Lady Lunchalot

This Saturday I will be blogging every 30 minutes for 24 hours to raise money for World Vision. So far I’ve raised $384, but I know we can do better!

I’ll be staying awake and cooking from 11pm Saturday night until 11pm Sunday night, with friends descending upon my house sometime Sunday morning to eat all the food I have prepared. You can read all the half-hourly blogs about my nocturnal culinary adventures here from 11pm (Melbourne time) Saturday night.

Want to join in? You can sponsor me by going to http://www.blogathon.org/sponsor.php?blog_id=119.

Find out more about my blogathon efforts.

I popped in at Gertrude Street Enoteca with Suse last week and I was won over by a chocolate, orange and pine nut cake. It didn’t look all that appealing (the pine nuts on top made it look a little bit like a health food cake… ergh) but when the waitress told me what type of cake it was I caved in instantly. Sometimes it is all too easy to shove that wedding dress to the back of my mind.

Oranges are unbelievable right now, so it’s not surprising to find orange-flavoured delicacies in every second café window. The cake had the velvety texture of a traditional chocolate cake, balanced with the liqueur-like tang of orange and the nutty crunch of pine nuts.

Enoteca also does an UNBELIEVABLE hot chocolate that even surpasses the chocolate masterpieces at The European on Spring St. This is real Italian-style cioccolata calda – a deep, dark syrup of steaming chocolate sin, with a flavour so strong that you can’t help but close your eyes with every sip.