If you like that...I tried this stuff yesterday, it was water extracted from the Birch tree.
Quite similar, but with a slightly punchier/more citrus vibe.
Apparently holds much of the same properties.


I went to the Sydney Good Food and Wine show yesterday with my two girls and our niece. It happens once a year, it's HUGE. There's...
*Local and international celebrity chefs that perform/cook live, and do signings.
*Existing foods on the market to sample and buy.
*New and upcoming/yet to be marketed foods and drinks from companies looking to get picked up and marketed.
*Kitchen/Cookwear, both existing and newly launched.
*Demonstrations and seminars of things like new coffee machines.
*Alcohol, even if only by sample...one can get SO wasted here if so inclined.
*Produce from all corners of the country, and some from NZ as well.
*Many "deals" done so you get things much cheaper than they'd usually be.

It's like a $20 entry fee to basically get free shit all day.
It's a great day out. Yesterday we spend 6 hours there with ease...got our apron signed by another few celebrity chefs, met a couple of former contestants on some of the shows we've watched that are running their own businesses now, and got my kid her first cook-book, and filmed her meeting and signing with the chef that wrote it.

As for what I ate?
You name it. I didn't drink too much, but tried some nice peach vodka?
SO many food samples.
There was a lot...really, a huge amount of things...I felt so damn stuffed afterwards, and we've brought home a ridiculous amount of food.

It's about the only time of the year I'll actually tolerate a crowd, and we make it a point to go every year. This was our first time in 2 years though on account of the pregnancy and infancy...this one was Rivers first...and we'll be keeping it as a family tradition.
It's good to have been back.

I've never been to a food and wine show. And they have plenty of them around here. No real reason why, just don't think about it. My twice-a-year fun is Monster Mania.

If I said what I last ate I will get banned! ::wink::

A baby? ::big grin::

Not quite. I bet you'd be gagging yourself silly if I told you that you were indeed right. Its a strange world, anything can happen.

Having some strong tea with ginger...the wife is a bit sick so I added it to hers to settle her stomach, and thought, yep, I like this. I am having.

This morning I ate something like a mini organic granola bad with cranberries and dark chocolate, and had a couple of chocolate coated coffee beans I picked up fromthe aforementioned occasion.

What'd I eat and drink...
 

Home made General Tso's Chicken with brown rice. And I drank a Redd's Hard Apple Cider with it. Now just drinking water...lots of water.

Chocolate coated coffee beans!I wish we had those here.Are the hard?stupid question,i know..but are they?

I just ate caramel apple milky way minis..so good.I love these lil suckers but they only sell them this time of year.Its a fall candy i guess..:p

You probably do, or can get access to them someplace.
They're not as hard as coffee beans usually are inside, I'm fairly sure they've been roasted and perhaps sugared a little, they seem more brittle inside.

They don't sell those here, ever.
We have milky way, but it's different from your standard ones too, no caramel.


I've just thrown some various meats that were in the freezer in a closed pan, with a little water, cherry tomatoes, some oregano, ginger, garlic, spanish onion, himalayan rock salt, white pepper, and some "woodfire pizza" inspired seasoning that I've yet to try. It's mainly minced meats, so when it's all done I'll probably throw it onto a bread roll with some salad.
Smells great right now.