#26: FAV THINGS TO DO ON A SUNDAY

The 25th May-Photo-A-Day-in-June: 

"FAV THINGS TO DO ON A SUNDAY"

Sunday's are possibly my most favourite day after my Birthday Day of course as it is a day filled with all of my favourite things like:

• Spending the whole day with Te
• Adventuring around Jozi
• Trying out new places
• Drinking lots of coffee
• Visiting our families
• Watching a series or two - right now We are loving Downton Abby
• Catching up on design work

And this Sunday was pretty spectacular as it just happens to be the day before my favourite kind of day! 

Today Te and I spent the day making and drinking coffee from our new Bialati  and frother set that we received from my mom for a joint birthday present and multi-tasked between working on the edit and grade of an Orpen Film Making Co. wedding video and our super fun wedding invitation. 

The Bialati 4 cup and frother is probably one of the most awesome and useful gift I have ever been given! We made an early morning coffee stop at 4th Avenue Roasters to purchase and grind our beans and then hurried home to test out our new toy.. 

The coffee was delicious and the 4 cup Bialati is perfect for us as Te prefers a stronger, shorter styled drink with little milk and more foam, where I am a classic single-shot cuppacino but picky on the foam kind of girl. The frother works wonderfully and creates the most silky smooth froth, just the way I like it! 

Bialati and Frother from: Bean There

Handsome Roasters Coffee from LA: read more here.

Ceramic Robot and Owls: Citizenship Linden

 Since tomorrow I reach the half way to 50 mark and no one at work believes that the Mom-boss can be domesticated and find her way around the kitchen, she decided to make me cupcakes and banana bread like she did when we were younger for the office tomorrow. We spent a fun afternoon in the kitchen baking, reminicing and of course there was wedding talk. I even received a baking wound: cooling rack + high shelf = what goes up must come down... onto my eye. I now have a lovely bruise forming around my eye.

These look just like they did when we were kids.

It was so worth it as the cupcakes are scrumptious and I love how home made try look. I decided to experiment and baked Te and I each a special cupcake - a hidden jelly baby in the middle.   

My lovely MOH and her fiancé came for a visit, a cup cake and to see my expression when I opened my pressebt just to see if I Really liked it - and I did! And that is why she is my MOH! Thank-you Chlo and Kerim, so very spoilt! 

(They have mastered my famous deer caught in the head light look - as seen below!)

xxx

TheFutureMrsOrpen: De

#TeMarriesDe #84 days 

# 19: MY FAVOURITE VIEW

The 19th May-Photo-A-Day: "MY FAVOURITE VIEW"

Everyday is an Adventure Day but Sundays happen to be my most Favourite Day because it is the one day I get to spend an entire 24 hours with Te doing everything and anything we want to do.  

Our first stop every Sunday morning is at 4th Avenue Roasters for our morning caffeine kick and a spiced, sugary biscuit treat. We then made our way to Jozi CBD to find a caffeine spot for our second caffeine stop and breakfast. This morning we ended up at "Art's on Main: Market on Main" in the Maboneng Precinct. 

We had a walk around the food court... and after our 10th lap we decided to share "The Ultimate" piping hot Rooster Brood: BBQ pork, guacamole, feta, rosa tomatoes and rocket - which was rather delicious, fresh and filled the spot. We then indulged in a Bar-One Pancake - more like over indulged but my favourite meal time is dessert time! We still have not had a pancake that has lived up to the million we (more like I) had in Paris: Nutella Crepes and Buckwheat Galette's.

Paris: Creperie's can be found on every corner

Our Favourite Creperie in Saint Germain

Galette: Ham, Egg and Emmenthal & Coke in a glass bottle ...
Our breakfast after a night of french red wine.

Next stop on our morning adventure was to find that coffee. After a roam around we decided to sit in the sun at "Uncle Merv's Original Shake & Coffee" and bask in the warm rays while we absorb some much needed Vitamin D. 

Uncle Merv's

Our View: 

My View: Organic Produce Street Vendor and purple wall art through purple lenses.

BUT...

Happens to be this handsome fella who I get to spend the rest of today exploring the land of Jozi.

xxx

TheFutureMrsOrpen: De

#TeMarriesDe #118 days 

# 9: A SNACK

The 9th May-Photo-A-Day: "A SNACK"

One of my favourite healthy snacks, since I am trying to get into shape and all... sounds pretty strange but just try it and I promise it will become your favourite too! 

Apple dipped in crunchy peanut butter is the perfect sweet/savoury/crunchy combination. I used to be able to snack on this any where and at anytime as long as  had my apple and container of peanut butter which made for a great university gap-filler. Alas, I no longer can bite into the flesh of my favourite Pink Lady. The only way I can eat any hard fruit is if I slice it into bite size pieces (it is not like I am a GI-knife-carrying-Jane-kinda-girl) because....

Yup, thats me... with no front teeth. I tripped down a stair case and planted my pearly whites into the floor. I was forced to put a days leave in by the furious mom-boss and solve the dilemma. I can't blame my mom, she had asked me to stay at home. Moms and their sixth sense, they always know better than their bambino's. I had my teeth temporarily repaired as my dentist had moved to Cape Town. I walked out looking and feeling like George Wilson when Dennis repairs his broken dentures with chewing gum pieces! Dennis the Menace, Circa 1993.

Lucky for me I had planned a holiday to Cape Town for the week after the teeth-meet floor experience where I was measured up for my ceramic caps. This was a rather costly accident but anyway they were custom designed to match my previous teeth with similar halo effect edges, ridges, size and the best part the colour will always remain sparkly white. Which is great because I really do like to drink coffee: the 6th May-photo-A-Day was dedicated to this.

The only problem is that unlike my old teeth which I had grown all by myself and were apart of me, these are held in with glue... 

Hard Food/Fruit/Anything + Glue = Eeekk!!

Let me know what you think of the PB & Apple Snack.

xxx

TheFutureMrsOrpen: De

#TeMarriesDe #132 days

# 6: BROKEN

The 6th of May-Photo-A-Day: "BROKEN"

Te and I need at least one coffee fix a day: living in Craighall Park we are spoilt for choice as we are in walking distance to both Warm & Glad and 4th Avenue Roasters -we have favourite treats at both. 

Saturday mornings are spent at Warm & Glad, sipping cappuccino's for Her and double macchiato's for Him. We order scramble eggs too, coriander and spring onion is delicious and fresh and the perfect breakfast to give you that glad feeling as you warm you up on a chilly Autumn morning. We have purchase most of our awesome coffee table books here and many vinyls... our collection is getting there slowly but surely. All we missing is the record player but we are on the prowl for the perfect one.

On a Sunday, depending on family gatherings, we either have breakfast at 4th Avenue Roasters or just a morning coffee and probably a late afternoon coffee fix too. Their yoghurt, honey and fruit health breakfast is really tasty as well as their scrambled eggs, grilled tomato, mushrooms and grated parmesan. We also have a coffee here most evenings together when I get home from work - best part about a coffee at 4th Avenue would be the brown sugar bite-size cookie that is delicately spiced with ginger and cinnamon. 

As I am a wife in training, I thought I would attempt making these scrumptious morsels  to fill our new glass cookie jar. I am google queen and found what looks to be a similar recipe to the 4th Avenue cookies. I got home after a meeting with my future-dress-maker, crossing fingers and hoping she fits into our budget, took a quick walk to the spar to stock up on baking goods that we never had and then came home to play "perfect"-future-wife.

I kept the baking biscuits from Te when he got home, he knew there was something in the oven from the cinnamon-ginger-sugar baking smell and the mess I was cleaning... I love cleaning, not sure if I have mentioned that yet but if I were a Disney Princess I would be Cinderella. 

Finally, I placed the freshly baked cookies on a makeshift rack to cool: this wanna-be wife is in need of some baking essentials! I turned around to find this broken piece and The Te munching away. "And?", TheFutureMrsOrpen asked excitedly. "Try one." He replied... Why was it when he chewed it made a sort of a sizzle? It must be hot still, so I eagerly blew on my biscuit until It was cooler. 

I BROKE the recipe!! #6

For some reason the 2 teaspoons of bicarbonate of soda that I added was far too much and resulted in the most fowl, salty tasting sizzle of crumble. I grumpily threw the remaining dough and biscuits away while Te phone his mom to tell her about another silly thing I have done: I often do and say silly things like... let's keep it for other posts.

Sorry Joy The Baker, I broke your recipe.

xxx

TheFutureMrsOrpen

# 131 days