Author: Bunny Eats Design

The Burger Cookbook

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Steve Priest is a burger-loving, Auckland-based graphic designer who has recently embarked on the journey to write, design, photograph and publish a cookbook. Steve has an impressive work history including working with food-related design and motion graphic projects in both New Zealand and Australia. Projects such as NZ’s Hottest Home Baker, The Foodstore, Montieth’s Wild Food Challenge, Food Truckers and Sky Sports Grill. When I found out about Steve’s new project The Burger Cookbook, I felt pangs of envy and excitement. To design (and maybe even write) a cookbook is on my bucket list. I have a long way to go, but Steve is on his way. To get Steve to his goal of publishing his burger cookbook, he has started a Kickstarter project to raise the funds needed to get this off the ground. For those who have not used Kickstarter before, Kickstarter is a platform for projects to get crowd-funded backing. There are different tiers of pledges each with different rewards such recipe cards, cookbooks, special acknowledgements and even an opportunity to taste Steve’s …

Monday Bunday: Bugs

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Sam Bunny is a publication designer living in Wellington, New Zealand. This is his design for the book Bugs by Whiti Hereaka. You can view more of Sam’s work on his website: www.sambunny.co.nz I wish my last name was bunny too. Though if it was, I bet you all wouldn’t believe me.

Make Onigiri

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This post is part of Our Growing Edge, a monthly blogging event to encourage us to try new food related things. Louise from Crumbs and Corkscrews is the host for this month’s event. If you have a blog and you are eating or cooking something new this month, click below to join. Yesterday, I re-watched the movie Spirited Away at Silo Cinema. Silo Cinema is a free, weekly open-air-cinema in downtown Auckland at Silo Park. Right on the water’s edge looking across the harbour bridge, with the moon in view, movies are projected onto a big unused silo. Aucklanders bring blankets, snacks, tipple, friends or family for a cheap night out. Magic. I’m a huge fan of Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli (pronounced jee-blee or ji-bu-ri). His animations are rich in imagination, characters, colour and often sumptuous food scenes. Watching Spirited Away  reminded me once again why I put onigiri on my foodie bucket list. Onigiri or rice balls are portable, cheap, filling and can be thought of as Japanese soul food. Unlike sushi, which are made by highly trained sushi chefs, rice …

Monday Bunday: Haarmagie

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Love this branding by Pixelinme, a branding agency based in Germany. “HAARMAGIE” is the modern chain of hair salons in Germany…The main idea of the logo is based on the company name “HAARMAGIE”, which literally means “Hair Magic” in german. In order to symbolize the magic in it’s widely recognizable and positively comprehensive way, we have picked the “Magic Cylinder”. The hair stylist scissors were chosen to indicate the company business and its creative combination, reminding rabbit ears, creatively identifies our client’s business. The harmonic font and color choice complete the visual identity and meet our client’s goal in a most innovative way.” View this project and more on their website: http://www.pixelin.me

Shared meals and late nights

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With a new month, comes a new round up of Our Growing Edge. Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, December’s host is Leah from Sharing The Food We Love. While there is never a theme for the event, it was a delight to see many dishes inspired by French cuisine. I guess French cooking is way, way up on bucket lists. The submission list was small but deliciously formed. Read the round up here. More/Less I’m sure I wasn’t the only busy person last month and I hope you all had safe a delicious holiday season. The Koala and I are home after a holiday out in the countryside at on a friend’s farm. Friends old and new, delicious shared meals three times a day and plenty of laughing, chewing the fat and imbibing with friends, some of which we hadn’t seen in years. I had an epiphany. I don’t enjoy cooking at home for groups (it stresses me out), but cooking on holiday is fun. It’s spontaneous and low key. Everyone pitches in a bit of this …

2014 Manifesto

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Happy New Year! I’m looking forward to a clean slate. New Years celebrations has always been a big deal to me. It doesn’t matter where or what I do to mark the occasion, as long as I mark the occasion. In 2012 I wrote this list of More and Less. Five things to do more of and Five things to do less of. Kind of a New Year’s resolution without the strict goal setting or bucket list stress. This year, I’m calling it my manifesto. A declaration of motives to live by for 2014. Maybe you see things on this list that you hope to do more or less of too. Do you have any things in 2014 that you hope to see more or less of?

Tofu Tuesday: Pink kiss

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The Koala and I hadn’t seen Tofu the bunny all day and went went out and didn’t get home until midnight. The Koala went to fetch Tofu the bunny from our backyard and was surprised to find traces of pink lipstick on his fluffy bunny head. Sometimes we wonder if Tofu the bunny leads a mysterious double life. I think this proves it. Photos taken from the morning after. The lipstick was less prominent, but still there. So, which one of you has been kissing Tofu?  

Duck Liver, Cognac and Sage Pâté

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This post is part of Our Growing Edge, a monthly blogging event to encourage us to try new food related things. Leah from Sharing The Food We Love is the host for this month’s event. If you have a blog and you are eating or cooking something new this month, click below to join. ‘Gnac Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone! It’s a great season for eating and drinking. Let’s begin with a little shout out to Cognac. The Koala and I have been enjoying Cognac since winter. At 40% alc/vol it’s a serious tipple but goes down smooth as silk. I also love how low maintenance it is. Just pour and enjoy. No ice, no mixer, no fluff and cheaper than I would have guessed. With Cognac in the house, I wanted to do something else with it this month and perusing my foodie bucket list, I found just the thing. Years ago, I was a little obsessed with liver after I read about the super rat science experiment: “A group of scientists that have been …

Monday Bunday: A very bunny Christmas

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Merry Christmas everyone. Here’s a round up of some of my favourite bunny tree ornaments. Leaping Rabbit – Needle Felted Bunny Christmas Ornament $25 from Etsy Seller BossysFeltworks MarthaHoliday Arctic Rabbit Christmas Ornaments $12.79 for Set of 4 from JC Penney Bunny Rabbit in Heart by Brick Pond Ornaments $12.50 from Bunny Rabbit Cloisonne Rabbit Ornament $9.95 from China Sprout Mini Clay Chubby Bunny Ornament $15 from Etsy Seller bubbledog Christmas ornament felt Bunny with a Heart decor $15 from Etsy Seller TheOffbeatBear Bunny Rabbit Ornaments – Hand Carved From Solid Hardwood $19 for set of 5 from Etsy Seller BunnyRabbitToys Life is Good White Rabbit Christmas Ornament by Inge-Glas of Germany. $17.75 from Trendy Tree

Monday Bunday: Ground Cafe

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Melissa Pierce’s Behance portfolio caught my eye recently, particularly this project for Ground in Queensland, Australia. You can see this project and more of Melissa’s work on her Behance portfolio here: www.behance.net/melissaleepierce Ground Organics is a cafe serving organic food and coffee. I love this sweet watercolour rabbit and the photography is lovely too. Their Facebook cover photo is pretty cute too…

Tofu Tuesday: First Raspberry

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We received a wonderfully summery bounty from The Honesty Box this week. Strawberries, raspberries, avocados, plums, nectarines, peaches, cherry tomatoes and more. Tofu the bunny had never met a raspberry before so I figured it was time. I thought that it would be love at first sniff but he wouldn’t even give it a lick. OK little bunny. Suit yourself. I’ll just leave it here in case you change your mind. When I checked on the raspberry a few hours later, it had vanished. *Please note, raspberry is a very occasional treat for rabbits…Maybe once in a lifetime.

Monday Bunday: Much Loved

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Much Loved, photographed by Mark Nixon, is a book that features stuffed animals that have been worn to bits by their owners. Mostly teddy bears loved so fiercely that I would hand over my purse if I met them in a dark alley. There are also a few rabbit in there. I wasn’t a stuffed animal kind of child. I kept no soft friend of fuzzy demeanor to whisper secrets to or cling to in adversity. See more over here: http://marknixon.com/muchloved/1/