The Random Musings of a Jersey Girl & Her Family Finding their Way Around The World
If you remember, one of the first times I went to Melbourne, I didn’t like it. I thought it was crowded and lacked a variety of food. I still think it’s very crowded and a lot of people spend more time looking down at their phones rather than looking at where they’re walking. Some people […]
So just yesterday I discovered that corn meal is actually called polenta in Australia – nearly 7 years after moving here. Oh and by the way cilantro is called coriander here – that one only took me 6 months to figure out, cause you know, there isn’t something at my fingertips in which I can […]
The other day a couple of coworkers and I were talking about food portion differences here as opposed to the US. They couldn’t believe that a small in the US was a large here. I was wrong. The small in the US is actually larger than a large here. Damn, I used to supersize my […]
I can say that my taste buds have changed since I’ve been here but I have yet to acquire the taste for any of the shown products!
Today is the Queen’s Birthday (or rather the observance of it). I didn’t work and most businesses are shut except for major stores like Target and Kmart and the cinema and other places like McDonalds, KFC, and Hungry Jacks, just to name some. Anyway for dinner we decided to go to a chain pizza place. […]
I came across a website where you can buy some Mexican food staples in Australia. While some of the items I was familiar with, it still wasn’t the same products I cooked with in NJ. I decided to do another search (one that I did countless of times when I first moved here): Puerto Rican […]
Got an order of our favorite American goodies, including Snapple. First Snapple in at least 4 years. I think I had an orgasm!
Continuing with the “getting to know you” questions: If you could have only one food for the rest of your life and it wouldn’t affect your health in any negative way, what food would you choose? PIZZA! Not just any pizza though, proper East Coast American pizza (New York pizza specifically)! If I had to […]
