It's all about food

#1 "Eating out"
Tonight I did a radical thing and deliberately took a night off from working (as opposed to just feeling guilty that I should be working but not actually getting much done- you know how it is when you're a student? :-).

A friend from Hobart is in town, for meetings yesterday and today, and then some retail therapy tomorrow, so we took the opportunity to catch up over dinner in Lygon St. After eating, we did a lap of Lygon St, up one side of the street to the city end of the restaurant strip, and then back down the other side of the street, skilfully dodging the many street spruikers who were keen to get us into their establishments.

We ended up at Brunetti's for coffee and cakey things (and Jenny's eyes widened in disbelief as we walked in the door and she saw rows of glass-doored industrial freezers chock full of a wide variety of specialty cakes, most of them topped with huge curls or jagged shards of chocolate... very droolworthy!) So I think Jenny will go home with a new name on her hit-list of places to visit on her next trip to Melbourne. Gosh! I feel like such a local, giving the good oil on local eateries to tourists!

#2 "Eating in"
The other day I received my latest Food Porn* magazine in the mail. I have recently begun to suspect that one reason I have been so stressed and restless over my study load lately might have something to do with the fact that I haven't done any serious cooking for far too long. That will be fixed tomorrow, as I have my local 'culinary guinea pig' coming round for dinner. I have selected a few choice recipes from the Food Porn which I am looking forward to producing (including a reprise of the amazingly droolworthy chocolate and macadamia nut brownies I made just before Easter, but wasn't able to share with the CGP at the time due to his observance of a Lenten fast).

I enjoy cooking for friends, and will have to ensure that next semester I don't allow myself to go as long between dinner parties as I have in recent times. (it's also great having people round for meals, as it gives me serious incentive to do some extra tidying of my flat! :-)

*sigh* I think I really am in foodie heaven here in Melbourne! :-)

* NB "Food Porn" refers to my subscription to delicious. magazine. I call it this because, like the other kind of porn, it is a glossy mag, containing lots of pictures and makes me drool.