open a cafe

well, somewhat unrelatedly.
I have been designing a gingerbread house.
we start construction next week, it is in the style of gothic revival.
cooking skills :}

in other news I made some reallyreally good muffins the other night.

went to the food festival with my partner in crime Fi today which was lovely, aside from all the fat people, who plod, and get in front of stalls and DON’T MOVE.

found a brand of pesto that we think is the best we’ve tried. ran the name Ampersand by her, she wasn’t sure at first – she was keen on Kardelen for a while, which means “snowdrop” in Turkish or something & was the name of a drag queen in Birds Without Wings – but she says it is definitely growing on her & she was quite excited by “Ampersand” in the end, so I think it’s a definite.

searching out recipes at the moment, I’m making lemon curd tonight & tomorrow baking scones for breakfast – Devonshire stylez – doing lemon sauce pudding for dessert. found a great book, julie le clerc, for cafe food.

maybe this all seems kind of premature, but at this stage there is not much I can do towards my cafe other than idle planning & familiarising myself with cooking.

I’m gonna need to go on an accounting course at some point – you can’t leave that to an accountant, you really have to do it yourself.

man, why is it that EVERYTHING italian is so sexy?!

considering I’m thoroughly addicted to coffee & I spend more time in cafes than I do in my house, opening a cafe makes perfect sense.

unfortunately, year 12 does tend to get in the way of that..

but damn right I will open one, one day.

it will either be called Cafe Beans or Cafe Ampersand (&&&). it will be funky-retro-quaint – flowered teacups, original artworks on the walls from local artists (including myself :P ), a huge billboard on the wall with poetry scrawled on it, fancy teas – because it’s pretty damn lame to be served a teabag in hot water – huge chunky scones & muffins, fantastic sandwiches with basil pesto & fresh roma tomato & marinated feta, sundried tomato paninis, lovely light music like Air (french band), Rufus Wainwright & David Bowie.

oh I can’t WAIT to get out of school & get started.