We just celebrated the Melbourne Cup Day public holiday here in Melbourne on Tuesday. It’s the first Tuesday of November every year where everyone gets the day off work and school to celebrate Melbourne’s highest profile Horse Racing Carnival at Melbourne’s Flemington Racecourse. We have horse racing all year round, but come September to November,…
JJ and I always enjoy indulging our sweet hearts at one of our favourite dessert places – Koko Black. Actually, we ended up spending the afternoon at Koko Black last Sunday while wandering around the city, but I thought to make this a separate post, since there were just so many lovely photos, and I…
On Sunday, my boyfriend JJ and I enjoyed all the sweetest bits of our home city, Melbourne. Melbourne is a modern city, filled to the brim with rich culture, events, food, music, and art! We wandered around Melbourne’s shopping centres, down Swanston Street, passed iconic architecture such as Flinders Street Station, public art spaces such…
This weekend I had a lovely low-key Sunday afternoon. My good friend Breanna came over to have lunch and hang out with my boyfriend and I at our apartment in Carlton. Breanna happens to be gluten free just like JJ, so everything we prepared for lunch was gluten free! We started with some lovely Rooibos…
One of the desserts that my sweet-toothed boyfriend missed the most since having to switch to a Gluten Free Diet was Baklava. For those of you not familiar with this delightful Turkish/Greek dish, it is a crispy, baked filo-pastry dessert with crushed nut mix filling in-between layers that is doused in golden syrup. Even for…
For my boyfriend JJ’s birthday, I suprised him with his favourite Gluten Free Chocolate Cake Recipe! It’s a delicious Flourless Chocolate Cake recipe that tastes just as good days after as it does when straight out of the oven. I’ve included the basic recipe below, and also used ready-made frosting from Betty Crocker which is…
I’m in the city of Hobart in Tasmania today for work and came across the most adorable little Retro Fudge Bar. It is just plain cute! I had a nice chat to the lady shop owner who told me that it just opened up in February this year. She was so sweet and let me…
This is my first official post on my new blog AboutSusanna.org! This year, I turned 26 and I figured that now is the time re-evaluate where I am in life. I have plenty of time for big and serious things, but I wanted to take the time to find out what makes the lives of…
About Susanna 