{"id":352,"date":"2011-04-07T23:32:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T12:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/?p=352"},"modified":"2015-11-24T10:03:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T23:03:41","slug":"chinese-with-carrot-figures-and-somewhat-related-memorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/2011\/04\/chinese-with-carrot-figures-and-somewhat-related-memorials\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese with carrot figures! And (somewhat) related, memorials…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, so strictly speaking this isn’t a recipe post. Or an about me post, either. But I came across these pictures on my computer and thought they were too cool NOT to put up here. They’re of edible carrot figurines that I photographed years ago at a 2008 dinner for my dear late Gran’s birthday. We went to a local Chinese restaurant.<\/p>\n

\"Carrot<\/a>

Carrot duckie :)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Tower<\/a>

A tower. Of carrot. In all it’s carroty glory!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Carrot<\/a>

Carrot birdie!<\/p><\/div>\n

Speaking of my beloved Gran, she really did teach me a lot about all sorts of things, including cooking. I really miss her… She passed away on the 22nd of January this year. I have such fond memories of her and frequently think of how she taught me to make a pizza from scratch when I’m making my own nowadays.<\/p>\n

January was a difficult time… Gran’s passing was a great loss, and I’m so glad I got to spend lots of time with her. We spent hours chatting during visits to her hospital room. Bless her. I’m so glad she got to see her grand-daughter get married too, and to such a loving man :-) Yay for the photographers capturing her lovely self on the day too!<\/p>\n

Heh, this has become quite a stroll down emotional memory lane…<\/p>\n

My thoughts now turn to another loss that also happened in January. My family cat, the beautiful and affectionate 20 year old Jess, also passed away in January on the 6th. She was very sweet and well-liked by family & friends (and randoms!), including Gran who had cats of her own over the years. I’ve made a little photo album in memory of Jess; it’s on my coffee table. Some photos of her below…<\/p>\n

\"Cat<\/a>

Hehe, she always loved my bed. And taking it over :-P<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Me<\/a>

I was just 4 when we got Jess. I ADORED her.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Adult<\/a>

A recent snap of my lovely little girl and me.<\/p><\/div>\n

Well, that was a post and a half!<\/p>\n

As for new & tested recipes, I realise I’ve been a bit slow on posting them lately. I totally blame uni :P Luckily the Easter break is coming up, so *hopefully* I’ll break this lull then!<\/p>\n

And as always, thank you for reading :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, so strictly speaking this isn’t a recipe post. Or an about me post, either. But I came across these pictures on my computer and thought they were too cool NOT to put up here. They’re of edible carrot figurines that I photographed years ago at a 2008 dinner for my dear late Gran’s birthday. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,62],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-random-cool-foods","tag-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}