Christine's Exotic Eats
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It’s nearly time Darwin!!! I look forward to seeing all your lovely faces again this year! 💃🏾🕺🏽🥙🍛🥗🤤
It’s been a minute since I’ve been on here…..I’m booked & busy fam! Everything is happening………😵💫😅🤩.
If you don’t already have plans for this Sunday, La Plage & Dj RaggaRae djraggarae are putting on a fun evening for you & your family at the Darwin Surf Life Saving Club (Casuarina Beach area).
I’ll be there serving you a delicious feast as always! 🤤🤤🤤🤩😁😉
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What a perfect combo for a Friday morning!🤩😍
Just a friendly reminder that you’ve only got 2 WEEKS LEFT for the >>>June Banana Bread Special
Is it even a Saturday if there’s no birthday party? 🫣🥳🤩
I can finally do this. It’s time for the ‘JUNE SPECIAL’!!!!!
My banana bread is loved by many, so we’re making it special this month ONLY!!!! 🍌🍞🤩🤤
I’ve made them plump, with 5 flavour options to choose from:
*Original
*Chocolate
*Biscoff
*Oreo
*Nutella
One for $24 or multiples for $22 each!
Taking orders for 12th - 30th June.
Pick-up from Zuccoli. Delivery is also available for an extra charge.
Get in quick!!!!
Birthday party spread for one gorgeous little girl who turned 3 over the weekend.🥳🎉🎊
Happy new month everyone!!!!
Better late than never🫣……..been working all day that’s why.😅
I’m glad that May is over…..it stretched me almost to my limit. I’ll be taking intermittent rest days over the next week or so to recover from it all, wherever possible.
We start this month with a birthday party & engagement party. 🥳 🎉🍾🎊
Hello Fam!
Are you wondering where I’ve been? Well, I don’t think you wanna know. All I can say is, I tested my ultimate limit by accepting back to back orders, all while preparing & operating 3 days of a foodstall at the recently concluded Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival and last night’s Deckchair Cinema catering duty!!!!!🤯😱😓
I felt like my hands & legs wanted to fall off after all this. Never again!🤣😂🤣
My inboxes are bursting at the seems right now. Please bear with me as I slowly go through your messages🙏🏾.
It has been an adventurous week for me and it’s only gonna get worse. No more afternoon naps for me in a while.😅🫣
Morning tea is served! 🤩🤤
Weekends are for partying💃🏾🕺🏽🥳….. I’m hoping that you maximised your weekend, coz it’ll be another loooong 5 days before we get another one.🥴
……and here’s everything else that was on the menu with the mousaka. 🤩🤤
Based on the various guesses from my previous post, it goes to show how versatile the humble eggplant is.
I made Mousaka!!!!🤩😁
Made on a base of grilled potato & eggplant slices, layered with a juicy beef mince sauce, then topped with a creamy & fluffy bechemel sauce. I could eat this all week without getting tired. 💜🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
I wonder what these magnificent eggplant slices were used for…..🤔🤔🤔🤔
Baby Shower tingz!🤰🤩🤤
Let me serve you some goss today, just incase you haven’t heard it yet. 🤪
I’ll be representing at this year’s Cinema!!!🥳🎉🎊
I hope to see you there on at least one or more nights this dry season. 😁
Here’s the daily vendor schedule for your reference.
I recently catered a private dinner. My ONLY instruction for this order was, ‘ it must be African cuisine’. Boy was I in paradise! 🤩😁
Food packed for mess free transportation.😉
A whole week has passed me by, just like that! 🤯Before we know it, it’ll be Christmas again.🥴
Here’s a spread I did for a corporate workshop this week.
Happy Monday!!!!
I’ve never posted a quote but today, I feel like one.
‘As you go through your new week, remember that you can handle whatever this week throws at you.’ Source Unknown 😊💪🏾💪🏾
Birthday season is in the air. 🎂🥳 As the saying goes, the early bird catches the worm. 🐛 🦅
To avoid disappointment, don’t leave ordering too late coz I have very limited spots, as I work alone.😉😁
As if I didn’t learn from my previous cake adventure, I accepted another cake challenge🫣. This time I attempted a rustic chocolate cake with chocolate cream sandwiched between 2 layers, for the 60th birthday party.
If you think baking a cake is difficult, try transporting one in this Darwin heat alone🥵, with no formal qualification in cake handling, while driving a manual vehicle. I had to grow a 3rd arm to support the cake, the minute I spotted a berry, from the corner of my eye, rolling down the cake, only 5 minutes into the 18 minute trip.🥴 I could feel my blood pressure & heart rate going through the roof. 🤒
Were all the hours I put into this cake in vain? Will this cake make it to the delivery location? 🤔 These were all the questions running through my mind, as I faithfully protected this cake from every bump on the road. Alas, I made it to my destination & to my surprise, all the remaining berries had survived the trip!💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
Over the weekend I had my 3rd milestone birthday in a row! This time, it was a fabulous 60th!🤩🎂🥳🎊🎉
The Sandwich & wrap box didn’t make it to the photo shoot. 😂🤣😂
In addition, there was fruit & veggie spring rolls to accompany the lavender Tiramisu cups.🤩🤤
Since you’ve been patient, I’ll reward you with the answer😁…….the lavender coloured ingredient in my previous post, was used for these magnificent tiramisu cups, for an International Women’s Day event!🤩💜
It’s been an interesting kinda day at the Exotic kitchen but, before the day ends, I’d like to wish my fellow women a Happy International Women’s Day! 🥳💜
I wonder what this ingredient was used for. …..Hmmmmm🤔
…….and this was the 21st Boat Party spread. 🥳 🎊🎉💃🏾🕺🏽
Yesterday (Saturday) was a double milestone birthday celebration (16th & 21st).
I had so much fun designing the ‘Outback’ concept for this set-up. The birthday girl wanted a smores & trail mix bar for her 16th celebration. Here’s how it turned out.🤩🤩🤩🤠
When technology works, it’s really useful.💻👩🏾💻📲
This and yesterday’s corporate orders from Victoria, for sessions run here in Darwin, were completed entirely electronically and I finally got to meet the lovely lady behind the screen today!🤩
It seems birthday season is approaching. How do I know, majority of the orders I’m getting for March are BIRTHDAY ORDERS! 🎈🎈🥳🎂🎉🎊🎁💃🏾🕺🏽
Oh my! Facebook has just reminded me how long it's been, since I last uploaded a post.
Besides cooking, I've been doing a whole heap of other interesting things.
One of them being, a radio interview with the lovely Jess!
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Tomorrow (Friday, 26th Jan), you can find our food at the following events (flyers attached for more info):
• Festival of Us (from 11am) - Territory Netball Stadium
• Festival of us (Oz Fusion from 4pm) - Territory Netball Stadium
•2024 Refugee World Cup (from 9am) - Darwin Football Stadium
Lots of fun for all ages. See you there!😊
Australia Day NT Football Without Borders Darwin Melaleuca Australia Multicultural Council of the NT