recipe of the day.

this is not just a supreme recipe to eat, it is a supreme recipe to watch.



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91 days.

and counting.

whoops-a-daisy

for those of you in or near sydney, i don't even need to begin to tell you how rainy it was last week.

rainy.

miserable.

freezing.

slippery.

if anyone was going to get hurt it was going to be me.

yep, slipped over. in a dress. in the rain. wearing tights that added to the injury by giving me weird quasi-carpet burn. tights i then had to gracefully take off on the bus to stem the bleeding.

i am all class.

(pay no attention to that other scar. that might give you the impression that i fall over a lot. which is totally TRUE false)

just a little bit of iphone.

chim chimenny chim chimenny

a couple of weekends ago, i went to see mary poppins at the capitol theatre here in sydney will some of my loveliest friends - kat, benny and suzie q.

the theatre is always such a fun and exciting place to go. you buy your tickets months in advance thinking "man, that is forever away!!" and then all of a sudden... it's tomorrow.

and there's something to be said about a matinee. nothing like sitting in a dark theatre for hours, only to come out when the sun is still shining.

matinee also means an excuse to go out for a special lunch, and this saturday afternoon, we hedged our bet on the little queue - well, the littlest i've ever seen anway - at mamak for some malaysian delights. man that food was excellent. milky sweet teas, chewy roti and spicy curry sauce. and i don't think any of us could resist ordering the maggi goreng. like mee goreng except with good ol' aussie maggi noodles. i also ate a whole prawn. head and all. and afterward decided it was probably not meant to be in the chip i ate. oh dear. despite the randome baby prawn it was still well worth the 20 minute wait out the front for a table.

1. i dont know that other girl. 2. food 3. suzie q and her noodle.

now, mary poppins wasn't a huge part of my childhood personally (i was more of a wizard of oz kinda gal), so i was a little bit scared that some of it would go over my head.

all i can say is mary must have been able to read my mind and pick up on my nervousness. 

she had me at blue lemonade.

it was incredible, incredible show. the performers were brilliant (even that little short guy from sytycd who i think is a little bit annoying normally), the music was beautiful and i even knew most of the words. and anyone who says things like "just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down" is ok in my book.

actually on that point - rule number one in the going to a musical handbook:

i dont care how much you love the movie / know every single line of every single song - do. not. sing. out. loud.

if i didn't love my blue lemonade so much it could have ended up down someone's back.

practically perfect in every way.

hey, you two, stop growing up so fast

my little brothers max and tom sent boyfy and i a gorgeous card this week in the mail, inside, their newest portraits from school.

i love those two to pieces. and then some.

i love that i remember the days they were both born and now they're writing me cards ( !!! what happened to those little teeny, tiny babies?! ) and i love thinking about all the times people used to think they were my own little offspring. god bless those strong rowntree genes.

i love that they call boyfy "Bondi". with an i. like bondi beach. too cute.

i love that when i look at photos of the two of them, i see dad and em. and even though i'm a grown up now, i still wish i had my parents close, and i miss them a lot.

needless to say, this little baby is now taking pride of place on our fridge. and i'm beginning to think a weekend to adelaide might be in order.

thanks max and tom, for being the cutest little spunks i know.

love, bel x x

p.s. i love your photo xxx ooo

evidence!

in support of the statement "i do not eat junk food all day, everyday", i give you this*:

*photo also supports the statement "healthy food isn't very photogenic".