We did a quick trip up to Byron for the long weekend and as usual, there was a lot of good food. After years of cooking together we’ve developed a list of tried and tested meals to feed the masses. Here’s one from the list: lamb and feta meatballs with fettuccine and garlic bread. Yum!

We headed to Bangalow markets and boy is it huge! Didn’t get a chance to take a photo of the markets but I did get a nice shot of my potato wedges. Don’t they look delish.

The next day we headed to Esta’s work for breakfast. Love Esta’s cooking.

Pancakes with honeycomb butter, and a little slice of banana. That’s right, I got to eat a banana. Felt like a rich person.

Breakfast salad with soda bread. It’s oh so good! The soda bread was really nice. Full of seeds and grains, so much so that I felt like a budgie eating one of those seed sticks.

Maree’s scrambled eggs with goats cheese and Marjoram. This was really interesting, the goats cheese and marjoram really gave the eggs a extra kick and a twist.

We decided to stay an extra day, the weather was just too good to leave and the fish were biting. Caught a decent size flatty and another that got away.

The only downside about staying that extra day was the horrible long weekend traffic home. We ended up adding two hours to the drive making it a 12 hour drive home.

Can’t believe we drove from 6am to 6pm.
But it was all worth it!

I flew to Perth the other weekend for my cousins wedding. It was such a quick in-and-out trip but it was well worth it.

There’s this cool chat function on the qantas plane where you can chat to someone in another seat. So naturally my cousin and I decided to start a chat session, even though we were sitting right next to each other.

My meal on the plane. Braised chicken with couscous. It mightn’t look very appetising, but it was.

The day of the wedding was pretty jam-packed. The bride only got 1 hours sleep! She had to wake up at 2am for hair and makeup, then it was on to all the Chinese traditions.

I’ve never seen my cousin so happy before. It was really cute seeing the huge smile on his face when Michelle was walking down the aisle. Here’s them exchanging rings.

At the reception I was in charge of welcoming the guest and getting them to sign the guest book. The guest book was actually a photo book. Pretty cool idea huh?

Now on to the food. My cousin’s always been really into food, so I had high hopes for a good feed. He didn’t let me down.

Entree was fantastic, seared scallop with a crispy ring of bacon. Yum! It was a great start to the meal.

The 2 options for main were either fish or beef and because I was sitting next to my Dad, I got to sample both. The fish was okay, but the onion tart – devine! I kept calling it a caramel tart because the onions were so caramelised.

The beef was actually really good too. It looked overcooked but it was perfect, so tender and soft.

The next day we flew home and we were totally buggered.

I checked in with my iphone and used it as my boarding pass. Pretty cool. Though I wasn’t 100% sure if it would work so I got a paper board pass printed out too.

My meal on the plane trip home. Beef rissole with mash. Yum. I actually really like plane food.

The view from the plane. So pretty.