The gift of food this Christmas

The team at Food Obsession wishes all our readers a very Merry Christmas, and an awesome new year ahead! Hopefully you have had a wonderful holiday season, celebrating with family and friends (and also celebrating over some food!)

As mentioned in an earlier post, we've been working on various number of projects this summer. One of my personal projects is making food gifts as Christmas gifts.

I stumbled upon this recipe at sortedfood.com and could not resist making them as they looked so easy to make. These Cranberry Florentines also made really cute gifts for colleagues and friends.

 

Cranberry Florentines fresh from the oven.

 

All these cookies are packed and ready to be gifted!

Recipe (taken from sortedfood.com)
75g butter 
75g caster sugar (I used less as I am not a fan of cookies being super sweet) 
2 tbsp honey
75g plain flour 
75g dried cranberries 
50g glacé cherries (chopped, optional)
50g mixed dried peel 
50 flaked almonds 

1. Melt butter, sugar and honey over simmering water.
2. Stir in the flour to create a batter. 
3. Tip all of the dried fruit and flaked almonds into the batter.
4. Mix well. 
5. Spoon mixture with a teaspoon onto baking trays and press slightly to flatten a little. 
6. Bake for 10 minutes at 180°C, then cool for 5 minutes before transferring onto a wire rack to cool completely. 

Enjoy and happy baking!

10th day of Christmas =)

and two days left =(

While we are still in the Christmas mood,

don't we all love creative ideas? A rudolph cookie made out of a gingerbread mould.

How was your Christmas?

As for me, I shared it with some friends. We started off with some home made shandy, a recipe from Nigella's, followed by many others which I stopped snapping photos of. =) I absolutely adore the glass.

Thought I'll post this up too, our table display.  

Another recipe of Nigella's, Parmesan and Breadcrumbs coated Lamb Cutlets, as well as a 1kg turkey breast at the background. We also had a large bowl of salad which again I thought wasn't significant enough to be photographed. Haha.

For desserts, plum pudding served with brandy custard and vanilla icecream. I just had to make myself an Affogato. The meal lasted us hours, from lunch to dinner with breaks in the middle.

We planned a bit too much as we weren't able to

X build our gingerbread house and decorate it with lollies

X cook our chicken wings

X finish our chips

X make brandied cherries.

But, who wouldn't love amazing times like this? I've

✓played board and card games. 

✓watched a comedy

✓played more games on the Ipad

✓had a quiet rest on the couch. One of us had a nap.

✓listened to Christmas carols. One of us actually sang Christmas carols really loudly at the neighbourhood, I had to run away in embarassment.

✓had bunny ears around the neighbourhood while others had bumble bee ears or reindeer ears and nose.

The list goes on...but all I can say, I have had an amazing day bonding with friends my way. SLACK. clinks glasses with Jin. 

Hope your Christmas has been just as amazing, in your way.

Christmas lunch with the team!

I really have to apologise for the lack of updates recently. It has been an extremely busy and crazy few weeks. This includes random Christmas lunches back to back!

My first work lunch was with the 'family' from work. I say family because I spend who knows how many hours per day with the team and we look forward to this one afternoon every December to unwind and destress.

This year we decided to dine at the Belgian Beer Cafe. What can I say? It was delicious!

There is no better way to kick start the summer with a glass of cold **vodka** lemon and lime bitters!

My colleague and I regretted for not ordering mains that came with hot chips. So we decided to get some on the side anyway.

Yum! We were just taken away by the presentation.

For mains, I had the pan-fried salmon. I rarely order seafood thanks to my pickiness but I did not have any regrets with this one. It did not taste or smell fishy (if you know what I mean). That's my kind of seafood!


In summary, even though it is slightly on the expensive side, I recommend this place if you fancy good quality pub meals.

Belgian Beer Cafe
Corner of King and Murray Streets
Perth WA