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  • Easter Show Volunteering – Shift #5 🎪

    Today’s shift was at the Plaza Entrance, handing out maps and answering questions. It wasn’t very crowded at all, and it was fun to be in the carnival area. But after a lovely start to the day, the rain began to threaten…

    Rainy weather at the Show

    On the upside, we briefly had a glimpse of a lovely rainbow over the Dome. But at 4pm or so, the heavens opened fully. It bucketed. Some folks had ponchos and umbrellas, but even then everyone got drenched. I was mostly able to stay under cover, but my poor feet still got soaked.

    A drenched Kris holding an umbrella and wearing a poncho

    By that point very few people were actually entering the Show, and I was mostly just shouting to let them know where the exit was as everyone ran for their cars. My team lead let me go half an hour early as there really wasn’t much need anymore. Of course, I had one more stop to make…

    Macaroni-and-cheese on a stick

    Mac-and-cheese on a stick! You don’t get a photo of me holding it because I was juggling my umbrella and the plate. It was hot and crispy and gooey, though. It did have a tendency to fall off after you’d had a bite or two, but that was okay. Very tasty! And at $9 this was excellent value… but the staff very kindly gave it to me for free! So I’m prepared to vote Mac-and-cheese as the best Food-on-a-Stick at the Show this year. ❤️

  • Persian Feast

    Persian lamb shanks, saffron rice (tachin), and cucumber tomato salad

    While I was at the Show, Mr. Snook was whipping up a Persian feast! He made RecipeTinEats’ slow-cooked lamb shanks, saffron rice (Tachin), and cucumber tomato salad. He thinks the lamb came out a little salty, but it pairs well with the rice. And how good is that crunchy crust? 😍

    Persian saffron rice (Tachin)

  • Easter Show Volunteering – Shift #4 🎪

    The Farmyard Nursery on Good Friday was always going to be a challenge, but I started undaunted.

    A woman smiling before hordes of families with prams descended upon her

    It was a warm day. I spent the first 3.5hrs outside trying to corral the ever growing queue. There were thousands, and thousands, and thousands of people.

    A woman in a green hat, sweaty and tired, in front of a blazing sky

    After lunch I was on pram parking duty, which mostly consisted of making sure people didn’t sneak through the Dairy to cut the line. I was very happy to see my friend Alice and Luke Eller and their boys. Everybody seemed to be having a good time.

    After my shift, I walked around the stadium to check my food options. Deep fried ice cream on a stick? WELL DESERVED, MY FRIENDS.

    A woman in a green shirt clutching a stick with a fried dough ball, marshmallow, and strawberry

    At $12, I was pretty pleased with this. It was basically a fried doughnut surrounding a puck of ice cream, smeared with caramel sauce. Very good!

    A half-eaten doughnut filled with ice cream

    I popped into the District exhibits on my way out. Impressive as always!

    And then I headed for the train. I survived!!  Time to enjoy the Long Weekend…

    A very tired women with her tongue hanging out

  • Easter Show Volunteering – Shift #2 🎪

    A woman in an acid green hat with a sunflower painted on her face

    I was back again at the Show today, directing folks to the Quiet Room and helping visitors find their way around. And how cute is this? These amazing folks at the Face Painting booth offered to put a sunflower on my cheek!

    Me: Oh, glitter too?!
    The artist: You HAVE to have glitter. ✨

    Face painting booth at the Sydney Royal Easter Show

    It was a lot cooler today—which was nice!—but in the afternoon the wind kicked up and it started spitting rain. Fortunately I had a poncho, and it didn’t last long

    A person in an acid green shirt and hat, frowning and wearing a poncho in the rain

    And for today’s food-on-a-stick, I went with another classic: Cheese on a Stick! I liked the crunchiness of the batter, but this didn’t quite feel like enough value for $8. Twisty Potato is still winning…

    A woman holding a deep-fried, buttered piece of cheese on a stick

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  • Dinner tonight

    Dinner tonight

    Butternut squash soup with ginger prawns and Lebanese bread. (Recipe here.) As soon as we go off Daylight Savings, I always get a craving for hearty soups and stews!

  • Hay St. Market, Sydney

    A woman standing in a market/food court with a cup of ice cream

    Mr. Snook needed to go to Chinatown to pick up some component for his next brewing experiment, so we popped into the new Hay St. Market today to check it out. This is meant to be a “vibrant new food and beverage hub that captures the spirit and heritage of the iconic Paddy’s Market.” It claims to be open, but from what I could tell, many of the stalls are still being fitted out. Not many of the outlets were open on a Monday afternoon, though I managed to get a scoop of ice cream. It definitely looks like they’re going for more of a European style market vibe than an actual hawker center, especially once you take the prices into consideration. (Rodd kept muttering incredulously, “$19 for a sandwich!”) And it’s definitely more of a food court than anything – there are only a couple fresh food stalls. Still, it’s early days…

    A man peers at the offerings at a greengrocer

  • Dinner tonight

    A plate with a Lebanese bread, a big pile of salad, and chicken with yogurt sauce

    Lebanese Lemon Garlic Chicken and Fattoush Salad from RecipeTinEats. The salad was a lot of chopping, and I had to specially seek out sumac for the dressing. (We already had pomegranate molasses since we’re annoying foodies.) Worth it though! 😋

  • Happy anniversary, part 2

    Happy anniversary, part 2

    Since we had to get dressed up for an event in the city tonight, we took the opportunity to finally check out Fabbrica for dinner afterwards. We shared the wagyu tonnato, deep-fried zucchini flowers, trottole puttanesca, and hazelnut tiramisu. Everything was very, very good.

    Wagyu Tonnato

    Deep-fred zucchini flowers

    Trottole puttanesca

    Hazelnut tiramisu

  • Happy anniversary!

    We went out for breakfast to celebrate the fact that 24 years ago today, two silly, shy, impossibly young web developers got drunk enough on vodka-Redbulls at the Leopard Lounge in Fulham to confess their mutual crushes and have a pash on the dancefloor. ❤️

    A collage of two middle-aged people having breakfast