On the weekend we were pretty excited to discover quinces are in season! I was excited mostly because since I met my boy I’d heard a lot about how amazing quinces are and considering I’ve never seen or tasted them other than in paste form this sounded pretty good to me! Also Trev is pretty clever in the kitchen so whenever he speaks about something he likes to cook I know it’ll be good regardless!
This is what the looked like before we baked them. They are kind of like really hard giant yellow apples. We combined cinnamon sticks, vanilla bean paste, lemon juice, water and brown sugar in a baking pan and basically just slow cooked them under foil for 2 and half hours.
And this is the amazing colour they went in the process!
And this was the finished product! I’ve gotta say they totally beat apple and rhubarb and would make an amazing crumble. And they turned out perfectly, unlike our Masterchef Gnocchi which was a giant mashed potatoey mess, worse than when most of the dud contestants cooked it. Despite this, it still tasted pretty good! Kx
The Cuckoo Clock shop in the main street of Berry is a must see! It has SO much great stuff! I wanted one of everything (especially all the miniature animals for your clocks!) But settled for these little deers for my collection.
Next to the weird product stalls was one of those kiddy farms (the petting zoo type, not the ones where they breed children) and I couldn’t help but take some photos of these aborable baby guinea pigs (which kind of looked a little too small to be away from mum!) and bunnies! It made me wish I’d taken juno along! But really, I do hate they are still allowed to have these things, the people running it were such bogans and I ended up really sad the animals had to go home with them.
This is another great place to stop if you’re ever in the area. One Wise Owl is part of the “Jindy Andy Mill” group of shops right near Callala Bay and it is really cute! It’s all about sustainable eco-friendly products and they had some really great things there, especially for kids. We stopped in for a while and were pleasantly surprised to find they also do good coffee! Next door to them is a scrapbooking superstore combined with a miniature shop! It’s like heaven, even though I don’t own a dollhouse or scrapbook.
The other thing I really like about the south coast is that people are kind of stuck in a bit of a time warp, and sometimes its for the better, like this pretty green shed which I stopped to take a photo of on the way home. It has obviously been this way for quite some time! But it’s so great. I love it. and now I want a wall that colour. Kx
