Stalk my Weekend: Wedding, Hail, Fluff, Pork Ribs

For the first time in a LONG time, I was invited to a wedding!
Oh hello! This was a family wedding so we all trooped to a winery dressed in our best. Yes there was hail and rain forecasted plus it was in Gippsland. I had no backup dress and Mick insisted I wore this dress that he bought me. Which is all well and good except that the dress was not altered for length. I thought I would wear it with my Louboutin Very Prive. But how can you run after kids and plot through a winery wedding in them? I can barely sit in them! This is me trying to find shoes at the last minute and now I had an issue of having a dress that is too long. LOL

The mess trying to get ready

Face of the day - I don't do FOTD posts but because I scrubbed up a bit of alright.. I will. Illasmasqua neutral eye palette (all 4 colours), Laura Mercier Mineral Pressed powder in Real Sand. Nars Deep Throat blusher, Chanel Coco Shine 63 Rebelle and Dior 662 Ultra Gloss Flash on top. I have yet to work out if the LM pressed powder is actually a foundation or just a powder and whether I am even "Real Sand". There was nobody at the counter when I went there so I went to town testing all the shades.

We are so into Selfies

I finally found a pair of shoes - again circa 2005. Those were good years for me financial wise AHAHHA. Nude Chanel with metal CC across one of the front strap. It also has a metallic silver heel with gold CCs at the back. It's like amazeballs. I remember that I used to wear them to work, I should do that again.

Oh look, I'm dressed like a giant red packet in this dress

We are armed with weaponed balloons

The boys were pretty well behaved. But at some point in the day, someone brought out the big gun - an iPad. So they started running between the iPad and the big screen TV where everyone was watching the AFL Grand Final. D would even cheer when everyone else was cheering while eating his party pie. The groom's father is actually a kids' party balloon entertainer. He was so funny he had me in hysterics too. He asked if D could have a weapon of mass destruction. He made this sword and gave it to him but he said that he wanted a dog instead like Pickles'. Anyway, both balloons became weapons of mass destruction as they proceeded to whack each other with it for ages. I might have also joined at some point hitting Pickles on the head a fair bit (passive aggressive much?)

King's Jade Salt Pepper Pork Ribs

We were so tired the next day and can't think of cooking lunch ... so guess what! We had a craving for roast meat on rice. King's Jade is in Bulleen and it is amazingggg.. Today I tried the salt pepper pork ribs on rice and it was so yummy.

This stuff is horrifying

We went to Leo's for food shopping in the afternoon and I walked past this. Fluff. Fluff my friend is spreadable marshmallow. I will not even go there. This reminds me of my ex boss who brought a jar back for us from America. She claimed it was amazing and delicious. Nobody.. not one single person would touch it. It sat on someone's desk for months and finally we could throw it out after she went back home.

Everyone's had enough

This is what happens at 6pm when you go out for a drive to the supermarket because you have run out of plain flour. Both of them were sound asleep and Mick carried them in from the car. I'm not sure how D even managed to kick his shoes off and go back to sleep!

I am going back to my Mac and Cheese dinner and about to crash like these two boys.

Random Score: Brasserie Bread Office Lottery

Check out my random score from last week! I won the Brasserie Bread office lottery and it was certainly the most random thing ever. Who else would win BREAD?
It fed the entire team for morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea. Plus I managed to force people to take bread home.

My colleague kept laughing and saying that I was a Soviet benefactor giving bread out to everyone. The mail man was so fascinated with the delivery, he said he would bring it to my desk because of the size. I was like WHAT! Look at the size of that box.

BREAD and PASTRY BOX!!

I can tell you now that it was indeedy very heavy. It was filled with yummy dense loaves of goodness.
The crowd favourite had to be the olive bread. It was so good and that went really quickly.

Nutella run

I ran downstairs to get some Nutella for afternoon tea. It was $5 for a big ass jar - bargain.

My goodies to bring home

I brought these home and again the multigrain was amazingly yummy. But I was so over bread that I could not face eating it anymore at home. Mick and the boys went to town on them.

Stalk my Noms: Spun Fairy Floss

My yummy Spun Fairy Floss Raspberry

As you know.. I do my wheeling and dealing on Twitter quite a bit. I do not know when/how I found Paul from Spun Fairy Floss - http://spunfairyfloss.com.au. I was earlier sent a trial pack with several flavours as Genevieve and Paul were still testing out flavours. No complaints at all from me.. amazing! Now that they have officially launched their order site, I had to buy some. My friend bought Maple and for some reason I thought I ordered Maple as well. But noooo... I did not!! I bought Coconut, Raspberry, Fig and Strawberry Macademia.

Spun's PinUp girl promo shoot

How cute is their PinUp promo shoot result? Spun does not use artificial colours of flavours. These are naturally flavoured and I can tell you.. this stuff tastes amazing and it actually taste like raspberry! I am not sure how they do it (trade secret I guess!) but gosh they do it well. All the floss is not coloured so it is white. But white food never tasted so good. I am waiting patiently for when Coconut & Lime is available. I do not really eat much dessert but this is moreish.

Jump on their website and order now. http://spunfairyfloss.com.au/shop.html $7.95 for a 60g tub and flat rate courier shipping for up to 8 tubs.

Stalk me on Facebook

I can see you rolling your eyes.

I has stalkbook!

Due to peer pressure (yes I blame you ladies on #bbloggersoz LOL) I am now on Facebook.
As you can see there's a hot looking "Like" widget on the right now. But jump on http://facebook.com/porkchopsnest as I am feeling very "unliked" at the moment.

The Claw: Rimmel Fruities Cranberry Zest

Strategically placed Rimmel Cranberry Zest

I picked this up because the sales lady at the checkout upsold me. Yes I got upsold! At MY CHEMIST! Woohoo.. $2.95 or something at half price. Alright, I will dig through this bin. She suggested that I look at the Fruities collection as it has a fruity scented smell. I thought ok why not. I have not had scented nail polishes since Anna Sui glitters back when I lived in Singapore. Yes my teenage years. The smell on this one was a little not to my taste. The scent lasted about 2 days and the cranberry just smelt really odd to me. Maybe it's a personal preference with this one.

Oh look lavender

We have lavenders in the garden and they are looking pretty good. We used to have a big wall of them at the fence and they were WAY overgrown. It was pretty yucky when Mick tore them out. Think snails galore for many months. Yes ... Gross. I quite like lavender and I am really glad that these have taken off.

I has perfume

I brought this into the office for a colleague as she asked me what I was using. This was bought in Korres Singapore which stocks their entire range of perfume. Pretty reasonable for S$50! 

Random Score: Mel Jelly sandals!

A girflriend asked if I wanted to have lunch.. sure thing! Should we also go to Myer to have a browse? Of course you would!

You know how you walk around aimlessly without any plans to buy anything and then BOOM.. random score? Holler... We were looking at Mel shoes that were about $45-50. I didn't know that Melissa had a cheaper sister range called Mel. There you go.. you learn something new.

Mel Jelly Shoes

I was wondering around the discount section of Myer as you would! And I saw this shoe with no price tag and no indication if it was on sale or just dumped at the wrong section. By some random luck it was my size. So I said that I told the lady that I would buy them. You pretty much have to stalk someone and just stand next to them until she is available to serve you in Myer as you would know.

When she scanned them, they were reduced by an additional 30% and was $20. Yeah ok I'll take them! I wear them to take the boys swimming as all the fighting and yelling means sometimes I have to stand really close to the water and used to get my sneakers wet. It is still slightly yucky when you have wet toes but because they are jelly they dry really quickly. Yay!! Random Score shopping rocks.

Nigella on a win with this recipe Lemon Raspberry Muffins

Ok so thanks to Julie at I dream in Chocolate I had won the Nigella How to be a Domestic Goddess book if you recall.

Zesty lemonsssss

The amazing thing is Nigella is telling ME how to be a domestic goddess.. I joke. Ok I had made the little cupcakes from this book in the food processor. It went really well except Miss Lawson failed to tell me that it only fills 8 cupcakes. And they were small cupcakes not the full to the brim ones that I normally make. That is fine! But still I wondered how she could claim this recipe made 12!?

We had a ton of lemons and the boys were sanding the deck and playing about outside. So I sneaked in to make lemon and raspberry muffins. It worked really well I have to say!
The idea I think was to curdle the milk with the lemon juice into some sort of buttermilk. It was moist, yummy and easy to make. You just melt the butter and you do not have to cream sugar and butter.

Ta da Muffins

I might have been a bit stingy on the frozen berries. I used a mixed berry mixture that was frozen. Probs should have chucked more into the batter. But it was really yummy.