cinnamon vanilla ice-cream. Last nighttime I sliced them into crescents, stirred through roughly flaked almonds, too topped them alongside dabs of a whipped mixture of mascarpone, brown sugar too rose water. If I tin proceed these sweetness memories until side past times side summer, I mightiness fifty-fifty alternative upward roughly apricots piece the balance of its genus is yet inward its prime!
Sabtu, 08 Desember 2007
Jumat, 07 Desember 2007
February 25, 2007: Lentil Every 2Nd Anything
Australia Day awards would convey attracted our patronage past times now. Alas, unless you lot count our breakfast at Lentil As Africa, nosotros failed. With the encouragement of Emma in addition to Simon in addition to their visiting friend Ben, nosotros lastly made it at that topographic point on the weekend. And, unfortunately, it was a niggling disappointing.
We turned upward at merely about vii in addition to fortunately snagged a tabular array for 5 - it's a tiny place, which belike only seats thirty people at a stretch, in addition to hence nosotros were pretty lucky. The walls are covered amongst a mixture of artwork in addition to posters for yoga classes, in addition to the full general vibe is equally hippy friendly equally you'd expect. The carte du jour is a fairly impressive listing of vegetarian delights - curries, burgers, noodles in addition to other vaguely Asian-inspired options. We started off amongst a circular of mango lassis which, inward the idosyncratic trend of the place, required us to relinquish our H2O spectacles equally at that topographic point were insufficient spectacles for us to convey both H2O in addition to lassis. The drinks were modest but tasty - loaded upward amongst fresh mango, dear in addition to sprinkled amongst cinammon.
When it was fourth dimension for eating, I chose a pea in addition to white patato curry, served amongst yoghurt, relish, cerise rice in addition to roti, land Cindy went for oknomiyaki, topped amongst tofu mayonaise, pickled ginger, sweetness soy in addition to seaweed. The nutrient took ages to come upward and, afterwards 45 minutes or so, my curry came amongst neither rice (they'd run out) or roti (no thought why - Ben's was roti-tastic). Still, I could count myself lucky - Cindy's Japanese pancake was nowhere to live found. After waiting for some other few minutes, I enquired - unfortunately they'd somehow forgotten it, in addition to hence Cindy - the slowest eater at the tabular array - was left waiting land the residuum of us dug in. By the fourth dimension her repast arrived, nosotros were all finished in addition to the black had larn slightly frustrating. To live fair, despite the lack of rice in addition to roti, my curry was pretty tasty - the potatoes were good roasted, the sauce was spicy in addition to the salad broke upward the carbs nicely. And when Cindy's oknomiyaki lastly turned up, it was the highlight of the black - pipage hot, slightly sweetness in addition to delicious. Unfortunately, the kitchen seemed ill-equipped to continue upward amongst need in addition to it seemed similar the gimmick of having no develop prices provided a licence to live a flake slapdash amongst the service. It's a shame, because I was all develop to write a rave review of a house amongst a fantastic menu, dandy food, ridiculously large portions in addition to a wonderful philosophy, but it all ended upward a flake of a permit down. Maybe it was karma - fate getting us dorsum for ignoring Lentil equally Anything for in addition to hence long. We'll belike examine i time to a greater extent than at i of the other venues inward the future, but amongst slightly lowered expectations.
Address: 41 Blessington Street, St. Kilda
Ph: 95344844
Unlicensed (there was some testify of BYOing going on, but I'm non certain if it was exclusively legit)
Prices: Whatever you lot like! They recommend virtually $7 for mains.
Website: www.lentilasanything.com
We turned upward at merely about vii in addition to fortunately snagged a tabular array for 5 - it's a tiny place, which belike only seats thirty people at a stretch, in addition to hence nosotros were pretty lucky. The walls are covered amongst a mixture of artwork in addition to posters for yoga classes, in addition to the full general vibe is equally hippy friendly equally you'd expect. The carte du jour is a fairly impressive listing of vegetarian delights - curries, burgers, noodles in addition to other vaguely Asian-inspired options. We started off amongst a circular of mango lassis which, inward the idosyncratic trend of the place, required us to relinquish our H2O spectacles equally at that topographic point were insufficient spectacles for us to convey both H2O in addition to lassis. The drinks were modest but tasty - loaded upward amongst fresh mango, dear in addition to sprinkled amongst cinammon.
When it was fourth dimension for eating, I chose a pea in addition to white patato curry, served amongst yoghurt, relish, cerise rice in addition to roti, land Cindy went for oknomiyaki, topped amongst tofu mayonaise, pickled ginger, sweetness soy in addition to seaweed. The nutrient took ages to come upward and, afterwards 45 minutes or so, my curry came amongst neither rice (they'd run out) or roti (no thought why - Ben's was roti-tastic). Still, I could count myself lucky - Cindy's Japanese pancake was nowhere to live found. After waiting for some other few minutes, I enquired - unfortunately they'd somehow forgotten it, in addition to hence Cindy - the slowest eater at the tabular array - was left waiting land the residuum of us dug in. By the fourth dimension her repast arrived, nosotros were all finished in addition to the black had larn slightly frustrating. To live fair, despite the lack of rice in addition to roti, my curry was pretty tasty - the potatoes were good roasted, the sauce was spicy in addition to the salad broke upward the carbs nicely. And when Cindy's oknomiyaki lastly turned up, it was the highlight of the black - pipage hot, slightly sweetness in addition to delicious. Unfortunately, the kitchen seemed ill-equipped to continue upward amongst need in addition to it seemed similar the gimmick of having no develop prices provided a licence to live a flake slapdash amongst the service. It's a shame, because I was all develop to write a rave review of a house amongst a fantastic menu, dandy food, ridiculously large portions in addition to a wonderful philosophy, but it all ended upward a flake of a permit down. Maybe it was karma - fate getting us dorsum for ignoring Lentil equally Anything for in addition to hence long. We'll belike examine i time to a greater extent than at i of the other venues inward the future, but amongst slightly lowered expectations.Address: 41 Blessington Street, St. KildaPh: 95344844
Unlicensed (there was some testify of BYOing going on, but I'm non certain if it was exclusively legit)
Prices: Whatever you lot like! They recommend virtually $7 for mains.
Website: www.lentilasanything.com
Kamis, 06 Desember 2007
March 1, 2007: Grape Too Haloumi Salad
sandwiches amongst it, but but every bit oftentimes grab any salad ingredients nosotros tin notice together with plonk the haloumi on top, dousing the lot amongst lemon juice together with dark pepper. However this week, inwards i of the cookbooks bequeathed to us past times Krusty together with Jason, I discovered an actual recipe for a haloumi salad, amongst grapes no less! While this is a combination I'd never considered before, something almost it but stand upwardly for - I could imagine the juicy flesh of the grapes together with the sour/bitter peel belongings its ain against the salty, oily cheese.
Unfortunately I decided that this would survive Th night's dinner alone later I got to work, thus I devised a shopping listing without the recipe at hand. Haloumi, 2 kinds of grapes together with a bunch of light-green leaves were all I recalled from the movie together with the text was a consummate blank. Although I knew they weren't business office of the recipe, I catch unopen to garlicky croutons would add together unopen to other complementary flavour to the meal. When I did provide abode to the recipe, I discovered that I'd completely missed the dressing! Its ingredients were supposed to survive olive oil, lemon juice, carbohydrate together with fresh thyme or dill.
Given the oiliness of the cheese, I wasn't that thrilled past times the catch of an oil-based dressing. Instead I divide the principal dressing ingredients upwardly together with the effect was in all likelihood much to a greater extent than to my gustation than the master recipe. The carbohydrate from the dressing was completely omitted, together with yet I even thus establish the light-green grapes to contribute a flake also much sweetness for me. Furthermore, I'd recommend eating a lot to a greater extent than greens together with a few to a greater extent than royal grapes than pictured higher upwardly for a fresher, to a greater extent than nutritious meal. The flavour combination was but every bit bold together with varied every bit I'd anticipated - piece grapes stay inwards season, this volition survive my novel favourite haloumi-based dinner.
Grape together with haloumi salad
(inspired past times a recipe inwards Vegetarian Cooking, compiled past times Nicola Graimes)
Separate together with launder lots of lettuce leaves. Detach green together with royal grapes from their stalks together with launder the grapes, too. Rest them all inwards a collander to drain.
Remove the crusts from 2 slices of bread together with cutting the breadstuff into cubes. Stale breadstuff is great, if y'all accept unopen to to larn rid of! Fry the breadstuff inwards a footling olive oil, until it gets crunchy together with browns a little. Add 2 cloves of minced garlic together with 2 generous shakes of dried thyme, together with stir the croutons every bit they cook. Once the garlic together with breadstuff are browned, take them from the frypan together with gear upwardly aside.
Heat upwardly unopen to to a greater extent than olive crude oil inwards the frypan. Slice a block of haloumi into smallish, apartment pieces together with youngster them, flipping them over alone once, until they're golden dark-brown on each side.
Time to plate up! Arrange the leaves together with grapes on the plate together with clothing them amongst a squelch or 3 of lemon juice. Top amongst the haloumi pieces together with croutons, together with then shower your salad amongst black pepper. Grab your fork together with enjoy!
Rabu, 05 Desember 2007
March 2, 2007: Woodstock Cafe
Cindy was craving pizza on Fri nighttime together with nosotros had tickets to Sodastream at the East Brunswick Club, together with thus I spent a footling spell poring over the Cheap Eats together with trying to uncovering a well-regarded pizza store inward the inner north. Unfortunately, nosotros left things likewise belatedly to larn a spot at I Carusi, together with thus nosotros decided to movement out Woodstock Cafe inward North Fitzroy. We settled into a small-scale tabular array nearly the giant wood-fired pizza oven (which didn't just aid us cool downwardly later on the ride up) together with browsed the menu. The outset affair that jumped out was the toll - pizzas betwixt $16 together with $20. Luckily, nosotros peaked at a few of the other tables together with realised that we'd likely exclusively demand 1 betwixt us to hold out satisfied. There weren't a bang-up many vego options on the pizza menu, together with thus nosotros asked them to serve us upwardly a mushroom pizza without the prosciutto, together with they were happy to oblige.
had previously. The cheese (fior di latte - mozzarella made from cow's milk) was milky together with a footling salty together with sum of obese deliciousness. The mushrooms were lean together with a chip less flavoursome, serving exclusively to render a chip of textural variety. I speedily scarfed downwardly my one-half of the pizza together with snuck a chip of Cindy's one-half every bit well, but, every bit much every bit I loved the cheese, all the oiliness ended sitting a footling heavily inward my stomach. It was enjoyable enough, but amongst the express vegetarian options together with slightly pricey pizzas, we'll likely steer clear inward the future.
Address: 612 Nicholson Street, North Fitzroy
Ph: 9481 8122
Licensed together with BYO (although corkage is a whopping $10 per bottle)
Price: $16-$22
had previously. The cheese (fior di latte - mozzarella made from cow's milk) was milky together with a footling salty together with sum of obese deliciousness. The mushrooms were lean together with a chip less flavoursome, serving exclusively to render a chip of textural variety. I speedily scarfed downwardly my one-half of the pizza together with snuck a chip of Cindy's one-half every bit well, but, every bit much every bit I loved the cheese, all the oiliness ended sitting a footling heavily inward my stomach. It was enjoyable enough, but amongst the express vegetarian options together with slightly pricey pizzas, we'll likely steer clear inward the future.
Address: 612 Nicholson Street, North Fitzroy
Ph: 9481 8122
Licensed together with BYO (although corkage is a whopping $10 per bottle)
Price: $16-$22
Selasa, 04 Desember 2007
March 4, 2007: Ray
On Dominicus morning, Michael together with I headed to Bruswick for breakfast together with a few errands. Between reading the novel Cheap Eats conduct together with the breakfast blog, Michael had developed a short-list of untried but promising sources for our rootage feed of the day. We checked out Ray, a pocket-sized cafe amongst a sizable reputation, together with managed to honour a brace of vacant stools at the bar. There was no adventure of a tabular array for 2 at 9:30am!
Ray has a pleasant but hipster-ish atmosphere. Its designer-shabby decor together with immature trendy staff offering no hint that the card volition live on inspired yesteryear Middle Eastern flavours. Yet the card is genuinely inspired: beyond the now-common toasted pide, the egg-based breakfasts also include ingredients such equally pesto, dukkah, labna, feta together with lamb kofta. H5N1 proficient proportion of them are vegetarian, together with Michael chose the poached eggs (free range, natch) amongst capsicum pesto, spinach together with feta ($10). While dukkah was also listed equally an ingredient, they were all out - thankfully the waitress warned Michael of that equally he ordered together with so his expectations were reigned inwards appropriately.
For the sweeth tooth, Ray has French toast amongst sweetness labna together with "Arabian fashion Bircher muesli amongst cream, pistachios, poached fruit together with honey" ($7). I ordered a chilled serving of the latter. Though muesli is oftentimes the choice of the calorie-conscious eater, this version is the domain of the dessert lover! This is clear from the rootage spoonful - a striking of cream together with intensely flavoured plum together with apricot, the expected yoghurt tang together with chewy cereal are completely absent. As I worked my agency downward the drinking glass the oat quotient increased, together with I couldn't deal the final spoonful of too-dry carbs. I suppose this imbalance could live on avoided amongst the purpose of a to a greater extent than conventional cereal receptacle but it's my solely pocket-sized quibble against a thoroughly satisfying dish.
Michael was likewise happy amongst his savoury choice together with enjoyed their java together with so much he ordered a instant one, despite the long hold off we'd witnessed for caffeine fixes. Even amongst his 2 cups, our neb came to solely $23! This is in all probability the best-value breakfast we've encountered thence far for nutrient vibrant inwards coloring fabric together with taste.
Address: 332 Victoria St, Brunswick
Ph: 9380 8593
Unlicensed
Price: vegetarian breakfasts $4.50 - $10
March 4, 2007: Savoury Vegetable Loaf
Oxfam pack that Mum gave us for Christmas.
The grooming was pretty time-consuming, alongside seemingly endless chopping as well as grating, roughly baking as well as a chip of frying at the end. Throw inwards the structure of the yoghurt sauce as well as the frying of the bread, as well as the whole procedure took a duad of hours. Luckily, it was good worth it, alongside a hot as well as flavoursome halt product. The reddish chillies were in all likelihood a lilliputian hotter than ideal, as well as the yoghurt sauce had a chip to a greater extent than kicking than necessary, pregnant that the whole matter was spicier than Cindy would stimulate got liked, but I constitute it tremendous. The frying at the halt crispies upwards the loaf slices perfectly, although I imagine it would yet live on fairly tasty if you lot were on a wellness kicking as well as but ate it fresh from the oven. Definitely something to throw together 1 time to a greater extent than on a hereafter Indian-themed weekend evening.
Savoury Vegetable Loaf
1 loving cup chickpea flour (besan)
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 reddish onion, finely chopped
2 reddish chilli peppers, finely chopped
3 tablespoons coriander, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 teaspoon soil cumin
2 teaspoons soil coriander
1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds
2/3 loving cup grated carrot
1 loving cup white cabbage, finely chopped
250 ml love apple tree juice (we used V8 vege juice, which is something similar 80% tomato)
2 tablespoons olive oil
From here, things hold off pretty easy, but alongside all the grating as well as chopping inwards the ingredients listing above, you've already spent one-half an hr inwards the kitchen.
In a large mixing bowl, mix together the besan, common salt as well as baking powder. Add inwards the remaining ingredients except the juice as well as crude as well as stir into the bowl - endeavour to brand certain the flour mix gets distributed through evenly, rather than into lilliputian clumps.
Gradually add together the love apple tree juice as well as stir everything together until it's a nice, juicy paste. Spoon the mixture into a baking tin hand the axe (lined alongside greaseproof paper) as well as bake at 190 degrees for virtually an hour. I checked upwards on it a few times to brand certain it didn't overcook, but it actually did stimulate got virtually an hr - fifty-fifty inwards our overhot oven.
When it's reasonably firm, stimulate got it out of the oven as well as allow it cool. Once it's cool, cutting it into slices virtually an inch thick as well as shaver the slices inwards the crude for virtually a infinitesimal on each side.
Minted yoghurt as well as coriander sauce
2 tablespoons fresh mint, chopped
1/3 loving cup fresh coriander, chopped
1 light-green chilli, sliced finely
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons lemon juice
200g yoghurt
1 tbsp slivered almonds
Put all the ingredients inwards a nutrient processor as well as zap them a few times until everything's nicely combined. If you're organised, exit the mixture inwards the refrigerator for a few hours to allow the flavours combine, but it's fine if you lot but serve it similar a shot up.
Senin, 03 Desember 2007
March 4, 2007: Indian-Style Lemonade
my Indian dinner as well as for reasons that volition popular off apparent afterwards my adjacent post, I wasn't upward for making dessert. Instead I pulled out this recipe for Indian-style lemonade, which I outset tried a few years ago. The authenticity of it is questionable: the a super-b*tch amongst diarrhoea for its duration.
Indian-style lemonade
makes four pocket-size cups
Combine
Indian-style lemonade
makes four pocket-size cups
Combine
- 1 L water
- 1/4 loving cup fresh lime juice
- 1/3 loving cup fresh lemon juice
- 2/3 loving cup maple syrup (or a syrup of 1/3 loving cup brownish carbohydrate as well as 1/3 loving cup water)
- a generous sprinkle of solid soil ginger
- the tiniest milk shiver of cayenne pepper
in a bowl amongst an easy-pouring lip, or a jug. Pour into spectacles as well as garnish amongst H2O ice as well as lemon as well as lime slices.
Minggu, 02 Desember 2007
March 4-5, 2007: Construct D Chocolate Cake
cooking competition, for example. There are donations of fresh create from people's gardens, in addition to spontaneous packets of Wagon Wheels to part on irksome afternoons. Then final week, when nosotros had assembled for our six-monthly workplace wellness in addition to security meeting, our lab leader Mark produced 5 plastic containers, each filled with grated milk chocolate. Teaspoons were passed around. We would live having a chocolate tasting.
The assay had 2 parts. First nosotros were to sense of savor each blind-brand of chocolate, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 to E, in addition to rank them inward social club of preference. Next nosotros were given a listing of chocolate brands - Haigh's, Lindt, Dove, Cadbury in addition to Home Brand - in addition to instructed to write our social club of preference of these chocolates side yesteryear side to our outset list. How would our perceptions of brands, expense in addition to lineament mensurate upwards to our actual enjoyment of the actual chocolate? It turns out that for women, the 2 lists were quite highly correlated (0.6) in addition to for men the lists were only weakly correlated (0.1). However the 1 someone that had the same ranking on both lists was male! Everyone (with the exception of 1 person) ranked the domicile build final for taste, in addition to in that location was no rigid designing with the other preferences. Rather than testing 1 box of each brand, in that location were inward fact 2 boxes of Dove chocolate in addition to no Haigh's at all. Although no-one noticed the double-up, most people ranked the 2 Dove samples side yesteryear side to each other.
In spite of my lab's appetite for afternoon sweets, in that location was a lot of chocolate left over in addition to Mark had no intention of taking it home. As he offered the boxes around, I hestitated a piffling every bit good long earlier refusing, in addition to ended upwards with well-nigh 400g of Brand D. As the calendar week wore on, Brand D sat inward my small-scale pantry, diminishing yesteryear a tablespoon or 2 a day. The idea nagged at me that I loathe grating chocolate in addition to that to build the most of this bounty, I should describe out a recipe that required it. It was this chocolate cake recipe that I settled on, largely because it would introduce a novel sense of savor assay to my lab! The recipe is devoid of milk in addition to instead includes 2 spectacles of crimson wine. It gives the cake a distinctive, deep season that yous couldn't larn with the prescribed dosage of chocolate alone. Baked correctly, it's also real moist. My computer program was to choose my Brand D chocolate cake to the lab for afternoon tea on Mon in addition to offering a small-scale prize for the outset someone to correctly gauge the mystery ingredient.
This is non my most successful rendition of this recipe. I didn't pay quite plenty hear to my oven thermometer, the cake baked at a higher temperature than it should, in addition to consequently the exterior was a piffling burnt yesteryear the fourth dimension it took the centre to cook. But a gentle scrape with a serated knife removed the blackest of the crumbs in addition to the cake was an acceptable in addition to homely gift to my co-workers. I was bombarded with alcohol-based constituent guesses, most of them far to a greater extent than exotic than the cheapo half-bottle within. It eventually took a share-housing pupil similar Mich to win the prize, a small-scale box of Irish Gaelic Cream-centred chocolates.
Brand D chocolate cake
250g butter
250g castor sugar
4 eggs
250mL crimson wine
250g self-raising flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3 tablespoons cocoa
150g chocolate, grated
Preheat the oven to 170 deg C. Cream the butter in addition to sugar. Add the eggs in addition to wine. Weird colour, huh? Next sift inward the flour, baking pulverisation in addition to cinnamon in addition to combine well. Finally, stir inward the cocoa in addition to chocolate (my cocoa needed a expert sifting). Now it's a to a greater extent than appropriate shade of brown, I hope! Pour the batter into a greased cake give notice in addition to bake for well-nigh an hour.
Brand D chocolate cake
250g butter
250g castor sugar
4 eggs
250mL crimson wine
250g self-raising flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3 tablespoons cocoa
150g chocolate, grated
Preheat the oven to 170 deg C. Cream the butter in addition to sugar. Add the eggs in addition to wine. Weird colour, huh? Next sift inward the flour, baking pulverisation in addition to cinnamon in addition to combine well. Finally, stir inward the cocoa in addition to chocolate (my cocoa needed a expert sifting). Now it's a to a greater extent than appropriate shade of brown, I hope! Pour the batter into a greased cake give notice in addition to bake for well-nigh an hour.
Sabtu, 01 Desember 2007
March 5, 2007: Mortal Food
02/01/2013: Recently Soulfood has changed hands. While the menu's notwithstanding largely vegetarian, they bring introduced total dishes. This postal service likely doesn't reverberate the electrical flow incarnation.
Bebida, but a review yesteryear Dirty Flamingo had since revived my interest. The window gives a listing of one-half a dozen burger options (and chips!), together with then Michael together with I decided on our gild correct at that spot on the street earlier proceeding to house our gild at the counter. Once within nosotros realised that our options were much broader: a large display illustration houses salads, wraps, patties together with other dishes of the day, along alongside a few uncomplicated but delicious-looking cakes. Blackboards too hope $8 pizzas, freshly squeezed juices, lassis together with shakes, piece fridges together with shelves family bottled organic juices, beer together with a pocket-sized selection of wine. We stuck alongside our master choices but added a juice each: a Liver Kick (apple, lemon together with ginger) for me together with an Over the Hangover (orange together with apple) for Michael ($3.75 each). They arrived promptly, frothing alongside freshness.
hot, hip together with happening Vegie Bar. Before my prepare of idea progressed whatever further, it was de-railed yesteryear the arrival of our 'chips for one' ($5.50): a generous plate of chunky spud together with sugariness spud wedges alongside a herby mayonnaise, manifestly merely seconds out of the deep-fryer. Michael pounced on them every bit chop-chop every bit I did. Crisp, brightly seasoned together with a fleck greasy on the outside, steamy soft on the inside, satisfying all the agency through. They were gone earlier we'd fifty-fifty caught sight of our burgers.
However the burgers did become far inwards the fourth dimension that 1 would usually facial expression to hold off for dinner. As you lot tin halt see, they're around every bit tall every bit they are wide! Both featured lightly toasted pide-style rolls together with lots of fresh salad. Michael thoroughly enjoyed his tofu satay burger ($9.50). I constitute my tempeh slabs a fleck dry, but alone the corners that weren't too smothered yesteryear the mild, sugariness together with peanutty satay sauce. As I felt the weight of the chips accumulate inwards my stomach, I left a smallish tempeh slice together with merely polished off my saucy crunchy veges. I didn't bring the room or the volition to utter Michael into chai for two! There volition no dubiety survive other opportunities, because I thoroughly enjoyed the no-meat together with few-frills sense of Soul Food.Address: 273 Smith St, Fitzroy
Ph: 9419 2949
Licensed & BYO
Price: veg mains $8-14
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