Cooking & Community

There's no doubt that this corner of the world is pretty gorgeous ~ our new house resides on an orange wattle lined street, and is in fact one of the first houses to be built in Albany ~ 1908 apparently ~ with lots of its original features, it's a quirky comfy nest for me and the brood.

Cooking
It's been a while since I indulged my love of feeding a crowd, but last week there was a meeting of creative minds, and I jumped at the chance to provide pretty food. The strawberry cup cakes looked dramatic on the black platter, with sprigs of crimson bottlebrush to set off the colours, the cake mixture was intensely vanilla.  I made a beetrooot dip ~tasty with cumin and natural yoghut, and a cheddar, apple and caramelized onion mix for people to slather on little rounds of fresh bread.  To compliment all these colours I needed yellow (yes I do colour co ordinate my food, can't help it!) So a big open plate omelette studded with spring onions and sweet potato did the job. 
It was a very interesting meeting, and I felt gratified that there was continuous munching, lots of compliments and nothing at all left over!