It was my birthday last Wednesday, 14 November.
Obviously I didn’t go to work. Anyone who works on their
birthday must have an awesome team who celebrates your day with morning tea
birthday cake, long lunch at the pub and gives you an awesome gift that everyone
pitched in to fund. So because I don’t wok in a team like that I took the
(sickie) day off to be with my family.
Originally the plan was to go to the beach pending the weather
was still going to be warm like it was on Monday and Tuesday, however the clouds
and rain came and the trip to the beach was canned. We had a long late brunch
and went out to let Eli run muck at one of those
children play areas.
That evening Ian and I went to the famous Tetsuya’s and had
the 10 course degustation. Admittedly each course was full of flavour ad very
tasty, we left feeling satisfied - not stuffed but not hungry. The following
day however we both felt very nauseous. I think we’re not use to eating that
much raw food any more and upset our tummies.
Chilled pea soup with dark chocolate mousse
Savory custard with avruga
Salad of the sea
New Zealand scampi with chicken liver parfait walnut vinaigrette
Confit of petuna ocean trout with fennel unpasturised ocean trout caviar
Veal tenderloin with shitake mushrooms and veal jus
Poached spatchcock with asparagus and morels
De bone rack of lamb with sheep's yoghurt and kale
Green apples and mint ice cream with basil jelly
Floating island with praline and cream anglase
Chocolate fondant with hazelnut and praline
On Friday was my Hubby Birthday Part 2 celebrations. I had
secretly planned a few friends to join us for dinner at Ms. G’s at Potts Point.
Dinner wasn’t until 9pm as the place was already booked out for the early time
slots (plus they don’t take bookings for groups under 6 people), so we had pre dinner
drinks at The Village. Unfortunately
everyone arrived later than the birthday boy so the “surprise” component was a
miss however the night was still a lot of fun. Can’t go wrong with a group of
your closest friends gossiping about other friends, making fun of each other,
reminiscing about how cool we were in our twenties and singing along to real old school rnb.
The food at Ms. G’s does live up to its hype. We opted not
to get the set menu cause we figured we’d probably
get more food if we just ordered what we wanted and boy were we right. Our
party of 8 ordered 1 entrée and maybe 7 mains and there was so much food to go
around. The servings weren’t massive the food marrying just satisfied the taste buds. I think also they would bring out the mains as they were
ready so you would eat, eat, eat only to discover a new dish has arrived on the table.
They also had these cocktails in a mild slushy form with sago style gum balls …
so dangerously delicious. I want to go back there to try more!
Saturday morning was M hens breakfast. It was done at the Sofitel in
That evening was Twilight- Breaking Dawn P2 night. I watched
it with my fellow read-the-Twilight-books-in-2-weeks-team-Edward friends. The
final episode was … not that bad. It was tweaked a bit I think to satisfy the
fans and critics but it wasn’t as disappointing as the second movie. Without
giving it away, the “tweaked” component added some action to the movie and triggered emotions from the audience but from an author or screen writers
perspective it’s the one way you don’t end a story, think of “it was all a
dream” kinda scenario.
Sunday was a combined birthday celebration for me, Y and a
welcome home for N. Was glad to see N who now lives in Chicago doing her thang
and making her mark in US retail space. Always exciting and motivating to hear
friends taking their humble ideas and turning them to reality.
We all met up at
a café near Y for high tea. There was cucumber fingers, mini ham croissants and
quiches, scones, salted caramel macarons, sweet pastries and canolie … just to name a few. Great way to end the
weekend.
So that’s my birthday week wrap up – family, food, friends …I couldn't think of a better way to celebrate my birthday.
