When the shoe fits...

Two blogs about shoes in a row - does anyone think I have an addiction?

A few weeks ago I had a Laura Benini shoe party at which I made the cake from the front of Gourmet Traveller. Anyway, a few of us bought custom shoes and today they arrived!!!

They are stunning? I'm so excited to wear mine and also deliver the others to my friends. What great fun and how excellent do a new pair of shoes make you feel?

Food Porn

Once a month, porn arrives in my mailbox. I buy it for the pictures, but I do sometimes read the articles and once in awhile I might even make a meal from it. Yes, it is the ultimate in food porn, Gourmet Traveller.

It is filled with obscenely complicated, decedent, over engineered food marvels. The food styling is gorgeous, beautiful dining ware sits under perfectly plated food with an artistic scattering of salt crystals or drizzel of oil to whet the appetite.

But more often than not, the recipes are just too complicated or have too many exotic ingredients. They are inspiration, not reality. That said, the brown sugar sponge cake with caramel pears on the cover does look very tempting - but I might make it half height in the interests of safety in serving and that the full cake involves a full dozen eggs!!!