SECOND WEEK, MOTHER FRICKERS! (Le Moulin)

Hello friends,
WEEK TWO ALREADY! HOW ABOUT THAT?
I'm proud of myself for doing something two times in a row, thats stickability and is definitely a skill I want to work on so go me, gold star for Rube.

This week, in honour of David Seymour's prize French 'Cock up' ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7plURl4sx4 ) will be telling y'all about my favourite Wellington bakery, 'Le Moulin'.

The iconic sign

'Le Moulin', located at 248 Willis street in Te Aro is dangerously convenient for me. Think the French bakery of your dreams, on a shoe (string) pastry budget. From the outside it looks like your average, mass produced, stodge store. But once you step through that door you encounter a magical new world filled with the sweet smells of vanilla, fresh fruit and dark chocolate; coated with a Narnian snow like sprinkling of icing sugar. Since I am often lazy and / or useless, I often buy about four or five pastries when I need to bring a plate to an event and just cut them up into bite sized pieces and it usually costs me about $12 - $15 dollars for a HUGE plate of finger food. Value for money is tekau/tekau. Like any bakery, it really depends what you get as to how rad your experience is. As my mussus ('Mrs' for the un-kiwis among us) and I are massive custard fiends, our faves tend to be things containing this yellow semisolid-semiliquid food of the gods. The Tropezienne which is around $4.20 (praise it) is a custard filled brioche style cake, with a toffee topping. This is my go-to, it's like a cloud that's filled with custard rain and I have them for breakfast when I have hardcore practice Saturdays and they make me happy ALL DAY.

The famed 'Tropezziene'

Another stella favourite is the Canelé, a small, caramelly, crusty, custard flavoured brioche.
It's kind of like what would happen if homemade brioche had a messy love affair with a custard and they had a beautiful love child who had to form a hard crusty exterior to get through the harsh world of being an illegitimate child but underneath that they were all soft and custardy. These dudes are about $2.50 and are apparently the best Canelés in the capital!
Last week I had one of their almond croissants for the first time (if you know me well, you'll know that almond croissants have a special place in my heart) and it was perfection.

The famed vanilla flavoured love child

So yes, that is the tahi this week!
Next week I shall endeavour to post about something non food related as this is not a god damn food blog (I just love food). So get ready for 'RUBY GOES OUTSIDE, THE MUSICAL' (well, the blog post). Until next time, stay rad and PLEASE eat some custard for me.

Love,

Ruby xxx

Welcome! And Milk...

KIA ORA, MTV AND WELCOME TO MY CRIB!

Just kidding... welcome to "That's The Tahi!" Your latest source for cool fun things to improve your general experience on this planet. 

In case you are a foreign visitor to this site. In The N of Z (New Zealand), 'tahi' means one. So ' That's the one!' is the general vibe of this slice of the internet.

Also, I recently found out that 'tahi' means shit in Malay. Which is uncannily fitting as "Thats the shit!" also makes colloquial sense in regards to what I'm going to be doing here. 

(Like seriously, it means one and poop how rad is that?)

I'm going to try to do a weekly post of what the Tahi is this week, but I am very human and sometimes I get sick / get overwhelmed with work / have a holiday / forget stuff.... but weekly is the goal. The stuff I'll post will be largely Wellington stuff, however I will still endeavour to have stuff that can be found anywhere on the wed-wide-world and stuff further afield in the ole' New Zealand.

SO....*drum roll please*, are you ready for the first Tahi????????

Ok, The Tahi this week is 'Lewis Road Creamery Supreme Coffee Milk' 

Firstly, I am a huge Supreme Coffee fan. I go to school just around the corner from their factory shop, the coffee guy knows me by name, you get the drift. But the reason I love Supreme is that their coffee is just that; supreme. I've never had a bad cup from there, I've had some holy-mother-of-god-is-this-the-raw-cold-pressed-organic-blood-of-a-unicorn-who-sacrificed-her-life-so-I-can-feel-energised??? cups, but no, never a bad cup. Their actual beans are fantastic and they use coconut sugar as a sweetener. So when I saw that the famed Lewis Road (of 'Whittakers Chocolate Milk' fame) had created a coffee milk that contained only fresh milk, espresso coffee and organic coconut sugar, I was one happy human. In terms of dairy purchasable iced-coffees, I am usually a skeptic. Tonnes of sugar and a minimal coffee hit is usually what I find from such products so I usually say a polite "yeah-nah". But this coffee milk actually has a caffeine hit (I mean, it's not a long black on an empty stomach or anything, but it'll take the edge off your dull and dreary life) and tastes like coffee instead of tasting like melted fudge that you left in the bottom of your school bag after you bought it from a bake sale and forgot about it for a whole summers day (we've all been there).  So yes 10/10 would drink again (daily if I wasn't poor, yo Lewis Road sponsor me and I will be your dairy queen?), this is most definitely the tahi.

Love, 

Ruby xxx

TUNE IN NEXT WEEK TO SEE WHAT THE NEXT TAHI IS!