Yesterday was the Australian Football League (AFL) Grand Final Day in Melbourne. Fremantle (the Dockers) played Hawthorn (the Hawks) on a rather vitriolic Saturday afternoon, when it rained and shined in equal measure, and strong winds buffeted everything. The Hawks won to the delight of some and the disappointment of others. I felt for the loyal Freo supporters who had bussed it all the way across the Nullarbor to see their beloved team play in their first Grand Final, only to see them pipped at the post by 15 points.
I will confess to being agnostic when it comes to the AFL, as I am from Queensland, and during my childhood, the AFL was known in our house as "Victorian football" - only played in that far off place called Melbourne, and receiving little or no airplay on Queensland television sets. However, the AFL has wisely since gone national, and each State has at least one team.
While the drama of the Grand Final was being played out, I was preparing for a dinner party with four friends last night, details of which I will provide later.
This leads me on to my latest cake - a Peach Upside Down Cake, from a recipe by Julie Goodwin, that I made primarily to use up the tinned peaches in my fridge which are currently outside the scope of my diet. It ended up being a rather lovely cake:
If you happen to have some tinned peaches and want to trump peaches and icecream for dessert, you can't go wrong with making this lovely cake.
9 comments:
This year was the best possible final for me, and my Dad - he supports Hawthorn and played for the (very) junior league of the same name when he grew up in Melbourne, but now of course we live in Perth and so Fremantle are our team there. I would have been happy with either outcome!
I love this cake too. Upside down fruit cakes are amongst my favourite type :)
I am mostly agnostic about football but love the grand final and found myself yelling at the tv yesterday because I do come from a red blooded football family and sometimes it gets under my skin
yummy looking cake - am sure the small piece you had tasted all the better for knowing it was all you were having
Oh yum, I love a good upside down cake!
I think it was okay to have a little bit. Deprivation is never good on a diet because you end up binging later. Tasty looking cake!
It must have been hard to not go for a whole piece-it looks delicious! :D
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Upside down cakes are such a weakness :D
Yum!
Cheers
CCU
looks delicious...just mouthwatering!
Looks good. I don't lame you for having a taste. I doubt I would have stopped there!
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