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Posted in Appetisers & accompaniments, Culinary adventures, Recipe: savoury, Recipes 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! Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
Posted in Culinary adventures, Eating out gluten free, Fine dining, Lunch, Review: restaurants, Reviews, Victoria - Country 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 Feb 1st, 2010
Just a little note to let you know we have added some new pages to the blog to make it a bit more user friendly. Hopefully it will help you find the information you are looking for! Restaurant, bar and cafe reviews are now organised by suburb on the ‘reviews’ page. All of our delicious [...]
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 in food and drink 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 [...]
Posted in Culinary adventures, Review: cafes on Dec 17th, 2009
Yesterday’s post got me all nostalgic about that trip around Spain. I know, it was five years ago now so I should probably move on, but it was just a really fun adventure. I have been thinking about some food that we ate at La Boqueria market off Las Ramblas in Barcelona. At the time, I [...]
