Summer on a plate...

One of Luke and I's weekly rituals was to attend church bright and early on Sunday morning and stop by our favourite brunch place to have breakfast and some delicious coffee! However, in our attempt to be frugal, we have been making brekkie at home, and I was particularly proud of the one we made last weekend.

BRUSCHETTA.

My favourite thing about summer (and yes, I'm a freak, I hate the heat bla bla bla...). For all intents and purposes I was going to try making eggs florentine due to my love affair with spinach. BUT, when I came across marked down turkish pide ($2 for 4 huge bits), marked down basil ($1.49 per bunch) and cheap tomatoes ($2 a bit 2 kilo bag). I felt like my hands were tied. :)

All in all, breakfast was quick, delicious and cheap cheap!

Nom nom nom...

Bruschetta - not the traditional style, but Nessie style!

Ingredients

• 3 tomatoes, chopped finely
• 1 bunch of basil
• a quarter of red onion
• Turkish pide (one big bit each - what's in the photo is ONE serve... I believe in quantity)
• Balsamic vinegerette or blasamic salad dressing (this is where lots of people will say to me, "you have to use balsamic vinegar, bla bla - whatevs. I like it this way) and
• Good extra virgin olive oil

Method

• Half the turkish pide and spread some olive oil on each side
• Pop into a 150C oven until crispy at the edges, but soft and chewy in the middle
• in the meantime, prepare your fresh ingredients
• Pop all the ingredients in a big bowl except for the dressing and the oil
• Just when the bread is ready, add the oil and the dressing to the fresh ingredients and spoon mixture on the hot pide
• Serve and enjoy!

We served ours with freshly squeezed orange juice. Food like this makes me feel like a lucky lucky girl. :)

Lots of sunshine to wherever you are! xoxo

Wedding cake!

Who loves wedding cakes? I know I do, and more than anything, I love CAKE. CAKE and ICE-CREAM are my two sweet vices. Don't really care for chockies and sweets or biscuits, but CAKE and ICE-CREAM!

No, that was not a segway into telling you that I'm going to make an ice-cream cake for the wedding. Hardly. It was just me wanting to emphasise how much I love cake and ice-cream!

Back onto wedding stuff... I did my wedding cake trial this weekend. But like with most wedding things, the photo will not be available for viewing until after the event. Sooooo.... the sneak peek below. :) That's all I'm giving you!

Do you think you can make out what the cake looks like?

But what I can show you is what I made with the leftover cake! It is a bit messy at the bottom, I may have gotten too excited with the pizza cutter and cut too close to the edge! I know to do better next time (if there is a next time!)

Someone I know said on facebook that it looked like a marshmallow. Whatevs Gerald. :)

Needless to say, this exercise has renewed my love for cake decorating, which is fortuitous as I have cupcakes and a wedding cake to make for my friend Jules' wedding next week!

Did I include photos? No, I don't think I did! And I realised why... I didn't take any! I will next week though.


xoxo