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Best ice cream ever

3 December 2010

Room service - three scoops of vanilla bean ice cream on a tuille basket with flaked almonds

The best bowl of ice cream ever: creamy vanilla bean ice cream via Hyatt Hotel Canberra room service at 6:40am, urgently needed to cool and soothe my painful hot sore throat.

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Ottoman Cuisine, Barton, Canberra

25 November 2010

Imam bayildi - eggplant boat topped with onions, capsicum, tomato and herbs, braised in olive oil from Ottoman Cuisine

Restaurant review. Turkish fine dining in Canberra. Beautiful food, exquisitely presented. The fully vegetarian eggplant starter surprised and delighted this self-confessed carnivore! And I’ve been pining for strawberry sorbet ever since.

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Jac’s birthday brunch 2010

23 February 2010

Freddo party ice cream cake - from Jac's birthday brunch

We held Jac’s belated birthday brunch with her family and friends at our house. We celebrated after her actual birthday so that her brother Brad could come. He works away, so we held the brunch on one the weekends he was home. Jac loves “playing host” and was really looking forward to putting ...

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Hazelnut Roll, RIP

9 October 2009

I was devastated to find out that the Hazelnut Roll ice cream will no longer be available once the current stocks run out…

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Birthday dinner – chicken, chips, salad and ice cream

22 January 2009

Ever since being sick on new year’s eve, Jac’s been staying away from heavy meals, rich and fatty foods and red meat. We celebrated her birthday last week with lots of presents, a simple dinner at Nando’s and a nice walk afterwards.

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Belated Chinese New Year family dinner

29 February 2008

My folks had been away on holiday in Malaysia since mid-January. They got home on the 15th of February. We all got together on Thursday last week after work for a Chap Goh Mei/belated family reunion dinner, to celebrate Chinese New Year. My cousin AM, her hubby C and little daughter E ...