I don't know if I have written about this before....but I love to cook. Seriously, spending a friday night at home with a bottle of wine cooking some form of amazing dinner (a recipe I have usually sourced from www.taste.com.au) is somewhat perfection to me. I'm not a big desert person but I love to cook everything else, particularly spanish food (tapas!!). Luckily, I have traveled enough to learn about the food of different countries. When I travel, I eat the most authentic food I can find. I live for a holiday where I can spend my time in little restaurants, street carts or bistros trying all the different food a country has to offer.
Not only do I love to cook, but I love food. Jesse and I spend many a night at different eateries across Perth. Whether it be our favourite Vietnamese food (Siagon), our new found dim-sum love (Hong Kong Dim Sum Trolley), a cute little boutique bar and tapas (The Cabin), Japanese infusion tapas (Bonsai and Ha-lu), good old authentic tapas (Duende), cheap pub food (The Hyde Park Hotel) or a sunny afternoon lunch (Mad Monk) the list of our 'favourite' eateries almost seems endless at the moment. We try in some capacity to eat out at least once a week, cook a fabulous new recipe at least once a week and above all else continually eat as healthy as possible.
The newest craze of our food loving lives is the farmers market on either a saturday or sunday morning. We are in love with going down to subiaco (it seems to be proven the best one closest to us) and nudging our way through the screaming asian grocers and fast paced customers. Creating meals based on fresh produce has truly become a passion of mine. This week alone I bought 4 types of fresh herbs and only spent $3.00 (though to most of your reading this isn't exciting, you can trust me I have never been happier than making this discovery). Another new favourite of ours is asian grocers where we can find a large assortment of crazy random foods including Jesse's new favourite - aloe water.
As I am on the cusp of finally getting my life on track it's so much fun to be able to seriously play house. In addition to cooking, I am spending a lot of time blog searching for inspiration of our renovations. I can't wait to finally have the money and time to get everything finished (hopefully by mid year....eeeekkkk!). As usual we are holiday planning and dreaming for what the future has in store. First stop on our list is China (YAY!) depending on my work schedule. I may not be your typical 21 year old partying and going crazy....but for the first time ever I think I have finally found my balance.
