

our house darkroom food portrait mode cut rounds

Posted on 11 June 2023, 14:29

A photo of two golden brown loaves of bread covered in flour, with wonderful-looking splits on top, sitting on a cooling rack.

A photo of two slices of the aforementioned bread with cooked sliced tomato and mushrooms on top, sitting on a white dinner plate. There's just a little scattering of grated Parmesan cheese on top.

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog sitting on the kitchen floor in a patch of sunshine. He's looking up at the camera and is squinting because the sun is coming in directly behind where I'm standing.

Part three of The Weekend of Deliciousness is bread, for the first time since March! The yeast I've been using expired in June last year so I've just slowly been increasing the amount that I use and it seems to be fine. Lunch was mushrooms cooked in sage, rosemary, thyme, and garlic on top of cooked tomatoes on the bread. And the SECOND I start slicing the bread Beanie is in the kitchen like a shot because he knows there'll be crumb fallout, and he always gets a little end piece of bread when I'm done.

beanie our house dog darkroom food portrait mode bread mushrooms

Posted on 11 June 2023, 14:06

A photo of a bunch (forty-nine if we're being exact) of smallish golden-brown chocolate chip cookies sitting on two cooling racks.

Next, miso chocolate chip cookies.

our house cookies darkroom food portrait mode

Posted on 10 June 2023, 12:05

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

Aw yeah, this weekend is going to be a weekend of making delicious food. First up, porridge.

our house darkroom food portrait mode porridge

Posted on 10 June 2023, 9:45

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.

our house darkroom food portrait mode porridge

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