Low tide sand Easter weekend at Rosebud Beach in Mornington Peninsula
Eastah (not Easter) here in Melbne (not Melbourne) is a big deal. As in all offices are closed Friday and Monday. Woo-hoo! Four-day weekend. Brendan and I used the day off on Friday to go out to Woori Yallock. I know... what the hell is that?! That is how all of the names are around here--aborignal (Nunawading, Birrarung Marr, Wendouree, Nana Goon, Wagga Wagga) . Anyway, the Vipassana meditation center (oops! "centre") is located in Woori Yallock, about an hour drive East of Melbn, and we volunteered there for the day. That means that Brendan worked outside all day installing hydronic heating in a new building they are putting up. I, on the other hand, spent the day in the kitchen cooking for 70 people! Guess how many cups of flour it takes to make a carrot cake for 70 people? 14 and 14 cups of shredded carrots, 6 cups of raisins, 12 cups of chopped apples, 5 cups of oil, coconut...you get the idea. The bowl I had to use was as wide as a cafe table for two. My little spoon was no match when it came to mixing the batter, so I asked one of the other volunteers to wash her hands and we both dug in to the giant stainless steel bowl and started playing. The cake came out great! I had soaked the raisins so they wouldn't steal all the moisture from the cake. Rave reviews. Yea!
Sunset on the Mornington Peninsula, Rosebud Beach.
On Sunday of the holiday weekend, we drove down to the Mornington Peninsula (pronounced PeninSHUla here--don't ask). We stopped to enjoy Rosebud Beach. We had an awesome lunch at the Blue Mini Cafe, named such because the owner parks her Blue Mini in front of the cafe. Random. The lunch was of course pumpkin-related as everything here is. Super delicious! Moroccon spiced pumpkin soup with a thick hunk of freshly baked farm bread, lentil and potato croquettes with a beautiful salad of rocket, tomato, onion and lebanese cucumber. Food heaven. By the way, the temp was 70F and sunny. How happy was I?!
Eastah (not Easter) here in Melbne (not Melbourne) is a big deal. As in all offices are closed Friday and Monday. Woo-hoo! Four-day weekend. Brendan and I used the day off on Friday to go out to Woori Yallock. I know... what the hell is that?! That is how all of the names are around here--aborignal (Nunawading, Birrarung Marr, Wendouree, Nana Goon, Wagga Wagga) . Anyway, the Vipassana meditation center (oops! "centre") is located in Woori Yallock, about an hour drive East of Melbn, and we volunteered there for the day. That means that Brendan worked outside all day installing hydronic heating in a new building they are putting up. I, on the other hand, spent the day in the kitchen cooking for 70 people! Guess how many cups of flour it takes to make a carrot cake for 70 people? 14 and 14 cups of shredded carrots, 6 cups of raisins, 12 cups of chopped apples, 5 cups of oil, coconut...you get the idea. The bowl I had to use was as wide as a cafe table for two. My little spoon was no match when it came to mixing the batter, so I asked one of the other volunteers to wash her hands and we both dug in to the giant stainless steel bowl and started playing. The cake came out great! I had soaked the raisins so they wouldn't steal all the moisture from the cake. Rave reviews. Yea!
Sunset on the Mornington Peninsula, Rosebud Beach.
On Sunday of the holiday weekend, we drove down to the Mornington Peninsula (pronounced PeninSHUla here--don't ask). We stopped to enjoy Rosebud Beach. We had an awesome lunch at the Blue Mini Cafe, named such because the owner parks her Blue Mini in front of the cafe. Random. The lunch was of course pumpkin-related as everything here is. Super delicious! Moroccon spiced pumpkin soup with a thick hunk of freshly baked farm bread, lentil and potato croquettes with a beautiful salad of rocket, tomato, onion and lebanese cucumber. Food heaven. By the way, the temp was 70F and sunny. How happy was I?!
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