Raining Chaos

Blog

  • Reine’s Serendipitous Springtime

    This spring has been spent sneezing, spending, and cooking! I still absolutely adore central markets and the farmers markets, and now go to both, because it’s fun and the produce is amazing.

    There is great joy in unplanned purchasing (of ingredients mind you, not impulse buying!), so I end up with goodies like heirloom carrots and blood oranges to play with.

    First up, to get the silliness out of the way, there are two neverfail ingredients that can help out in a pinch – the first, as you know, is bacon. The second, is tomato sauce. One day, I had no dinner prepared whatsoever, and managed to create a chicken, bacon, tomato pasta that was somewhat decent! >_> Free parsley also helps 🙂

    (more…)

  • Not enough people look up to the sky

    For a long time, I’ve believed that people don’t look up enough. There are some awesome things in the sky, and sometimes in buildings too.

    Umbrellas hanging trinkets from a dreamer

    The cloud that is the essence of a wish

    The silhouette of a passing dragon

    Or just some pretty flowers and things.
    (more…)

  • Trendy Terrariums

    I am not a hispter, and here are my hispter plants to prove it!

    I think this last one looks like a green fuzzy spider primed to strike. It’s so cute! 🙂

    Terrarrrararararrium

  • All the blood oranges!

    So I have just completed 6 days of no coffee, just cause. Turns out day 2 is when the body suffers some crazy withdrawal – I had a pounding headache for most of the day.

    And of course, here is my obligatory post of coffee:

    (more…)

  • Culinary springtime, and dolphins

    It’s getting warm and I love the colour of heirloom carrots. They make me happy and when I’m happy I turn into a culinary genius.

    WATCH THIS SPACE, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT


    Also what does it mean when I dream about swimming with dolphins, I have never had a dream like that before and it weirds me out.

  • Death by caffeine, Cronut Jenga

    My friend visited Adelaide, and being foodies and all, plus the fact that I wanted to experience death by caffeine, lead to us going on a grand adventure of all things tasty.

    Friday was super epic and involved trying to consume as many coffees as possible, so here was my list for the day, assuming one filter has more caffeine than espresso and therefore is more than “one coffee”:

    Exchange Specialty Coffee: 1.5 filters

    Please Say Please: 1 espresso

    Coffee Branch: 1 espresso

    Little Seeds Pop Up: 1 espresso

    Argo on the Square: 1 piccolo

    Hey Jupiter: 1 flat white

    Total count in 1 day: approx 7 coffees! Woohoo!

    We had an awesome moment of cronut jenga and kind of spilt sugar everywhere when our tower fell (twice!) but it was so fun, and the fallen cronut was still within the 3 second rule PLUS it ended up on my umbrella so it was still good. Very tasty, loved the texture because donut dough is too heavy, so croissant dough to make donuts is genius!

    (more…)

  • Granite Island, The Wind, and the Beginning of Proof

    I love things that are packed full of jam, pickles, and other kinds of action. So this weekend I took a trip down to Victor Harbour and Granite Island.

    Everyone told me it’d be cold, but for all the 10°C – 14°C, it wasn’t all that cold. I attribute this to my Rhodes and Beckett attire and the fact that Sydney has worse winters by far.

    It was wet, cold and windy but I didn’t mind at all – I was loving it! However the farmer’s markets weren’t faring as well – I saw a few tents tip over – so they had to shut down early. I didn’t get my chance to spend money here, which was a good and bad thing, since I probably won’t visit again… ever?

    It also meant the horse drawn tram wasn’t in action to Granite Island, but that was okay as I discovered it wasn’t a horse-drawn carriage. I was anticipating some good old, old fashioned horse carriages, but the picture advertising it depicted a giant bus-like thing drawn by horses, so I was disappointed without actually being disappointed. Instead I got to walk along the giant bridge-thing to the small island with big rocks and penguins that didn’t show!

    (more…)

  • The Ephemery

    Welcome to my dream word, The Ephemery.

    Lose yourself in time, in blurred reality;

    Live and re-live your life in pursuit of enlightenment…

    In no hope, the darkness consumes you;

    In freedom, the chaos releases you.

    All leads to end.

  • Black Winter Luxury

    Welcome to truffle!

    Tasmanian, black, winter, fragrant, beautiful goodness!

  • Reine’s winter wonderfuls

    So first time living alone, I am left utterly to my own devices for everything! And considering I don’t like the word budget, instead preferring terms like “marginal propensity to spend” and “I allocate and redirect resources,” I have done a fair few bits of experimental cooking.

    Hence, my Adelaidean winter wonderfuls. Winter here has actually been nice so far – I hated Sydney winters and everyone told me Adelaide was cold, super cold. But I’ve been loving it – apart from having a fit with the sporadic rain – the chill is so pleasant!

    Mushrooms, goat curd on rosemary and potato sourdough, egg

    (more…)