The 2010 February Daring Cooks challenge was hosted by Michele of Veggie Num Nums. Michele chose to challenge everyone to make mezze based on various recipes from Claudia Roden, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Dugi. A mezze is an Eastern Mediterranean/Middle Eastern spread of small dishes. When we were reading up on what a mezze involves, it became apparent that there are [...]
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Hello, my friends. Today, for a variety of reasons, I will be keeping things simple and short. A few weeks ago, we whipped up a delightful dinner of barbequed prawns and a mango salad. It was another one of those delectable Summer evening meals, and I thought I’d share it with you today. Almost everyone [...]
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I spent a fair chunk of my childhood in the little coastal town of Wye River, on the Great Ocean Road about 30 minutes past Lorne. Back in the day it was a sleepy hollow, with a run-down little store, the Rookery Nook hotel (replete with sticky carpet and arcade games) and the pinball parlour [...]
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Posted in Breakfast, Recipe: savoury, Recipes on Feb 10th, 2010
We recently had a query from Caz, asking about our favourite recipes for quinoa (pronounced keen-wah). As I am wheat-free, I eat a bit of quinoa as an alternative to other grains. However, quinoa actually isn’t a grain, rather it is a seed originally from the Andes in South America. Quinoa is one of those [...]
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On a cracking mid-week evening I crossed-town for dinner at Ichi Ni with my mother and friends R and A, to celebrate A’s recent engagement. I rarely make it over to St Kilda but it really was a magic night, with that crazily blue sky, the sun setting and people everywhere sitting outdoors enjoying a [...]
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This post is a little late, I’m sorry about that. On New Year’s Day, I was lying on the couch watching daytime TV and feeling a little sorry for myself due to the vaguely painful hangover. There was a ‘Jamie at Home’ marathon on the food channel, which cheered me up somewhat. He made a [...]
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I caught up with my friends Z & B for another mid-week, city breakfast. Z has become quite the fan of Melbourne Gastronome (aren’t we all?) so after reading the review of Hardware Societe, we decided we had to try it for ourselves. Hardware Societe is situated on Hardware Street (not Lane!) in the city [...]
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As I mentioned on Tuesday, lately I have been making some freezer-friendly food for friends. In this vein, I made some vegetable lasagne. I’m not 100% sure that it will freeze well, but there’s only one way to find out… This recipe was given to me a few years ago by my grandma. It’s a [...]
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We have really enjoyed Melbourne’s lovely weather of late. The other weekend, Mr M and I decided to go on a picnic to relax and soak up the sun. We headed to Yarrabend Park on a Saturday afternoon and found ourselves a lovely little spot by the river, underneath a huge gum tree. We whipped [...]
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A few weeks ago, my friend had a baby. Yep, a real, live baby. My mother told me that when friends have babies, you must make and take them some food! So that is what I did. I decided to make something that could be frozen, because that would mean that the food could be [...]
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