We have just had the best foodie weekend. On Saturday morning I prepped my five hour roast lamb and Maria's recipe for bread and butter pudding for a late lunch we were having that afternoon with our neighbours Rob and Freya and Deb and Ewan. With the lamb in the oven we headed off on a 30 minute drive to Banksmeadow, an obscure southern Sydney suburb to go to Brasserie Bread, an amazing bakery well worth the drive. We ate sourdough pancakes with berries and honeycomb cream and a plate of sour cherry toast. Then we ordered it all again and swapped. Scarlett drank her first babycino. We left carrying a huge sourdough loaf for mopping up the lamb juices later. Before heading home we continued on south to La Perouse on the northern tip of Botany Bay to run around on a beautiful empty beach. At 3pm our guests arrived, the wine was opened, the lamb and B&B pudding consumed. On Sunday we went to the Kings Cross food and wine festival and then met our mates Chris and Stef and their two toddlers for dinner at Bar Italia, a Leichhardt pasta place that is a Sydney institution. You queue up and order and pay for your food at a counter where they also open your BYO wine and distribute cutlery and jugs of water and then moments later your plates are delivered to your table without you telling anyone where you were sitting. It is a mystery how they get it right every time. Tummies now all full.