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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
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4:27p
On Tuesday, my Mum took me on an excursion to Eastwood to visit SuperFresh, home of, well fresh fruit, vegetables, nuts and all the usual suspects. It was more like a barn in both size and layout and I was impressed. I'd tagged along so I might pick up a lemon and some hazelnuts for a cake I was making.
Everything in Eastwood has a Caucasian predecessor. SuperFresh was once a BBC Hardware store, the BBQ restaurant a Maccas and we played in a sizeable variety store that had been a Target in a previous life. We grimaced and laughed incredibly hard at the oversized faux mounted eagle heads, which must have been made out of some kind of plaster and she wantered off as I fussed over kitsch wrapping paper to decorate cakeboxes with. Her shoes made this incredibly distinctive high-pitched squeaking noise which made her easy to find in the never ending maze of useless things.
She was less than patient when I wandered to the nearby op shop and even less than impressed when I returned with yet another 'dead-persons' dress. I apologised half-heartedly - the print was so cute!
I've been re-reading Haruki Murakami's 'Norweigan Wood' these past few days and loving the frequent and evocative descriptions of the main character's meals. I know that my writing sometimes mimics whatever I am reading but I never thought my eating patterns would too. When we got home I fixed us big plates of stir-fried vegetables with noodles and a creamed-corn omlette to share. I told her next week I might try my hand at Japanese cooking, starting with Bento boxes. She just laughed. I was joking right?
I went over to Carla's for dinner and she cooked curried fried rice with huge chunks of lup-chung - my favourite. I brought her a cake (a lemon syrup hazelnut cake I had baked earlier - ha! I sound like a cooking show) in a prototype box I had made and a stash of other things. Like her favourite black skirt that had magically appeared in my wardrobe and a bunch of socks - all striped and none of which matched. She was ecstatic, she was sure she had their pairs.
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