Found a really cool blog yesterday, it was sent to me by a friend who stumbled upton it.

Nicki is an Aussie chick too, she's in Melbourne and she's a bit of chololate nut. She's got a whole heap of recipes that she bloggs.

Just reading them and looking at the pictures is enticing enough. My friend made her low fat chocolate fuge cookies, they were soooooo nice, all gooey inside. I put on 5 kilo's just looking at them :) (althought they are low fat, that doesn't mean that they don't have any fat!)
She's also got a recipe for a nutella cake where she used a whole jar of nutella... That ones defiantly not low fat. YUM tho.
http://esurientes.blogspot.com/

Also went and had a tasting at my wedding reception place. We had Canelloni, Linguini and Atlantic Salmon entrees that were soooo nice all presented really well and tasted great to boot! We were so pleased.... Then the mains came out.

They all had this saucey stuff that covered the plate which tasted like someone had scraped the dregs from the bottom of a frying pan and tried to mix them into some sort of saucy semblance. Needless to say it was horrible, they were supposed to be different sauces and reductions on each dish but they all tasted the same. GROSS!

We had a roasted chicken, lamb rack and a fillet of beef. The beef was rare... like i mean BLUE. My Dad is a Chef and he refused to eat it, the veggies were raw (you know how they dont cook them for long enough and they're still crunchy). So were going to have to make a few changes:

Lamb Rack
sliced lamb not on bone
no sauce
tender veggies nicely cooked - not crunchy

Fillet of Beef
delicate red wine sauce
medium to well done
tender veggies nicely cooked - not crunchy
roasted potatoes instead of lentil mash

chargrilled chicken
tender veggies - beans cooked longer
remove creamed gnochi and pesto and add something else
no sauce

So now we have to do another tasting to see if they can get it right this time.

I should also note that the desserts were to die for! i've never tasted such a rich flourless chocolate cake before, it was thicker than any mud cake i've ever had! and the cadeou of chocolate was lovely and creamy in the middle too. Oh and i'm not a fan of sticky date pudding but what we had was sooo nice.

Okay so i didnt tell them that we'll be having the wedding cake as dessert but they didnt need to know that just then :)