BrewDog Bar, Pentridge, Coburg

One of my favourite places in the Pentridge compound is the BrewDog Bar.  BrewDog is a Scottish brewery with a presence in Australia.  BrewDog Pentridge is their one Melbourne establishment.  I like how they have made it into a social and fun place but not lost sight of the heritage of the Pentridge Prison. We have visited a few times since they opened in late 2022 and love the menu with its plentiful vegetarian options.

BrewDog is in the former E Division.  This was the hospital and later housed short term priosoners when Pentridge was a Prison.  The bluestone facade remains grim and intimidating with bars on the windows.

The entrance to BrewDog is at the side and opens onto a beer garden with plants and brick walls beside blue tables and chairs.  

For those interested in history : The beer garden is cleverly built to reference the Panopticon.  Opticon derives from the Greek word "opsis" meaning to view.  Pan is from Ancient Greek meaning all or every.  The Panopticon was built in the Victorian-era Pentridge Prison with a central watchtower and yards radiating out from it for prisoners one hour of exercise a day with walls to separate them from other inmates.  This enabled the guards to watch all prisoners or at least have the potential to watch them.  Like a modern day security camera.  Look on the ground for the marks referencing the walls of the panopticon.  

Beyond the indoor bar is an indoor restaurant area.  I love all the artwork (above) on the wall as well as plants and padded seating around the walls in this section.  The gorgeous heritage arched windows (below) have bars on thm (to remind you that this is prison and not play school). 

There is a corridor from the bar to the restaurant that has pinball machines in it.  If you walk along it, you will pass some smaller rooms.  I guess they are for private gatherings and functions.  The old couches in this room looked so welcoming and cosy.  I think this room has changed since I took this photo but I can guarantee it has changed even more since it houses prisoners who no doubt found it cold and unpleasant.

I was pleased to see that they serve Heaps Normal on the drinks menu.  Sometimes chips and fried food calls for beer, even if you prefer a non-alcoholic one.  This is what I ordered on our first visit.

On that occasion Sylvia drank apple juice and we ordered Fries and Mac and Cheese croquettes.  They were pleasingly crispy and hot.

I wanted to try the Buffalo cauliflower wings with garlic mayo. I enjoyed it but it was quite spicy and we took some home because we had plenty to eat. 

We also ordered the House Green Salad: leaf salad, pickled red onion, cucumber, tomato, radish, green herbs.  This was to balance out the fried food.  It was really good but I was surprised how much Sylvia loved it.  Since then she has enjoyed lots of salads but at the time I had not expected it as she had not eaten such salads before.

On our second visit we sat in the beer garden and started with a latte for Sylvia and a lemon lime and bitters for me.  It is a very pleasant place to sit on a fine Spring day.

To eat Sylvia had the Plain Jane Pizza: Napoli, mozzarella, fresh basil, Murray River sea salt and the Truffle Cheese Fries: garlic-truffle butter, parmesan, fried onion, spring onion.  As you can see above the pizza came whole with a pizza cutter on the side.  Sylvia was most impressed with the flavour on the fries and declares them her favourite truffle fries.

I ordered the Eggplant pizza: basil pesto, gorgonzola, parmesan, fresh chilli, candied walnuts, basil.  I loved it.  The eggplant was charred and cooked through and was amazing with walnuts and pesto.  I was not so keen on the chilli but it was easy enough to remove some or all of it.  Like Sylvia I had to slice it myself.

I had another visit to BrewDog with Faye.  On that occasion I ordered the Buddah Bowl: broccoli, edamame, cherry tomato, charred radicchio, hummus, puffed quinoa, smoked almonds, figs and a dijon dressing.  I added the option of pulled mushroom.   It was a good choice.  They were chewy and dense and added a lot of flavour as well as interesting texture that contrasted nicely with the fresh vegies.

Faye had the Plant Powered Patriot Burger: Love Bud's patty, plant based bacon, cheese, onion, lettuce, BBQ sauce and pickles.  The burger came with fries in a cute enamel cup but I was more impressed by its vibrant pink burger bun
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The most recent visit was towards the end of last year was with a group of colleagues.  We met for an evening meal in the beer garden and booked a booth in the area called the cells.  It was a cool evening towards the end of November and I was worried it might be cold outside but there were heaters as well as fairy lights!

We ordered food to share and had so much that we took leftovers home.  There was pizza, fries, chicken wings, mac and cheese croquettes, burgers and sweet potato fries.  It was great to catch up with these lovely people who I have worked with intensely on events but work in different buildings. Closest in the above photo is the eggplant pizza which I highly recommend!

As you might have seen, BrewDog prides itself on catering for different dietary preferences such as vegan.  One of my colleagues is vegan and I was pleased there were some interesting options for her.  She ordered the Waikiki Pizza: plant based bacon, cheese, pineapple, napoli and fresh parsley.  The vegan bacon was a bit more mock meat slabs than I would prefer but I quite liked how they veganised the ham and cheese Hawaiian pizza. 

So there we finish with controversy.  I love pineapple on pizza but I know that you love it or you hate it and there is no in between.  BrewDog also has its critics of some of their treatment of workers and bold and outlandish marketing strategies.  And I know some people are uncomfortable with the gentrification of Pentridge with so much violence and suffering in its history.  One friend was quite freaked out when I took her to the complex.  I like to think of BrewDog as being a new chapter in a place with a fascinating history that should not be forgotten.

BrewDog Bar
Pentridge Prison,
E Building,
T101/1 Champ St, Coburg
Opening Hours: Sun-Thurs: 12:00-22:00, Fri: 13:00–00:00 Saturday: 11:00-00:00
https://www.brewdog.com/au/pentridge

My Monthly Chronicles: April 2024

April was busy with birthdays, beautiful meals and the Boot Factory.  I used to go the the Boot Factory for a cuppa every month but it is a while since I have been three times in a month.  My regular cafe these days is Wild Timor which does not rate a mention because I have sparkling water or mint tea there with a good friend on a weekly basis.  Otherwise there has been fancy food, group meals, pierogis and bike rides.

Torquay beach:

 

One favourite place to visit that I don't manage enough is Torquay.  I squeezed in a quick walk on the beach before a family dinner.  It was so beautiful I wished I could stay longer.  I was at Whites Beach which is where dogs can run off the lead.  At one point I turned to see a small wet dog standing behind me holding a tennis ball expectantly.  I hesitated and then threw the ball for him and exchanged smiles with the owner when he caught up.  That was one cute dog.

 

 

 Eat Pierogi Make Love, Brunswick East

 

We visited Eat Pierogi Make Love (161 Lygon St, Brunswick East) because Sylvia had a yen for pierogis and Polish food after an excellent meal in Zurich.  We had an amazing tomato soup (Pomidorowka) which is served with egg and flour squiggles of pasta-like dumplings.  Then we had a Leniwe or "lazy dumplings": sweet potato dumplings with rich mushroom sauce and crispy ricotta.  It was excellent and served with a wonderfully refreshing cucumber and sour cream side dish.  We also had the Ruskie Pierogi (cheese and potato dumplings) and the Sernik (baked cheesecake with red currant).  Such interesting and delicious food!

 

 

Robinson Reserve, Coburg

 

I shared a photo of the Robinson Reserve Neighbourhood House mural 10 years ago.  It was great to see how it had changed recently.  The house is now call the Reynard Street Neighbourhood House but the mural is still there.  The grass lawn in Robinson Reserve outside the fence is now a vibrant community garden with more welcoming artwork. 

On the telly: A Friend in the Family.  A compelling miniseries about child abuse and grooming the whole family.  It was even creepier to read about it being based on a true story.

 

 

Chookas cafe, Brunswick

 

Chookas cafe continues to be a favourite of Sylvia's.  I don't go there as much as her but have the occasional visit.  This visit a few weekends back had us in line for over half an hour.  When we finally got a seat we were disappointed that the weekend vegetarian udon salad seems to be no longer on the menu.  Fortunately the omusubi never disappoints.  I am now very partial to the grilled kimchi, cheese and edamame omusubi.  The other omusubi we ordered were (left to right on the plate) on the plate are nori, wakame and yukari (Japanese mint with an umeboshi in the middle).  I had plum soda.  Sylvia was delighted with iced berry oreo latte with a cute cat biscuit sitting in it, and that she saw the neighbouring cat Juniper after we finished.

 

 

Luthers Scoops, Brunswick

 

Sylvia is quite a fan of Luthers Scoops on Blyth Street in Brunswick, a few doors up from Sydney Road.  They do amazing ice creams but that's not all.  Some days they have choc chip cookies and now it is getting cooler, they are selling fruit pies.   I finally had a cookie recently when we discovered that the pies are not available until 5pm.  That cookie was warm with a crisp edge and gooey chewy middle.  It was huge but we shared it as well as some ice cream.  Sylvia got her favourite watermelon and strawberry sorbet.  I had a boysenberry cheesecake ice cream that was really good.

Lost keys: I used to lose my purse about once a year but have got better at keeping it in a safe place.  My keys are also kept in a safe place so it is really frustrating me that I remember taking them from the front door and the next time I set out of the house I could not find them.  Either they are still in the house somewhere or they have gone out in a bin.  I hope they reappear but meanwhile have had a new spare set of house keys cut and am still looking into getting spare bike keys cut.

 

 

Boot Factory, Coburg

 

We were at Pentridge recently and stopped at the Boot Factory for a light snack.  We shared the beautiful and delicious Babaganoush with pomegranate and pine nuts served with charred pita breads.   I loved the crunch of nuts and arils.  I had a excellent 70% hot chocolate and Sylvia had a minty mango iced cream tea that was refreshing with subtle flavours.

At the movies: The Fall Guy.  Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt are great.  The film is entertaining, fun, silly and a bit too much heavy metal music for me.

 

 

Santuccis, Camberwell

 

The most beautiful lunch of the month was at Santuccis (1392 Toorak Rd, Camberwell).  The Dark Teddy French Toast was served with dark chocolate teddy ice cream, seasonal fruit, coffee mascarpone cheese, orange, lemon citrus syrup & custard.  Yes that is a chocolate teddy bear with his cute little feet melting.  I had the Wild mushroom mix: Portobello, oyster mushrooms w basil pesto, smashed pumpkin, crispy enoki mushroom, crispy kale and polenta chips.  The deep fried enoki was the highlight and I loved the polenta slab.  It was a fun afternoon driving around the unfamilar streets in the east of Melbourne, admiring the autumnal trees and Street Art in Camberwell and Canterbury.

 

 

 

Federal Mills 1915

 

I went to Geelong for a birthday dinner for my brother-in-law at Federal Mills 1915 (PH2 / 33 Mackey Street, North Geelong).  It is a grand old warehouse with lots of weathered bricks, exposed beams and high ceilings.  The building was the boiler house of the sprawling woollen mills that made everything from military uniforms to Qantas fashions.  I enjoyed seeing more of the building behind the industrial chimney stack, a landmark I often pass when visiting my parents.

 

I shared with a few dishes with my mum and brother.  We had Saganaki with peppered figs, honey and lemon, Mac and cheese croquettes, Cauliflower empanadas and the Gnocchi in tomato sauce.  It was all lovely, though fairly standard vegetarian dishes, with the exception of the excellent cauliflower empanadas. 

 

Drinks at 1915 were more impressive.  I loved my lime and yuzu soda but was wowed by the Yuzu Bloom mocktail my sister Fran had.  It was a refreshing mix of elderflower, agave, grapefruit, yuzu soda, and lime.  I was also interested that they had a Pomegranate Sour mocktail with aquafaba.  The dessert menu had a tempting Halloumi loukoumades w’ salted caramel & chocolate ice cream.  I might have been tempted if my mum hadn't brought along birthday cake.  Actually she baked two sponge cakes: one filled with whipped cream and one with lemon filling.  My family has always been split between the two options.  I am team cream because I really dislike lemon filling even though cream is not my thing either.  I admire how my mum whips up fluffy high sponge cakes so easily.

And a quick mention of two conversations I enjoyed.  My niece's bestie made me laugh when she told me that fork refers to four prongs, thrork for three prongs and twork for two prong.  A fun moment of whimsy from am 11 year old.  It was a novel experience to hear my sister's friend talk about their ethical beef farm, and fun to see my sister's surprise that I would be so interested.

 

 

Borscht, Vodka and Tears, Windsor

 

We had a birthday meal for E at Borscht, Vodka and Tears (173 Chapel St, Windsor).  It had old world charm with fading sage green walls, distressed mirrors, farmhouse curios such as a cream separator, native leaves in vases and vintage patterned crockery.  My mum and I had a refreshing Virgin Passion Mule (lime, passionfruit, mint, ginger ale) while E and my dad had Polish beers.  We shared lots of dishes: amazing battered cauliflower, gnocchi in a spinach puree, a cup of borscht broth, cheese and potato pierogi, sweet potato cheddar and jalapeno pierogi, porcini and sauerkraut pierogi, and Dzialka salad.  The salad was a substantial green platter of grilled broccolini, fried kipflers, romesco sauce, salted almonds, chickpeas, leaves, seeds, chilli, pomegranate.  Not cheap but so so good.

 

 

Serendipity: one morning this month we had plumbers fixing the pipes in the front garden so I was called early in the morning to move my car.  I was rewarded for my early morning drive from the car port to the street parking in my pyjamas when it rained later.  My car got the wash it needed that it would not have had in the car port.

 

 

This is my little craft corner from when I made the square with "Green Gourmet Giraffe" on my new header.  The letters were cut out of the picture of limes from an old calendar. 

 

 

Bluey the Sign

 

Bluey fever hit when the new 28 minutes special, The Sign, was finally aired.  It was true to form.  An amusing and insightful episode about our favourite Aussie cartoon dog.  My favourite bits were the flower girl practice and the car trip.  Oh and I saw a Bluey picture by a playground in Brunswick off Tinning Street.  Was it street art or was it a sign?

Podcasts: I was interested to listen to the Freakonomics podcast on how to pave the road to hell.  It was fascinating and a bit depressing to hear about research into the unintended consequences of policies and culture change that aims to improve equity and inclusion.

 

 

Boot Factory on ANZAC Day

 

On ANZAC Day we got up early (for us) and were at the Boot Factory just after 8am for the special ANZAC biscuit and hot drink deal.  Sylvia had a latte and I had a mint tea.  The biscuits were huge and delicious with that pleasingly chewy bend when we broke them in half.

 

Boot Factory and peeking into Indulgence

I went to the Boot Factory twice of ANZAC Day because I had already arranged to have lunch there with my lovely former manager, Sarah.  I had the poke bowl and she had the gnocchi but we were more interested in catching up on work and life.  We had a walk around the Pentridge compound including, a look in the Adina Apartment Hotel.  We tried to peek in the windows around this door to see the Interlude luxury hotel with suites in old bluestone jail cells but you can't see much.  There are better images on the website.

Calle Bakery, North Carlton

At the end of April we finally got to Calle Bakery where Sylvia had been determined to try the month's special Matcha Strawberry Croissant Wheel.  I had the Crookie, a croissant baked with cookie dough on top and lots of melty chocolate and possibly a bit more dough in the centre.  It was exceedingly decadent. Everything was delicious delicious though Sylvia has decided she should not get a match latte to accompany a matcha cream filled croissant wheel again.

We had decided to share a savoury baguette with tomato and burrata and struggled to cut it.  Last time we visited there was a 60 minute wait.  This time we got there early enough not to have to wait but the queue of people waiting for seats and orders quickly grew.  The queue made me feel very self conscious as we took turns at sawing through the super crusty baguette crust with a bread knife, occasionally pushing back in the tomato and burrata that oozed out.  Next time I will ask them to slice the baguette in half at the counter.

Shadow on the lead

Yes we have tried to take Shadow for a walk on a lead.  It has taken quite some time of letting him mooch about the house in his harness and have some walks on the lead in the yard.  This photo is of him on the day we went beyond our front garden.  As you can see, he is most displeased.  He refused to walk.  He much prefers sleeping on a pile of pizza boxes and if he wants a challenge he throws himself at the toilet door until he has opened it with the handle.  We might try again but cats on a lead is a challenge.

In the news: there is outrage!  Outrage over rape in our Parliament House, over immigrants and refugees, over Palestinian deaths in Gaza, over the Cass report on transgender support in the UK, over violence towards women in Australia. Some great insightful and compassionate articles.

• "Forget ideology, it's a battle between politicians and lawyers that is shaping immigration policies" in ABC News by Annabel Crabb.
• "No relief: Why aren’t all innocent deaths in Gaza ‘completely unacceptable’ to the Australian government?" in The Politics by Rachel Withers.
  
• "In Bruce Lehrmann's 'omnishambles' of a trial, Justice Michael Lee delivered a powerful lesson in shades of grey" on ABC News by Annabel Crabb.
• "What is the Cass review and what does it say about healthcare for trans youth?" Explainer in The GayTimes.
  
• "Anthony Albanese was determined to show solidarity with women. Instead he became the story" in the Guardian by Karen Middleton
  
• "The national crisis of violence against women is the culmination of many issues — and some of them the government can fix" in ABC News by Laura Tingle.
• "Locks, chains, diversions: How Columbia students seized Hamilton Hall" in The New York Times by Sharon Otterman and Chelsia Rose Marcius, accessed in The Age.
  

My Monthly Chronicles 2024 is a companion post to In My Kitchen April 2024.  These two posts aim to catch up on meals, food and random notes both in my kitchen and outside it each month.  I do not have the time to post as much I would like on everything.  Where time permits I will write up some of these meals that deserve more attention than I can give them here.

In My Kitchen: April 2024

April has been a busy month for my blog. It was good to finish the European holiday post, get a new email subscription service, refresh my recipe index and put together a new header before my 17th blog anniversary.  Now I have lots of drafts to catch up on.  As usual!  Only worse than usual because life has gone on while I been blog busy.  I wont go into detail now that I have My Monthly Chronicles April post (coming soon) as a catch up on what is going on outside my kitchen.  I will just huddle down under my warm blanket as it gets colder and darker each evening!

The above photo is a very pleasing lunch from Zaatar.  We love the Zaatar pizzas that folded in half over the wonderful seedy spicy mixture.  They were $1 when the cafe first opened 12 years ago.  Now they are $2.80.  Which is still a bargain when you look at how other prices have risen.  We also shared a cheese and vegemite pie.  They are always good but often a bit weepy.  I tried a new treat - the halva biscuit sandwiches.  They were excellent with a slab of halva between crisp tea biscuits.  And some seasonal grapes that I have been enjoying at home.

Sylvia made amazing Zucchini stuffed shells recently.  They had thin fried zucchini slices mixed with ricotta, stuffed into large pasta shells, covered in tomato sauce and cheese and baked into deliciousness.  We ended up making two lots of this dish because there were only so many stuffed shells we could fit on a single layer into the rectangular baking dish.  It seemed so easy to assemble the second lot compared to all the work on the first night.  I would have liked more vegetables with the sauce but Sylvia wanted to try a seasoned passata.

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I revisited an old favourite: Spinach rice gratin.  It was actually more carrot than spinach on this occasion but it was a great way to use up half a slab of tofu.  As well as crumbled tofu, it was a good way to use up some scraps of vegies from the fridge.  Sylvia was not interested in it so I enjoyed loading it with seeds on top of the cheese.

We tried a batch of maple mustard tofu.  It looked amazing on the video with some simple ingredients.  I pressed the tofu and left it overnight with the marinade.  It ended up quite dry and chewy rather than soft and saucy as in the video.  Plus the sweet flavours overwhelmed the savoury and weren't quite right for us.

This No boil baked vegan mushroom straganoff was excellent.  It was what the In My Bowl blog, where it was originally posted, calls dump and bake.  Sylvia only noticed she had accidentally dumped a 750g family pack of pasta rather than specified 500g once it was too late.  That made a lot of pasta bake!  This also meant it wasn't very creamy but I loved the flavour and texture.  In fact I loved it more than the stovetop mushroom stroganoff that she made last year.  On both occasions she has used cream cheese rather than cashew butter.  I would love to try the oven bake again with the right amount of pasta and cashew butter rather than cream cheese.

Sylvia loves making the Smashing Potato Salad from Enid Blyton Jolly Good Food by Allegra McEvedy.  She always adapts it but it is a favourite side dish.  We had it with sausages and greens.

We also did a From My Bowl dump and bake Cheesy Broccoli Casserole.  It was excellent.  I halved the nutritional yeast flakes and added some cheese and some extra beans.  This is the comfort food I wish to eat all winter!

When I posted my Dumpling Okonomiyaki recipe last year, I noted that the okonomiyaki mixture is slightly too big for mu cast iron frypan and so sometimes I set some aside to fry separately the next day.  This photo is some leftover okonomiyaki fried up and served with a variation of Crimson coleslaw, with some spinach added to the plate. It was a great quick lunch.

Another excellent recipe from In My Bowl that we made recently is a Creamy Mushroom Udon Soup.  This vegan recipe was made creamy by coconut cream.  Sylvia was not keen on the taste of the coconut cream and would prefer to try it with dairy cream.  I think maybe we needed to tweak the seasoning but am far more amenable to coconut cream than dairy cream. It was quick to make and delicious with fried tofu puffs, fried onion, fried cabbage and raw spinach as well as the spring onion garnish.

When we made the Creamy mushroom udon soup, we bought this Exotic Mushroom Blend packet from the supermarket.  It had fresh shitake, oyster and king oyster mushroom.  We also used some Swiss browns and button mushrooms.  Sylvia loved trying different mushrooms in a recipe.  I am less into mushrooms than her and was interested but a bit wary of paying $25 a kilo for the exotics as opposed to $12 a kilo for the button mushrooms.

Sylvia is really into matcha so it was no surprise when she made a batch of Matcha and raspberry muffins based on this matcha muffin recipe.  They were really good with a soft and vibrant crumb.  Sylvia hasn't use much of her matcha  latte powder from the Borough Market in London.  It was a great way to use some of it, especially as it has some vanilla and spices added to the powder.  The pleasant warm matcha flavour was offset nicely by the tang of the raspberries.

This edible Happy Shawn sheep cake was brought home from Linger Patisserie Cafe in Camberwell.  It was a heavenly combination of yuzu mousse, raspberry jelly, strawberry compote, matcha biscuit and white chocolate coating.  I usually am neither a mousse or a white chocolate person but this combination was really delicious.  When I read that it had white chocolate coating, I thought it meant a hard shell of white chocolate but it was more like a delicate mousse.  We just shared one sheep because they weren't cheap at $12.50 and we just wanted a small taste after a big lunch.

These Vegemite mini wraps were nice.  They had a touch of that intense umami Vegemite flavour.  I liked them with cream cheese but am not sure they were amazing enough to buy regularly.

I took this picture just after Easter.  The Lindt bees and ladybugs were better chocolate but just as enjoyable as the Cadbury Caramello mini easter eggs.  Even better than the Easter eggs were the Whittaker chocolate bars.  The Restore pear and manuka honey was our favourite but the Reflect sea salt and caramel brittle was also very good.  Best of all was the packaging and I could not resist a green polka-a-dot handkerchief for Easter!

When I was a kid, breakfast cereal meant either Corn Flakes or rice bubbles.  I don't eat cornflakes for breakfast any more but Sylvia loves them as a snack.  Best of all, they are excellent in the crumb coating on our favourite tofu nuggets. I loved this nostalgic packaging to celebrate 100 years of Corn Flakes in Australia.

I stumbled upon these Siafa chocolate dates on the specials shelves in the supermarket.  I had never seen them before but really loved the dates, although I was not so keen on all the packaging.  The dates had a creamy biscoff spread and were coated in milk chocolate.  They are neither vegan nor gluten free, even though they seem like they could be.

I was tempted to try these Kettle Native Honey and Orange Crisps with Black Pepper.  The flavouring was quite subtle but pleasing.  I had some with some excellent grilled Turkish bread with pizza sauce, mushrooms, spinach, olives and cheese.  Sylvia took the rest of the packet to her dad's place to snack on while they waiting for their pizza to be delivered.
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This photo is from an outing last weekend when we had an indulgent lunch at Calle Bakery.  It is such as wonderful bakery that I bought this beautiful loaf of fig and walnut bread.  We got a free Bonne Maman chocolate hazelnut spread at the bakery because it was a giveaway when spending over $20.  I also brought home my leftover kombucha.  After lunch we went to Bunnings where we found a white pansy plant, a cute ceramic plant pot, and some paint colour samples but no dill plants.  The colour samples are ideas for if and when we get our walls painted.

Finally here are some of Sylvia's little potted plants which are starting to take over the garden.  They interest our Shadow but not as much as he loves his catnip which is also trying to colonise the garden.  You can see the catnip growing at some rate in the concrete between the large pots with my lemon and lime trees.  I am still battling the citrus leaf miner but pleased to see some lemons getting ready to ripen.  The lime tree is struggling more but has a few hopeful signs of fruit.

I am sending this post to Sherry of Sherry's Pickings for the In My Kitchen event. If you would like to join in, send your post to Sherry by 13th of the month.  Or just head over to her blog to visit more kitchens and her gorgeous hand drawn header.