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Italian for ‘half cold’, this class of semi-frozen deserts one of my favourites. Because I love semi-melted ice cream, it makes sense to me that this is not completely frozen.
Typically ice cream cakes or semi-frozen custards, semifreddo usually has the texture of frozen mousse, produced by combining ice cream and whipped cream.
This one was a vanilla and hazelnut semi, with pink sherbet and a dehydrated orange on top. It is the type of decadent desert Marie Antoinette would have eaten when she ran out of cake.
Drunk with sweet glass of William Downie Petit Manseng.
Mary Macdougall and Charlie Sofo (image) have brought together sixteen of their closest for one show, aptly titled Friends. Apparently the Sydney contingent are driving down together in a big bus, and Charlie Sofo is making a publication especially for the event.
Artists exhibiting are Lara Thoms, Bianca Hester, Tom Polo, David Capra, Anna John, Kate Mitchell, Pia Van Gelder, Bababa International, Garry Trinh, Corey Coda, Dan Bell, George Egerton-Warburton, Mary Macdougall and Charlie Sofo.
Friends
Opens Wednesday September 1 from 6-8pm
Exhibition runs until September 18 TCB Art Inc
Level 1/12 Waratah Place, Melbourne
This weeks Cheeky Freak is This Girl, the debut single from Tortoiseshell. Check em out at GoodGod with Hole In The Sky DJ’s and Noise In My Head instigator Michael K Saturday night. Click here for more info, have a listen to the above and hopefully we will see you there!
This Thursday night, Edition store in Darlinghurst presents the opening of Just Treasure, an exhibition of new work by photographer and long time Blackmail contributor Rene Vaile.
Rene Vaile, Just Treasure
Thursday August 24, 6 – 8pm Edition
214 Crown St Darlinghurst
Issue 12 superstars Tortoiseshell are launching their single, This Girl, on Saturday night at GoodGod with a little help from their Hole In The Sky brethren. Get on down if you know what’s good for you!
Saturday August 28 from 9pm, $15 on the door GoodGod Small Club
55 Liverpool St CBD Sydney
There are few more substantial ways to start your day than with three massive whole wheat pancakes stacked high with fresh fruit and dizzled in maple syrup. On a warm summer’s day, just a few hours out of New York city in a little town called Montauk, we went in search of a local pancake roadhouse to fill our hungry tummies. There, sitting waiting for us on the other side of the road was John’s Pancake House. Thanks to John, the interior of his pancake parlour had barely been touched since the 70s, and everyone inside was filling up on hearty sweet sugary fried batter with numerous toppings.
Though I could barely finish a third of this delicious colourful plate, the large bucksome waitress proceeded to tell me that ‘the trick’ was not to drink anything prior to consuming the fried cakes. Shame I had that coffee before hand.
Adidas are giving away complimentary shoes. Yes that’s right, they are for free.
All you’ve got to do is follow them on Facebook or Twitter so you now where they’re giving them away and turn up at the spot, if the shoes fits and you’re first on the scene, they’re yours. Sweet!
Pretty excited about this film coming out… Still don’t know what to think about it…
Tonight in Sydney head to China Heights from 6 to 9 for This Is How We Roll, an exhibition featuring artists Joe Allen Shea, Stefan Marx, Gibson Fox, Samoh and Ben Barretto amongst others. Afterwards see Midnight Juggernauts play The Forum, more details here. Afterwards join Death Strobe DJs at GoodGod Small Club with Slow Blow DJs, $5 8.30 – 11.00pm, $10 after.
Saturday morning head back out to Disorder Disorder at Penrith Regional Gallery for artist talks from 10.30 with Joseph Allen Shea, Conor O’Brien, Jonathan Zawada and Anthony Lister. At night get your second dose of Slow Blow with Heebie Jeebies at The Civic Underground featuring Steele Bonus, Slow Blow, Mull Cake and “Hippy” Joel. Don’t let the Turkeys get you down! More info here.
This Friday night Midnight Juggernauts play The Forum in Sydney as part of a national tour supporting their acclaimed second album, The Crystal Axis, available now through iTunes.
Midnight Juggernauts
Friday August 20
The Forum Sydney
With Dappled Cities, Canyons and Kirin J Callinan.
Tickets available from Moshtix
The Blackmail has three double passes to give away to the Friday night show. For your chance to win a double pass, email prize@theblackmail.com.au and tell us the name of Midnight Juggernauts independent record label.
It is the unusual colour that draws ones attention to the Black Russian tomatoes sitting at the fruit and vegetable stand. Growing well in cooler regions, the Black Russian tomato is another great wintery addition to your kitchen stocks. Though, as a specialty seed, these little suckers also come with a price tag more weighty than their red cousins.
Sharing their name with a cocktail of vodka and coffee liqueur, this heirloom fruit has been around for hundreds of years, and like many black flowers, is actually purple in colour, though they often look quite green and Christmasy. The riper they get the darker they become, and the flavour is quite acidic. Best to serve in salads for colour or sliced on top of crunchy toast with some salty goats cheese or feta.
