Cooking Weekend

Kate and I spent the weekend serving (literally) our brothers and sisters at Cumbo Uni Church. We cooked for them on their weekend away while they heard talks on Eschatology or 'the end times' (I had to ask). They had a great time and so did we. It was great to be a part of a small Uni Church again after our Mars Hill Anglican Church experience at Macquarie Uni a few years ago.




The highlights were pancakes, lots of apple crumble and choc chip cookies. This one is from the dough that didn't fit on the trays - so we made a huge one!!!






We also went to Fresh on Sam and Soph's recommendation. I had a piccolo of their fair trade Sumatran Single Origin and of their House blend. Both very good! Amazingly we ran into Libby and Matt as they were also following Sam and Soph's advice while in the mountains for the CMS Federal AGM (I think?!?!). They were roasting as you can see on the embedded blogger video below (new feature!)

Coffee Roaster

I've just arrived home from night shift (the first of four) but had to post this. It was the last shift for one of the girls (Mel - who's hurt her back and has to change jobs to rest it) so the night staff went out for breakfast in Crows Nest at a little place called Crow Zone Cafe.

I had to order a decaf flat white or I wouldn't have a chance of going to sleep. It wasn't a great coffee but they had their very own mini coffee roaster sitting on the bench next to the machine. They had it going most of the time which was pretty noisy and made that burnt, bitter smell of roasting green beans in the cafe even though it had it's own chimney? It was still pretty cool!