Délicieux

"The Daring Bakers go retro this month! Thanks to one of our very talented non-­ blogging members, Sarah, the Daring Bakers were challenged to make Croissants using a recipe from the Queen of French Cooking, none other than Julia Child!"


 There was no playing games with this recipe - I followed the entire process to the T (not as my mom taught me which was a much more 'dash of this', 'splash of that', eat half the mixture before its cooked' kind of approach). It was worth every knead, every layer of butter, every long wait between rises, because they were darn delicious!


They were perfectly light and crispy on the outside, buttery and flaky on the inside and divine with some cheese and jam.


The proper camera was in Pretoria with Curtis so I had to make do with my extremely outdated little point and shoot, I think it actually has less megapixels than my phone (which is not of the smart phone variety either!) so the photos don't quite do them justice but here they are anyway... 

Exploring

I think it was the Getaway Photographer that I read a brilliant article in a while ago about urban photography and Curt and I have always thought trying out our urban photography skills would be fun... both being nature lovers (for lack of a better/less cliche phrase), up until now all our ''photo expeditions had been centered around the outdoors. So we decided to start small and spent a few hours one weekend exploring Wits, here is the result...

Wits is somewhere I spend my entire week but it somehow becomes completely new when you are not working up a sweat speed-walking up "the hill" (Witsies you'll know what Im talking about!) to get to an 8am lecture on time or some other very banal varsity past time.

Joburg Art Fair

Got any free time this weekend - if you answered yes then you should definitely check out the FNB Joburg Art Fair at the Sandton Convention centre!

The Art Fair is in its fourth year and the previous two that I have been to were beautiful, inspiring and of course, as with most large art collections, a little bit wacky - overall, it won't disappointment.

There are over 20 contributing galleries and it promises to be a a fantastic display of all types of talent.

PS. Its R100 for a day pass, but only R20 with a student card - yes please :)

What up G

This little guy was running around at Jazz on the Lake, a couple of weekends ago - adorable!

Thought it a nice way to start the week, you know, feel your inner gangster :)

Photo thanks to Curtis who is much better at taking photos of strangers than I am...

P.S. It was a brilliant day - Asa and 340ml performing = happy Becky!
Keep an eye/ear out for next year!

tadaaa...

Ok so, confession time: either I made my Pate de Fruits slightly incorrectly or I am just not the biggest fan - whichever way you look at it, although some of my family found them tasty, I was left with a rather large batch of very sweet strawberry flavored jam squares.

But alas, when cut into smaller squares and placed on top of a cupcake, it makes for a small burst of strawberry deliciousness!

Problem solved - now who wants a cupcake?