The title says it all: eating, drinking, cooking, friendship and family.
Posted in Meat, Recipe: savoury, Recipes, Rice, Sauces and stocks on Nov 16th, 2009
Continuing on from my previous post (tofu fritters), the next dish we made was a chicken curry (kare ayam). We started by chopping all the spices: These were blended in our large processor, then in the mini processor. In our cooking course we ground the spices by hand (they had these amazing volcanic rock mortal [...]
Posted in Appetisers & accompaniments, Recipe: savoury, Recipes on Nov 15th, 2009
On our recent honeymoon, Mr M & I did a cooking course in Bali at Casa Luna in Ubud. Our lovely friends S & P gave us the cooking course as part of our wedding present and we promised S & P to cook from the course when we got back home. So the day [...]
Posted in Lessons in food and drink on Nov 13th, 2009
I had a magnificent Great Aunt, named Ruthie, who lived at Lorne on Victoria’s southwest coast. Her house was an imposing white weatherboard, hidden behind a dense hedge, across the road from the beach. In her sun room she had scripted over a doorway, “Non fatuum huc persecutus ignem”: It is not by some idle [...]
Posted in Macarons, Melbourne CBD on Nov 12th, 2009
There has been a lot of macaron testing lately. Tasting Cafe Vue’s macaron was due to my lovely friend (and reader!) CC who noticed the macarons on offer when she bought her morning coffee and picked a couple up for me as a surprise. Purchasing the macarons she was confused when asked “what colour do you want?”, replying err “brown [...]
Posted in Appetisers & accompaniments, Recipe: savoury, Recipes on Nov 11th, 2009
There’s not much that I can do, but one thing that I can do, is dips. They call me the Queen of Hummus and my condiments are famous throughout the land. So naturally, I made some dips for our Stakes Day car park at the races on Saturday. Dips work best in threes, I believe [...]
Posted in Meat, Recipe: savoury, Recipes on Nov 10th, 2009
A while back, keen to try a new cuisine, I bought the cookbook “Persia in Peckham: recipes from Persepolis” by Sally Butcher, from my all time favourite bookshop books for cooks. The book is a great resource for Iranian food and doesn’t take itself too seriously (there are a lot of tongue in cheek asides). Mr M & [...]
Posted in Culinary adventures on Nov 9th, 2009
Today is a very special day: my birthday! Last night we had a beautiful and relaxed Sunday night dinner at our all time favourite haunt, Cutler & Co. No review today but I will give you a rundown of my practically perfect meal for your gastronomical imagination. I have non-blog related work to do today [...]
Posted in Macarons, Melbourne CBD on Nov 9th, 2009
Lindt’s champagne macaron and strawberry macaron So on the macaron trail I found myself at Lindt’s (relatively) new chocolate cafe in Collins Street. I side-stepped the display case filled with chocolatey goodness, headed up a couple of stairs and found myself in front of the macaron (or as they call them “delice”) counter. Lindt had [...]
Posted in A drink or three?, Bars, Melbourne CBD, Restaurants, Review: bars, Reviews on Nov 6th, 2009
Looking for a post-work tipple and eat, we settled upon the recently opened Izakaya Den, a new outpost from Simon Denton & Co. from Spring St’s Verge. Izakaya Den is modelled on a traditional Izakaya, being a casual pub-type eatery found in Japan. Izakaya Den lurks beneath the Postal Hall at the corner of Russell St and [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Recipe: savoury, Recipes on Nov 5th, 2009
So I recently got married. On the morning of the wedding I woke up to find that Saskia had made a special breakast for me, consisting of poached rhubarb (my favourite!), yoghurt and homemade muesli. The muesli was very popular around the house and became known as “wedding muesli”. Now, I eat muesli every day [...]
