Some Australian-ness

Because we had a lot of these:



... and because S. (a couchsurfer from Köln) has recently moved in, I felt the need to make some of this:

Bread credit: Brown's sourdough baguette from the Vic Markets. Yum!

... and because that and something else I was cooking last weekend used a lot of egg yolks, I figured that was a perfect excuse to make a couple of these:






Recipe credits: Stephanie Alexander's Cook's Companion provided the lemon butter recipe. I've made lemon butter a number of times before, but not for years, so I had to call mum to ask her to check my Stephanie Alexander for me. Best lemon butter recipe I've ever come across. Because it uses only yolks, it's richer than if you use the whole egg, and you don't get those flecks of whites in the finished product (cos you can NEVER get it blended enough to get rid of those).
And I found the pavlova recipe in one of P.'s (my flatmate) old Woman's Weekly cookbooks. Enough said!

Yeeehaaa!

An article about couchsurfing was just emailed to me by a colleague (to whom I may have mentioned couchsurfing once or twice...).

I find the tone a bit weird (especially of the captions to the photos), but hey, so what!

Maybe it shows, but I'm getting really excited about heading off again soon.

ETA: And another one! (Thanks Nat, whom I have yet to convince to join couchsurfing...)

No, I'm not going to link every article about couchsurfing here, don't worry. It's just adding to my current excitement.

That little girl...

...whose mother they're now looking for...

...had she "looked Australian" (hmph!)...

...and not been able to speak to them or tell them her name...

...would they have called her Pumpkin?

Even if that was the brand of a piece of clothing she was wearing?

Somehow, I don't think so...

ETA: And I'm not the only one to notice. As Kim at Larvatus Prodeo points out, much of the MSM is still doing it, even now they know her name.