It feels like I am off to a good start with a blog post on the first day of the new year!! After all the times I have been telling myself to get back into it, and not being able to overcome my laziness, I think this blog post deserves to go off with a bang of some sort. Just like the
Personally I think I deserve to celebrate the end of 2011, I have done what I was suppose to do and I am super thankful for just being back at home spending saturday afternoons lazing around in the house or baking a cake with my parents (mom and I instruct, dad is the willing/manual 'kitchenaid') and devouring/critising our own sweet creations washed down with a big cup of tea and having a blast at catching up.
I don't think I have ever missed being around my parents so much! Yes I am not young, but as some famous quote says, carpe diem!! I have spent my 17 months being independent, now it is the time where I truly can appreciate and return to being careful (wonderfully) by my parents.
Post all the fireworks and with a little wisdom from siri:-
Yes siri...
Although Siri put forward quite a convincing answer to the age old question, I didn't get chocolate to prove it right. I am not going to give it any satisfaction - if it had any... But I did get the next best thing!!
As a little treat/completing one of my to-dos from 2011, I happen to pay a visit to Adriano Zumbo's 'new' patisserie shop at The Star.
Excuse the grainy/distorted pictures, iphone still isn't very up to scratch even with their 8mp cameras!
The sushi train-esq din in shop wasn't open as it was a public holiday, however they were still selling their famous macaroons and a few of cakes and look at these babies!!
3 dozen colourful sugar loaded zumboron
No it wasn't all for me as one friend asked, although that would have probably given me a sugar high lasting a full week!! Weeee!!
My first 2012 sugar hit
There are some really weird flavours there... I went through 5 halves with my mom and only the lychee one (bottom 3rd from left) was nice and made an impression out of raspberry, watermelon, ?oreo and chili chocolate (woah serious heat). I am not sure whether it was the particular packaging/temperature but some were soggy!!
I've flown macaroons not from zumbo to Coffs Harbour before and those lasted extremely well!! Zumbo still remains to be the king of macaroons with all the full bodied weird and wacky creations he makes. Some are awesome but I am not really sure these are my favourite go to macaroons now as there are so many patisserie out there.
For the time being, I am glad that I crossed one thing off my list of to-dos from 2011 (better late than never!) and carpe diem!
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