Granita

    

 Granita is a semi-frozen dessert made from sugar, water and various flavorings.  Originally from Sicily, although available all over Italy it is related to sorbet and Italian ice.   Common and traditional flavoring ingredients include lemon juice, mandarin oranges, jasmine, coffee, almonds, mint, and when in season wild strawberries and black mulberries I looks and sounds wonderful.  My favorite is:

WATERMELON  GRANITA

 

 

 

 

  

 

     

Lunch with Carolyn

Mosman Bay

Wharfy's Cafe very clean, relaxing, hosted by a sweet and gentle man. We both  think he would make an amazing Nasi Goring 

Wharfy’s

Mosman Ferry Wharf
Shop 3, Avenue Rd
Mosman Sydney
Ph: +61 (02) 9968-3569
Open 7 days
Mon-Fri 7am-2pm
Sat-Sun 7am-4pm
Breakfast served all day

The LA Times has voted a place in Mosman the Best Breakfast in the World but when I hear that its an unpretentious bargain.    Reading up on it I hear that its part of Mosman Ferry Wharf and is a surprising find and along with being Voted Best Breakfast in the World by the L.A. Times, it could also be voted most surprising location for winning a best breakfast award.

We had a window table with a view that overlooked the bay.

A very lovely view from our  table of the water.

 Carolyn ordered Eggs Benedict and was delighted with her meal.

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Directed by Benh Zeitlin. Screenplay, Lucy Alibar, Zeitlin, based on the stage play "Juicy and Delicious" by Alibar.

Already a 4-time Cannes Award Winner and 2-time Sundance Award Winner (both 2012) comes the mystical and precious BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

I saw this amazing movie today with Lee.  I can't remember the last time I was saw a movie as powerful as this.  I am sort of speechless about it, I will have to see it again. 

 

At home in the Bathtub, a marshy swampland off the coast of southern Louisiana, 6-year-old Hushpuppy lives by au're small, you gotta fix what you can."

Wink by Dwight Henry. Wink can be cruel at times, as when he hits Hushpuppy after her attempt to prepare her own dinner sends part of their ramshackle home up in flames, but his principal concern is for the girl's safety. Once the rains come, he becomes her fierce protector, that establishes the emotional backbone for the picture.



 

An almost primordial wilderness cut off from the rest of Louisiana by a long wall of levees. Here, an unapologetically uncivilized crowd of humans live alongside the animals that sustain them, blissfully disconnected from their resource-burning neighbors to the north. When judgment comes in the form of rising tides and vengeful beasts, this mystical realm independent of government and law will be the first to feel the consequences. 

The children face the greatest danger. Among them, Hushpuppy, possessed of incredible poise and almost feral intensity, already fends reasonably well for herself, sharing a sort of treehouse trailer with her father, Wink who hasn't been the same since Hushpuppy's mom "swam away" years earlier.

Possessed of incredible poise and almost feral intensity) already fends reasonably well for herself, sharing a sort of treehouse trailer with her father, Wink.

In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the world by a sprawling levee, six year-old Hushpuppy exists on the brink of orphanhood.   Her mother long gone, and her father Wink a wildman on a perpetual spree, Hushpuppy is left to her own devices on an isolated compound filled with semi-feral animals.   She perceives the natural world to be a fragile web of living, breathing, squirting things, in which the entire universe depends on everything fitting together just right.

Every culture has its flood myth, and with this project, Zeitlin and Alibar create a new American fable all the more potent in the wake of Katrina

Meagan & Billy Ripples Cafe

Meagan & Billy Sunday 7th October 2012. three weeks before their wedding.

 

 

 Ripples where we had a very disappointing lunch

 

Meagan & Billy decided to take advantage of the beatuful weather and caught the ferry over to Luna Park



Meagan & Billy on the little island at Balmoral with Sydney heads in the distance.

 

Soggy salad, flys, & a rocking table that made you sea sick. We were the 1st to order lunch; but were informed that the fish of the day was sold out: yet I counted over 18 fish of the day being served to others, while we waite over an hour for our food.

Lunch with Carolyn at Burnt Orange

 

A boutique cafe and retail operation located in the historic golf clubhouse on Middle Head Peninsula. The Burnt Orange concept emanates from Irish company Avoca, widely recognised as one of Europe's most stylish retailers and purveyors of fine foods. The boutique cafe and store lends itself to a relaxed visit, browsing through homewares, fashion and gifts in various rooms of the house before a delicious breakfast, lunch or afternoon tea in the cafe.    

 A lovely old building and the combination of bushland and harbour views is spectacular. The menu has something for most palates.

Of course if it is cold and windy you will certainly need the brown & white blankets they have at the ready for patrons.   When Carolyn & I were there it was a 2 blanket occasion although they had heaters & in the shoping area was nice and cosy I feel it is a good weather place to visit.  

 

Eating is on the verandah which is spacious

 

 Carolyn ordered the Oarganic beef burger, in crusty bap with tomato & chutney & horserasish mayonnaise served with home maed chips.  I had a strong tasting fish pie topped with mash potato,

Nicly appointed large dinning area that quickly becomes noisy as restaurant fills.
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Pumpkin, goat's cheese & walnut tart with spiky green salad and other good dishes Beetroot risotto with candied walnuts.

The shop had lots of lovely & over priced goods to select from,homewares, childrenwear, womens wear, gifts and kitchen wear.  

 

The restaurant offers a series of seasonal dishes and the view is filtered through trees of the harbour, unique position

Paid parking is offered. The best thing is the view & location

 

Great location, nice food but not great food.

 

School Days at Roseville Girls College



Lee emailed some photos from Roseville Girls College in the 1960's, we look so young.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kindy at Hornsby School 1952

 

 

  

First class at Frenche's Forest School  1953

 

Second Class French's Forest School 1956

 

 

 

Third class at Frenche's Forest School 1955