food blog to see precisely the same restaurant. But nosotros bided (bode? bid?) our fourth dimension for a Northcote gig earlier getting ourselves a vague booking at Pizza Meine Liebe. (Vague inwards that they consented to writing downward the reservation but idea that at that topographic point powerfulness last unopen to other grouping nonetheless finishing their repast at that tabular array - equally it happened, the tabular array was build clean as well as prepare to work on our punctual arrival.)
Rabu, 31 Oktober 2007
April 7, 2007: Pizza Meine Liebe
Tonight our booking was for 3 - along for the ride was my young-at-heart aunt Carol, who would also last joining us at the Northcote Social Club for unopen to indie rock. Glancing at the circles traced on the wall, nosotros presently agreed to percentage 2 large pizzas but required unopen to to a greater extent than bargaining fourth dimension to handle on the toppings. There's a page-long listing alongside extra specials, also - non precisely traditional (as evidenced yesteryear the Queenslander as well as Ozzi pizzas inwards Mellie's review), but carefully grouped into complementary flavours (nothing irritates me to a greater extent than than a unmarried 'vegetarian pizza' alternative on a menu, consisting of every non-meat production inwards the pantry). Multiple vegetarian choices were scattered throughout the list, as well as I suspect that the staff would willingly omit the meat from unopen to of the non-veg choices too. Our terminal consensus was to social club a Madame Pi Pi (mozzarella, pumpkin, porcini, rocket as well as fetta; $17) as well as from the specials list, Rosemary iv Michelle (mozzarella, taleggio, potatoes, slow-cooked onions as well as rosemary; $17.50).
Oskar as well as at I Carusi. The departure I noted was that the pizza trays are liberally greased alongside stone oil but don't worry, we're non getting into icky Pizza Hut territory here! Similarly I was pleased that the cheeses played restrained roles rather than creating a congealed as well as oily elevation layer. Madame Pi Pi was a delicious clash of sweetness as well as tender pumpkin against fresh leafy rocket - the porcinis were flavoursome but scarce. I enjoyed Rosemary iv Michelle to a greater extent than than my similar social club at Oskar - the cheese was to a greater extent than subtle as well as the onions were eye-rollingly soft as well as sweet. Some slices had only the correct aromatic hitting of rosemary, spell others left me needing more. It takes a flake of tending for the bread/potato/cheese combination to overstep its heavy, obese foundation!
Comparison to I Carusi runs farther than the pizza bases, alongside loud conversation bouncing off the walls as well as efficient, hip staff who autumn only curt of friendly. Oskar nonetheless tops Michael's pizza listing as well as nosotros alive closer to I Carusi, but I'd similar to revisit Pizza Meine Liebe adjacent fourth dimension there's a gig inwards Northcote - non to the lowest degree because nosotros skipped dessert.
Address: 231 High St, Northcote
Ph: 9482 7001
BYO & licenced
Price: veg pizzas $11-20
Selasa, 30 Oktober 2007
April 8, 2007: Peanut Bread
I am steadily accumulating a recipe wish-list from other nutrient blogs in addition to alongside a relatively gratis in addition to slow Easter weekend at hand, I decided to knock i to a greater extent than down. This sum of spare fourth dimension made to a greater extent than yeast activity a possibility in addition to hence I travel retrieved i of my earliest bookmarks, for toasted peanut bread. I came across the recipe when Heidi wrote most it on 101 Cookbooks, but the recipe is originally from The Soul of a New Cuisine yesteryear Marcus Samuelsson. It's a curious African-style mix including kokosnoot milk in addition to your ain spicy home-made peanut butter. As bread-baking volition do, this recipe takes a piece to teach together, hence fills your household alongside a rattling homely aroma in addition to is delicious direct out of the oven alongside a chip of butter. Even cooled, it has a warm tint of chilli powder, in addition to the texture is a chip to a greater extent than cakey in addition to less spongey than I await from bread.To live perfectly honest, the kneading in addition to feeding of abode yeast-baking isn't equally therapeutic for me equally it is for Nigella in addition to many other abode cooks. As pleasant equally this recipe was, it didn't thrill me plenty to justify the hours spent in addition to the kitchen mess made. I'll belike give yeast a residuum (pun unintended) for a while, alongside the exception of pizza!
Peanut bread
1 x 400mL tin kokosnoot milk
3 tablespoons honey
1 sachet active dry out yeast (7g, I think)
1 1/2 cups peanuts
1 1/2 teaspoons chilli powder
1/2 teaspoon position down cumin
2 1/2 cups obviously flour
2 1/2 cups wholemeal flour
1 teaspoon salt
60g butter, melted
Pour the kokosnoot milk into a minor saucepan in addition to convey to the boil. Add the dearest in addition to stir until dissolved. Remove from the estrus in addition to allow it cool until it's simply lukewarm. Whisk inwards the yeast in addition to allow it stand upwards until frothy, 5-10 minutes.
While you're waiting for the kokosnoot milk to cool or froth, estrus upwards a frypan in addition to toast the peanuts for a duad of minutes, until they're golden in addition to smelling de-li-cious. Add the chilli pulverization in addition to cumin in addition to toast, stirring, until they're bursting alongside spicy smells too. Let them cool a bit, hence blend inwards a nutrient processor until you've got a polish paste.
In a large bowl, combine the flours in addition to salt. Add the butter, kokosnoot milk in addition to peanut glue in addition to mix together carefully. It's hard to teach all of the peanut butter mixed in, in addition to it doesn't wound to induce got simply a piddling marbling visible. Plonk the dough onto a floured surface in addition to knead for most five minutes. Then it's into a greased bowl, covered alongside a tea towel to ascent for 1 1/2 hours, or until doubled inwards size.
Butter i large or 2 minor loaf pans. Mush upwards the dough into i or 2 loaf shapes in addition to plonk it/'em into the pan(s). Cover them in i trial again in addition to give the dough or hence other xl minutes of rising time.Bake inwards a 280 degrees C oven for most 35 minutes.
April 8, 2007: Tasty Tomato-Striped Pasta
pasta dish that he made at habitation together with desperately craved 1 time to a greater extent than less than a calendar week later. It looked pretty slow thence nosotros stopped Medditeranean Wholesalers after our Cafe 3A breakfast inwards Brunswick, together with collected the essential ingredients. It is rather tasty - inwards detail I was wowed past times the transformation of leathery niggling sundried tomatoes into moist but chewy explosions of flavour. They nail a close agreeable compromise betwixt Michael's hate of fresh tomatoes together with my aversion to shrivelled fully-dried ones.
As you'll last able to come across from the recipe (and perchance the pic), this is basically a bowl of oiled carbs (with a fleck of beany protein, sure), thence brand yourself a big bowl of salad to pair amongst it.
Tasty tomato-striped pasta
375g pasta
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 loving cup sun-dried tomatoes, drained together with sliced, addition 2 tablespoons of crude oil from their jar
4 cloves garlic, sliced finely
a span of shakes of chilli powder
400g tin cannellini beans, drained together with rinsed
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 loving cup parsley, chopped
1/2 loving cup grated parmesan (or similar) cheese
Get the pasta boiling amongst lots of H2O inwards a saucepan.
In a frypan, oestrus upwards 2 tablespoons of the olive crude oil together with the crude oil from the sundried tomatoes. Add the garlic together with cook, stirring, for a infinitesimal or 2 together with and thence add together the chilli powder. After unopen to other half-minute, add together the sun-dried tomatoes together with allow 'em sizzle for a farther minute. Pour inwards 1 loving cup of the pasta cooking H2O together with simmer the mix until it has reduced past times half.
Add inwards the cannellini beans, tabular array salt together with 1 1/2 cups to a greater extent than of the pasta cooking water. Bring the liquid to the boil, stirring occasionally, together with operate along to simmer it for four to a greater extent than minutes. When the pasta's ready, drain it together with drizzle over the final tablespoon of olive oil. Pour the sauce in, gently stirring it through, together with and thence add together the parsley together with cheese. Serve amongst a drinking glass of wine together with a big salad.
Senin, 29 Oktober 2007
April 9, 2007: Cream-Cheese Brownies
Many moons ago, for some no-longer-fathomable reason, I told Cindy I'd bake her a cake for her birthday. All sorts of things conspired against me genuinely doing so (for starters, she was swanning almost Brisbane on her birthday spell I was even so downward here) as well as it had perish something of a running joke inward the subsequent months. With iv fairly empty Easter weekend days to fill, it finally happened - I baked for Cindy.I insisted that the baked goods move of her choosing, but that they had to move from Nigella Lawson's 'How to Be a Domestic Goddess'. This was partly due to the startling ratio of its toll to the break of things Cindy has made from it as well as partly due to my wish to experience similar a fully fledged goddess. Just i time inward my life. After much careful browsing (mostly inward the chocolate department it must move said), Cindy settled on cream-cheese brownies. I induce got a sneaking suspicion that she combined remain of training amongst perceived deliciousness inward her pick criteria, but I'm non going to complain.
Now I'm non genuinely a baking human - I've never been enthusiastic plenty almost sugariness things to justify all the endeavor that goes into their preparation. But my mind occupation I intend is all the fiddly precision that's required - I'd prefer recipes that asked for a slosh, sprinkle or chunk of something rather than those that specify things correct downward to the 1/4 teaspoon. And equally presently equally something goes fifty-fifty slightly incorrect I only autumn to pieces.
This recipe started well, amongst lots of fairly straightforward tasks similar whisking eggs as well as melting butter but things began to perish off the rails when it asked me to draw of piece of work a baking tin. I'm all for making things slowly to extract from cooking receptacles, but greaseproof newspaper as well as I are non skillful friends. I tin laissez passer notice never larn inward sit down properly as well as whatever pretence at neatness presently flies out the window. Dominicus was no exception. Things weren't helped past times the mixture non quite filling the pan too equally I'd induce got liked (see - the tiniest piffling things tin laissez passer notice gear upwards me off when I'm baking) as well as past times the awkwardness of slicing 'spreadable' cream cheese. But, amongst a piffling aid from Cindy (mainly amongst the pan-lining), I struggled through and, inward the end, I was pretty proud of my efforts. The brownies could belike induce got used some other 5 minutes inward the oven, but they're a credible origin effort: the cheese ended upwards inward a fairly well-defined layer, the dough was moist, gluey as well as chocolatey and, most importantly, Cindy chomped i downward gleefully. I must induce got done something right.
Cream-cheese brownies
125g night chocolate
125g butter
2 large eggs
200g caster sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
75g manifestly flour
pinch of salt
200g mutual depression temperature Philadelphia (or some other cream cheese that is to a greater extent than amenable to beingness sliced)
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
Melt the chocolate as well as butter inward a saucepan over depression heat.
While it's all turning to mush, combine the flour as well as the common salt inward a bowl as well as whisk the eggs inward some other bowl amongst the saccharide as well as the vanilla extract (Nigella suggests "idly beating" the eggs, but I intend only manifestly whisking volition do).
Just earlier the finally of the chocolate is melted, induce got the saucepan off the oestrus as well as permit it cool for a few minutes. Once it's cooled slightly, stir inward the egg as well as saccharide mixture as well as and then the flour as well as salt. Beat the mixture until it's smooth.
Pour almost one-half the mixture into a smallish baking tin (the recipe suggests a 23cm foursquare tin, 4 cm deep - I'd perish for something slightly smaller if possible) that has been greased as well as lined.
Slice the cream cheese equally finely equally y'all tin laissez passer notice as well as layer it on pinnacle of the brownie mixture inward the tin. If you've got problems slicing cream cheese (as I did), you'll honour this pace is to a greater extent than almost smearing than layering. Still, equally long equally there's a skillful layer of cream cheese on pinnacle of the brownie mush, things volition move okay.
Finally, pour the residue of the brownie mixture on pinnacle of the cream cheese layer as well as smoothen things out so that none of the cheese is peeking out as well as the whole affair is a) vaguely rectangular as well as b) about smooth.
Bake for almost 20 minutes, perchance a piffling longer if y'all similar the within of the brownies to move alone slightly moist as well as sticky. Once it's done, permit the tray cool as well as and then extract the slab of brownie (aren't things slowly when you've lined your tray?) as well as piece into appropriately sized pieces.
Minggu, 28 Oktober 2007
Sabtu, 27 Oktober 2007
April 11, 2007: Leftover Makeover - Savoury Breadstuff Pudding
loaves of bread in addition to yous tin exclusively materials yourself alongside thence much during that start solar daytime of freshness. What to create alongside the balance - French toast? Bread in addition to butter pudding? Thing is, this bread's got chilli in addition to cumin going on! Lucky for me, Heidi from 101 Cookbooks of late demonstrated that staff of life pudding goes downwards only equally sweetly when it's made inwards savoury form. I used her recipe for the telephone substitution ingredients in addition to proportions in addition to got my ain slightly dissimilar combination of flavours going - push mushrooms, shallots, flat-leaf parsley in addition to parmesan. Served alongside a salad of babe spinach leaves in addition to strips of roasted reddish capsicum, this made for a really tasty in addition to satisfying dinner - a existent autumn/winter warmer. Leftovers are nifty re-heated or at room temperature.
Savoury staff of life pudding
500g of stale bread, sliced or cubed
2 shallots, chopped finely
2 cups push mushrooms, sliced
1 tablespoon continental parsley leaves, roughly torn
3 cups milk
1 stock cube, dissolved inwards 1 loving cup hot water
3 eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 teaspoon freshly terra firma dark pepper
1 loving cup parmesan cheese, grated
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C in addition to lightly grease a baking dish.
Arrange the staff of life inwards the dish in addition to and thence layer it alongside the shallots, mushrooms in addition to parsley. If your bread's cubed, mix it upwardly a bit; otherwise yous could tuck only about of the veges betwixt the staff of life slices.
Whisk together the milk, stock, eggs in addition to pepper. Pour it evenly over the bread, in addition to and thence sprinkle over the grated cheese.
Bake for close 45 minutes, until the cheese is browned in addition to there's no liquid inwards the core of the pudding. Let it sit down out of the oven for close 10 minutes earlier serving.
Jumat, 26 Oktober 2007
April 13, 2007: The White Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant
Edit 11/11/2017: Sadly White Lotus is no longer inward business, but there's a Loving Hut hither now.
It could solely last a thing of fourth dimension earlier Michael too I sampled the 2007 Cheap Eats vegetarian dish of the year, from the White Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant inward West Melbourne. As luck would lead maintain it, this eating spot is a leisurely bike ride from Michael's too my workplaces. Well, it would last leisurely if it didn't involve negotiating Victoria St inward meridian hour. For the in conclusion couplet of blocks I took the condom but wussy selection of walking my bike along the footpath - it's the solely means to discovery the regular honking too occasional yelling from the streets alongside a detached air too perchance a short, dismayed laugh.
Had I been utilising my prop inward the means it was intended, I could easily lead maintain glided correct by the White Lotus, mistaking it for the local greasy takeaway. The cheap-looking tiles, newspaper tablecloths too vinyl seats are all there. The menu, however, is a written report inward the fine Buddhist tradition of mock meats. Sure, y'all could gild approximately tofu, soup or noodles, but wouldn't y'all rather endeavor the "fish" inward tamarind sauce, succulent "duck" fillet alongside mushroom gravy or the Mongolian "beef"? Michael had already claimed the dish of the twelvemonth for himself ($17) too it took approximately fourth dimension for me to select a minute faux-meat to sample. Nostalgia won out alongside a plate of lemon "chicken" ($14), sure enough i of the nigh pop orders from the suburban Anglicised Chinese takeaway. Most of the mock-meat dishes come upwardly alongside minimal veges (the waitress explained that the "fish" came alongside "five slices of cucumber" too lo too behold, she was right!). Thus, nosotros ordered a plate of the mixed vegetables alongside edible bean sprouts ($11.50); rice also needs to last ordered separately (simple steamed is $1.50 per person).
The much-anticipated "fish" alongside tamarind sauce arrived first, too it certainly didn't disappoint. Thin sheets of edible bean curd are layered on exceed of i approximately other to gain a soft, flaky, somewhat fleshy texture; a exceed layer of seaweed gives a crispy peel too the essence of the sea; finally, the moderately spicy sauce has merely the tangy kicking that thus many of us seek to accompany fish.
The lemon "chicken" looked flourescently familiar, too must sure enough last colour-enhanced, right? The battered chicken bites mensurate upwardly to the nigh convincing mock meats I've tasted previously, but all of them are at the 'processed' rather than the 'high quality, lean' destination of the meat spectrum. Thankfully the lemon sauce proved to last a petty less gluggy too sweetness than those of my childhood experience, too I flora that mushing the garnishing lemon slices into my bowl brought the sour chemical ingredient upwardly to my liking.
The mixed veges were a welcome recess from our heavily sauced characteristic dishes, too the roasted cashews were a tasty, crunchy treat. The veges weren't jaw-dropping material, but too then I genuinely solely had eyes for the mistaken flesh - I merely know I would lead maintain missed the greens if we'd stuck alongside "meat" too rice.
Astoundingly, Michael too I nearly cleared the 3 huge plates betwixt us - it was that good. No run a endangerment of a tofu ice-cream this time! I'd genuinely recommend i mock-meat too i vege dish to portion betwixt 2 for dinner, but on this start take in Michael too I couldn't resist ordering more. We're unlikely to trim back our gild inward the futurity either: although it's non accessible from the client side of the counter, in that location are approximately takeaway menus tucked away. I yell back there'll last many futurity nights where i of us pulls out the pushy for a trip downwards to the White Lotus to pick upwardly a mock-meat banquet that'll in conclusion 2 dinners and leftover lunches. This petty vego has re-discovered the guilty pleasance of a nighttime inward alongside Chinese takeaway.
Address: 185 Victoria St, West Melbourne
Ph: 9326 6040
BYO
Price: vege mains $10-18, rice extra
The mixed veges were a welcome recess from our heavily sauced characteristic dishes, too the roasted cashews were a tasty, crunchy treat. The veges weren't jaw-dropping material, but too then I genuinely solely had eyes for the mistaken flesh - I merely know I would lead maintain missed the greens if we'd stuck alongside "meat" too rice.
Astoundingly, Michael too I nearly cleared the 3 huge plates betwixt us - it was that good. No run a endangerment of a tofu ice-cream this time! I'd genuinely recommend i mock-meat too i vege dish to portion betwixt 2 for dinner, but on this start take in Michael too I couldn't resist ordering more. We're unlikely to trim back our gild inward the futurity either: although it's non accessible from the client side of the counter, in that location are approximately takeaway menus tucked away. I yell back there'll last many futurity nights where i of us pulls out the pushy for a trip downwards to the White Lotus to pick upwardly a mock-meat banquet that'll in conclusion 2 dinners and leftover lunches. This petty vego has re-discovered the guilty pleasance of a nighttime inward alongside Chinese takeaway.
Address: 185 Victoria St, West Melbourne
Ph: 9326 6040
BYO
Price: vege mains $10-18, rice extra
Kamis, 25 Oktober 2007
April 14, 2007: Q11
CERES, Queen Vic, Collingwood, as well as Prahran. We've slacked off a fleck lately - spending our weekends hanging some the northern suburbs rather than heading off into the residuum of the city. This weekend nosotros live got dorsum into the swing of things, amongst a trip to the South Melbourne markets via breakfast on Coventry Street. Knowing total good that yesteryear the fourth dimension nosotros made it across the river we'd live starving, nosotros skimped on our query barely consulting Melbourne breakfast experiences.
Address: 303 Coventry Street, South Melbourne
Ph: 9645 7311
Licensed
Price: Veg breakfasts: $6 - $15
Website: www.qeleven.com.au
Address: 303 Coventry Street, South Melbourne
Ph: 9645 7311
Licensed
Price: Veg breakfasts: $6 - $15
Website: www.qeleven.com.au
April 15, 2007: Wonton Soup
In our explorations of the South Melbourne Markets, nosotros stumbled onto Mama Tran's dumpling store - they brand the dumplings piece yous lookout adult man as well as sell them inwards packs of ix for $5.90. I'm certain proper foodies would conduct keep bought all the ingredients from the fresh stalls at the markets as well as thus made their ain petty vegie parcels, but I was happy to accept the tardily agency out as well as selection upward a pack of pre-made dumplings.
The conception for the dumplings was but about kind out of improvised won-ton soup: a big pot filled amongst garlic, vegie stock, soy sauce, rice vino vinegar, a dash of kecap manis, a few dried chillies, but about chinese cabbage as well as carrot peelings as well as the dumplings, all boiled together into a delicious soup. It was thrown together pretty much off the pinnacle of my head, but things turned out good - spicy as well as richly flavoured, amongst but plenty of the dumplings to fill upward us up. Tremendous.
The conception for the dumplings was but about kind out of improvised won-ton soup: a big pot filled amongst garlic, vegie stock, soy sauce, rice vino vinegar, a dash of kecap manis, a few dried chillies, but about chinese cabbage as well as carrot peelings as well as the dumplings, all boiled together into a delicious soup. It was thrown together pretty much off the pinnacle of my head, but things turned out good - spicy as well as richly flavoured, amongst but plenty of the dumplings to fill upward us up. Tremendous.
Rabu, 24 Oktober 2007
April 16, 2007: Indian-Spiced Potatoes
posted a recipe that would transform our Eastern vegetarian burgers into Eastern vegetarian burgers and chips! These are chips of the self-saucing variety, moist alongside a glue of garlic, ginger together with ghee together with luridly yellowish cheers to turmeric together with yes, to a greater extent than ghee. If anything, these spuds were a flake likewise oily for my gustation thus side past times side fourth dimension I'll start alongside ii tablespoons of the ghee together with thus upwardly it to iii if they hold back similar they tin soak upwardly a flake more. Now that I've had 'em, I don't mean value I'll locomote making these burgers without 'em.
Indian-spiced potatoes
500g of waxy potatoes
salt
a thumb-sized slice of ginger
3 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon solid set down turmeric
4 tablespoons ghee (next fourth dimension I'll role 2-3 tablespoons)
1 teaspoon fennel seeds
Scrub the potatoes, house inwards a saucepan, comprehend alongside mutual frigidity H2O together with add together a pinch of salt. Bring the potatoes to the boil together with thus simmer them until tender. Drain, cool, together with dice.
Peel together with coarsely chop the ginger together with garlic. Add them to a mortar alongside the turmeric together with a teaspoon of salt, pound it all together into a paste. Lucy says you lot could role a nutrient processor instead, together with inwards that illustration you lot mightiness require to add together a few tablespoons of H2O too.
Warm the ghee inwards a frying pan together with showtime add together the fennel seeds. Let them sizzle together with sputter for a few seconds earlier reducing the heat. Add the spice glue together with stir-fry for a twain of minutes.
Next inwards larn the diced potatoes - plough the rut upwardly i time again together with continually stir the potatoes for nearly 10 minutes equally they cook. Hopefully they'll prepare a flake of a crispy peel together with your self-saucing chips are done!
Selasa, 23 Oktober 2007
April 17, 2007: Leftover Makeover - Vege Pancakes
buttermilk together with baby spinach salad. I whipped them upwards into around savoury buttermilk pancakes, amongst a hint of Republic of Republic of India inward the salad spices, the chickpea flour together with the ghee I fried them in. The buttermilk has them fluffy together with buttery all the agency through together with there's but a hint of crispness on the exterior when fresh out of the pan. Delicious! We made a repast of them yesteryear trying this capsicum together with kokosnoot dhal, pose together yesteryear dhalmaster Michael. It wasn't i of our favourites, likely because nosotros used lentils amongst their husks intact, hence preventing them from disintegrating into the broth.
Vege pancakes
2 cups grated vegetables
1 1/2 cups besan (chickpea flour)
1 teaspoon baking powder
a pinch of salt
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
2 eggs, lightly beaten
ghee, for frying
Combine the grated veges, besan, baking pulverization together with tabular array salt inward a bowl. Mix inward the buttermilk together with eggs, stopping when the batter is solely but combined - it's best non to over-mix. Heat a frypan together with throw inward a teaspoon of ghee, together with so pour inward a half-cup of batter. When bubbles look on the surface it's fourth dimension to flip the pancake - it'll solely own got one-half every mo long to create this side. Repeat amongst the residuum of the batter. If you're picky well-nigh keeping the pancakes warm, y'all tin terminate layer them on a plate together with buy the farm on them inward an oven on its coolest setting.
Senin, 22 Oktober 2007
April 18, 2007: Crunchy Chewy Chocolate Clusters
we entertained Beth inwards our home, the run a jeopardy daughter did or thence serious harm to her human foot spell stone climbing! She'll move stuck inwards infirmary for several weeks, amongst surgical procedure together with months of recovery to come. After hearing the tidings on Tuesday afternoon, a pocket-size delegation was swiftly organised to view her for luncheon on Midweek - obviously the infirmary nutrient is depressingly bland. As I walked domicile on Tuesday evening, I racked my encephalon for or thence pocket-size but flavour-packed offering that I could throw together without likewise much fuss. H5N1 most successful solution came from ingredients already inwards the closet after I made a crucial connectedness betwixt Beth's habitual work-time snacking on dried fruits together with the purse of dried cherries that I impulsively purchased at the Queen Vic markets together with had nonetheless to use. Combined amongst pistachios together with black chocolate, I would move guaranteed fiddling mouthfuls of vibrant colour; crunchy, chewy together with smoothen textures; tart sweetness, rich cocoa together with a hint of the exotic. One gustation (for enquiry purposes, you lot understand!) confirmed that every bit long every bit these dried cherries are available, my human relationship amongst the Cherry Ripe bar is over. I've moved on together with I'm seeing mortal else now! He mightiness non move every bit well-groomed, but he's got a lot to a greater extent than substance. It mightiness bring been the morphine talking, but Beth was only every bit intrigued together with later won over. She fifty-fifty detected the hint of rose!
Crunchy chewy chocolate clusters
100g black chocolate
2/3 loving cup pistachios
1/3 loving cup dried cherries
a pinch of salt
1/3 loving cup dessicated coconut
a drib of rosewater
Gently melt the chocolate inwards a saucepan. While it's melting, combine the pistachios, cherries together with tabular array salt inwards a bowl. When the chocolate's cook add together the rosewater together with stir through the coconut. Finally mix through the cherries together with pistachios.
Cover a baking tray amongst foil together with drib teaspoons-full of the mixture onto it. Use a 2nd teaspoon to force the stray bits together if you lot postulate to. Refrigerate the clusters for most an hour, or only freeze 'em for 10 minutes if you're inwards a rush.
Store these inwards a cool identify thence they don't melt but don't worry likewise much - they'll move gobbled upward pretty quick!
Crunchy chewy chocolate clusters
100g black chocolate
2/3 loving cup pistachios
1/3 loving cup dried cherries
a pinch of salt
1/3 loving cup dessicated coconut
a drib of rosewater
Gently melt the chocolate inwards a saucepan. While it's melting, combine the pistachios, cherries together with tabular array salt inwards a bowl. When the chocolate's cook add together the rosewater together with stir through the coconut. Finally mix through the cherries together with pistachios.
Cover a baking tray amongst foil together with drib teaspoons-full of the mixture onto it. Use a 2nd teaspoon to force the stray bits together if you lot postulate to. Refrigerate the clusters for most an hour, or only freeze 'em for 10 minutes if you're inwards a rush.
Store these inwards a cool identify thence they don't melt but don't worry likewise much - they'll move gobbled upward pretty quick!
Minggu, 21 Oktober 2007
April 24, 2007: Kingaroy
harira soup concluding nighttime - its peppery warmth was simply the nourishment my wearisome tastebuds in addition to small-scale appetite needed. Furthermore, we've been meme-tagged yesteryear the Gourmand (of the nutrient weblog Eat Me!), in addition to then there's at to the lowest degree i to a greater extent than post service to come upwards every bit my honey of all things edible recovers.
Sabtu, 20 Oktober 2007
5 Things Nearly (Him And) Me
Paul lately tagged us for a "5 Things About Me" meme. He cheekily handed the chore of selecting 5 things nearly him over to his partner, too Mike provided a most pithy profile of the gourmand. We've decided to appropriate this persuasion too write 5 things nearly each other.
Here are 5 things you lot mightiness non already know nearly Michael:
1. Michael's CV boasts 3 degrees: inwards maths, information technology too criminology.
2. The origin repast that he cooked for me was a huge wok-full of noodles, chicken, veges, peanut butter, too a sachet of curry paste. This was his signature dish too he was secretly disappointed at the lukewarm reply it received from me. I was but trying to croak along my watering eyes inwards cheque - I was no check for the chilli oneupmanship that goes on inwards a sharehouse of 20-something males. Still, a human being who cooks at all is pretty attractive, right? He's since refined his fashion but notwithstanding provides most of the enthusiasm (and labour) for the hearty and/or spicy meals on our table: one-pot wonders, curries, Mexican, too the like.
3. Much to my bewilderment, Michael's a sport lover. He thoroughly enjoys a social game of soccer or netball, too has been known to ascension early on (3am early) to lookout adult man a soccer or cricket game inwards some other fourth dimension zone.
4. Michael's most hated foods are fresh tomatoes too bananas. His love apple tree tolerance has gradually developed to sauces, sun-dried too the occasional sandwich but there's been no shift on the banana front. Consequently they rarely motility into our household at all.
5. Contrary to pop assumption, Michael decided to larn vegetarian earlier I did. (Seems similar it's the sort of bleeding-heart matter girls do, too and so smashing their boyfs into...?) He challenged himself to attempt it for 5 weeks too and so didn't stop. I followed his Pb nearly a calendar month later.
So, to render the favour: 5 things you lot don't know nearly Cindy:
1. Cindy has a PhD. Unfortunately, she makes scant purpose of her impressive title, leaving it to me to mass flights too things for Dr Cindy.
2. Cindy is a weird eater. There are all kinds of rules past times which her eating is governed: fizzy drinks exclusively larn amongst obese foods, pasta too salad must move to go inwards classify tiffin boxes, java tin dismiss exclusively survive consumed amongst chocolate. And so on. Most weird of all though, is her obsession amongst eating neatly. On i of our earliest outings together, I sat too watched Cindy painstakingly alternative at a piece of cheesecake so that it ever looked similar it had but been served up. There was nary a bump or chunk missing anywhere, strictly require lines. After watching this for some fourth dimension (another thing: Cindy eats to a greater extent than tardily than anyone I've ever known), I took my fork too mashed her cake upward a bit. Not a wise move. I honestly retrieve she didn't taste the residuum of the cake at all. Weird.
3. Cindy's vegetarianism (while copied off me) brought her into describe of piece of job amongst the way most people saw her anyway. I've lost count of the pose out of people who've met Cindy too somehow decided that she was vego. It used to come about amongst startling regularity. At to the lowest degree instantly their assumptions don't brand an donkey out of anyone.
4. Contrary to our inner-city, latte-sipping lifestyles, Cindy doesn't similar olives. I've been working on her for years, but fifty-fifty a tapenade is plenty to plough her off. Other nutrient phobias: uncooked onion too uncooked mushrooms (despite an almost pathological honey of cooked mushrooms).
5. Cindy is a talented (if currently inactive) painter - at that topographic point are at to the lowest degree iii of her pictures adorning the walls of our house. She's tried to pigment pictures of me twice, but I can't sit down notwithstanding for long plenty without falling asleep, so they're both of me inwards the country of nod (I wonder if it but agency she doesn't know how to pigment eyes? Hmmm.)
We won't tag anyone else inwards particular, but delight bring together inwards if you lot experience so inclined too give us a link to your post. I'd honey to know at to the lowest degree 5 to a greater extent than things nearly you!
April 28, 2007: Turkish Delight
Lemon Zucchini inwards Olive Oil together with Turkish Lentil Balls (see links for the total recipes).
The whole procedure was quite fourth dimension consuming, especially because I'm non big on multi-tasking. I'm certain I could convey laid the vegies upward to laid upward together with hence made the lentil balls spell they were simmering away, but that's non how I create things. I firstly at the firstly together with move all the agency through to the end. So yesteryear the fourth dimension I'd cooked the lentils together with the onions, stirred through the bulghur, tomato plant glue together with spices, a expert one-half hr had passed together with I hadn't fifty-fifty started on the zuchs. I mucked upward the recipe for the vegies slightly yesteryear halving the entire recipe except for the zucchini, which likely threw the remainder out slightly. Still, subsequently to a greater extent than or less other one-half an hr or hence of vegie cooking, it was all laid upward to go. Cindy chipped inwards yesteryear lightly toasting to a greater extent than or less Turkish breadstuff together with the repast was complete.
The lentil balls were quite tasty, but I intend I may convey enjoyed them a footling to a greater extent than if we'd eaten them fresh from the stove - or peradventure given them a quick plough inwards the child pan earlier serving them up. Still, they were remarkably slow patties to brand and, amongst a footling tweaking of the spices (I'd add together inwards something amongst a chip to a greater extent than oestrus - chilli or cayenne), these could come upward inwards handy every bit business office of a Turkish feast. The vegies were too a success - the stone oil together with lemon juice combined good together with the thoroughly cooked vegetables were soft together with flavoursome. With the breadstuff on manus to mop upward the oily run-off together with the lentil patties to supply to a greater extent than or less bulk, I was pretty happy amongst this Turkish experiment.
The whole procedure was quite fourth dimension consuming, especially because I'm non big on multi-tasking. I'm certain I could convey laid the vegies upward to laid upward together with hence made the lentil balls spell they were simmering away, but that's non how I create things. I firstly at the firstly together with move all the agency through to the end. So yesteryear the fourth dimension I'd cooked the lentils together with the onions, stirred through the bulghur, tomato plant glue together with spices, a expert one-half hr had passed together with I hadn't fifty-fifty started on the zuchs. I mucked upward the recipe for the vegies slightly yesteryear halving the entire recipe except for the zucchini, which likely threw the remainder out slightly. Still, subsequently to a greater extent than or less other one-half an hr or hence of vegie cooking, it was all laid upward to go. Cindy chipped inwards yesteryear lightly toasting to a greater extent than or less Turkish breadstuff together with the repast was complete.
The lentil balls were quite tasty, but I intend I may convey enjoyed them a footling to a greater extent than if we'd eaten them fresh from the stove - or peradventure given them a quick plough inwards the child pan earlier serving them up. Still, they were remarkably slow patties to brand and, amongst a footling tweaking of the spices (I'd add together inwards something amongst a chip to a greater extent than oestrus - chilli or cayenne), these could come upward inwards handy every bit business office of a Turkish feast. The vegies were too a success - the stone oil together with lemon juice combined good together with the thoroughly cooked vegetables were soft together with flavoursome. With the breadstuff on manus to mop upward the oily run-off together with the lentil patties to supply to a greater extent than or less bulk, I was pretty happy amongst this Turkish experiment.
Jumat, 19 Oktober 2007
April 28, 2007: Pumpkin As Well As Spelt Muffins
Probably the biggest in addition to baddest eating temptation inwards my routine is mid-afternoon at work. The mensuration slows downwardly in addition to every bit the hours plod on, I start thinking nearly the fat-laden snacks at the FoodWorks no to a greater extent than than 50 paces from my desk. While at that spot is certainly a psychological chemical gene to my cravings, I am often really hungry past times 4:00 in addition to I need to swallow to hold those lastly threads of concentration. Thus, I'm often on the scout for recipes in addition to snacks that I tin gear upwards in addition to pack from dwelling identify that'll minimise the harm done. Muffins receive got oftentimes popped upwards every bit a possible solution but they're unremarkably really cakey in addition to sweet, non much amend than the chocolate bar I'm most tempted by! Trust the super-natural Heidi from 101 Cookbooks to acquaint me amongst an alternative, amongst a recipe taken from Homegrown Pure in addition to Simple past times Michel Nischan.
The photograph of Heidi's batch had the austere in addition to no-frills await I sought to emulate, hinting at lots of fibre in addition to piddling sugar. The inclusion of pureed pumpkin gave me promise that at that spot would all the same live closed to smoothen sweetness to enjoy. My batch, past times contrast, turned out to live glutinous in addition to spongy piddling critters, non at all dry out or humourless. They're pretty tasty, but I in all probability won't reproduce them inwards their master copy assort because they accept a lot of fourth dimension in addition to a lot of dishes! If you lot bother to read the recipe properly earlier commencement (I didn't) you'll realise why: non solely gain you lot receive got to roast the pumpkin, but you lot receive got to cut back a litre of apple tree juice to a syrup of solely a quarter of a cup. That took me nearly an hr in addition to a half. It's really quite a revelation to gustatory modality in addition to play amongst this syrup in addition to if you're curious, don't allow me dissuade you lot from attempting it! But for a weekday muffin an equal quantity of honey, golden syrup or maple syrup volition sure gain the job. The other nuisance mensuration is the separation of eggs, in addition to the gentle folding inwards of the fluffy whites. To live honest, this afternoon grazer couldn't really divulge the peppercorns, cinnamon or coriander seeds inwards the terminal product. My hereafter adaption of this recipe would in all probability role maple syrup, closed to solid lay down cinnamon in addition to a pinch of nutmeg.
Pumpkin in addition to spelt muffins
(Heidi made 12 muffins, I got xix small-scale cupcakes out of this quantity)
10 dark peppercorns (Heidi said 8, but 10 popped into my mitt in addition to I wasn't going to mail the lastly ii back)
2 cinnamon sticks
2 tablespoons coriander seeds
4 cups apple tree juice
500g pumpkin, peeled, seeds removed in addition to chopped into cubes
1 teaspoon salt
1 loving cup raw sugar
2 egg yolks
1/2 loving cup apple tree puree
1/4 loving cup sunflower oil
4 egg whites
2 cups spelt flour
2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon bicarb soda
1 teaspoon salt
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.
Put the peppercorns, cinnamon sticks in addition to coriander seeds inwards a saucepan over medium to high oestrus for a few minutes, tossing until fragrant. Take them off the oestrus for one-half a minute, hence pour inwards the apple tree juice. Return it to the oestrus in addition to simmer until the liquid has reduced to a 1/4 loving cup of syrup. (This took me nearly 1 1/2 hours.)
While the juice is simmering, spread the pumpkin cubes inwards a baking tray in addition to sprinkle amongst the initiative of all teaspoon of salt. Bake until tender, twenty to xxx minutes.
When the juice is reduced, force it through a fine seive in addition to discard the spices. Puree the cooked pumpkin in addition to the reduced juice inwards a nutrient processor.
In a divide large bowl, crunch the saccharide in addition to egg yolks together for a few minutes, until low-cal in addition to fluffy. Stir inwards the apple tree puree, crude oil in addition to pumpkin puree until only combined.
Make sure your beaters are construct clean in addition to dry, hence crunch the egg whites inwards yet closed to other bowl until foamy but non quite at the soft summit stage.
Got whatsoever bowls left? You need 1 more, inwards which to combine the flour, baking powder, bicarb soda in addition to 2nd teaspoon of salt. Gradually add together it to the cake batter stir, in 1 lawsuit again until solely only mixed. Gently flexure inwards the egg whites.
Lightly grease a muffin tray or trace it amongst patty cases. Spoon the batter into the cups until 3/4 full. Bake for xxx to forty minutes, until a skewer comes out clean.
Kamis, 18 Oktober 2007
April 29, 2007: The Expert Shepherd's Circus Pie Classic
I dearest stone as well as coil as well as I dearest food. If entirely at that spot was some means to combine the two. Oh wait, at that spot is! Lord's Day evening's entertainment, billed every bit "A Rock 'n' Roll Cook Off for Charity", was a sort of Iron Chef for Melbourne's indie stone elite. Devised every bit a fund raiser for Good Shepherd Youth as well as Family Service, the upshot pulled together Melbourne musicians, media personalities as well as nutrient journalists for a surreal eventide of fun at The Corner Hotel.
The basic construction of the eventide involved 4 teams of v 'celebrities' each, ii savoury cook-offs as well as a dessert challenge betwixt ii oestrus winners to detect out whose cuisine reigned supreme. But the basic construction doesn't do justice to the chaotic, noisy as well as hilarious evening.
We arrived to a moderately busy band room, alongside the ii stages laid up: a minor ane scattered alongside amps, mics as well as drum kits as well as a big ane alongside a makeshift kitchen, overhead mirrors to give the crowd a practiced sentiment of the activity as well as a clever apron collage for wallpaper.
After a food-themed D.J. laid (my personal highlight: Cherry Pie past times Warrant), Helen Razer (our cough-medicine addled host for the evening) took control, introducing her swain commentators: Clem Bastow (Inpress, The Age etc) as well as Matt Preston (Epicure, Melbourne Food as well as Wine Festival). The rules were explained: each oestrus would pit ii teams against each other for one-half an hour's fiercely competitive cooking producing at to the lowest degree 3 courses for judging. All of which had to contain... the cloak-and-dagger ingredient.
To larn the start oestrus underway, Helen introduced the start ii teams, pitting a vegan-friendly Team 1 (Lindsay 'The Doctor' MacDougall as well as Macromantics plus 3 non-vegans) against Team 2, ably led past times Lisa Miller alongside back upward from members of Mach Pelican, Dallas Crane as well as The Meanies. After a minute of well-orchestrated suspense, the cloak-and-dagger component subdivision for battle #1 was revealed: mushrooms!
As the cooking got underway, Little Red outburst into some assort of amalgam of The Strokes as well as The Jackson Five. Our attending was divided betwixt the band as well as the kitchen, but the refer of dumplings from Team 1 caught it as well as had me cheering on Macromantics as well as the gang. The alert went off and, afterwards some frantic plating, the dishes were ready to hold out served upward to the judges: John Lethlean from The Age, Cath Claringbold from Mecca Bah as well as Andrew McConnell from Three One Two).
I imagine it's some fourth dimension since these 3 gourmets ate nutrient prepared inwards such a haphazard manner, but they gamely tucked into their feasts. From Team 1: shitake sugariness soy stir-fry, Macro-dumpings as well as chocolate shitake surprise, piece from Team 2: a suite of dishes dubbed 'Blitzkrieg Wok' including a mushroom penne as well as a twain of other dishes lost to the mists of time. According to the judges, squad 1 produced both the best dish (Macro-dumplings) as well as nearly inedible endeavour (choc-shitake surprise). Unfortunately for them, the 'surprise' was plenty to toll them the match, alongside the judges unanimously pronouncing Lisa Miller's Team 2 the winners of oestrus 1.
A brief recess for to permit everyone larn their breath dorsum (and to allow the kitchen-roadies some cleaning time) followed, alongside Joelistics from TZU providing the music. Heat 2 followed, as well as out came the big guns of stone 'n' coil cooking: Team 3 was led past times Dan Kelly, whose pre-rock career-path included a stint cooking at Claypots, piece Team 4 boasted Rebecca Barnard - formerly of Rebecca's Empire as well as a cooking spot on JJJ. The cloak-and-dagger component subdivision for oestrus #2: the less veg-friendly chicken.
This fourth dimension when the cooking started nosotros moved across to the stone phase to sense SixFtHick - terrifying Brisbane rockers who cause got no abide by for the comfortable business betwixt the audience as well as the performers. Fronted past times brothers Ben as well as Geoff Corbett, the demo was chock total of insanity: prowling, screaming as well as kicking their means through short, precipitous bursts of rock. As the clock ran downwards on oestrus #2, the 'Hick injure things upward alongside a Queensland cocktail: a stubby tipped into a cowboy boot, shaken as well as poured downwards audience members' throats from on high.
I'm non certain how people manage alongside a total SixFtHick demo - afterwards xxx minutes I was ready to larn away from the frightening the world of stone as well as dorsum to the gentle fine art of cookery. The judges, starting to demo some alcohol-influenced apparel as well as tear (I don't recall nutrient critics as well as chefs ordinarily cause got access to a rider), dived into their 2d circular of stone 'n' coil dishes. Team 4 were upward first, alongside Rebecca taking charge. They came upward alongside some assort of gyoza, a chicken-based pizza as well as something known every bit Spazzy-surprise (named afterwards squad fellow member Ally Spazzy).
Team 3 produced 4 courses: Ming Dynasty chicken, Marvin the chicken sandwich, chicken alongside Dan Kelly Sauce and, inwards a determination that toll them the heat, Bog Log III's boobscotch whiskey chicken alongside a human breast-milk sauce. The judges were a picayune disappointed past times Dan Kelly's endeavour given his pedigree, but the breast-milk flavoured chicken was the existent occupation for squad 3 - alongside all of the judges disgusted both past times the concept as well as past times the taste. Despite Bob Log's disappointing functioning inwards the kitchen, he got my vote for wittiest apron, proudly wearing the slogan, "Got to a greater extent than fourth dimension for misbehavin', since I started microwavin'".
So Rebecca Barnard's Team 4 advanced to the dessert-themed concluding against Lisa Miller's Team 2. The concluding was a 15 infinitesimal affair, alongside each squad producing sugariness treats based on the cloak-and-dagger ingredient, bizarrely presented past times a Devo-inspired helper, BANANAS!
Despite my anti-banana agenda, the dessert circular was the highlight inwards damage of sheer cooking action: Andy as well as Scott from The Living End came upward alongside chocolate bumholes: cored banana slices filled alongside a Mars bar mush.
In addition, Team 4 came upward alongside ii to a greater extent than dishes: maple foliage rag (bananas caremalised inwards maple syrup) as well as Elvis Presley's favourite, fried banana as well as peanut butter sandwiches. In comparision, Team 2 expended all their unloose energy on ane dish: banana filled crepes. While all this was going on, The Wayfaring Strangers were dancing unopen to the music phase wearing picayune to a greater extent than than aprons as well as strategically places tongs. The judges traipsed out for the concluding fourth dimension as well as hoed into the diverse dessert plates. Team 2 looked the favourites merely through sheer release of dishes and, when the concluding scores were announced they were victorious, taking abode the initiatory Golden Wok (see above).
This long as well as rambling post service has barely begun to comprehend merely how action-packed the whole eventide was - the nearly fun I've had inwards ages. The whole thought is quintessentially Melbourne: stone 'n' coil as well as nutrient mushed together into a chaotic mess where all of a abrupt it makes perfect sense for John Lethlean as well as SixFtHick to hold out sharing a bill. And, of course, the whole thing was for a practiced drive - everyone involved donated their fourth dimension as well as a practiced chunk of the coin raised volition halt upward helping immature disadvantaged Melbourne-ites. Foodie amusement can't larn much amend than that.
The basic construction of the eventide involved 4 teams of v 'celebrities' each, ii savoury cook-offs as well as a dessert challenge betwixt ii oestrus winners to detect out whose cuisine reigned supreme. But the basic construction doesn't do justice to the chaotic, noisy as well as hilarious evening.
We arrived to a moderately busy band room, alongside the ii stages laid up: a minor ane scattered alongside amps, mics as well as drum kits as well as a big ane alongside a makeshift kitchen, overhead mirrors to give the crowd a practiced sentiment of the activity as well as a clever apron collage for wallpaper.
After a food-themed D.J. laid (my personal highlight: Cherry Pie past times Warrant), Helen Razer (our cough-medicine addled host for the evening) took control, introducing her swain commentators: Clem Bastow (Inpress, The Age etc) as well as Matt Preston (Epicure, Melbourne Food as well as Wine Festival). The rules were explained: each oestrus would pit ii teams against each other for one-half an hour's fiercely competitive cooking producing at to the lowest degree 3 courses for judging. All of which had to contain... the cloak-and-dagger ingredient.To larn the start oestrus underway, Helen introduced the start ii teams, pitting a vegan-friendly Team 1 (Lindsay 'The Doctor' MacDougall as well as Macromantics plus 3 non-vegans) against Team 2, ably led past times Lisa Miller alongside back upward from members of Mach Pelican, Dallas Crane as well as The Meanies. After a minute of well-orchestrated suspense, the cloak-and-dagger component subdivision for battle #1 was revealed: mushrooms!As the cooking got underway, Little Red outburst into some assort of amalgam of The Strokes as well as The Jackson Five. Our attending was divided betwixt the band as well as the kitchen, but the refer of dumplings from Team 1 caught it as well as had me cheering on Macromantics as well as the gang. The alert went off and, afterwards some frantic plating, the dishes were ready to hold out served upward to the judges: John Lethlean from The Age, Cath Claringbold from Mecca Bah as well as Andrew McConnell from Three One Two).I imagine it's some fourth dimension since these 3 gourmets ate nutrient prepared inwards such a haphazard manner, but they gamely tucked into their feasts. From Team 1: shitake sugariness soy stir-fry, Macro-dumpings as well as chocolate shitake surprise, piece from Team 2: a suite of dishes dubbed 'Blitzkrieg Wok' including a mushroom penne as well as a twain of other dishes lost to the mists of time. According to the judges, squad 1 produced both the best dish (Macro-dumplings) as well as nearly inedible endeavour (choc-shitake surprise). Unfortunately for them, the 'surprise' was plenty to toll them the match, alongside the judges unanimously pronouncing Lisa Miller's Team 2 the winners of oestrus 1.
A brief recess for to permit everyone larn their breath dorsum (and to allow the kitchen-roadies some cleaning time) followed, alongside Joelistics from TZU providing the music. Heat 2 followed, as well as out came the big guns of stone 'n' coil cooking: Team 3 was led past times Dan Kelly, whose pre-rock career-path included a stint cooking at Claypots, piece Team 4 boasted Rebecca Barnard - formerly of Rebecca's Empire as well as a cooking spot on JJJ. The cloak-and-dagger component subdivision for oestrus #2: the less veg-friendly chicken.
This fourth dimension when the cooking started nosotros moved across to the stone phase to sense SixFtHick - terrifying Brisbane rockers who cause got no abide by for the comfortable business betwixt the audience as well as the performers. Fronted past times brothers Ben as well as Geoff Corbett, the demo was chock total of insanity: prowling, screaming as well as kicking their means through short, precipitous bursts of rock. As the clock ran downwards on oestrus #2, the 'Hick injure things upward alongside a Queensland cocktail: a stubby tipped into a cowboy boot, shaken as well as poured downwards audience members' throats from on high.I'm non certain how people manage alongside a total SixFtHick demo - afterwards xxx minutes I was ready to larn away from the frightening the world of stone as well as dorsum to the gentle fine art of cookery. The judges, starting to demo some alcohol-influenced apparel as well as tear (I don't recall nutrient critics as well as chefs ordinarily cause got access to a rider), dived into their 2d circular of stone 'n' coil dishes. Team 4 were upward first, alongside Rebecca taking charge. They came upward alongside some assort of gyoza, a chicken-based pizza as well as something known every bit Spazzy-surprise (named afterwards squad fellow member Ally Spazzy).
Team 3 produced 4 courses: Ming Dynasty chicken, Marvin the chicken sandwich, chicken alongside Dan Kelly Sauce and, inwards a determination that toll them the heat, Bog Log III's boobscotch whiskey chicken alongside a human breast-milk sauce. The judges were a picayune disappointed past times Dan Kelly's endeavour given his pedigree, but the breast-milk flavoured chicken was the existent occupation for squad 3 - alongside all of the judges disgusted both past times the concept as well as past times the taste. Despite Bob Log's disappointing functioning inwards the kitchen, he got my vote for wittiest apron, proudly wearing the slogan, "Got to a greater extent than fourth dimension for misbehavin', since I started microwavin'".
So Rebecca Barnard's Team 4 advanced to the dessert-themed concluding against Lisa Miller's Team 2. The concluding was a 15 infinitesimal affair, alongside each squad producing sugariness treats based on the cloak-and-dagger ingredient, bizarrely presented past times a Devo-inspired helper, BANANAS!
Despite my anti-banana agenda, the dessert circular was the highlight inwards damage of sheer cooking action: Andy as well as Scott from The Living End came upward alongside chocolate bumholes: cored banana slices filled alongside a Mars bar mush.In addition, Team 4 came upward alongside ii to a greater extent than dishes: maple foliage rag (bananas caremalised inwards maple syrup) as well as Elvis Presley's favourite, fried banana as well as peanut butter sandwiches. In comparision, Team 2 expended all their unloose energy on ane dish: banana filled crepes. While all this was going on, The Wayfaring Strangers were dancing unopen to the music phase wearing picayune to a greater extent than than aprons as well as strategically places tongs. The judges traipsed out for the concluding fourth dimension as well as hoed into the diverse dessert plates. Team 2 looked the favourites merely through sheer release of dishes and, when the concluding scores were announced they were victorious, taking abode the initiatory Golden Wok (see above).This long as well as rambling post service has barely begun to comprehend merely how action-packed the whole eventide was - the nearly fun I've had inwards ages. The whole thought is quintessentially Melbourne: stone 'n' coil as well as nutrient mushed together into a chaotic mess where all of a abrupt it makes perfect sense for John Lethlean as well as SixFtHick to hold out sharing a bill. And, of course, the whole thing was for a practiced drive - everyone involved donated their fourth dimension as well as a practiced chunk of the coin raised volition halt upward helping immature disadvantaged Melbourne-ites. Foodie amusement can't larn much amend than that.
Rabu, 17 Oktober 2007
April 29, 2007: Urban Burger
January 2016: We're doing a chip of a spider web log clean-up in addition to it seems every bit though Urban Burger shut downwards a piece ago.
After watching the likes of John Lethlean scoff downwards mushroomy macro dumplings in addition to Elvis Presley sandwiches, Michael in addition to I were create for a rock'n'roll dinner of our own. We didn't create got to wander likewise far along Swan St for Urban Burger to acquaint itself every bit a fast, affordable in addition to appetising option. This is Maccas for yuppies inwards the vein of Grill'd in addition to Burger Republic, in addition to boasts the 2006 Leader Business Award for best takeaway eating seat inwards Melbourne. Meat-lovers create got 10 beef in addition to 8 chicken burgers to direct from, piece vegos create got 4 appetising options of their own: i alongside tofu, only about other featuring portabello mushroom, a vegan i alongside beans in addition to lentils, in addition to lastly i alongside grilled eggplant.
These $9 burgers are enormous, on the same scale every bit those at Burger Republic. The carte du jour describes the buns every bit a "sour dough wholemeal blend", but they tasted similar the to a greater extent than typical doughy white flour ringlet to me. Their size makes them unwieldy in addition to I had a serious filling escape in addition to juice running downwards my hands, but the vibrant combination of ingredients was easily worth that discomfort: my Port Melbourne burger boasted a marinated portabello mushroom, roasted cherry-red capsicum, rocket, cherry-red onion, pesto in addition to aioli. Michael was similarly pleased alongside his Vegan Vibe: a patty of cherry-red kidney beans, lentils, coriander in addition to chilli teamed alongside avocado, salad, savour in addition to the optional non-vegan aioli. Naturally in that place was also a shared serve of chips, alongside to a greater extent than aioli. They had a satisfying compaction but were a chip dry, falling good behind my Grill'd sample and, from memory, belike non upwards to the Burger Republic ones either.
Urban Burger absolutely striking the spot, in addition to I'd happily revisit them for only about to a greater extent than fancy fast food. However it falls a chip curt of the where's the beef? accolade for best Melbourne takeaway.
Address: 174 Swan St, Richmond
Ph: 9429 9822
Unlicensed
Price: vege burgers $8.80, chips $3
Website: www.urbanburger.com.au
Selasa, 16 Oktober 2007
May 1, 2007: 'Fish' Amongst Tamarind Sauce
Piedemontes, I noticed too picked upward a box of White Lotus, too Michael needed piffling convincing that nosotros could endeavour this dish at home.
So it was on to the internet, amongst a swift choice of this recipe. H5N1 quick scan of the ingredients indicates what an intense sauce this is: salty (soy sauce), sweetness (brown sugar), hot (red chilli) too sour (the eponymous tamarind) hitting your gustatory modality buds inwards roughly that order. (And too hence the garlic lingers...) Only a sparing dollop is needed if you're to bring whatever promise of tasting the fish underneath! Some unproblematic steamed rice too veges are the almost advisable side. The imitation fish was akin to the slightly rubbery (but otherwise delicious) imitation chicken I'm accustomed to too didn't quite alive upward to the frail texture of the layered edible bean curd at the White Lotus. However the rigid sauce could good larn a stir-fry fixture inwards this kitchen.
So it was on to the internet, amongst a swift choice of this recipe. H5N1 quick scan of the ingredients indicates what an intense sauce this is: salty (soy sauce), sweetness (brown sugar), hot (red chilli) too sour (the eponymous tamarind) hitting your gustatory modality buds inwards roughly that order. (And too hence the garlic lingers...) Only a sparing dollop is needed if you're to bring whatever promise of tasting the fish underneath! Some unproblematic steamed rice too veges are the almost advisable side. The imitation fish was akin to the slightly rubbery (but otherwise delicious) imitation chicken I'm accustomed to too didn't quite alive upward to the frail texture of the layered edible bean curd at the White Lotus. However the rigid sauce could good larn a stir-fry fixture inwards this kitchen.Tamarind sauce
2 ruddy chillis, or upward to your tolerance
1 shallot
2 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon oil
1 tablespoon tamarind puree
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 1/2 tablespoons brownish saccharide (I powerfulness attempt out palm saccharide instead sometime)
Roughly chop the chillis too shallots, mince the garlic. Mush them upward inwards a nutrient processor or amongst a mortar too pestle. Heat the crude inwards a saucepan, too hence add together the spice mix too stir it some every bit it sizzles too those pungent aromas are released (careful of the chilli!). Add the tamarind puree, soy sauce too saccharide too stir to dissolve the sugar. Bring it to the boil, too hence cut down the heat. Add water, to your desired authorisation too texture, too proceed warm until serving.
Senin, 15 Oktober 2007
May 2, 2007: Vegetarian Lasagne
link to the recipe, an unenthusiastic Cindy too a backpack sum of vegies, I decided to give it a shot for Wed night's meal.
It's an exhausting process: peeling, chopping too roasting a kilo of vegies, cooking upwards the Lycopersicon esculentum sauce, making the cheese sauce, assembling too the cooking. You necessitate to bring a twain of spare hours earlier hunger volition kicking in, otherwise you'll halt upwards reaching for the snacks acre the tray is yet inward the oven. Luckily, the results were worth it: the roasted vegies were tender, the pesto-based sauce tasty too the cheese sauce gooily unhealthy. Mmmmm...cheesy. There's yet a niggling flake sitting inward the fridge, but we've each had dinner too 2 lunches out of it too then far without getting also fed up, which is high praise indeed.
It's an exhausting process: peeling, chopping too roasting a kilo of vegies, cooking upwards the Lycopersicon esculentum sauce, making the cheese sauce, assembling too the cooking. You necessitate to bring a twain of spare hours earlier hunger volition kicking in, otherwise you'll halt upwards reaching for the snacks acre the tray is yet inward the oven. Luckily, the results were worth it: the roasted vegies were tender, the pesto-based sauce tasty too the cheese sauce gooily unhealthy. Mmmmm...cheesy. There's yet a niggling flake sitting inward the fridge, but we've each had dinner too 2 lunches out of it too then far without getting also fed up, which is high praise indeed.
May 5, 2007: Bala Da Dhaba
Regular readers (both of you!) mightiness guide maintain spotted a recent comment from Dmargster, having a friendly dig at our attachment to the inner due north in addition to naming their favourite local (Ripponlea) Indian eating topographic point inwards the process. With swift service that would hands-down compaction our local, nosotros paid a see to Ripponlea a mere 4 days later! On our pose out in addition to tardily Sabbatum night, nosotros mapped out an excursion to the due south side for dinner at Bala Da Dhaba, followed yesteryear a painting at the Classic Theatre.I'm the form of daughter who would prefer that 'my local' is my lazy-glutton-night Indian or Thai eating topographic point but about the corner rather than whatever watering hole. Thus, I was quite chuffed that Dmargster shared this form of affection for Bala Da Dhaba in addition to it had but the unpretentious atmosphere I'd desire from my local. Picture a dated brick edifice amongst disposable newspaper tablecloths over the existent ones, vinyl padded chairs in addition to scattered Indian paraphernalia on the walls. The most nail characteristic is a pocket-size windowed room where 2 of the kitchen staff develop in addition to laid upward naan in addition to meat at the tandoori oven. Michael in addition to I were seated upward against the window into their oven-space in addition to I attempted to guide maintain a duet of sly photos. Unfortunately I failed to plough off the flash, yielding a vivid reflection off the drinking glass in addition to the attending of the guys at the oven. I shyly took 1 or 2 to a greater extent than flashless pics (all blurry - sorry!) in addition to tucked my photographic television camera away, my cheeks burning equally hot equally the bricks that were shielding our legs from the oven. It was nevertheless pretty fun to encounter the huge skewers of orangish meat descend into the dark depths, in addition to the fast, goodness rolling in addition to cooking of the dough balls into charred, fluffy bread.
There are nearly a dozen vegetarian dishes on the menu, in addition to it's also worth noting that Bala Da Dhaba has a page of specials (somewhat odd for an Indian restaurant, I think). This is where Michael chose his Paneer Akbari from ($12.90, pictured above) . I decided to exam the restaurant's baseline amongst 1 of my favourite dishes, the Malai Kofta ($9.40). Of course of pedagogy nosotros also had to exam the labours of our neighbours in addition to nosotros requested a garlic naan also ($3).
It was fortunate that nosotros had the oven to entertain us for a bit, because the service was pretty slapdash. Menus were proffered alone after I made oculus contact amongst the caput waiter, in addition to our bottle of H2O in addition to gratis pappadums arrived after our orders were taken in addition to the drinks arrived. But the mains were served really chop-chop after that, taking alone nearly 10 minutes. Michael's Paneer Akbari was huge, though non quite equally huge equally it looks - it was served inwards a dish three cm deep in addition to kept warm yesteryear concealed tealight candles. He thoroughly enjoyed the sweet, tomato-y gravy in addition to quite frankly, ate a lot to a greater extent than than he should have. (I intend I tin tell that because he groaned all the agency to the cinema!) The kofta balls were submerged inwards a similarly sweetness in addition to delicious gravy, the kofta were on the tough side of tender but to a greater extent than importantly were studded amongst cashew pieces. Finally, guide maintain a expect at that naan - guide maintain you lot always seen a naan smothered inwards in addition to thus much garlic ghee? It was quite the care for - really, our entire repast was an practise inwards exotic junk food, but it was a satisfying one. You'll guide maintain to expect elsewhere for a measured review of their cheese-less dishes!
Bala Da Dhaba is likely non the form of eating topographic point to repeatedly cross town for, but it has the comforting, scattered atmosphere in addition to smile staff I'd desire at my local. I'd move pretty pleased amongst myself on the solar daytime that my regular custom resulted inwards a nod of recognition at the door.Address: 56-58 Glen Eira Rd, Ripponlea
Ph: 9523 8683
Licensed in addition to BYO
Price: veg mains $8.90-$12.90, rice in addition to breadstuff extra
Minggu, 14 Oktober 2007
May 6, 2007: Celeriac As Well As Worcestershire Soup
lasagne, a repeat watch to Ume Nomiya and, worst of all for our waistlines: impossibly cheesey (but delicious) Indian. To brand amends, I was groovy for something reasonably well for you lot on Dominicus evening. Calling in i lawsuit once again on Cindy's listing of other blogs' recipes (I mean value we've close stopped using our recipe books altogether), I settled on celeriac in addition to worcestershire soup from stonesoup. Most of the soup recipes Cindy's tagged involve cream and, spell there's a fleck of milk inwards this one, I figured it would at to the lowest degree root to repair the harm done over the weekend.
I'd never cooked amongst celeriac before, but it was all pretty straightforward (I followed the recipe to the letter, in addition to hence follow the link for details). Everything merely gets cooked upwards inwards a pot, spun through the nutrient processor in addition to served up, amongst the sauce left until the halt to render roughly colouring to a pretty plain-looking mush. The nutrient processor struggled a trivial to completely liquify the celeriac, in addition to nosotros were left amongst something approaching the consistency of babe food. Which was fine when it was ask from the pot, but was less appetising equally leftovers the side past times side day. The existent work amongst the leftovers may accept been my idiotic failure to add together the sauce to the mix - it actually does add together a lot to the sweetness celeriac flavour.
Sabtu, 13 Oktober 2007
May 6, 2007: Fruit Crumble
I don't consume plenty fruit. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fresh, seasonal slice of fruit is a wonderful affair but I haven't fully developed my mightiness to choose together with promptly consume it. It's non that I haven't tried - belike 1 time a month, I'll pick out a inexpensive handbag of whatever's at its pinnacle or merely 1 or ii pieces of something exotic I've never tried before. Either way, at to the lowest degree ii pieces of fruit volition loiter for a calendar week or to a greater extent than earlier I guiltily dispose of them (most guiltily if I exclusively bought ii pieces of fruit inwards the commencement place). Last wintertime I took upward fruit crumbles inwards a to a greater extent than creative bid to consume my fruit. You may snort that fruit crumble defeats my nutritional purpose, but this is a dual assault of getting to a greater extent than fruit and less after-dinner chocolate into me. Moreover, I've developed merely about junk-limiting rules for my homemade crumbles:
1. There volition last much to a greater extent than fruit than crumble;
2. The layer of fruit may guide hold a touching on of lemon juice or spice added, but no additional sugar;
3. There volition last oats together with nuts inwards the crumble;
4. Crumble volition non last accompanied past times cream or H2O ice cream. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 dollop of yoghurt is permitted if yoghurt already resides inwards the house. Otherwise a small-scale drinking glass of milk serves the food-combining final result sufficiently.
On this nighttime I belike exclusively deserved 2 - three out of 4 points for maintaining the spirit of the rules. That's a teensy weensy spoon of mascarpone yous see, but I hope that it was inwards the refrigerator already, together with non bought peculiarly for this purpose! And yeah, I went a fleck overboard amongst the crumble.
Clotilde of Chocolate & Zucchini fame is quite the crumble lover, together with has a number of recipes for it on her blog. I similar to work her element weights equally a guide, altering the fruit, nuts, spice, carbohydrate together with flour type from batch to batch. (Pictured higher upward is spiceless apple, pear together with almond rendition.) Rather than rubbing the ingredients together past times hand, I accept the fast together with furious approach of the nutrient processor, which has the nuts, oats together with butter melding together most agreeably.
Fruit crumble
At to the lowest degree 4 serves of fruit (a 'serve' beingness an apple, a pear, a twain of plums, etc)
a mash of lemon juice together with a pinch of spice (optional)
50g flour50g oats
50g sugar
50g butter
25g nuts
Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees C.
Peel, de-seed together with otherwise ready your fruit, together with hence cutting it into chunks. Throw it into a small-scale to medium-sized baking dish. Stir through merely about lemon juice and/or spice if yous desire it.
Put the flour, oats together with carbohydrate into a nutrient processor together with pulse a twain of times to combine them. Cut the butter into cubes together with add together it to the mix, processing a fleck longer this time. When you've got the fine breadcrumb look, add together the nuts together with procedure until it looks similar biscuit dough (some remaining nutty chunks are good). Alternatively, procedure to the biscuit dough phase subsequently adding the butter together with and hence stir the whole nuts in. Sprinkle the mixture evenly over the fruit. Bake for almost xx minutes, or until the crumbly crust begins to brown.
Jumat, 12 Oktober 2007
May 11, 2007: Gertrude Street Grub - The Builders Arms Hotel
Update, 31/12/2014: The Builders Arms has been Cutler together with Co, Cumulus Inc together with others) together with has gone pretty upmarket. This ship service is non illustration of the pub anymore.
TrippyTaco to chase upwardly somewhere novel to blog. Things cruel into house on Fri though - the leftover provide dried upwardly on the alone solar daytime of the calendar week that The Builders Arms is opened upwardly for lunch. From the outside, The Builders Arms is a pretty average looking pub - a few tables on the street together with a fairly grimy looking populace bar - but if y'all wander through the door at the dorsum of the populace bar, y'all abide by yourself inwards a bizarrely garish pinkish restaurant. It was likewise much for me, together with hence I ordered chop-chop together with scurried dorsum to i of the exterior tables where the illusion of an old-fashioned pub could endure maintained. The carte du jour is a few steps from touchstone pub fare, amongst a vaguely Middle Eastern experience - tagines, Turkish meatballs, haloumi etc. There aren't dozens of vegetarian options, but at that topographic point are enough: a dhal, unopen to assort of artichoke empanada, vegie skewers together with a few smaller bits together with pieces.
I went for a plate of nibbles: ouzo marinated olives, Moroccan separate pea dip, Turkish breadstuff together with a few slivers of crunchy cucumber ($14). It was a fine combination - the dip inwards detail belongings all the flavours together with textures together. It was a chip of an oily choice for a workday lunch, but the cucumber cutting through it all a fiddling together with helped me pretend I was beingness healthy. The prices hither are a fiddling prohibitive past times my standards, but my commitment to documenting the Gertrude Street scene (and my predilection for olives) meant that it was worth stopping inwards at to the lowest degree once.
Address: 211 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
Ph: 9419 0818
Licensed (it is a pub later all)
Prices: Vego mains: $12-$18
I went for a plate of nibbles: ouzo marinated olives, Moroccan separate pea dip, Turkish breadstuff together with a few slivers of crunchy cucumber ($14). It was a fine combination - the dip inwards detail belongings all the flavours together with textures together. It was a chip of an oily choice for a workday lunch, but the cucumber cutting through it all a fiddling together with helped me pretend I was beingness healthy. The prices hither are a fiddling prohibitive past times my standards, but my commitment to documenting the Gertrude Street scene (and my predilection for olives) meant that it was worth stopping inwards at to the lowest degree once.Address: 211 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
Ph: 9419 0818
Licensed (it is a pub later all)
Prices: Vego mains: $12-$18
Kamis, 11 Oktober 2007
May 11, 2007: Citrus Peanut Noodles
this recipe for Citrus Peanut Noodles on Tuesday - inside hours I'd bookmarked it; a hateful solar daytime subsequently I had the ingredients; 3 days from posting it was on our table! We doubled the sauce recipe thence that nosotros had enough of season to coat to a greater extent than or less saccharide snap peas, julienned zucchini as well as carrot too equally the noodles. We genuinely ate it warm on Fri night, but it proved to endure but equally tasty mutual frigidity for a picnic luncheon on Saturday. There's withal to a greater extent than to endure enjoyed equally a operate luncheon on Monday! The sauce is rattling much similar a lite satay thence you lot know it'll travel your tastebuds jumping. Even better, the orangish zest adds something exclusively new: aromatic, sugariness as well as a fiddling chip tangy.
Citrus Peanut Noodles
250g noodles
1 carrot
1 zucchini
1 1/2 cups saccharide snap peas
2 cloves garlic, minced
4 teaspoons sesame oil
4 teaspoons soy sauce
4 teaspoons chilli sauce
2 tablespoons lime juice
zest as well as juice of ii oranges
4 teaspoons minced ginger
2 tablespoons peanut butter
a proficient handful of coriander leaves, rinsed as well as chopped
Cook the noodles until tender, as well as thence drain. Chop the carrot as well as zucchini into matchsticks, travel those fibrous fiddling strings off the peas, as well as thence briefly stir-fry them all alongside the garlic. Combine the sesame oil, soy sauce, chilli sauce, lime juice, orangish zest as well as juice, ginger as well as peanut butter inwards a nutrient processor until smooth.
Get a hefty bowl as well as gently combine the lot: noodle, veges, sauce as well as coriander leaves. Serve alongside pretty salad tongs as well as a big appetite!
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