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Posted in Recipe: savoury, Recipes, Salads on Jan 15th, 2010
Secretly, this is a post about what we ate on Christmas Day. However, I’ve been lazying around down at the beach (and just being lazy in general) and so I am a little behind on my posts and Christmas Day now seems so 2009. Therefore, I have simply entitled this post: Summer salads. Salads to [...]
Posted in Appetisers & accompaniments, Meat, Recipe: savoury, Recipes, The Daring Kitchen, Vegetarian meals on Jan 14th, 2010
The January 2010 DC challenge was hosted by Cuppy of Cuppylicious and she chose a delicious Thai-inspired recipe for Pork Satay from the book 1000 Recipes by Martha Day. The January challenge requirement was to marinate the satays - any type of meat or non-meat (tofu) could be used. Cuppy (the host) provided a couple of marinade recipes, however neither of [...]
Posted in Meat, Recipe: savoury, Recipes on Jan 13th, 2010
Our household is a big fan of US chef Thomas Keller. The love affair started a few years back when we were given The French Laundry Cookbook, containing recipes from his acclaimed restaurant in the Napa Valley. This is a pretty serious cookbook, with recipes usually involving numerous processes and taking several days to make. [...]
Posted in Lunch, Queensland, Restaurants, Review: restaurants on Jan 12th, 2010
Over the Christmas break Mr M and I headed up to Noosa with our lovely friends S & P. A favourite food destination while in Noosa is Spirit House, situated in Yandina (about 40 minutes from Noosa). Mr M had never been to Spirit House but had enjoyed cooking from the Spirit House cookbook, so [...]
Posted in Biscuits, slices and muffins, Kids, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Jan 11th, 2010
On the weekend I went to a first birthday party (Happy Birthday Harry!!) and thought I would make something for the kids to enjoy. These muffins are an old standby from Nigella Lawson’s How to Be a Domestic Goddess, improved (in my opinion) by the addition of chocolate chips and made with spelt flour. I [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Melbourne CBD, Review: cafes on Jan 8th, 2010
I recently caught up with friends B & Z for a pre-work breakfast at the brand new MoVida Terraza. After reading Melbourne Gastronome’s gushing review, I was very keen to try it for myself. As per its name, the restaurant is on a terrace, situated at the back of an office block: Looking through the menu, there [...]
Posted in Macarons, Melbourne - North on Jan 7th, 2010
A new little cafe/store recently opened in the back streets of Collingwood. I kept walking past the place when it was closed and was a little intrigued. Unfortunately my ‘research’ (google) advised me that the store was in fact a new concept store for stationer Cristina Re – the store is called “where a girl goes” [...]
Posted in Recipe: savoury, Recipes, Salads on Jan 6th, 2010
A short while ago, I wrote a post about the number one principle of vegetarian eating: combining for protein. So, in honour of combining for protein, here I present a salad that I took to a pre-Christmas barbeque at Em’s place. Sadly, most of this salad is hidden by the fetta, but trust me, it’s [...]
Posted in Recipe: savoury, Recipes, Seafood on Jan 5th, 2010
In today’s time poor world, we all want to be able to create meals that are tasty, healthy, and (most importantly?) fast to make. Sure, sometimes it’s fun to go all French Laundry (à la Carol cooks Keller) but maybe not after a long and honest working day. One of my favourites in the tasty/healthy/fast [...]
Posted in Culinary adventures on Jan 4th, 2010
Regular readers of this blog (!) may remember my post in which I reminisced about a meal eaten in Spain a five years ago. I studied the photo that I had of barbequed vegetables and decided that there were some Pimientos de Padrón in there. I’d been perusing Melbourne Gastronome a time before and recognised [...]
