poached eggs on avocado toast

It's been a busy couple of months; here's a snippet of a very simple meal which is one of my favourites.

brunch at home

Thought I would break up the Iceland posts a tad with a few snippets from a homemade brunch; sorbet champagne cocktail, mussels in garlic white wine, Gorgonzola tortellini, chicken sausage Parmesan fettuine, salmon avocado salad with caviar, tomato bruschetta, bread, and more cheese. We all ate so much food we basically rolled around afterwards.

 

quiet afternoon

Just a few snippets during a quiet afternoon when there was some fabulous lighting going on at home.

home

My NYC home is slowly but steadily coming together; here are a few snippets of small details around our flat.

focaccia

This is just a quick shot of some focaccia my sister and I made at midnight. I don't have the recipe as she found a random one online and we put our own twist on it -- cherry tomatoes, garlic and a crap ton of basil.

Baies

This candle came into my posession quite randomly -- it was a free gift from a shopping mall. I'd heard about Diptyque being awesome but to be honest, when I first peeled the plastic off the packaging, my nose felt like it was on fire from the overwhelmingingly strong berry fruity slightly nauseating scent. So I put it away in a drawer where I forgot about it for most of the summer.

One day, I decided on a whim, why not whip this out, give it a go and if it stinks I'll put it somewhere far, far away from my room. But I was very pleasantly surprised when this started burning that my room was filled with a sort of amazing warm and wholesome fruity summer smell and I couldn't get enough of it. I'm sad to say I burnt the whole thing up through the last month of my summer but I've happily reused the jar as a holder-of-things and if anyone can't think of what to get me for my birthday or Christmas -- this is it.

dogs

film

I just got some film developed the other day; it made me realize that there's something inexplicably dreamy about the light that comes across through film which you can never quite get with digital. Plus it's always fun to take pictures of random things and find lovely results when you get the prints back.