Welcome to the real world!

Another announcement! I am officially a god mother.
My friend had given birth to her little bubba on the 17th of May!

Little Emily is soooo cute and tiny. At 5lbs!!

 

yes, I do have a habit of comparing things to my fist. I have another photo with an oyster the same size as my fist hahahhaa. 

Flowers flowers and more flowers!

And for the flower segment. We are well into autumn now, just days away from winter technically speaking. And oh am I loving it!

Speaking of autumn, while working at one of the shops I did get a chance to make an autumn stlyed wedding bouquet. One of those customers who decide to call up on a Sunday and its a bit like 'Oh I need a wedding bouquet for tomorrow, but I don't want this this this and want only this'. Yeah.. buddy, not gonna happen. But in the end we did end up negotiating for an autumned styled bouquet. Well.. on a Sunday you are kind of stuck with the flowers you have in the shop at the time. But seeing as the guy who called up wanted an all red bouquet and absolutely no roses.. hmmmm.....

So the next morning, he came to pick up this. I was told that he was very pleased with the bouquet and said it was perfect. NOTE: it was JUST for a photoshoot.
And I kinda quessed, you know trendy, out of the norm kinda stuff you would see in the magazines. (obvisouly not pretty frilly magazines. But more style, fashion mags.

And here is Miss 'Stellar'. On of our catalogue products which has been kept from mother's day. Honestly none of them are true to what is displayed on the website flower wise. But a florist works with what she or hes got!




And last but not least. A trio of vases put together with what I could find in the shop. Each vase with a colour and texture of their own.

Not dead yet!

I'm baaacckkkk!
I've been lazy to post up anything lately since winters a coming and thats my call'n to hibernate whenever possible.
BUT~ I have still been baking and flowering as I normally do... just blogger was being a richard and didn't let me sign in. So basically I'll do two separate posts one for food and one for flowers. Flowers and food. Perfect combination!

So last week on a Mondy, yes I said Mondy. I went out to one of the new cafes in the new Westfields on Pitt street. Before I went, I looked up the place up, Le Pain Quotidien. Although being very stereotypical, I assumed anything with 'le' in the beginning was french. But coming there and ordering, they did have alot of belgian, and austrian breads and bakes. Which kind of took me off guard.
Aside from the true origins of this cafe. The food there was actually very nice, well presented and coffee was lovelovelovelovelovelovel<3ve!
After going to such a bread-y cafe I was in a bread baking mood. So I went to seek a scroll/bun kind of recipe. Couldn't remeber which site I got the recipe from, but I have screen shots of the recipe on my phone.
I basically took the recipe and ended up rolling scrolls out of them. And as a second test, buns filled with cheese and bacon.

Mothers Day recap

Hiya, survived the mother's day period. 'N I'm back with some photos from the spastic week that I had at work. I wish I could've taken more photos during the week, but it was waaaayyy too busy and hectic for me to stop . But will have to make do with what photos I did manage to sneak, hehe.
Just under a thousand orders went out this year for mother's day, so we did better than last year. So good job team!

 6AM starts, 9PM finishes. Can't say that it was like having a scone and cuppa tea. But I am very glad that its over and done with. And by the end of the week lets just say that I looked and felt a bit like(and pardon my french) shit.

Super organic banana and honey muffins for mum.

Back again with some baking goodies.
So after my family had demolished the last batch of brownies, mummy came up to me asking if I could bake her something like banana bread, but with honey.
Never have I heard of a banana n honey muffin (but I'm sure it exists somewhere), so I went through a couple of my cook books to find bits and pieces from other muffin recipes to make this one.
BUT on one condition; I can only use very organic products and foods. So mummy went to market and brought home the goodies.

 

So as you can see, pretty much organic this, that or relatively healthy/fat-free/gluten-free.

Ingredients!!
2 C self raising flour
1/2 C plain flour
1/4 raw sugar

1/2 tsp baking powder
2.5 bananas (mashed up)

1 C buttermilk ( don't forget to shake bottle/carton first)

2 eggs lightly beaten
1/4 C honey (room temp)

1/3 C veg oil

So, making it very easy and simple.

Oven at 200 degrees celcius.

Sift all dry ingredients together.
Stir in honey and mashed nana.
Eggs, buttermilk and oil.
Combine, but don't over mix. You want a relatively chunky batter since theres banana in it.

In they go muffin tins.
Bake 20 mins.

This 'recipe' made me a dozen and a half muffins. BUT since I used the nifty silicon muffin tray my sister bought, there was more left over? The holes in the silicon tray looked a lot smaller. But not saying I couldn't have filled it to the top and let it look like a true 'muffin top'. So in the end I used a 6 holed muffin tin lined with paper cups.

Ideally, its best to have most ingredients at room temp. I think when it came to the honey I totally forgot and had to sit it on top of the preheating oven so it could warm up a bit. Measurements with the honey aren't 100% exact. I'm only guessing 1/4 C since I poured it from the jar (I really really really really really really hate honey so having it stuck in the measuring jug and having to clean it would be death for me). Also being a batter eating enthusiast, I tried the batter even though there was honey in it (I was very curious), it wasn't too sweet which is why I decided to sprinkle a little of brown sugar on the top before baking them. Or it would've been a better idea to wait for the bananas to ripen more. Haw haw!

End result. Very moist. Subtle banana and honey taste and smell. Not too sweet. So go nuts eating them all day.