Away we go!

Just two more nights and we will leave to spend some time in California.

Can't wait, can't wait

Randoms

The other week it was raining and we went for a walk to visit a new friend and his lovely parents.

Four photos I took on the way!

A dinner

Thank you so much for your comments on my post about how much we like to cook.
Here are some photos of a night where we made some ottolenghi inspiried dishes for dinner.

#1 Hummus with coriander and matza
#2 The rest are
- steamed asparagus with olive oil and lemon juice, salt & pepper
- roasted carrots with all sorts of spices
- and Mejadra, an amazing dish with lots of spices, herbs, lentils and rise, fried onion and yoghurt on top (amazing, from Jerusalem/Ottolenghi)

Take time to make yourself a nice dinner

m.

Green

I spend two days in Melbourne last week. I always look really forward to coming down
to this city which is very different to Sydney but also very beautiful. I wish one day I could
spend more time there, to go out for long walks, through the neighbourhoods
to find places like on the photo above.

A moment.
On Friday morning I was in South Melbourne walking down small streets to have a coffee
at St Ali. On my way there I passed a warehouse which must have been the place they roast
their coffee. While passing it, the sliding door being pushed open, I could get a quick
glimpse of what was going on in there. Two bearded man, listening loudly to contrabass music
happily roasting coffee.

> Have a look at Elize's blog, she takes beautiful photographs

Making a Terrarium

The other day two friends of mine and I made terrariums, big and small and not so small ones. It was so much fun and so great to see all the different shapes of vessels getting filled with a little new world in them.

Thank you so much for all your comments for my last post. I realized that I hardly post photos in portrait - style but that I actually like them quiet a lot. I will do this a bit more often from now on ....

We like to cook with colours

When the weeks are busy and work heavy it seems things which take time, consideration and love is what I want to do. On the weekends (and often also during the week) we like to spend time cooking.
We brainstorm what to make, which vegetable to add, which dip to make -as snack while cooking- and what we made the other day and loved so much so we'd like to make it again, this time maybe a bit different.

We like to make a chicken or veggie stock from scratch, and to taste the difference when you eat the soup or risotto is what fascinates us and what we talk about. To set up a sourdough starter and watch it grow,  bubble, explode and in the end become one of our so loved avocado snacks, and all that takes a whole week is what we find exciting. It connects us and I like that we made food to an important part of our life, that we sometimes sit next to each other over cookbooks, both influenced from where we come from and how we grew up and put this all together and also like share this with our friends.

And when I come back into the kitchen with coriander stalks for the hummus we made on the ground and piles of dishes standing around, as we needed them for the preparation I switch on the radio and really don't mind as I am still happy from the food we made, maybe already thinking what to cook next.

Some Summer left

Also that it is officially Autumn, Summer doesn't want to leave yet and we still got some nice Summer days here in Sydney.

I already look forward to the colder days, I guess that is the European side in me.

Here are a some photos I took around the Christmas break. I often think back to these great, relaxing time we had off from work and could spend here going from one beach to the next...

Only a few more weeks until we will go to our trip to LA and San Francisco, let me know if you have any must do tips :)

A walk by the sea

On a cloudy Sunday in January we decided to go for a walk by the sea.
It is a wonderful thing to have the sea wind breeze through your hair and to walk along the coast.
I enjoy all the green, blue, brown, grey together....

Can you spot the two lonely swimmers in the last photo :)

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March - rain in Sydney

It is officially Autumn now here in Sydney and the first two days we already had rain.

I don't mind the rain. I like the change and enjoy it a lot also because the city seems so incredibly green especially when it is raining. I was going for walks yesterday and had the camera with me so I will hopefully be able to show you some rainy day photos.

Here are some photos from a rainy day some weeks back.

You can also find some photos from my walk yesterday on my instagram feed.

maria