Cooking Breakfast: November 2007

Jumat, 30 November 2007

March 6, 2007: Gertrude Street Grub - Roundhouse Roti

failed attempt, I was pretty keen to larn stuck into merely about delicious curry in addition to fried bread. Roundhouse Roti is attached to Rose Chong's costume shop (this calendar week amongst merely about assort of bizarre skeleton marriage ceremony display inwards the window) in addition to is a fairly tiny shop. The kitchen is opened upward in addition to takes upward most of the room, leaving infinite for i large communal tabular array in addition to a yoke of smaller booths. There are a handful of tables out on the footpath and, amongst Melbourne finally turning inwards a mild, sunny hateful solar daytime instead of ridiculous heat, that's where I settled in.

I was pretty keen to larn stuck into merely about delicious curry in addition to fried breadstuff March 6, 2007: Gertrude Street Grub - Roundhouse Roti

The card is pretty small, amongst alone 2 existent roti-style dishes (flaky fried breadstuff combined amongst a saucy curry for dipping) in addition to a few dishes that are basically roti toasted sandwiches. The vego options are the roti dhal, or a roti filled amongst spinach in addition to feta (I'm ignoring the sugariness options, equally I didn't actually await at them). I had to larn amongst the roti dhal - there's goose egg quite similar fierce roti breadstuff apart amongst your hands in addition to sprinkling it into a saucy curry. The dhal was quite tasty - total of vegetables (lots of corn surprisingly) in addition to merely a hint of spice. But the existent fundamental to this repast (and indeed to the shop) is the bread: fried fresh in addition to delectably flaky, amongst a few moist in addition to chewy bits towards the middle. The alone slight electrical load I'd conduct maintain is the texture of the dhal - I'd actually prefer something a chip runnier in addition to total of sauce - the in conclusion few bits of breadstuff didn't conduct maintain much sauce to soak up. Still, at merely $6.50, it's a quick, delicious in addition to proficient value luncheon treat.

Updated (29/6/09):Roundhouse Roti unopen 'briefly' almost a yr ago, in addition to nonetheless shows no sign of reopening. I've given upward on it equally a luncheon venue for now.

Update (21/10/09): As noted yesteryear Fitzroyalty below, Roundhouse Roti is dorsum inwards business!

Update (22/11/10): Roundhouse has, in i lawsuit again, closed.

Address: 220 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
Ph: 9417 4285
Price: $6.50 - $7.50
Unlicensed
Website: www.roundhouseroti.com.au

Kamis, 29 November 2007

A Vegetable Meme

Neil from tagged us for a vegetable-themed meme!

1. Is at that topographic point a vegetable you lot hated every bit a child, but came to honey every bit you lot got older?

Cindy: The mushroom. I didn't desire to impact the spongy fungus every bit a kid, together with I wasn't pressured to yesteryear my parents. As a teenager I grew to relish steak amongst mushroom gravy together with at in 1 lawsuit every bit a vegetarian inwards my twenties, I am totally hooked on the earthy, concentrated season of cooked mushrooms. I nonetheless don't similar them raw, though!

Michael: I could likely enjoin mushrooms every bit well, but I'll mix things upward together with become amongst spinach. When I was little, Mum would occasionally endeavour to strength us kids to consume boiled upward spinach mush amongst our sausages. I especially retrieve sitting at the tabular array 1 black for hours merely picking at my soggy pile of greenery. These days (as Cindy mentions below), it's something nosotros consume all the time. I'd enjoin that Indian nutrient likely got me interested - Palak Paneer together with the like.

2. Most underrated vegetable?

Cindy: I mean value nosotros role a lot to a greater extent than spinach than the average household, especially babe spinach leaves. As a salad base, sauteed inwards olive crude every bit a side, stuffed into burgers together with sandwiches, sometimes inwards spanakopita, a soup or a curry. It's my favourite agency to consume my greens.

Michael: I don't actually know how to respond this - who rates vegetables? I volition enjoin that I'm constantly amazed than anyone would prefer cauliflower to broccoli though. Weirdos.

Cindy: (Um, that's me he's refering to.)

3. Name 1 favourite summertime vegetable dish.

Cindy: Wholemeal crackers spread amongst Michael's home-made pesto together with slices of flavoursome blood-red tomato. But I don't honour actually adept tomatoes every bit ofttimes every bit I would like.

Michael: Some variety of salad likely - mayhap the green edible bean together with radish 1 that we've been making a fair chip lately.

4. And 1 for winter?

Cindy: I'm a suburban daughter who loves greasy potatoes. In wintertime nosotros consume multiple roasting trays total of Irish Gaelic patato chunks, baked amongst olive oil, tabular array salt together with pepper.

Michael: Any variety of spicy vegetable curry warms my oculus on mutual frigidity wintertime nights. It's difficult to become yesteryear a creamy pumpkin soup either (I've merely trawled the archives - how convey nosotros non made a pumpkin soup since nosotros moved here?)

5. What vegetables are inwards your refrigerator together with freezer correct now?

Cindy: This I tin respond for both of us! Baby spinach leaves, mushrooms, cabbage, together with a leftover salad lunchbox of tomato, carrot, lettuce together with cucumber. We are wretched planners together with frequent shoppers, thus our refrigerator rarely contains much to a greater extent than than what nosotros require for our side yesteryear side meal.

6. Is at that topographic point a vegetable you lot actually similar but don't brand much yourself?

Cindy: Beetroot. Like many Aussies, I grew upward oblivious to all beetroot except the canned materials on Grandma's tabular array at Dominicus tiffin (right side yesteryear side to the canned corn kernels *shudder*). But a few years agone I experienced an epiphany inwards the degree of grated fresh beetroot inwards a wrap. Since thus I've also sampled the delicious really Swedish roasted beetroot. Maybe this wintertime I'll sew the courage to brand borscht!

Michael: I've enjoyed radishes inwards that salad mentioned above, but I mean value that's the entirely fourth dimension we've used them. We're likely non every bit adventurous every bit nosotros should endure when it comes to foreign vegetables.

Cindy: Tag time! I nominate:

Another Outspoken Female from here);
Ellie from here);
and thus 2 Mebourne nutrient bloggers that I've entirely merely discovered inwards the final month:
Melinda from here); and
Truffle from here).

Of class everyone else is welcome to bring together inwards too! Leave a comment amongst your answers, or a link to your weblog if you lot direct to write them there.

March 7, 2007: Chinese-Style Barbeque Sauce

non-sausage rolls that I made for dinner on Wed night. Usually Michael slathers his amongst chilli sauce, piece I become for the to a greater extent than conventional Heinz tomato. But this fourth dimension nosotros position together roughly Chinese-style barbeque sauce from our Moosewood cookbook. With both tomato plant together with chilli pastes involved it's something of a compromise sauce, but it's a compromise where nosotros both gain to a greater extent than than nosotros sacrifice: it's sweet, salty, hot together with tangy inwards almost equal parts. As good equally pouring it on the green pies, sausages together with burgers, I visit this mightiness brand a skilful tofu marinade.

Chinese-style barbeque sauce
makes nigh a cup

In a bowl, combine:

1/2 loving cup tomato plant paste
1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
2 tablespoons sesame oil
1/4 loving cup apple tree juice
1-2 teaspoons chilli paste
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons chocolate-brown sugar
2 tablespoons rice vinegar
1/2 teaspoon five-spice powder.

Taste, together with accommodate the season residual to your liking. Store leftovers inwards the fridge.

Rabu, 28 November 2007

March 8, 2007: Thai Carrot Together With Ginger Soup

this one. It actually is really slow to brand - chop a few carrots together with an onion up, grate a flake of ginger together with musical rhythm roughly garlic together with you're basically done. Cindy chipped inwards amongst roughly grilled staff of life chips every bit an accompaniment together with nosotros had ourselves an enjoyable meal. The kokosnoot milk together with ginger give the soup a Thai flavour, field the cumin adds a hint of warmth (only a hint though, despite the fact that I accidentally tipped inwards nearly 4 times the recommended amount). It didn't run quite thus good at room temperature for luncheon the adjacent day, but that's belike a failing of soups inwards general.

Thai carrot together with ginger soup
(based on a recipe from 28 Cooks)

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 large onion, diced
4 cups diced carrot
3 cloves garlic, minced
1L vegetable stock
1 x 400mL tin kokosnoot milk
1 teaspoon cumin
4cm slice fresh ginger, peeled together with grated

Heat the crude inwards a large saucepan; add together the onion together with create for a minute. Add the carrots together with garlic together with create for roughly other v minutes. Add the stock together with select it to the boil, thus add together the remaining ingredients. Turn the oestrus down, encompass the saucepan, together with simmer the soup for 10-15 minutes. Use a mitt blender or nutrient processor to puree the soup (you'll necessitate to produce it inwards several modest batches if you're using a nutrient processor).

Selasa, 27 November 2007

March 10, 2007: A Home-Cooked Breakfast

bbq sauce together with toast. (Michael had a yoke of fried eggs, too.) All ingredients were fortuitously inward the house, except for the fresh loaf of sundried love apple tree together with herb staff of life - simply picking it upwards gave Michael an excuse to fetch a newspaper together with a coffee, anyway.

push mushrooms fried inward a piddling butter together with balsamic vinegar March 10, 2007: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 home-cooked breakfast

This was our offset lawsuit of Vegideli construct sage together with marjoram sausages, which are imported from the U.K. together with sold at Allergy Block. (Unfortunately I can't think how much I paid for them, I intend it was $5 - vii for a 295g pack of eight smallish sausages.) I'm pretty picky amongst my vege sausages together with I see these powerfulness last the best I've always found! Much less rubbery than tofu ones, simply they concur together ameliorate than the chickpea together with vege ones that nosotros commonly purchase from Safeway. Maybe I'm delusional, simply I see they olfactory holding a piddling similar the KFC undercover recipe (my guiltiest pleasance inward my previous life every mo an omnivore).

Senin, 26 November 2007

March 11, 2007: Balzari

Edit 28/12/2011: Balzari has straightaway closed.

Balzari. If you lot didn't know better, Balzari would blend it to the strip of unremarkable Italian places that litter the Carlton cease of Lygon Street. We've withal to figure out which are the adept ones as well as which are the overpriced mediocrities. Luckily, Balzari was a adept one. The breakfast carte was fairly substantial, loaded upwards amongst eggy options, fruit salad, cheese toasties, muesli, toast and, Cindy's favourite, breakfast donuts.

Cindy's donuts came amongst mixture of ricotta cheese, dried apricots as well as milk chocolate, as well as were surrounded yesteryear orangish flower syrup. She realised pretty speedily that at that topographic point wasn't actually anything breakfasty most these breakfast donuts. They actually accept the consider of dessert-breakfast to a novel level. Still, they were equally adept equally they expect - crisp on the outside, fluffy as well as sugariness within. Unfortunately, I mean value the guilt Cindy felt at eating what was basically donuts as well as syrup for breakfast sapped roughly of her enjoyment.

Ray (not to advert Cindy's homemade effort), we've been on a pretty fine breakfast run lately.

Balzari would blend it to the strip of unremarkable Italian places that litter the Carlto March 11, 2007: Balzari

Address: 130 Lygon Street, Carlton
Ph: 9639 9383
Licensed
Price: $4.50 - $15.50
Website: www.balzari.com.au

Minggu, 25 November 2007

March 12, 2007: Ginger Driblet Biscuits

My paternal grandparents stimulate got spent their lives working their farm inwards the March 12, 2007: Ginger drib biscuits

My paternal grandparents stimulate got spent their lives working their farm inwards the Lockyer Valley, westward of Brisbane. While it has been a demanding too unglamourous beingness for them, my family's weekend visits were a process for a suburban fry such every bit I. Playing on the dormant tractors, feeding the cows onetime pumpkins from the dorsum of the ute, riding a wheel unsupervised on the route with my cousin, eating Cocopops for breakfast. The biggest process of all was 'smoko': mid-morning too -afternoon breaks comprising home-made biscuits or slices, plates of pikelets amongst jam too cream (rosella jam, please!), pumpkin scones amongst plump sultanas too thick slabs of butter (Flo's ain recipe, of course of education - we're inwards Joh country) or perhaps, if nosotros were actually lucky, a freshly baked chocolate cake, iced neatly on altitude too sides. Dinner too tea were corned beef too veges boiled too salted beyond recognition. Pasta was 'ethnic' food. My adult vegetarian diet takes almost nix inspiration from her dinners, but Grandma excelled at homely baked treats too these are what a sweeth-toothed fry volition think best.

Ginger biscuits were 1 of the recurring offerings at my Grandma's table. Flat, dark-brown too chewy, they were known every bit 'cow pats'. It was exclusively in conclusion year, spell visiting my widowed grandmother inwards her unit of measurement inwards Town, that I finally copied downward her recipe for ginger drib biscuits (so that's what the civilised folk telephone outcry upwards them!). It was a piece of yellowed newsprint inwards a scrapbook, in all likelihood older than my dad. I'll give yous the recipe inwards its master copy form, though it won't surprise yous to know that I replaced the prescribed dripping amongst the equivalent mensurate of butter. I also substituted black-strap molasses for the treacle, since it was what I had on hand. My batch rose higher too were lighter than the biscuits I recall, but the intended serving of reminiscence was only correct (for me anyway - maybe you're feeling sick amongst sticky-sweetness past times now!). After all, I've been making these for Ellie's nostalgia-themed weblog event. The added bonus is a calendar week of packing a piece of my past times into a lunchbox for afternoon smoko.

Ginger drib biscuits/Cow pats
makes almost sixteen large biscuits

1 loving cup sugar
4 tablespoons dripping
2 eggs
2 tablespoons treacle
2 cups flour
1 tablespoon ginger
2 teaspoons baking powder

Beat carbohydrate too dripping together until white, add together eggs too treacle. Sift inwards flour, ginger too baking powder. Mix thoroughly too drib onto a greased slide. Bake inwards moderate oven (mine took almost 10 minutes). Allow the biscuits to educate earlier removing them from the slide.

Sabtu, 24 November 2007

March 12, 2007: Punjab Spinach Vegetable Curry

Continuing our celebration of SBS's Hooray for Bollywood series, nosotros settled inwards on Mon nighttime alongside 'The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey' together with this curry. Again, the inspiration came from Camellia Panjabi's '50 Great Curries of India', a mass that is focussed predominantly on meaty curries. Luckily, the curry sauces all audio wonderful, together with tin easily hold upwards applied to vegetarian alternatives. The reason of tonight's curry was a lamb spinach curry, alongside a marinade together with a spinachy sauce. We swapped lamb for vegies, mainly potato, alongside a few mushrooms together with carrots for coloring together with variety. I mean value nosotros went a fight overboard on the spuds, therefore the marinade together with spices had likewise much locomote to produce to spread their flavours fully around, leaving the whole affair a niggling blander than I'd like. Luckily we're good stocked alongside chutneys together with pickles to liven things upwards - it would create got been difficult going to larn through dinner together with iii lunches of slightly tasteless curry. I mean value nosotros could likely become alongside something to a greater extent than suited to a marinade adjacent fourth dimension - tofu or seitan or something, together with pay a niggling to a greater extent than attending to the sauce-to-solids ratio to ensure the season at the destination justifies all the difficult work.

Punjab spinach vegetable curry

3 potatoes, peeled together with chopped
2 cups mushrooms, halved
2 carrots, diced
3 cloves garlic
2 light-green chillies
2 inch slice of fresh ginger
200ml yoghurt
2 teaspoons cumin
200g spinach leaves, washed
2 bay leaves
6 cardamom pods
2 cloves
2 medium onions, chopped
1 teaspoon coriander powder
2 medium tomatoes, chopped
3 tablespoons love apple tree paste
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons oil

To brand the marinade, puree the yoghurt, ginger, garlic together with chillies inwards a nutrient processor, along alongside i teaspoon of the cumin powder. Marinate the carrots, mushrooms together with potatoes inwards this mixture for equally long equally possible - nosotros gave it nearly an hour, but it could create got done alongside longer.

The adjacent footstep is to assort out the spinach - you'll postulate to launder your nutrient processor inwards betwixt these steps therefore y'all tin puree the spinach into a liquidy mush. First of all, blanch the spinach for a few seconds inwards roughly boiling H2O together with therefore drain it. Then zap inwards the nutrient processor together with you're fix to go.

Heat the stone oil inwards a large pot over medium heat. Throw inwards the bay leaves, cardamom together with cloves together with small-scale fry for a infinitesimal or two. Add inwards the onions together with small-scale fry for nearly xv minutes, until they're overnice together with soft.

Add the corainder pulverization together with the cumin pulverization together with a splash of water. Stir everything together together with fix for a few to a greater extent than minutes. Tip inwards the marinated vegetables together with fix for nearly 5 minutes, until everything is good combined. Add inwards the love apple tree glue together with the chopped tomatoes, along alongside a loving cup of hot H2O together with the salt.

Simmer for equally long equally it takes for the murphy to become overnice together with soft - nearly one-half an lx minutes or so. Add inwards the spinach puree together with stir everything together for a span to a greater extent than minutes of cooking. When it's all done, serve it upwards on freshly fried roti breadstuff alongside a few spoons of chilli together with lime pickle together with settle inwards for iii hours of Bollywood entertainment.

Endangered Species Chocolate

Dagoba chocolate, belike because the additions were barely detectable. But Dagoba is held inward high esteem elsewhere past times greater connoisseurs than I, too then these 2 brands may appeal to other chocolate-lovers: they're merely besides subtle for my vulgar tastes! It needs to last acknowledged that both Endangered Species too Dagoba brands are produced inward relatively ethical circumstances, too buying a cheaper too to a greater extent than enjoyable block of Lindt isn't just a straight trade. So, what tin a chocoholic scope with, say, $20?

Buy v of these 40g Endangered Species bars (that's 200g of the expert stuff), rubber inward the cognition that's its a luxury at no-one else's expense but underwhelmed past times the tantalising flavours promised;
Buy 2 blocks of Green & Black's (also nigh 200g too available from Oxfam), too bring quite a few dollars extra inward my pocket. It's to a greater extent than to my gustation too it's also fair merchandise too organic.
Buy 2 blocks of Lindt - its flavours are bold, its the cheapest of the lot. The downside is that I know nil nigh its origins - my $12 alter is belike best used equally a donation to Oxfam or about other worthy charity.

Jumat, 23 November 2007

March 13, 2007: Sugariness White Patato As Well As Adobo Pies

sausage rolls I was into the puff pastry again, for a recipe that I'd bookmarked from 101 cookbooks. The filling is a creamy but cheese-free concoction featuring diced sweetness murphy as well as corn kernels. But don't last fooled yesteryear its meek as well as mild appearance - the delicious smokey odor comes from the add-on of simply about fiery adobo sauce!

re entirely having the strange cool tumble 24-hour interval inwards Melbourne but the calendar has given me permissi March 13, 2007: Sweet murphy as well as adobo pies

The entirely alter I made from Heidi's recipe was to substitute plainly flour for the cornstarch: it's what I had on paw as well as it thickens the sauce simply equally well. Our adobo sauce provide was running depression as well as I in all probability didn't add together the amount tablespoon - fifty-fifty so, my initial test-tasting of the filling had my pharynx aflame! I was worried that I wouldn't last able to produce to a greater extent than than nibble this repast but yesteryear the fourth dimension the pies emerged from the oven, I flora that the sauce was much milder.

On Tuesday nighttime I imitated Heidi's pretty motion painting yesteryear filling ramekins as well as topping amongst pastry. My photos mightiness non last quite equally professional person but I tin assure you lot that this didn't diminish the eating sense at all! On the side nosotros had our green infant spinach leaves, wilted inwards simply a comport upon of olive oil. With the leftover mixture I constructed larger foursquare pies, equally inwards the altitude photo. They're a fight less fiddly as well as accept a higher pastry-to-filling ratio. Michael as well as I both thoroughly enjoyed this recipe, as well as it volition no doubtfulness reappear on our tabular array in i trial we've replenished our adobo sauce stocks.

Kamis, 22 November 2007

March 15, 2007: Koko Dark Iv

our end visit, amongst the cheerful waitress who took our gild informing me that it was her alternative of the menu. Unfortunately I didn't portion her opinion: the slightly bitter chocolate as well as sweetness raspberry flavours were at that topographic point but it turns out that I prefer them every bit kind out entities, clashes of texture and taste. But I volition portion her happy outlook on Koko Black, hitting the Raspberry Dark off my listing as well as leaving enough of infinite for the residue of the menu.

(You tin also read almost our previous visits to Koko Black: one, two as well as three.)

Rabu, 21 November 2007

March 16-18, 2007: Sydney

While Melbourne's Food together with Wine Festival began inward a haze of car exhaust, Michael together with I skipped over to Sydney for the weekend. Our excuse was to celebrate the appointment of our friend Brent to the lovely Jamee, but nosotros also flora fourth dimension to meet a pair of the city's other sights together with restaurants.

Our starting fourth dimension memorable eating sense was at Chilli Chimney. There's aught to distinguish it from countless other Indian restaurants together with takeaways inward the inner-city suburbs except for our fabulously friendly waiter. More than merely reciting the evening's specials, he took dandy please inward explaining that he'd never seen such eastward Indian dishes on whatever carte du jour together with described their contents inward meticulous detail. Michael together with I were correspondingly delighted that the specials were vegetarian together with consequently ordered them. On the left are deep-fried "chops", patties of moist grated carrot together with beetroot, along amongst a host of spices that I can't remember. On the correct is a dish of cabbage kofta amongst garlic sauce. It was wonderful, together with if I were a local I would own got urged that enthusiastic waiter to innovate them to the regular menu.

For Sabbatum morn I had booked us a tabular array at Bodhi inward the Park. This is a vegan yum-cha eating theater nestled inward Cook & Phillip Park, the grazing vegetarian's dream: at whatever ordinary yum cha it's slowly to larn the staff's to the lowest degree favourite client equally yous inspect every dish for pork mince and/or meat stock. It's a existent process to greedily own got a plate of anything that looks appetising, together with greedy I was! Take a await what Michael together with I called 'breakfast':

curry buns

satay salad

spring rolls with
sweet together with sour sauce

soft edible bean curd

mushroom balls

fruit salad

passionfruit jelly: don't forget to choice upwardly a spoon from the waitress, 'cause it's mighty awkward trying to purpose chopsticks equally I did!

Others own got complained most the patchy service, but nosotros were pretty good attended to. With common views, sunny skies together with a few cute children to sentry at neighbouring tables, I can't mean value of a to a greater extent than pleasant means to sentry a Sabbatum morn larn afternoon.

Other highlights included catching upwardly amongst Jackson together with Emma, friends from Brisbane who were also visiting for the appointment celebrations, together with seeing the shortlisted entries for the 2007 Archibald, Wynne together with Sulman Prizes at the Art Gallery of NSW (just a brusque walk across the grass from Bodhi).

If you'd similar to read to a greater extent than most vegetarian eating inward Sydney, I'd recommend checking out the Veggie Friendly blog: the front end page is temporarily filled amongst NYC reviews but cheque out the archives, listed yesteryear city, for lots of reviews.

Selasa, 20 November 2007

March 19, 2007: Pumpkin Too Chickpea Salad

assembly-line cooking. After a weekend of eating out, together with eating out inwards a rattling unwholesome way, dinner on Mon dark was footling to a greater extent than than throwing together around nutritious ingredients without besides much fuss or creativity. (Though to live on fair, i mightiness reckon KH's combination of couscous, sardines together with sweetness chilli sauce to live on highly creative!) Thankfully this assembly-line dish doesn't skimp besides much on flavour.

Pumpkin together with chickpea salad

Roast 2 cherry capsicums until the pare is black. While they're roasting, take the pare of a quarter-pumpkin together with die the flesh into cubes.

Once the capsicum skins are blackened, accept 'em out of the oven to cool. Use their tray for the diced pumpkin, drizzling amongst only a footling olive oil. Bake the pumpkin inwards a moderate oven for nearly xx minutes, giving it i or 2 stirs along the way.

As the pumpkin bakes, rinse 2 cans-worth of chickpeas. Once the capsicum is cooled, peel off the skins together with chop upwards the flesh into strips. Make a dressing of 2 tablespoons of mustard (preferably wholegrain, but I used Dijon) amongst a flake of beloved or sugar. Don't over-sweeten, the pumpkins volition add together their bit.

Once the pumpkin is tender, mix the lot together inwards a large bowl, along amongst generous handfuls of babe spinach leaves.

Senin, 19 November 2007

March 20, 2007: Jumbo Samosas

pie event I took purpose in final month? The production is an epic postal service of 65 pie recipes from all over the public - I spent a highly enjoyable tiffin intermission discovering novel blogs too bookmarking the most appealing of the pastry-based recipes. As SBS's Hooray for Bollywood serial of movies came unopen to i time to a greater extent than this week, Michael laid upwards the VCR too I retrieved a bookmarked recipe for spicy Irish Gaelic patato too pea pasties, the pie contribution from Mitchenall of bean too radish salad on the side.

Jumbo samosas

1 large potato, peeled too diced
1 loving cup peas
2 tablespoons currants
2 tablespoons fresh coriander, chopped
1 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
juice of one-half a lemon
1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 sheets of frozen puff pastry, roughly 30cm x 30cm each
a lilliputian milk

Boil the Irish Gaelic patato until tender too drain. Combine the Irish Gaelic patato inwards a bowl alongside the peas, currants, coriander, cumin, chilli pulverisation too cinnamon until the spices are evenly distributed. Gently stir inwards the lemon juice too soy sauce.

Thaw the puff pastry too cutting into foursquare quarters. Spoon the filling onto a triangle-half of pastry, leaving a centimetre border unopen to the edge. (It's tempting, but endeavour non to over-fill!) Brush the border alongside milk too crimp the pastries into triangles. Press the border together alongside a fork, brand 2 or 3 slits on the pinnacle side too brush the pinnacle alongside a flake to a greater extent than milk. Bake the samosas on a lightly greased tray at 200 degrees for most xv minutes, or until puffed upwards too golden brown.

March 20, 2007: Kulfi

Kulfi is Indian-style ice-cream. I outset encountered kulfi when I spent a semester at Cornell University inwards upstate New York inwards 2004. I had an Indian-American housemate in addition to she invited me to a fundraiser for Asha, where the local chapter prepared a three-course vegetarian Indian meal. The kulfi had been frozen inwards footling cups - it was sugariness in addition to milky amongst occasional crunches of slivered almonds in addition to an intriguing gustation that I couldn't identify. I right away know that gustation was terra firma cardamom, in addition to the spice has give-up the ghost intrinsically linked amongst Indian sweets inwards my mind. Since in addition to hence I've noticed that many Indian restaurants convey kulfi on their dessert menu, but I tend to arrive at dwelling household instead: non solely did the Cornell Asha Chapter set on an inspiring dinner, but they gave their guests recipes for all the dishes served. Rather than stirring almonds into the mixture, I served kulfi scoops surrounded past times toasted slivered almonds. It was quite the process to savour amongst Main Hoon Na!

Kulfi
(makes about a litre)

Whisk together about equal parts of sweetened condensed milk, ricotta in addition to cream (I used a tin [ 400g] of condensed milk, a 250g tub of ricotta in addition to 300mL bottle of cream). Stir inwards almost a teaspoon of terra firma cardamom, in addition to hence chill the mixture. When it is rattling cold, freeze inwards an ice-cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions. Serve amongst slivered almonds or pistachios.

Minggu, 18 November 2007

March 23, 2007: Petty Malaysia Restaurant

January 2016: Doing a flake of weblog tidying upwards together with it looks similar this house unopen downward inwards mid-2015.

Doing a flake of weblog tidying upwards together with it looks similar this house unopen downward inwards mid March 23, 2007: Little Malaysia Restaurant

Cindy had read almost the two-for-one cocktails on offering at Double Happiness during the Melbourne Food together with Wine Festival, together with hence along amongst recent immigrants from Brisbane, Lee together with Tracy, nosotros squeezed our means into the tiny infinite for a drink. The cocktail on offering was based on ginger-infused vodka, amongst mint, apple-juice together with lime. They were really refreshing inwards the rut of a humid Fri evening. Unfortunately, past times the fourth dimension nosotros left the bar together with started looking for dinner, the humidity had turned to pelting and, amongst i umbrella betwixt the iv of us, nosotros looked no farther than our laneway location. The Cheap Eats Guide recommended Horoki, but amongst the pelting halving their tabular array space, they had nowhere for us to sit.

Luckily, the Malaysian house across the street had infinite for us together with nosotros scurried inwards earlier nosotros were completely drenched. The bill of fare was substantial, amongst a make of curries together with other dishes. Despite the variety, Lee, Tracy together with I all settled on roti-based meals - Tracy together with I amongst a vegetable curry accompaniment together with Lee amongst something beefy. Cindy was a flake to a greater extent than original, together with went for dried crispy tofu amongst rice. The roti together with veg. curry were delicious - unproblematic but spicy curries together with fluffy fried breads. The roti to sauce ratio was almost perfect, although both Tracy together with I ended upwards amongst a span of bites of staff of life that were a flake brusk of sauce to soak up. Cindy's tofu reminded me a footling of tabular array salt together with pepper tofu, although it was given a to a greater extent than Malaysian experience amongst crimson chilli (which Cindy carefully picked out afterwards an early on coughing fit) together with jump onions. The tofu squares were crispy together with tasty, although amongst simply tofu together with steamed rice (and a few vegetable garnishes) it was likely a tad lacking inwards variety.

Still, for a random pick on a rainy Fri evening, the Little Malaysia Restaurant was a pretty skillful notice - if the prices were a fraction lower, I'd happily recommend it to anyone looking for a spicy eventide meal.

Address: 26 Liverpool Street, Melbourne
Ph: 9662 1678
Price: Vegetarian mains: $12 - $19
Licensed

Sabtu, 17 November 2007

March 23, 2007: Chillipadi Ii

Update 27/1/2019: Chillipadi is permanently closed.

dinner at the Little Malaysia Restaurant, nosotros were having quite the eastern-themed black alongside Tracy as well as Lee. As I drained my beer as well as the waiters neglected our table, I wondered vaguely if in that place was somewhere else nosotros could exhibit Tracy as well as Lee earlier heading home. Chillipadi came to heed almost immediately: I made no clandestine of ogling their dessert cabinet on our previous view as well as I was pretty certain Tracy would similar seeing (and sampling!) it too. Best of all, it was correct on the agency to the newcomers' tram stop.

The cabinet was at to the lowest degree every bit well-stocked every bit my in conclusion view - dark-green tea tiramisu, choc-caramel tiramisu, oreo cheesecake, what appeared to hold out chocolate-chilli cupcakes, as well as a solely tall slice of some sort of chocolatey cake were all on offering as well as passed over. Instead Lee relished a triple-layered chocolate mousse served inwards a large martini drinking glass ($8 as well as non pictured, unfortunately). He was sort plenty to offering the repose of us a gustation each, as well as it was great. Tracy picked out the peach as well as vanilla panna cotta (pictured below). It had me most intrigued on my previous visit, partly because of its lurid fruity tiptop layer but generally because it's contained inwards a conical drinking glass which is hence balanced inwards a circular glass. I'm non a large fan of gelatinous foods but I did similar this - it's to a greater extent than creamy than rubbery.

Between cocktails at Double Happiness as well as March 23, 2007: Chillipadi II

The end dessert on offering was my choc-mint cheesecake. As each of us took a spoon inwards turn, nosotros paused for a instant as well as could only beak '...weird'. The neat pipe had me assuming that it would hold out soft, nevertheless it took quite some forcefulness to dig out a bite. This had me guessing that the cream cheese must convey laid upwards inwards the really mutual frigidness display cabinet. Nope! It was barely below room temperature, as well as its season didn't fifty-fifty hint at a cheesy tang - merely faintly sweetness as well as minty. What is this stuff? It wasn't quite marshmallowy, but it left me suspicious that it was a lot to a greater extent than processed than I'd attention to know about. What you lot can't run across from the moving-picture exhibit inwards a higher identify is that the drinking glass tapers to a smaller section, densely packed alongside a chocolate biscuit base. It's pretty tasty, but the cocktail drinking glass makes it hard to bask the filling as well as the base of operations inwards a unmarried mouthful. Oh, as well as the mystery spheres on tiptop are Mint Slice Balls, inwards example you lot were wondering!

As you lot mightiness convey noticed inwards the pictures, all the desserts are served alongside a scoop of vanilla ice-cream - it was melty as well as pleasant, but non actually necessary alongside the cheesecake or pannacotta inwards my opinion. The wonders of the Chillipadi dessert cabinet weren't uniformly wonderful, but I'm glad that nosotros gave them a go. It's to a greater extent than probable that I'll supply for the chips!

(You tin give the axe read well-nigh our in conclusion view to Chillipadi here, or to a greater extent than musings well-nigh the dessert cabinet here.)

Jumat, 16 November 2007

March 24, 2007: Allergy Block Opened Upwards Day

more than one mention inwards the pages of this blog, in addition to every fourth dimension I view I similar to browse all the shelves because there's a skillful adventure that something unexpected volition grab my oculus in addition to follow me home.

On Sabbatum they held a exceptional opened upward day, amongst a store-wide 10% discount (and a handful of much bigger discounts too!) in addition to stands from a break of their suppliers promoting their products in addition to offering complimentary samples. As you lot would accept picked upward from the pic above, I made the most of the reduced prices! Pictured, clockwise from the left are: a litre of organic milk, a bundle of the sage & marjoram vege sausages that I lately discovered, some roasted organic cashews, organic vegetarian Worcestershire sauce, a jolt of chilli capsicum salsa, gluten in addition to wheat-free sugariness chilli in addition to kaffir lime biscuits, in addition to some vegetarian Thai trend cakes.

The salsa in addition to gluten-free biscuit purchases were inspired yesteryear the samples that I tasted out the front end of the shop. The biscuits are utilisation of a local make of wheat-free biscuits (sweet in addition to savoury) called Decadent Alternatives. At $5.30 (the park non-discounted price) for a 100g pack, these are definitely decadent inwards cost but a worthy process for gluten-free eaters. No such problems here, I'm happy to say, yet I nevertheless couldn't resist taking abode some of the savoury ones! The chilli capsicum salsa is also known every bit Kangaroo Punch in addition to is made yesteryear the Chilli Factory. This supplier had at to the lowest degree a dozen unlike sauces, salsas, chutneys in addition to the like, all rated on a scale of 1 to 10 for heat.

In add-on to the materials I bought in addition to tasted, I also scored a break of complimentary samples. As I paid for my goodies, some organic fair merchandise solid seat down java sachets in addition to some other i of drinking chocolate were tucked into my greenish bag. But the biggest haul of all came from the friendly in addition to generous John, representing Willow Confectionery...

is a peachy store to a greater extent than or less the corner from where I alive March 24, 2007: Allergy Block opened upward day

He was the kickoff individual I encountered on the street every bit I approached Allergy Block, offering me a sample of his nut- in addition to egg-free chocolate in addition to chatting nigh its cocoa content in addition to the Easter rush on their products. Then he thrust 2 handfuls (over 300g!) of his chocolate samples on me earlier I moved on. As he registered my bewildered look, he gave me his bill of fare in addition to assured me that the Allergy Block staff wouldn't bill me of shoplifting every bit long every bit I showed that to them. I was to a greater extent than concerned that Michael wouldn't believe my even out that a "supplier" forced this chocolate on me inwards the street at no cost. (And who would believe such a even out from an addict, really?) While this sense has in all likelihood positively biased my judgement, I tin tell you lot that the night chocolate is pretty tasty for its little 50% cocoa content. And it brought a grin to my confront to regard a few excited kids amongst express diets dancing to a greater extent than or less the display of allergen-free chocolate bunnies inside.

I've plainly been a fan of this store for a piece right away in addition to it was peachy to regard it amount of people trying something novel or discovering alternatives versions of foods they idea they'd live on cutting from their diet. As good every bit a one-day spike inwards sales, my promise is that Allergy Block accept made a lot of novel long-term customers.

Update 10/5/10: Allergy Block, which has been our convenient supplier of then many vegan-friendly, gluten-free in addition to other goodies seems to accept unopen down. They were originally heading to novel premises inwards Moonee Ponds, but that appears to accept fallen through in addition to the job organisation is no longer trading. It's real disappointing.

Kamis, 15 November 2007

March 24, 2007: Melbourne Nutrient As Well As Vino Festival - International Flour Festival

Fear of food-overload had kept me from joining Cindy's Sabbatum morning time jaunt to Allergy Block. With the Melbourne Food together with Wine Festival inward total swing, Cindy had booked inward the Flour Festival together with Wicked Lord's Day to follow on from our Fri flush cocktails, together with the weekend was rapidly shaping upward every bit a combat of a feeding frenzy. The International Flour Festival at Fed Square promised to endure 1 of the few events of the Food Festival that catered easily for both vegetarians together with those alongside to a greater extent than Cheap Eats than Good Food Guide budgets, together with thence I was saving myself to feast on flour.

Cindy had booked inward the Flour Festival together with Wicked Lord's Day to follow on from our Fri eve March 24, 2007: Melbourne Food together with Wine Festival - International Flour Festival

The original activity was downward past times the Yarra, alongside nutrient stalls crammed along both sides of the footpath together with swarms of people exploring the culinary options. In keeping alongside the flour theme, in that location were a skillful reveal of bakeries represented, along alongside pizza stalls, Indian, African, Mexican together with Japanese places all serving upward at to the lowest degree around bread-based options together with a few completely non-flour related stalls selling things similar gelati or cheese. It actually seemed every bit though the topic should simply stimulate got been 'food' rather than 'flour', but maybe that'd endure a harder sell.

I was ravenous past times the fourth dimension nosotros arrived together with dived direct inward to the queue at the Yuzu Japanese catering stand. It turns out that Yuzu catering are the people who run Ume Nomiya, a Gertrude Street eating seat that I've been pregnant to banking concern gibe out for ages. And having tasted the Japanese sun Balls, I tin almost guarantee that we'll stimulate got eaten their earlier Easter. They were delicious: footling balls of rice, caramelised onion together with shitake mushrooms fried to crispiness together with served alongside pickled plum mayonaise ($8). Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fine offset indeed.

We battled our agency through the throngs of people checking out most of the offerings. Cindy wanted to wander all the agency through earlier nosotros ate anything else, to brand certain nosotros didn't fill upward up likewise rapidly together with immature lady out on something special. When I started thinking close buying a $25 cheese showbag, nosotros rapidly realised that I'd demand to swallow something else directly or halt upward alongside a backpack total of takeaway treats.

Luckily, Pizza Farro was on manus serving upward pizzas made using spelt flour together with topped alongside a make of odd flavor combinations. I went for the Melanzane ($8.50), which combined eggplant, zuchinni together with blood-red onion alongside pistachio nuts together with oregano, all served upward on a Lycopersicon esculentum base of operations alongside a restrained amount of mozzarella melted into it. The spelt flour base of operations was crispy together with light, a especially impressive attempt for premade pizzas heated upward nether a grill, but the toppings were where things actually shined. The vegies were roasted to perfection, the cheese together with herbs were tasty together with the pistachios were crunchy footling treats hidden nether everything else. Wonderful.

At this signal I relaxed a little, my tummy was no longer gnawing angrily at its ain lining together with I could soak upward the atmosphere without beingness driven insane past times all the tempting nutrient smells (although high appetite-suppressant points must larn to the chorizo stand, wafting burning meat smells across the whole event). We eventually strolled beyond the nutrient festival zone together with stumbled onto around bits together with pieces somehow related to the swimming championships on inward Melbourne this week. The nutrient stalls looked much less interesting, but the toadstools dotting the hillside were form of fun.

Fighting our agency dorsum into the fray, nosotros flora ourselves at the Spice Bazaar stall, which combined an impressive make of packaged spice blends for sale alongside around mezze plates to satisfy to a greater extent than immediate desires. I browsed through the spice make (if browsed is actually the give-and-take to purpose when you're scrabbling through a pocket-size spice stand upward alongside a dozen other people all fishing to larn to the gratis tasting plates) together with settled on a choice of 4 blends (Ras el Hanout, Achiote Powder, Tandoori together with Castilian Creolo Adobo, $12) to stimulate got abode together with experiment with.

With the warm aroma of spices bringing dorsum our appetites, nosotros settled inward alongside a mezze tasting plate. For simply $5, the mezze plate was loaded upward alongside a pile of Turkish bread, hummus, harissa yoghurt a pumpkin tagine together with around smoked vegetables, sprinkled alongside sesame seeds together with sumac. The hummus together with the pumpkin were especial highlights, but the whole plate was quite impressive.

By at nowadays I was fully sated - stuffed to the gills alongside pizza, rice together with mezze - together with starting to honor the crowds a combat frustrating. But the afternoon wasn't over yet -

Cindy had spotted the San Churro stall and, despite the hope of a whole twenty-four lx minutes catamenia of chocolate-themed treats on Sunday, wanted to cap things off alongside around dessert. The hot chocolate was unfortunately even together with thence lukewarm when nosotros turned up, together with thence Cindy opted for a mutual frigidity chocolate ($5) together with a couplet of footling chocolate cups (one peanut butter together with 1 caramel - $1.50 each). I had a gustation of the drink, but it was likewise rich together with thick for my tastes - to a greater extent than chocolate than milk I'd wager. But Cindy seemed to bask both it together with the footling sweets.

With both of us completely satisfied, nosotros wandered upward through the atrium (stumbling on a micro-brewery event, consummate alongside beer-tasting - if solely I'd saved around room!) together with jumped on a tram dorsum abode to flop on the couch together with recover.

Rabu, 14 November 2007

March 24, 2007: Aussie-Asian Stir-Fry

the Flour Festival and I got the tofu marinating. As a modify from the commons soy sauce-based marinade that I throw together, I tried a packet mix (I bought it at endangered species chocolate!): it's Outback Spirit Lemon Myrtle Chilli Dry Marinade ($4.95).

The instructions motion into clear that it's intended for white meats in addition to seafood, but it proved to function as good on diced theater tofu. The wet on the tofu is merely plenty for the pulverisation to adhere to, in addition to it doesn't describe away 1 time it's all inwards the non-stick frypan, either. It tastes great: the lemon myrtle reminds me really much of lemongrass, a natural distich for chilli. Combined alongside unopen to fresh crunchy veges, this was merely the repast nosotros needed afterwards a lunchtime of stall food. The downside is that the starting fourth dimension element on this pre-packaged marinade is sugar! (It doesn't gustatory modality overly sweet, but in that place you lot go.) For this argue I'm non planning to purchase the marinade mix 1 time again - instead I mightiness choice upwardly a jounce of lemon myrtle in addition to attempt my ain manus at a seasoned flour mix.

March 25, 2007: Melbourne Nutrient In Addition To Vino Festival - Wicked Sunday

Queen Vic nighttime markets before inward the year): I bought 2 java too 1 cointreau chocolate truffle for $5. The other 2 are a to a greater extent than new $3 pack from Cacao, an apricot cognac truffle, too a passionfruit too peach caramel. (These photos were taken afterwards the chocs spent a few hours inward my bag, 1 java truffle "disappeared" along the agency too thence they're non pictured at their peak.) All of the chocolates were delicious, of course: the get 2 truffles guide keep a slightly fossil oil too real pure black chocolate taste, spell the Cacao shapes were to a greater extent than sleek too sweetness to taste. None are your everyday chocolate treat, mind!

Wicked Lord's Day didn't quite run across my (very high) hopes but that was in all likelihood because of my inability to struggle for my portion of the fancy food, too non a truthful reflection of the character of extravagent treats on offer.

Selasa, 13 November 2007

March 25, 2007: Jungle Juice Bar

After a fairly unsatisfying scrum through the crowds of chocolate in addition to java connoisseurs at Fed Square, Cindy in addition to I decided to hunt downwards luncheon somewhere away from the crowds. We strolled upwards through Degraves Lane into Centre Place in addition to stumbled onto Jungle Juice Bar, a tiny hole inwards the wall offering upwards a broad choice of bagel-based meals, juices in addition to sweets. We perched on the primary-school sized plastic chairs roughly a niggling tabular array inwards the alley agency in addition to watched the hipsters stroll yesteryear every bit nosotros perused the menus (which are saltation upwards inwards covers of former Golden Books). There are real few vego options on their list, but they're happy to reach things amongst meat components excluded. I opted for the Royale (minus the bacon) - poached eggs amongst rocket, tomato, mozzarella in addition to homemade mayo inwards an open-faced bagel sandwich, spell Cindy went for the vegetarian bagel, amongst rocket, tomato, cheese, love apple tree in addition to a splash of tobasco. We'd both ordered fresh juices (mine only OJ in addition to Cindy's orange, pineapple in addition to ginger) in addition to they washed downwards the bagels splendidly.

With the exceptionally depression tabular array in addition to tiny chairs, I was forced to residue my plate on my lap, inevitably resulting inwards bits of egg in addition to love apple tree ending upwards on my trousers every bit I tried to saw my agency through the bagel. Mess aside, it was a pretty satisfying luncheon - in all likelihood a niggling cheesy for me, making it impossible for me to fifty-fifty pretend it was salubrious - but otherwise a success. Cindy actually enjoyed her bagel sandwich, in addition to it brought dorsum some fond memories of her trips to New York. It wasn't quite the East Village, but nosotros were both entertained yesteryear the trendy youth of Melbourne wandering past.

Address: Shop 20, Central Place, Melbourne
Phone: 9639 8779
Licensed
Prices: Food $6-$13, Juice $4

Senin, 12 November 2007

March 26, 2007: Sweetness Murphy Soup

textured soups as well as the unproblematic pleasance of simply the correct slice of fresh staff of life on the side of the smoother varieties. It's the latter variety that's going to possess got over our weeknights, I mean value - minimal chopping, one-half an hr of bubbling on the stove, a quick whizz inward the nutrient processor as well as a relatively slowly as well as nutritious repast is born. This is i such example, which Michael picked upward from this website during Mon inward a bid to purpose upward a sad-looking leftover sugariness white patato inward the fridge.

It's simply every bit good I'm warming to soups because there's a wisdom molar removal on my horizon!

Sweet white patato soup

a generous milkshake of vegetable oil
1 leek, chopping quite finely
3 cloves garlic, crushed
3 modest sugariness potatoes, diced
2 Massel chicken-style stock cubes, dissolved inward 1L of hot water
1/2 loving cup milk
1/3 loving cup fresh coriander, chopped finely

Heat the stone oil inward a saucepan, add together the leek as well as garlic as well as tiddler until softened. Add the sugariness white patato as well as cook, stirring occasionally, for v to a greater extent than minutes.

Add the "chicken" stock as well as select to the boil. Reduce rut as well as simmer for almost twenty minutes until the sugariness white patato has softened.

Blend the soup inward batches. Stir inward the milk as well as coriander as well as serve.

Minggu, 11 November 2007

March 28, 2007: Ume Nomiya

once or twice my vegetarian reservations nigh the average Japanese eating topographic point menu, together with and so I didn't answer alongside much enthusiasm... until I tasted Umi Nomiya's shiitake mushroom balls at the Flour Festival concluding weekend. They were an incredibly tasty alter from the tempura veges I ever rely on when everyone else is gobbling downward sashimi. Michael revealed that this was the eating topographic point on his wishlist together with I was forthwith much to a greater extent than amenable to a see - together with so amenable that I made a moisture umbrella-less walk to come across Michael in that location less than a calendar week later, equally the early on dinner halt on a black out.

Ume is actually to a greater extent than bar than eating topographic point - high stools along the bar, which offers a dozen kinds of sake, in all likelihood render a 3rd of the seating. It's small, dimly lit together with sparsely but elegantly furnished inward an urban-Oriental style. At half-dozen o'clock on a Midweek in that location were few punters, together with the daughter behind the bar provided us alongside casual but really helpful tabular array service. The carte is divided into sushi plates (all fishy: pass), bar snacks (two thirds vegetarian), together with mains (1 out of half-dozen is vego). The vegetarian items are clearly marked together with exclude fish, which makes skimming the options much simpler for V-kids similar us! We picked out 3 of the bar snacks to part together with settled inward alongside a beer each.

flour festival post. This turned upward several hours AFTER I wrote this review together with so nosotros didn't score the costless drink, nor has it influenced the content!

Edit (6/5/2008): Unfortunately Ume Nomiya appears to direct maintain shut (replaced alongside a really hip looking Castilian place. We're non certain whether the catering arm of the draw organization remains active.

Edit (26/10/2008): ... together with forthwith we've visited the Castilian eating topographic point inward its place, Anada. You tin read our review of it here.

Address: 197 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
Ph: 9415 6101
Licensed
Price: vege bar snacks $5-10, vege primary $14
Website: www.umebar.com

Sabtu, 10 November 2007

March 28, 2007: Breizoz

dinner at Umi Nomiya quite early, together with I wasn't feeling completely full. And yeah, OK, I had my midpoint on a dessert venue on Gertrude St too! It didn't convey also much sentiment to instruct Michael to Breizoz, the local creperie. Compared to the coolly airconditioned together with reasonably minimalist vibe of Ume, Breizoz was warmer together with had a homely clutter, scattered amongst fragments of its culinary inspiration of Brittany.

Breizoz offers a long listing of savoury together with sweetness crepes. The savouries tend to include a maximum of 3 ingredients, together with if you're going to live bypassing the ham together with the lamb sausage you'll to a greater extent than oft than non live choosing betwixt dissimilar combinations of cheese, egg together with mushroom (you tin encounter the amount card here). The blackboard particular of cheese together with leek sounded pretty expert too!

But plenty of that, let's instruct to the sweetness ones! There are plenty of fruity, alcoholic together with otherwise naughty options. I initially chose the rhubarb 1 amongst pistachio ice-cream from the specials board, but our waitress apologised that it was no longer available. My instant choice, the jaffa crepe ($9), didn't gustation at all instant class. The crepe was a expert mensurate of crunchy together with chewy, the chocolate sauce was of an acceptable quality, but the highlight for me was the candied orangish peel: sweet, sour together with a piddling bitter amongst lots of syrup to spread around. Michael had something amongst apple, but I barely fifty-fifty glanced at is equally I rationed out my orangish slivers across the area of sparse folded batter.

On a serenity Wed nighttime a client powerfulness expression a piddling to a greater extent than attending that usual, but I would however similar to commend the service at Breizoz. Our jug of H2O arrived inside seconds of us sitting down, together with a nearby tabular array of French visitors were served completely inwards their woman parent tongue. Another customer, when his EFTPOS nib was mucked up, received a compensatory parcel of meringues to convey home, fifty-fifty though he hadn't raised a complaint.

This would induce got been a sweetness together with satisfying destination to our evening, but nosotros had exclusively completed the edible part. The side past times side few hours were spent at the Forum Theatre nether the land of Jarvis Cocker's charms. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 decade afterward I discovered his band Pulp, I lastly had a run a jeopardy to witness his theatrics inwards mortal together with it to a greater extent than than lived upwards my expectations. It volition give the sack brighter inwards my retention than our dinner or dessert venues but they were worthy back upwards acts. Even better, they're far to a greater extent than accessible for multiple visits!

Address: Cnr of Gertrude together with Brunswick Sts, Fitzroy
Ph: 9415 7588
Licensed
Price: sweetness crepes $5-$13
Website: www.breizoz.com.au

Jumat, 09 November 2007

March 29, 2007: Gertrude Street Grub - Radio Bar & Cafe

Wednesday night is that lack of leftovers for Th lunch. Still, it's the excuse I postulate to run downward about other Gertrude Street luncheon review. Today's lucky venue was Radio, a cosy bar almost straight across from work. I've non been at that topographic point for an eve out, but the Kirin on tap together with the erstwhile soul, reggae or funk tunes that are ever spinning on the tape histrion brand me intend it would hold upwardly a prissy identify for about post-work drinks.

During the hateful solar daytime they produce a fleck of nutrient together with about really prissy Brazilian coffee. The nutrient card is pretty limited: cereal, muesli or toasties for breakfast together with a selection of virtually v baguettes for lunch. The $6 baguettes all come upwardly amongst rocket, tomato, avocado, swiss cheese, a divine homemade mayonaise together with your selection of 'meat'. The solely vegetarian alternative is grilled eggplant, but it works pretty good amongst the residuum of the fillings, together with then I was fairly content. The baguettes are fresh together with crunchy together with all the fillings are great, but it's actually all virtually the mayo - it could brand whatever sandwich a winner.

Update: Things convey changed a niggling at Radio since this review. They've added a selection of outstanding pizzas to the luncheon menu, a daily soup exceptional together with they've broadened out the brekkie options. Everything's a niggling to a greater extent than expensive, but it's all the same my favourite luncheon identify upwardly my destination of Gertrude.

Address: 79 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
Ph: 9417 4723
Licensed
Price: Baguettes $6, Breakfast $3-$6

March 29, 2007: Tandoori Veges Amongst Lemon Rice

Tandoori Times, I've been re-inspired past times the marinade that is thence oftentimes entirely seen on chicken. Michael noticed a pouch of tandoori spices at Spice Bazaar last weekend too straight off I had to ain it, I had to stimulate my ain paw at tandoori veges! After looking at i or 2 recipes on the internet, it was Michael who adlibbed his ain marinade too it turned out rattling well. The resulting veges didn't closely resemble their TT inspiration, but a lack of petroleum too mistaken colouring tin entirely live a skilful thing. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 hot oven doesn't give equally much charring equally I like, but nosotros did pack the veges inward pretty tightly together. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 barbeque would in all likelihood live an effective option cooking method.

What I especially enjoyed almost the Tandoori Times cauliflower was the distinct lemon tang, too this was what had me chasing upwards a lemon rice recipe equally an accompaniment. It's some other jewel from Mridular Baljekar's Low-Fat Indian Vegetarian Cookbook - the mustard seeds too cashews are a existent treat, too the luminous colouring comes non from scary mistaken lemon, but from dry soil turmeric.

Tandoori veges

Ingredients:

Lots of peeled too diced veges: nosotros used v medium potatoes, a huge carrot, a caput of cauliflower, 2 cerise capsicums too 8-10 large white mushrooms

For the marinade:
1 1/2 cups yoghurt
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon tandoori spice mix (a quick mesh search volition give you lot an stance of what dry soil spices to combine if you lot don't convey a pre-mixed combination similar ours)
juice of i lemon
1/3 loving cup water

Whisk together the marinade ingredients too a bowl. Arrange the veges inward a duet of baking dishes too pour the marinade over. Gently stir the veges or thence so that they're evenly coated inward the yoghurt mix. Let the trays sit down for one-half an sixty minutes thence that the flavours develop, thence bake at 200 degrees for almost one-half an hour. Stir the veges occasionally to recoat amongst the settled marinade.

Lemon rice

Ingredients:
1 loving cup basmati rice
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 teaspoon dark mustard seeds
a handful of cashews, roughly chopped
1/4 teaspoon dry soil turmeric
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons lemon juice

Wash the rice inward mutual depression temperature H2O too exit it to soak for 15-20 minutes. Drain.

Heat the petroleum inward a saucepan too thence add together the mustard seeds too cashews. Let them sizzle for no to a greater extent than one-half a minute, thence take away the cashews (it doesn't affair if some of the mustard seeds come upwards out too).

Add the rice, turmeric too common salt to the saucepan too stir-fry for 2-3 minutes. Pour inward 2 cups of hot H2O too the lemon juice. Bring the rice to the boil too run along to boil for 2 minutes.

Cover the saucepan, trim the estrus to depression too produce for 10 minutes. Remove from estrus too permit the rice represent 6-7 minutes. Only at nowadays should fluff upwards the rice amongst a fork.

Serve the rice, garnished amongst the cashews.