Back by popular demand...

...a post about food!

We were in Melbourne over the weekend, and while there we visited Cumulus Inc...twice. It is our fave hangout over there.  So, when trying to find ideas regarding what to feed my hungry husband tonight, I re-visited their cookbook and gave the Spiced Cauliflower Salad with Goat's Curd a whirl.

I even got all fancy-pants on it, and found a pomegranate at the store to scatter on top.

The verdict?  Amazing to look at, and pretty yummy.

(Don't worry - hungry hubby didn't just have cauliflower salad for dinner - there was a porterhouse steak on the side).

Our disappearing city..

When we were in town on the weekend, I took a photo of the Manchester and Worcester St corner:

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My brother had been asking about the old church on the corner where we went to sit piano exams (it has seen better days):

Anyway, I grabbed another Google Maps screenshot of the same intersection pre-quake:

The church is pretty much the only building left standing...

Saturday outing...

This weekend we went into town to see Melbourne artist Ash Keating create an artwork in an empty section amongst the demolition.

 

 

Unfortunately we were too late to see any actual action (Ash used fire extinguishers to spray paint on to a concrete wall), but the results were pretty rad.

 

 

Every little bit of colour helps brighten our grey, concrete (or plastic wrapped, as above) CBD.

Goodbye...and hello!

This morning I took the boy on one last drive in our DS (we sold her last week and the new owners are collecting her on Monday). We drove down to the famous Dunsandel Store for a morning snack.

 It was just lovely - nectars and peonies...

And I had an enormous piece of lemon sour cream cake with yoghurt. Perusing in the store afterwards, I cam across none other than a bottle of New Zealand made gin, and....New Zealand made tonic. Unable to resist supporting local made products, I picked up both!

Another great lunch at Black Estate

Last weekend we had some amazing spring weather, so we went to Sumner beach for the morning.

The key to enjoying a morning at the beach in Christchurch is to keep you eyes out at sea....

...that way you don't notice the shipping containers lining the road (there to stop rockfalls), the bare cliffs, and the houses teetering on the edge, some already half at the bottom.

Football in the gap..

The folks at Nike helped set up a mini football field on a vacant lot in the CBD this week. Soccer isn't really my kind of thing, but a friend and I went along and checked it out - more for the sake of the kids than anything else...

  

It was kind of cool, but in the end my boy was far more interested in looking through the fence at the cordoned red zone to watch the crane and diggers.. 

 

Christchurch people may recognise that sheath of corn as Regan Gentry's Flour Power on the corner of High and Colombo St.