snow in wellington!!!

It doesn't snow in Wellington.  Not at least in all the 15 years I've been here.

Today it snowed.  And ran around the house, screeching with excitement like a child and snapping gazillion photos.

These were taken with my faithful cellphone, so the snow kinda looks like rain.  I've made the photos b&w so that the effect is clearer and more dramatic.  But believe me, it was SNOW!

{wellington on a plate 2011} the journey begins

Some of you may have been wondering what I've been up to since it's been a month (yes, exactly a month today) that I've posted anything.  I've even gotten messages and emails from some of you!  Sorry about that - my bad.  It's been a combination of being too busy, tired and uninspired.  Truth.

But honey...I'm home!!

Thanks to Wellington on a Plate, I've embarked on this awesomely gastronomic 2-week journey of feasting.  Which means I'm going to have material coming out of my ears to write about.  And boy is it going to be hard to get rid of the additional weight that I just know I'll be piling on - in addition to the usual 'winter weight'!  But I can't think of a better way to spend the last miserable weeks of winter.

Here is what's planned/done:

Fri 5th	Plum	Burger Wellington dinner
Wed 10th	Duke Carvell's Swan Lane Emporium	Burger Wellington dinner
Thurs 11th	Osteria del Toro	Three-course Greek tasting menu
Fri 12th	New Zealand Chocolate Festival	Launch
Fri 12th	Martin Bosley's	A 3 course lunch at multi-awarded Martin Bosley's
Sat 13th	New Zealand Chocolate Festival	NZ's first chocolate festival! Demos, tastings and chocolate indulgence
Sun 14th	Tongue-to Tail Duck Delights	A degustation menu based around the duck at Le Canard
Tues 16th	A Local Food Story in Three Parts	Cooking demo and food tasting (3 course) at the Urban Harvest HQ
Wed 17th	Martin Bosley's	Burger Wellington lunch
Thurs 18th	The Southern Cross	Burger Wellington dinner
Sun 21st	Malaysia Kitchen Night Market

In addition to all this, there's still a very long wish-list, hampered only by finance and time.  Damn you budget!!  But no, seriously, I am thankful that we're even able to get to do all that's on my list above.

I've set up a separate page on my blog for all my Wellington on a Plate and Burger Wellington 2011 posts.  Check out my first post here on chomping down on Plum's 'Plum in a Bun' burger.