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300th Post, Cakes and a Giveaway

January 27, 2012 by Cherrie Moore

I’ve finally made it to 300 posts. It was a long road to get here.

I started back in 2006 because I wanted to share recipes with friends. Along the way, I’ve had many great food experiences, enjoyed eating for the sake of my blog and best of all, I’ve connected with lots of wonderful food bloggers. A couple of times I lost my blogging mojo when life got a little busy with work and most importantly my family. However, I got back into it. I can’t stay away too long.

To celebrate, I have eaten cakes for you. I have enjoyed cakes and desserts from The Cheesecake Shop.

I thought the cheesecake shop only had cheesecakes but they offer so much more. I first discovered this at the “A Foodie Affair” event held by 360 Focus PR.

They have a variety of desserts, cakes and treats on offer. They have something for every day treats or a cake for that special celebration.

I have enjoyed the strawberry continental cheesecake. The cheesecake is so light and has a moussey texture. This was a favourite with the family.

The Rocky Road was full of marshmallowy goodness coated in dark chocolate.


The Rumballs were delicious little morsels but be carefull, these are addictive.

The Boston Mudcake was rich and full of chocolate flavour. I thought it would be dense like some mud cakes but this one was actually light.

I got “The Treasure Cake” for my dad’s birthday. The cake is a chocolate Mudcake coated in chocolate frosting and topped with profiteroles and fresh strawberries.


To share in the celebration, I have 5 cheesecake shop vouchers to the value of $25 each. It is valid at any of The Cheesecake Shop outlets near you. Simply leave a comment below to enter and I will randomly pick 5 winners. The winners will be notified by email and will have the vouchers mailed out by post.


Be quick, the competition closes midnight Monday 6th February AEDST.


Unfortunately, this competition is only open to Australian residents only.


Vouchers are courtesy of The Cheesecake shop and 360 Focus PR


Bon Appetite and Good luck,

Cherrie

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My week in pictures: Home grown and Cutler

January 25, 2012 by Cherrie Moore

This week I was lucky to get hold of some home grown fruit and vegetables.
Mum has an abundance of juicy tomotoes in her back yard.  I decided to peel, deseed and blitz in the blender to make passata.  Right now it’s still sitting in my fridge but I plan on making pasta sauce with it.
Hubby made dinner using my mum’s tomatoes
My mum’s perfect lemon.  I can’t bring myself to cut into it.
My kalamansi tree.  Every year it fruits well.  I’m hoping for a bumper crop this year too.
My pear tree.  This is the first year it’s bearing fruit.  I’m patiently waiting for the fruit to ripen.
For a belated birthday dinner for hubby, we went to Cutler and Co in Fitzroy.  I’m hoping to blog soon.
Hubby and I had the degustation meal.  This was the first course. The entree selection
Followed by beautifully presented and delicious dishes.
I had a great week of food.  I hope you did too.
Bon Appetite,
Cherrie

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My Week In Pictures: Jamie and James

January 17, 2012 by Cherrie Moore

This week is all about Jamie and James. The whole week Hubby and I have been cooking dinner from Jamie Oliver’s 30 minutes cookbook. We’ve been getting inspriation from also watching his series that accompanies the book. It’s a great book to get dinner ideas from as there are serveral dishes to complete one meal.

Roast beef with mini yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes and braised zucchini.
Piri piri Chicken, dressed potato and Portuguese custard tarts.
We also cooked a pasta dish with sausage and salad. Somehow, I forgot to take a photo of it. Hubby made the frangipani tart. It was sooo good and easy to make that he made it again a couple days later.
We made the rogan josh curry, carrot salad, lemon pickle and yoghurt dip.
Definitely the highlight of the week was a tweet from Jamie Oliver himself. He commented on Hubby’s great effort on the frangipani tarts he made.
On Sunday January15th it was Hubby’s birthday. I surprised him with a delicious cake from Luxbite. It was the stoned Meringue Monster. A cake he called “Best cake of the year” last year. I think it’s still the best cake he’s tasted. Thanks guys at Luxbite.

Bon appetite,
Cherrie

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My Week in Pictures.

January 11, 2012 by Cherrie Moore

I love to share my food experiences, be it what I cooked or what I ate. That’s why I have this blog. I love to blog but sometimes time gets away from me and before I know it, it’s been two weeks with no posts. So this year’s new year’s resolution is to blog more.

To help me along, I’ve decided to share what I’ve cooked and ate during the week with a weekly wrap up. I take a lot of photos with my iphone and share on instagram, twitter and facebook but doing this will help me keep a record of what I’ve been up to (or how much I’ve eaten).

I will still continue to share recipes and my foodies experiences. So I hope you will still enjoy reading this little blog of mine.

This week is a little late but I’m hoping to post my round up every week.

The year started off quietly. After having a week off work during the Christmas period, the family spent everyday enjoying my time off work. When New Year’s Eve came, we decided to have a quiet one at home and invited my parents over for a simple meal and a movie.
                                        Our simple dinner of lasagne, 3 salads and garlic bread

Deanna even made her special cupcakes in ice cream moulds. Thanks Shellie!
On Jan 2nd it was my dad’s birthday. Happy BIrthday Dad! It was a hot day that day so no one wanted to cook. We ordered take away from our local Chinese restaurant. We all dug into the food before pictures could be taken.
On Jan 7th, the youngest in our clan was baptised. We celebrated with a huge feast. My contriubtion was a chicken curry that was slowly cooking away all day in the slow cooker. There was so much food and all were so delicious.

So that was my first week of 2012.  Looking forward to more delicious eats this year.

Bon appetite,

Cherrie

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My Christmas 2011 in pictures: 3 days of eating

December 27, 2011 by Cherrie Moore

My three days of eating was full of not only food but was full of family, love and laughter.  

 

The past few months have been a really busy time. Christmas, this time has been dedicated to spending quality time with the family. Time goes so fast and I don’t want to miss any part of it. Working 7 days a week at the shop can make that a little difficult but I’ve learnt to make time for not only with my husband and children but also with my mum and dad. 

 

I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas, just like me.
 

My Christmas celebrations started a month before. I held my annual Christmas Cocktail party for family. You can see the post here. 

 

I started my Christmas baking two weeks before the big day. I wanted the house to be filled with the smell of Christmas.  I found a recipe for cute mini chocolate pudding cookies. You can get the recipe here. With the left over cookie dough I made black and white cookies and tea cup cookies. 

I made mini gingerbread houses for the family to decorate. I think the children did a better job than I did.  

Christmas Eve
 

Noche Buena was held at my parent’s house. Dad worked hard on the barbequed lamb, pork and pork tocino (sweetened cured pork) and all was beautiful and delicious. Mum also had roasted chicken maryland and cooked up an amazing paella. Sis in law and I made salads to complete the feast. 

For dessert, my cousin brough along a box of sweet mangoes. Sis in law made a delicious chocolate and honey cashew bombe wtih mocha sauce. 

My contribution was a Christmas Wreath pavlova. I got the idea from Donna Hay’s Magazine, Christmas issue however, I decorated mine with fruit with Christmassy colours. 

Christmas Day
 

After the children opened their Christmas stocking presents, we started the day off with waffles with crispy bacon and maple syrup. Hubby made a buck’s fizz for me to drink while I cooked up breaky. 

The chidren then opened up their main presents. Santa was very kind to them this year. To see some of their presents, you can go to Deanna’s blog post here.
 

For our Christmas lunch, we had goose. I used Jamie Oliver’s recipe. So easy and so tasty. Our sides consisted of roast potatoes cooked in beef dripping, cauliflower cheese, corn cobs, pigs in a blanket, mashed swede and carrot and brussel sprouts with bacon. Needless to say, we were completely full after our lunch. 

For dessert, we had choc-honeycombe ice-cream pudding. A quick and easy cake, I adapted from super food ideas Magazine, December issue. Hubby also had my Christmas cake which I started 2 months ago. It’s the usual recipe I use, which you can get here, but I added chocolate chips to this one just to change it up a bit. 

For late supper, we had my home made country pate with Cheddar cheese and crustini. I made the pate about 4 days before. I try to make this every Christmas so it’s sort of a Christmas tradition in my house now. 

 

Boxing Day 

 

Boxing day is traditionally spent at my mother in law’s. As we don’t get to see her on Christmas day, the Moore families head over to her house to celebrate a late Christmas. She put on a lovely spread of roast turkey and ham, assorted roasted vegetables. As usual, we go home with full bellies. 

For dessert we had a mango cheesecake and a pavlova. Yum. 

As you can see my Christmas was fabulously filled with delicious food and fantastic company. 

 
 

I hope yours was the same. 

 
 

Happy New Year! 

 
 

Bon Appetite, 

Cherrie

Posted in Baking, Barbecue, Breakfast, Christmas, cocktail, Cookies, Family, Feast, In Pictures, Lamb, Lunch, Meat, Mum, Party, Pork, Seafood, Special Occasion, Sweets, Vegetable | 9 Comments »

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