i like ramen and i like soft serve icecream cones. im just not sure if i like them combined… hehe only the wacky japanese would come up with such a awesome combination! this lovely looking dish can be found at a ramen shop called “Kikuya” by taking a 15 minute walk north Kitasenjyu Station in Tokyo. other items on the menu include white ramen (yogurt mmm), hot cocoa ramen and coffee ramen. [link via serious eats]

Tiramisu is my most favourite dessert in the world! if i ever see it on the menu at restaurants i never hesitate to order it so i can gleefully shove spoonfuls of creamy coffee squishy cake into my soul hungry stomach mmm hungry ANYWAYS ive never thought of actually making a tiramisu from scratch theres always been a niggling idea that there was some secret ingredient and after a quick google search i found a crapload of recipes using uncooked eggs and im not a big fan of uncooked eggs so i knocked up a basic recipe and tadah!


a funny story about the liquer i used- tia maria so i wanted a mini bottle of tia maria and went into a bottle shop with the mothership and i explained to the owner dude that i onli needed 4 tablespoons of tia maria to make a cake and he goes “here take this bottle, use what you need and when youre done bring back the bottle and save a slice of cake for me” BWAHAHAHA how nice was he?!? in complete faith he let me run off with a giant bottle of tia maria!!! aw he’ll get a giant slice of cake from me!


hehe my cream to cake ratio is awesome hoho i love my cream

a gigantic happy birthday to joke, nat and thuy!


dinner was at casa di nico in kings st wharf and apart from the colour scheme looked eerily the same as the layout at nicks restaurant with the same harried waiters whooshing past even hitting joke on the head hmpf


my margherita pizza ($21) came with the barest of slivers of basil; the cherry tomatos tasted as if they had just been thrown on top as a garnish; there were maybe 10 flakes of parmigiano reggiano and for the life of me i could not find the bocconcini RAH!


john, karen, stan, me, amie. random: come join us in malaysia!


me, amie, joke. random: why does the octopus taste like tuna?


joke, me, thuy. random: theyre racing us! quick run!


me and audz. sober.


me and audz. happy! random: a tequilla shot? sure!


nutrition buds!


joke and me. random: dude i was trying to thank you subliminally


da girls!


at star city haha my cameras self timer is crappy!


passionpop is evil


nat tipsily attempting to pour shots


audz hehe wink


nat and me at 4am last ones to stay away! hehe happy bday guys!

thanks to hours spent trawling thru bowbs archives ive been craving mushrooms on toast.


but alas i have no bread in the house i despaired but ooh look i have cream and like magic, fluffy scrambled eggs were born. squished in a bowl sharing space with the garlic butter sauteed mushrooms made for a tasty afternoon snack to go along with the pale pink sydney morning herald newspaper where ten cents from every copy sold will be donated to the National Breast Cancer Foundation