I love going to the Coburg Drive-in Village Cinemas. I enjoy sitting comfortably in my car watching the movie on the big screen and listening to it though my stereo speakers.
Tight Ass Tuesday (thats what me and my friends call it) cost $11 per person at every Village cinemas, but Monday nights at Coburg Drive-in are $8 for adults and $6.50 for kids and $20 for a car load.
They have a diner that you can eat in or get takeaway. They have a playground for the kiddies to play on, and they have a few picnic tables next to the playground. So you could always get a little battery radio or some headphones, sit it on the table and listen to the movie while your kids eat and play.
They also have disabled toilets.
Great place to go for a late night movie!
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Yummy Burgers
A little place called Grill'd is a great place to go with the kids for a burger. Better than taking them to one of those fast food joints. This place is great! They have such yummy burgers and chips. The chips have herbs on them and u get a selection of what looks like home made sauces. YUMMMO!! Its so nice! I have been to the one in St Kilda and the one in Bendigo and they are both great places. Definitely a place to try. And the kids meals come with pencils and a sheet of paper with activities and pictures on it to keep the kids occupied.
Another great place that i haven't been to for a while but last time i was there had some of the biggest burgers Iv seen, is Greasy Joe's, in St Kilda, Melbourne. Their food is so yumm!! They have more than just burgers and their menu is so funny. I love this place and love going there with the family. They also have a bar, so if you feel like having a nice alcoholic drink with your meal, this is a nice place to go. Its right near some nice shops, a grass area, Luna Park and St Kilda Beach. So if you feel like going somewhere for a nice relaxing dinner and then a stroll and maybe some fun at the park, this is definitely a place i like to go to. I'm definitely due for a visit!
Another great place that i haven't been to for a while but last time i was there had some of the biggest burgers Iv seen, is Greasy Joe's, in St Kilda, Melbourne. Their food is so yumm!! They have more than just burgers and their menu is so funny. I love this place and love going there with the family. They also have a bar, so if you feel like having a nice alcoholic drink with your meal, this is a nice place to go. Its right near some nice shops, a grass area, Luna Park and St Kilda Beach. So if you feel like going somewhere for a nice relaxing dinner and then a stroll and maybe some fun at the park, this is definitely a place i like to go to. I'm definitely due for a visit!
List of Markets
Some markets that we like to go to are:
- Preston Market, open Wed 8am - 3pm; Thu 8am - 6pm; Fri 8am - 8pm; Sat 8am - 3pm
- Big Sam's St Albans Market, open Wed 7am - 2pm; Thu 7am - 6:30pm; Fri 7am - 7:30pm; Sat 7am - 1:30pm
- Daylesford Market, open Sundays from 8am - 3 or 4pm.
- The Mill Market in Daylesford, open 7 days 10am - 6pm.
Jims Greek Tavern
I love going to Jims Greek Tavern in Collingwood. Its open till late and it is always very bizy.
I like to go with my family or friends after 9pm because it is a little quieter and you can hear yourself talking.
Every time we have gone there, they have no menu, u just choose either meat or seafood (i prefer the seafood) and they bring out plates of food of those choices to share with your table. I love the calemari chips and the pan fried scallops. Yummo!! For entree and mains for 2 people it usually costs about $80. They are also open till late.
I like to go with my family or friends after 9pm because it is a little quieter and you can hear yourself talking.
Every time we have gone there, they have no menu, u just choose either meat or seafood (i prefer the seafood) and they bring out plates of food of those choices to share with your table. I love the calemari chips and the pan fried scallops. Yummo!! For entree and mains for 2 people it usually costs about $80. They are also open till late.
Late Night Pancakes
Its school holidays, summer and beautiful late night weather, so as a treat for our kids, my husband and I decided to take them for a nice late night drive out to the Pancake Parlour in Doncaster. Doncaster Pancake Parlour is open 24hours 365 days. There are many Pancake Parlour's around, not all are open 24 hours, but they do stay open late so I'd recommend checking out the website and finding which one suites you.
Very Lovely and Very Yummmmmm.....
Saturday, 23 July 2011
My favourite pancakes
I love love love these pancakes!!
Ingredients:
~ 2 cups of Plain Flour
~ 4 Eggs
~ 2 cups of Milk
~ Butter for cooking
~ Butter OR lemon for spreading
~ Sugar
These are better than any pancake i could ever be given anywhere. I love how i make my pancakes with the sugar and butter and i try not to eat them all the time coz i love them a little too much. LOL! ;P
I do like other pancakes with maple syrup and ice cream, but i LOVE LOVE LOVE eating these with my kids **cough** or by myself **cough cough** ... lol ;P
Ingredients:
~ 2 cups of Plain Flour
~ 4 Eggs
~ 2 cups of Milk
~ Butter for cooking
~ Butter OR lemon for spreading
~ Sugar
- Put the flour in a bowl making a well in the center. whisk/stir in the eggs and then the milk till it makes a thin smooth batter. If you feel you need a little more milk then put a little more milk.
- Heat a pan on a high heat just to heat the pan up for a couple of minutes. then turn the heat down to a lower heat and put the butter in. It may take you 2 tries to find the right heat for your pancakes to cook nicely without getting burnt.
- stir the butter all around the pan till the pan is covered in butter.
- Pour the pancake mixture into the pan to the size that you would like.
- I use a small pan and cook one pancake at a time, so when i pour the mixture in i also tilt the pan so that the batter runs to the edges o the pan.
- When the pancake is browned nicely underneath, flip the pancake over and brown the other side. I find that my pancakes are done nicely when they are just golden brown. No need to cook more than that.
- Pancakes are done. now to serve on a plate and spread on butter or lemon and sprinkle sugar and roll them up like cigars and eat like a little piggy!! YUM YUM YUMMY!!!!!!
These are better than any pancake i could ever be given anywhere. I love how i make my pancakes with the sugar and butter and i try not to eat them all the time coz i love them a little too much. LOL! ;P
I do like other pancakes with maple syrup and ice cream, but i LOVE LOVE LOVE eating these with my kids **cough** or by myself **cough cough** ... lol ;P
My Strawberry update
On a better note, my strawberries are going good. Im getting lots of flowers and they are turning into strawberries. Very cool to watch. My kids love it. Haven't eaten anymore since the last one.
They arent ready to eat yet.
One was ready but it was rotten on the side that was touching the dirt. Ill have to get some mulch coz apparently mulch stops that from happening coz it stops the strawberries touching the dirt and it is the moist dirt that causes them to rot if they are touching it.
Another plant that is still growing is my rocket. I have allowed it to flower and it has these pretty little yellow flowers. Its very nice. My other plant that is still growing is spinach. its not going as well as the rocket though.
Im just letting everything grow. We had a few rainy days a while ago and so i didnt have to water the plants, so i just left them to do their own thing. Then one day i went to check on them and they were covered in caterpillars. I also had an aphid problem too. I squashed as many little aphids as i could and got rid of the catterpillars by hand too, but they just kept coming back.
So i made up my own little concoction that i had been told might work.
Sometimes the bottle would get clogged so i would just shake it and it would loosen whatever was blocking it.
When i ran out of water in the bottle i would just go fill the bottle up again keeping the old garlic in the bottle.
Also sometimes if the bottle would get clogged and i couldn't unclog it, i would just take the spray lid off and just pour the garlic water all over the plants and in the soil. I would even let the old garlic fall out of the bottle and let it sit in the dirt. And then i would make a new batch of garlic water with new garlic.
Whatever it is that i did with the garlic water it seemed to work. I havent had an issue with any caterpillars for a long time. But the aphids are still there. I dont think you can get rid of them completely without using chemical sprays and i didnt want to do that. Also ladybugs eat aphids, but you have to get them to come to your garden, so you would have to either plant certain plants that ladybugs are attracted to, or you can apparently buy them over the internet. I think you can buy them off ebay. Not sure if they sell them in local shops though. Not in any local shops around me anyway.
They arent ready to eat yet.
One was ready but it was rotten on the side that was touching the dirt. Ill have to get some mulch coz apparently mulch stops that from happening coz it stops the strawberries touching the dirt and it is the moist dirt that causes them to rot if they are touching it.
Another plant that is still growing is my rocket. I have allowed it to flower and it has these pretty little yellow flowers. Its very nice. My other plant that is still growing is spinach. its not going as well as the rocket though.
Im just letting everything grow. We had a few rainy days a while ago and so i didnt have to water the plants, so i just left them to do their own thing. Then one day i went to check on them and they were covered in caterpillars. I also had an aphid problem too. I squashed as many little aphids as i could and got rid of the catterpillars by hand too, but they just kept coming back.
So i made up my own little concoction that i had been told might work.
- Get a spray bottle
- Crush and chop up some garlic
- put the crushed up garlic into the spray bottle
- fill with wam-hot water
- shake shake shake...
- either leave out in the sun for a day
- or just go and spray on the leaves.
Sometimes the bottle would get clogged so i would just shake it and it would loosen whatever was blocking it.
When i ran out of water in the bottle i would just go fill the bottle up again keeping the old garlic in the bottle.
Also sometimes if the bottle would get clogged and i couldn't unclog it, i would just take the spray lid off and just pour the garlic water all over the plants and in the soil. I would even let the old garlic fall out of the bottle and let it sit in the dirt. And then i would make a new batch of garlic water with new garlic.
Whatever it is that i did with the garlic water it seemed to work. I havent had an issue with any caterpillars for a long time. But the aphids are still there. I dont think you can get rid of them completely without using chemical sprays and i didnt want to do that. Also ladybugs eat aphids, but you have to get them to come to your garden, so you would have to either plant certain plants that ladybugs are attracted to, or you can apparently buy them over the internet. I think you can buy them off ebay. Not sure if they sell them in local shops though. Not in any local shops around me anyway.
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