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Posted in Culinary adventures on Aug 29th, 2010
For Christmas last year I received a voucher from my in-laws for the Essential Ingredient Cooking School. It’s fair to say that I absolutely lost it when I was looking through the course guide and found a class hosted by Adriano Zumbo entitled ‘Pastry: Meringue to Macaron’. I immediately booked in and have been eagerly [...]
Posted in Culinary adventures on Aug 28th, 2010
Saskia and I were very chuffed to be invited to attend a blogger’s session on the opening night of Taste of Melbourne. April has already posted a blow by blow account, so here are some of our highlights of the evening. We arrived to total chaos as the building had been evacuated after the fire [...]
Posted in Culinary adventures, Recipe: savoury on Jun 7th, 2010
Every now and again, a mad idea comes into my head and I just can’t let go of it. This happened last weekend: I decided that I would make crème fraîche, and that nothing could stop me. When I was researching mascarpone (for this tiramisu), I came across this video where a lovely American man [...]
Posted in Culinary adventures on Mar 24th, 2010
On Sunday I was very pleased to participate in the first (hopefully annual?) Australian food bloggers conference, Eat. Drink. Blog. There is no question that the day was an outstanding success, thanks to the hard work of the organisers and presenters Ed, Reem, Mellie, April, Jane, Jess, Tammi, Gill, Zoe, Ellie, Nola, Matt, Claire, Penny, [...]
Posted in Culinary adventures on Mar 21st, 2010
Today I’m off to the first annual Australian food and drink blogger’s conference. I’ll put a post up later on this week about the conference – looking forward to meeting my fellow bloggers!
Posted in Culinary adventures, Review: restaurants on Mar 18th, 2010
So what has this: got to do with this? Answer: Garlic and a hell of a lot of it. For this year’s Melbourne Food and Wine Festival Sunnybrae hosted the Return of the Fearless Vampire Killers with a celebration of garlic in all its forms. Mr M has a thing for garlic, or more particularly, [...]
Posted in Culinary adventures on Jan 25th, 2010
Today we have a guest post from Saskia’s dad, Mr J: We first heard of the Otway Herb Farm on George Biron’s Sunnybrae blog. We are always looking for specialty herbs as a change from the industrially produced herbs supplied around Melbourne. So we headed off to discover the Otway Herb Farm at Biddles Road. The farm [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Culinary adventures on Dec 25th, 2009
We wish you a very happy and enjoyable Christmas with your family and friends. We will be having a little break over the Christmas period and posting a little less frequently than usual. Some upcoming posts over the next couple of weeks include – Emily’s encounter with a flavourless macaron, Saskia’s continued efforts at healthy [...]
Posted in Culinary adventures, Lessons learned on Dec 22nd, 2009
A few weeks ago, my chiropractor did this crazy test on me called a bioimpedance analysis. Apparently, I need to eat more protein and put on two kilograms of muscle. Otherwise, I’m fine. It got me thinking about healthy eating on a quasi-vegetarian diet. Frankly, I sometimes think that we should focus on healthy [...]
