It turns out my blogging inspiration went missing for the
last 12 months but don’t panic my cooking inspiration and love of feeding my
stomach has been well intact! I am not really sure where to start with catching
you up on what has been an eventful year of settling back into the real
world. Let’s back track to the last time
we spoke, I managed to step back into my old life pretty smoothly, find a job
within a month or so and unpack (although not overly successfully as there are
still some things in boxes that I don’t know what to do with yet).
I am now working in events at the University, something very
different to my previous roles at IBM. I
am really enjoying the opportunity to work with students as we organise the
social program including O-week, sporting activities on and off campus, award
and presentation nights just to mention a few.
I am also starting to get the travel bug back but it has taken some serious time. The thought of packing a suitcase, even if it was for a week, was not an enticing thought for a while. I think the most I have ventured away in the last year was a trip to Phillip Island to see the penguin parade, which by the way was amazing! It was a lovely few days away to spend with my boyfriend (yes you read that correctly, that has been a development since arriving home) who I rarely get to see due to our different working schedules. I am really keen to get away during the winter this year and hope to make it an overseas trip. I’ll let you know as soon as there are some plans in place!
I am also starting to get the travel bug back but it has taken some serious time. The thought of packing a suitcase, even if it was for a week, was not an enticing thought for a while. I think the most I have ventured away in the last year was a trip to Phillip Island to see the penguin parade, which by the way was amazing! It was a lovely few days away to spend with my boyfriend (yes you read that correctly, that has been a development since arriving home) who I rarely get to see due to our different working schedules. I am really keen to get away during the winter this year and hope to make it an overseas trip. I’ll let you know as soon as there are some plans in place!
Another thing I stepped back into with a lot of excitement was
my weekly (sometimes fortnightly) dinner with my beautiful girlfriends. We are still heading out and trying a new
place every week and working our way through ‘the list’. I will definitely include some of my
favourites in the coming weeks; I just need to remember to take my camera with
me everywhere I go again! You may also remember me saying that I would love to
try a different recipe from scratch once a week and can you believe my lazy
bones have started doing this. Some of
my favourites on the list have been lamb korma, silverside with cabbage and
leek mash, beef rendang & sticky lime and ginger chicken. Most of these have been from a Donna Hay
cookbook, the new classics, which I got for Christmas and tonight I am trying Texan
style BBQ brisket. It has meant a lot
more time in the kitchen on a Sunday (I started cooking at 1pm today!) but I
have really enjoyed creating flavours from scratch instead of opening and
pouring from a jar.
Hopefully I will get my butt into gear and use this blog to
share with you some of my weekly creations.
That’s all for now but don’t forget to keep smiling xx
