because we came back from Italy last month, I’ve been longing for taralli.Taralli are bit hoop-shaped biscuits that are originally from Puglia in southeastern Italy, where we just were.
Last week I chose I’d have a fracture at making them. The results were… interesting. We’ve got the details below.
Plus, our buddy Sean McGrath has had his art featured in Sydney fringe celebration this year as well as finally we get to see the new as well as extremely swish Grand Ballroom at the gorgeous four seasons hotel right here in Sydney.
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Our buddy Shaun is rather the creative. In fact, the things he comes up with are absolutely genius. We’re so delighted he’s got a area at this year’s Sydney fringe celebration working on one of the things he likes best: wigs.
He likes integrating his amazing skillsets of hair styling, repurposing, wig making as well as environmentalism to make statements like these. As Shaun says, the function of his art in these wigs is to provoke a reaction.
Check out the full story of Shaun’s installation over on Mrs Romance’s site Hair Romance.
Mrs romance very first satisfied Shaun with her hairdresser, the excellent Stevie English as well as likewise with our buddies Paul as well as Ewelina, who run Refoil as well as sustainable beauty salons Australia – amazing ventures that are doing incredible environmental work. In fact, inspect out this fantastic video showing the very best of Paul as well as Shaun!
You can see these interesting sculpture-like wigs at Fringe’s event at Broadway in Sydney up until the end of September ’17.
This evening, Mrs romance is taking me out for a bit treat. We’ve had a quite difficult time just recently getting as much as speed in a couple of huge projects, so it’s fantastic to get away from the office for a bit bit.
We’re at our preferred mixed drink bar in Balmain Wilhemina’s for a martini or two. The gin choice these men have is excellent with great deals of Aussie flavours right here too.
This saffron-infused gin not only holds a gorgeous golden hue, it tastes incredible too.
These men have amazing food as well as an award-winning red wine menu, so if you’re searching for somewhere incredible to try for dinner and/or drinks, we’ve just resolved your problem.
Taralli. They begin out life appearing like this; wormy tubes of dough. however by the end of production, they’re crunchy tasty biscuits that take us directly back to the coastline as well as cucini of Puglia.
These pre-dinner snacks – aka aperitivi – are really made of a pasta recipe. They’re shaped into bit donuts then boiled as well as then baked. You can add any type of number of different herbs or spices into them, however the traditional Puglia flavour is fennel seeds.
This is what they’re expected to look like – this was one of my very first tastes of taralli in Italy. I’ve been hooked ever since.
My very first attempts didn’t turn out all that pretty, however it wasn’t a poor effort for my very first try. There are about a million different recipes for these tasty snacks, so I’m going to provide one more technique a go, then I’ll share my findings.
The great news is these fellas are vegetarian – potentially vegan – so if you’ve got buddies with these dietary demands or if you’re searching for a snack to produce yourself, these are perfect.
Mrs romance has been seriously hectic today. as well as things aren’t over yet. However, we discover ourselves in the city this evening with a spare 90 minutes or so.
Therefore, we’ve done the apparent thing as well as gone to the pub!
It’s in truth an old preferred of ours we haven’t been to for ages. It’s the east village in Darlinghurst, as well as it’s been so long because our last go to they’ve even completed the rooftop bar!
If you get the chance, get over to the east Village; I’ve got a feeling this bar’s going to be featuring a bit with us this summer!
And here’s why we’re in town this evening: the four seasons hotel Sydney‘s new Grand Ballroom is lastly open! exactly how outstanding is this space. We’re already huge fans of this hotel – it being house to Grain Bar, which we’ve discussed a few times in the past.
Tonight we’re getting to experience this ballroom when it’s completely functioning. I’ve got a feeling it’s going to be a great night! Oh as well as by the way, yes, those are trees in the space you can see.
Our expectations have definitely been met. Tonight’s opening celebration for the four seasons Sydney’s ballroom is awesome. This is just one of the locations you can get food: a gorgeous landscape of cheese, including – to our delight – burrata.
Along the far wall is one more food station where we delighted in freshly shucked oysters, Mt cook salmon as well as kingfish. however my preferred – as well as something that’s going to be on my mind for a long time – are the Tajima marble score 9+ wagyu scotch filletserved on a tasty chewy savoury blini.
We’re being extremely spoiled tonight!
To officially open the Grand Ballroom, four seasons hotel Sydney’s general manager Rudolf van Dijk introduces us to the room’s crowning glory: this amazing LED screen that can play at full 4K definition. quite outstanding for a 12-metre by 3.5-metre screen.
It’s always difficult to get the interest of 500+ people at the exact same time – particularly with so much tasty food to eat. This show does it quite well.
After the presentation, we relocation to the other wall where we find dessert. It practically feels like we destroying an art installation when we get the bit cakes as well as petit fours from this wall display. however cake!
Finally this chocolate diorama is in truth a mixed drink fountain – like something out of Willy Wonka. This punchy mixed drink of Ketel 1 vodka, Absolut Peach, pear liqueur, mandarin, rum as well as gin, runs over the landscape of chocolate into your glass. If I only had the guts of Augustus Gloop, I’d opt for a swim!
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Cheers – Jim & Christina x