Homewares II

Homewares II

6 Feb 2009

I meant to post this ages ago. When I went overseas last year I planned on buying some new homewares to jazz up my food styling. Lack of space coupled with a poor exchange rate meant that I came home with little. I had to spend a few hours at Helsinki Airport on my way back to Sydney and I had no idea how fantastic the shopping was going to be. I've always loved the pared back look of Scandinavian design so I was in heaven browsing through the Iittala glassware. Unfortunately as I was already loaded down with my camera bag, I could only buy what I could carry. My one purchase - an Alvar Aalto oak serving tray. Next time I'm going with an empty bag!



I styled my Mediterranean lunch of feta cheese (a brand called Dodoni and it's the nicest feta cheese I've ever eaten), kalamata olives and turkish bread using my new purchases from Country Road and Helsinki, on a table runner from Cloth. Tomorrow it's meant to be 40° C so if it's too hot to cook dinner, I may be dining on watermelon and feta cheese salad.

Happy Weekend,

Jillian

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Chocolate Cupcakes

Chocolate Cupcakes

27 Nov 2008

I bought some silicone cupcake holders from Habitat when I was in London and I've been dying to make something with them ever since. Sunday morning bright and early I whipped up a batch of chocolate cupcakes using a tried and true chocolate sandwich cake recipe from my Margaret Fulton cookbook.




I've not used silicone bakeware before and was really impressed with how easily the cakes came away from the holders. You'll also spy some of my other new homewares in the photos - wooden board and placemat from Country Road and small serving platter from Mud Australia.



And what was the best thing about the whole experience? - licking the bowl afterwards!



Jillian

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