Cooking Breakfast: Oktober 2016

Senin, 31 Oktober 2016

June 20, 2007: Creamy Roasted Chipotle Soup

creamy roasted chipotle soup, courtesy of Yeah, That "Vegan" Shit. Since starting fourth dimension discovering chipotles as well as adobo sauce or hence fourth dimension ago, I've been tempted past times its smoky heat, but cautious of its feisty spice power. With a generous slopping of sour cream included to continue things from overheating, I was pretty confident that this recipe was going to endure a winner. And hence it turned out: thick alongside beans as well as corn as well as rich alongside the spice that the adobo sauce as well as chipotle provided, it too doubled every bit a tasty taco sauce (soon to endure featured inward i of Cindy's leftover makeovers).

I altered the recipe a petty from the Lindyloo's, hence I'll reproduce it here.

Creamy Roasted Chipotle Soup

1 tbsp olive oil
1 onion (chopped finely)
4 cloves garlic (minced)
1 large tin crushed tomatoes
2 tomatoes (chopped)
2 cobs of corn, stripped from the cob as well as blackened nether the grill
1 tin of kidney beans (drained)
750ml of vegie stock
1/2 loving cup of sour cream
1 chipotle inward adobo sauce (chopped finely)
an extra dollop of adobo for skillful luck

In a large saucepan, fry the onion inward fossil oil for almost x minutes until it's overnice as well as soft. Add everything else except the sour cream as well as choose it all to a boil. Simmer for one-half an sixty minutes or hence as well as and then swirl inward the sour cream. Simmer for or hence other few minutes as well as and then serve, preferably alongside or hence fresh crusty bread.

- Michael, strangely signed inward every bit Cindy.

Minggu, 30 Oktober 2016

June 21, 2007: Leftover Makeover - Smoky Chipotle Tacos

soup. Enough to feed us both for dinner, lunch, in addition to a fair fleck to a greater extent than besides. On Thursday, for the sake of my fickle palate, I converted the residue of the soup to taco filling yesteryear adding ane loving cup of TVP rehydrated inwards ane loving cup of hot water. Teamed amongst taco shells, salad in addition to grated cheese, it was a whole other repast to enjoy.... in addition to a whole other pot of leftovers to munch on during the weekend!

Sabtu, 29 Oktober 2016

June 22, 2007: Leftover Makeover - Orangish Tiramisu

dessert pesto days) together with cream cheese (from a instant batch of cream cheese brownies - Michael wanted to print the ladies at work). Add to the mix a duty-free bottle of Cointreau together with you lot convey orangish tiramisu! In haphazard blobs, these spectacles contain:

sponge fingers, sprinkled amongst a smidge of cointreau together with left to soften, together with thence gently chopped into chunks;
cream cheese, whipped briefly past times mitt amongst a chip of chocolate-brown saccharide together with orangish juice until dissolved;
fresh orangish segments.

These were messy-looking but fun, sweetness together with tangy picayune desserts!

June 23, 2007: Inkari Iii

first restaurants Cindy as well as I investigated when nosotros moved to Melbourne. It's an oasis of Latin America inspired nutrient inwards a desert of mediocre Italian joints as well as we've made a furnish catch since for a inexpensive as well as delicious lunch. We admired the breakfast card on both trips, but our exclusively possess to genuinely become at that topographic point was foiled yesteryear our weekend lethargy (the breakfast card cuts off at roughly ungodly threescore minutes similar 11:30). Luckily nosotros made it out of bed earlier 9am concluding Sabbatum as well as stumbled along for our 2nd Mexican-themed breakfast inwards ix days.

For once, Cindy opted for a cooked breakfast - the Buenos Dias Inkari: pan-fried eggs, Ilapingachos (potato pockets), refried dark beans, corn, tomato, grilled banana, avocado, sour cream as well as soft corn tortillas. Typically, Cindy was close excited yesteryear the murphy pockets - honestly she'd accept chips for breakfast, luncheon as well as dinner if I allowed it - but less excited yesteryear the eggs as well as tortilla. The banana as well as the black-beans made a surprisingly practiced combination (particularly surprising given how evil bananas are) as well as the whole bundle was a satisfactory if non inspiring meal.

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Edit 19/12/07: Sadly, Inkari appears to accept unopen permanently.

Jumat, 28 Oktober 2016

June 23, 2007: Mushroom Paprikash, Spud Pancakes In Addition To Pickled Infant Beets

mushroom paprikash recipe, together with the weekend papers had a nice-looking white patato pancake amongst pickled beetroot recipe that sounded similar the perfect accompaniment. Unfortunately, I mean value I threw the recipe away yesteryear mistake, thus the next volition endure the production of my fading memory.

The paprikash was a lot spicier using hot, Hungarian paprika (an interesting spice - non 1 that leaves a burning on your lips, but 1 that gets you lot inwards the dorsum of the throat), together with I mean value I preferred it without the seitan. The pancakes were a divine accompaniment (as I suspected next my Budapest experiences) together with the beets (which I was sceptical about) were likely the highlight - soft, sweetness together with amongst a tang from the vinegar. Superb.

Mushroom paprikash
Follow this recipe, amongst the next changes:
Skip the dumplings.
Drop the seitan.
Add inwards 1/2 a loving cup of dried porcini mushrooms, soaked inwards well-nigh a loving cup of water.
Use genuine imported Hungarian paprika.

Potato roesti
3 desiree potatoes
2 tbsp flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
oil for frying

Boil the potatoes (whole together with unpeeled) for well-nigh xxx minutes - until they're soft without beingness completely mushy. But don't endure also conservative - I was certain mine were also mushy, but they grated perfectly.

Peel together with and thus coarsely grate the spuds.

Stir through the flour, tabular array salt together with pepper.

Form the mixture into roughly tennis-ball sized lumps, flatten them slightly together with and thus youngster on both sides inwards a pocket-sized amount of oil.

Pickled babe beetroot
2 bunches babe beetroot
1/2 loving cup olive oil
1 loving cup crimson vino vinegar

Trim the beetroot together with boil them inwards three cups of H2O together with one-half the vinegar until soft (about 35-40 minutes).

Peel (you'll expect similar you've stabbed person yesteryear the fourth dimension you've peeled 12 babe beets).

Dress the peeled beetroot inwards the remainder of the vinegar together with the olive stone oil together with allow them soak for a while.

Serve upwardly the pancakes, scoop a few ladles of mushroom paprikash on elevation together with laid upwardly some babe beets gently to 1 side. They're really photogenic.

Kamis, 27 Oktober 2016

June 23, 2007: Chocolate In Addition To Pear Tart

most of the dinner work, land I typically pondered on dessert. I was pretty groovy on this chocolate as well as pear tart from Jules' stonesoup, but wasn't psyched most pre-roasting pears (although I must acknowledge they create await incredibly good!). Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 brief wander simply about the cyberspace turned upwardly some other pear as well as chocolate tart (this fourth dimension from Clotilde of Chocolate & Zucchini) as well as I enthusiastically wrote upwardly a shopping listing afterward a glance at the procedure. That 'glance' meant that I didn't genuinely discovery that this tart is served from the fridge, non the oven! Not quite what I had inwards take away heed on a wintertime evening, but withal comforting plenty when paired alongside a loving cup of tea.

I had a few nervewracking moments at each step: it was hard to press the crust evenly into my dish, as well as and so function out when it was laid upwardly to come upwardly out of the oven. (It took five minutes less than Clotilde's, as well as was a teensy chip burnt simply about the tiptop edge.) Then I worried that I had over-cooked my chocolate as well as that the ganache would live on lumpy, though it eventually glided into the dish without a hitch. The pears, which were theater as well as perchance a niggling under-ripe, took an extra 10 minutes of poaching to soften completely. I slid the tart into the refrigerator several hours earlier our guests arrived, sure that the frazzling bits were over as well as I could bask their fellowship without nagging kitchen thoughts.

Unfortunately, when it was fourth dimension for my function to live on unveiled, this bugger of a tart wouldn't slice. My puny arm muscles couldn't larn it to budge, as well as Michael managed to dig chunks of it onto our plates instead (he's non big on delicacy). Clotilde credits the crust every bit her mother's no-fail recipe, but I remember I failed at it. I surely should convey greased the baking dish to a greater extent than throughly, but I don't remember my problems stopped there. Nevertheless, the chocolate ganache filling had the deep, bittersweet gustation of the 70% cocoa Lindt that went into it as well as a smooth, buttery texture. The rich, barely sweetness ganache as well as the syrupy sweetness pears were non simply complementary, they needed each other for balance. They brand this a dessert worthy of trial, fault as well as eventual perfection. Thankfully Emma as well as Simon are willing to weather condition the lawsuit as well as error, as well as I'm no longer also proud to present them that I'm curt of perfection.

When Emma as well as Simon visited for dinner on Sabbatum black June 23, 2007: Chocolate as well as pear tart

For the recipe, catch Chocolate & Zucchini.

Rabu, 26 Oktober 2016

June 25, 2007: Wild Mushrooms On Toast

As spill in addition to and thus wintertime convey swept through Melbourne, I've noticed that wild mushrooms are available at lots of skillful fruit in addition to veg shops. I've ever been intrigued past times their gnarled shapes in addition to earthy colours and, afterwards talking close it for close half dozen weeks, I lastly got but about to truly buying some. Just a pino (on the left) in addition to a Rex brownish (on the right) from 1 of the organic shops at the Queen Vic Markets to larn me started.

To brand certain I properly appreciated their flavours, I but fried them amongst a dob of butter in addition to served them upward on lightly toasted Turkish bread. The texture of the Rex brownish was a piffling soft for my tastes, but both were quite tasty - in all probability non equally exotic or exciting equally I'd hoped, but satisfyingly earthy nonetheless. If anyone has whatever skillful tips close wild mushrooms - tasty varieties, places to larn them (buy them I should country - I'm non quite groovy plenty to pass the weekends foraging) in addition to recipes to operate them in, it'd live much appreciated.

Selasa, 25 Oktober 2016

June 27, 2007: Abla's Lebanese Restaurant

the Age's Cheap Eats Guide. Although nosotros worked 'late', nosotros were early on for dinner as well as at that spot was room for 2 "as long every bit you're finished past times 7:45". When nosotros gave the waitress our sincere promise, nosotros were generously offered a tabular array tally for 4 - enough of room to spread out. I liked our waitress' attitude, a piddling brusk but also friendly as well as efficient. I also liked the infinite - it had a dated but luxurious hold off as well as warm air. Unfortunately that glow made for a laid upwardly of actually bad photos - lamentable nearly that, Michael as well as I actually postulate to amend on our lowlight photographic idiot box camera skills.

Half Luna Cafe as well as these wide beans had a lovely dressing, pungent amongst lemon juice as well as garlic; the felafel had super-crisp shells as well as weren't likewise greasy; the loubyeh (grean beans inwards a tomato-based sauce) were pleasant but left unfinished at the destination of the meal. To launder it all down, nosotros each had a drinking glass of limonada ($3), a Lebanese lemonade amount of real, slightly pulpy lemon juice as well as a floral kicking of rosewater - none of that sugary experience against the teeth.

I actually would convey liked to drive Abla's home-made baclawa ($3), but my tum was out of room as well as nosotros were only nearly out of time. It was a pleasurable meal, of higher character as well as higher cost than the kebab-shop Lebanese we're to a greater extent than accustomed to. But to travel honest the cost hike is a fleck greater than the pleasance hike for me, as well as the inexpensive as well as cheerful establishments of Coburg may come across me a fleck to a greater extent than ofttimes than the spirited staff of Abla's.

Address: 109 Elgin St, Carlton
Ph: 9347 0006
BYO
Price: veg plates $6-$15 (aim for 1.5-2 plates per person)
Website: www.ablas.com.au

Senin, 24 Oktober 2016

June 29, 2007: Enlightened Cuisine

Edit 25/04/2017: Enlightened Cuisine is right away rebranded as Vegie Kitchen.

White Lotus, this is a really mock meat sense (chicken, duck, beef, lamb together with a diverseness of seafoods) although in that place are also tofu-based together with vege-only dishes inwards the carte du jour as well. Meals are gratis of garlic, onions together with leek together with the eating seat strives to hold upward vegan-friendly. The meals are a dollar or ii to a greater extent than hither than at the restaurant's North Melbourne ally, but for those dollars you'll have a to a greater extent than meditative atmosphere: tables are large, of lacquered night wood, together with good spaced; decorations are similarly lean together with tasteful, together with pianoforte music tinkles on the stereo.

Mindful of the few hours that the fine art gallery remained open, nosotros reluctantly skipped the entrees together with soups, heading guide for the mains. For Michael, it was Kung Po Lamb: gluten, mushrooms, capsicum together with dried chillies inwards a sweet, tangy together with somewhat fiery sauce. I idea it was swell together with I tin solely assume that Michael did besides given how apace he finished it. I tried the roasted duck: its 'skin' was super-crispy, in all probability due to the low-cal piece of occupation of plum sauce (sweet, but non syrupy). I, too, managed to clear my plate! Some to a greater extent than veges would convey made a to a greater extent than well-rounded meal, but this component subdivision size didn't sit down heavily inwards my breadbasket together with nosotros comfortably bustled on to the master copy event.

Given its closer proximity to our home, we're to a greater extent than probable to construct repeat visits to the White Lotus than Enlightenment Cuisine. However, Enlightenment Cuisine does a every bit enjoyable business of Chinese mock meats together with I may good rely on this haven in ane lawsuit to a greater extent than when I'm hungry together with inwards the shadow of the casino.

Enlightened Cuisine is right away rebranded as June 29, 2007: Enlightened Cuisine

Address: 113 Queensbridge St, Southbank
Ph: 9686 9188
BYO
Price: veg mains $12-23, rice extra
Website: www.ecuisine.com.au

June 30, 2007: Leftover Makeover - Approximately Other Fruit Crumble

choc-chip cookies were dreadfully overcooked, dark on the bottom as well as difficult on the teeth. (And no, a yoke of weeks lurking inwards a lunchbox didn't actually help, either.) So I scraped off the dark amongst a sudden knife as well as threw the balance inwards the nutrient processor amongst about extra butter. Voila - fruitless crumble. Enter 2 apples as well as 2 pears. Once baked, I garnished our crumble amongst about leftover cream. The entire incident is a heinous violation of my fruit crumble manifesto but heck, it was a Sabbatum dark inwards as well as I was using upwards leftovers. It was a mighty tasty violation, amongst all those blended upwards choc-chips.

Minggu, 23 Oktober 2016

July 1, 2007: Gingerlee

27/04/2014: Gingerlee has simply had a makeover as well as decease The Old Bike Shop Cafe. It seems that unopen to of the same cardinal staff are involved.

To welcome inwards the novel fiscal yr as well as to wishing Jo-Lyn bon voyage, nosotros booked inwards for a Dominicus morn brunch at Gingerlee. Cindy had selected Gingerlee every bit our venue subsequently inspiration from reviews past times Ange as well as Ray).

The java was first-class as well as woke me upwards plenty to brand a sensible nutrient choice. It was difficult for me to decease past times the poached eggs amongst slow-braised plain mushrooms, persian feta, avocado as well as lemon ($13), what amongst it combining close all of my breakfast favourites (a side of beans would accept topped things off completely, but there's no demand to move greedy). The eggs were poached to perfection, the avocado was ripe but non soft as well as the feta came inwards a slightly tangy olive oil. Divine. Not to bring upwards the mushrooms - delicately cooked rather than the overcooked fare that are ofttimes served upwards as well as richly flavoured - I could accept eaten twice every bit many every bit were served up. But the component size was location on actually - it's rare that I walk away from a cooked breakfast without a slightly guilty, stuffed, feeling.

Cindy was e'er going to guide the French toast - Syrian style, amongst orangish bloom syrup, dear labne, stewed rhubarb as well as pistachios ($11). Again, it sounded every bit though it had been expressly designed amongst her tastes inwards mind. And it didn't disappoint either - the sweetness toast as well as the tangy labne combining deliciously. The pistachios as well as rhubarb looked pretty dandy also (I've simply asked Cindy for comment as well as she said, "YYUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMM!" - as well as thence translate that how you lot will). Jo bravely ordered upwards the Gingerlee breakfast, which came amongst a virgin mary as well as unopen to fantastic chilli jam (which I 'borrowed' liberally). Second coffees were ordered as well as nosotros all tucked inwards as well as enjoyed our tremendous breakfasts. The infinite is pleasant as well as filled amongst natural light, the staff were helpful as well as friendly as well as the prices are pretty reasonable. Another fine add-on to the Brunswick breakfast strip.

Address: 117 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
Ph: 9380 4430
Price: Vegie breakasts $4.50 - $13
Website: They accept www.gingerlee.com.au listed on their trouble organization cards, but it doesn't appear to move working.

Sabtu, 22 Oktober 2016

July 2, 2007: Cheesy Cauliflower Soup

recipe as well as nosotros had most of the ingredients on hand, as well as then all I had to create was throw it all together. I've never eaten equally much soup equally I bring since wintertime arrived inwards Melbourne - I'm buying it for tiffin whenever we're curt of leftovers as well as we're making it nearly ane time a week. It genuinely is ideal nutrient for a drizzly Melbourne July. And, equally a bonus, it tends to last pretty straightforward. This was no exception: ane time the cauliflower as well as onion are chopped it's equally slowly equally pie. Soup pie.

The goal number is rich as well as creamy - cheers inwards no modest purpose to the loving cup of cheese that's stirred through. The cauliflower provides most of the flavour, merely the mustard seeds were a dainty touching on - making upwards for the pepper that I forgot to sprinkle through. It's likely non the healthiest soup going around, merely on a mutual frigidness rainy night, creamy comfort is far to a greater extent than of import than whatever nutritional concerns.

The recipe is from Food Lover's Journey, here.

Jumat, 21 Oktober 2016

July 4, 2007: Nut Roast

she wrote about the identify unit of measurement tradition of the roast dinner as well as the corresponding prevalence of nut roasts inwards older vegetarian gear upwards books. H5N1 roast chicken dinner was sure a business office of my identify unit of measurement life but amongst my ane nut roast endeavour final yr ending badly, I had relegated my happy roast experiences to the past. However Johanna was as well as hence fervent inwards her devotion to the tradition, as well as to her nut roast recipe, that I decided to give it some other shot. The number was naught similar my childhood chicken, but has at to the lowest degree as much flavor as well as comfort value. The small-scale total of mushrooms add together a surprising depth of flavor to the tender roasted cashews as well as almonds. We ate the loaf amongst roasted potatoes, wilted babe spinach leaves as well as the ubiquitous gravy. The side past times side day, it made an every bit enjoyable lunch, sliced onto a sandwich amongst fresh spinach leaves.

Even a repast this satisfying tin afford a few tweaks side past times side time:

1. The vegemite is a flake rigid as well as when I'm but using inexpensive stock cubes, the extra saltiness is unnecessary. Next fourth dimension I'll skip it.

2. I'll test to resist those tempting smells as well as bake this for a flake longer. Although the crust was deliciously browned as well as slightly chewy, the pump was overly moist as well as needed real gentle treatment to concur it together. The cooled leftovers were perfectly firm, however.

3. I used lazy, nasty onetime Gravox. It actually is also salty, as well as there's enough of fourth dimension piece the roast is baking to brand upwards my free-form gravy recipe.

Nut roast

1 onion, peeled as well as chopped
1 tablespoon butter
4 mushrooms, chopped finely
1 tomato, chopped finely
1 1/2 teaspoons wholemeal flour
150 mL vege stock
1 1/2 teaspoons vegemite (I'll skip it side past times side time)
2 tablespoons fresh parsley, finely chopped
100g solid soil cashews
50g solid soil almonds
100g breadcrumbs
1 egg
Pepper, to taste

Preheat the oven to 180 deg C. Line a loaf tin amongst baking newspaper as well as grease it generously.

Melt the butter inwards a medium-large saucepan as well as fry the onion until softened (5-10 minutes). Add the mushrooms as well as Lycopersicon esculentum to the saucepan as well as fry for a few to a greater extent than minutes, until the Lycopersicon esculentum begins to disintegrate. Sprinkle inwards the flour as well as stir good for a minute. Add the stock, convey to the boil until the mixture thickens. Take the saucepan off the oestrus as well as add together the remaining ingredients, combining completely.

Carefully pour the mixture into the pan as well as marking the top. Bake for 45-60 minutes - mine went inwards for an lx minutes as well as mightiness select benefited from 5-10 minutes more. It should endure well-browned as well as a flake crisp on top. Pull it out of the pan, piece carefully, as well as serve amongst roast veges as well as gravy.

Kamis, 20 Oktober 2016

July 5, 2007: Dried Reddish Quinoa Salad

infatuated amongst dried cherries after discovering them at the Queen Vic markets. Then a let out of weeks after they popped upwardly on the shelf at Safeway for the starting fourth dimension time. Unsurprisingly, the supermarket-sourced cherries weren't quite equally tasty as well as they've languished inward the pantry for the intervening calendar month or so. While I didn't desire to waste materials nighttime chocolate on them, my inferior fruits were worthy of this quinoa salad from Yeah, That "Vegan" Shit. I proved less good suited to the task, completely overestimating our quinoa reserves as well as having to substitute virtually of it amongst couscous.

While I'd prefer to rely exclusively on the super-nutritious quinoa, our salad didn't endure at all from pasta problems - at that spot are only likewise many other corking ingredients going on here. Chickpeas as well as spinach are staples inward this home, as well as add together welcome mass as well as texture; the lemon-yoghurt dressing is my ideal partner for quinoa. However the star span at this political party are the dried cherries as well as roasted almonds: fifty-fifty the briefest sit down inward this moist mixture has the cherries softening from their leathery state, piece the creamy almonds maintained their crunch fifty-fifty after floating inward this dressed salad for a day.

Be warned that the crushed raw garlic thoroughly infuses this dish, making it a risky take-to-work lunch. It's a fleck of extra endeavor but using roasted garlic powerfulness practise a milder, sweeter as well as to a greater extent than sociable salad.

Dried cherry quinoa salad

1/4 loving cup roasted almonds, chopped
1 1/2 cups quinoa, rinsed (use cous cous if you're desperate)
2 cups spinach leaves, chopped
1 loving cup dried cherries, chopped
1 cucumber; peeled, deseeded as well as diced finely
1 x 400g tin scope the sack chickpeas, rinsed

dressing:
1/4 loving cup natural yoghurt (soy or dairy)
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 clove garlic, minced

Prepare the quinoa and/or couscous (separately!) using the directions on the package as well as allow it to cool.

Whisk the dressing ingredients inward a pocket-size bowl, as well as toss the other salad ingredients together inward a large bowl. Pour over the dressing as well as toss farther to combine.

Let the salad sit down for one-half an threescore minutes to allow the flavours develop.

Rabu, 19 Oktober 2016

July 7, 2007: Mr Tulk Ii

here too brand certain you lot click on the 'movie' link. It's non quite equally adept equally the existent thing, but it's pretty great.

Anyway, this is a nutrient blog, too then directly that I've stressed how dandy the exhibition was I'll cutting to the chase: lunch. We stopped yesteryear Mr Tulk on our agency home, determined to sample something off the carte du jour later our failure to fully explore our options last time. With the wintertime pelting tumbling downwards outside, I was destined to opt for soup - creamy parsnip alongside whipped feta. Served alongside the obligatory toast (and, strangely, on a page torn out of a Charlie Chaplin biography - seemed a flake sacreligious for a cafe based inward a library to live vehement pages out of books) it was rich too hearty and, at to the lowest degree until I worked my through the feta layer, delicious. The parsnip base of operations was fine, but a lilliputian deadening ane time the feta was gone - I in all probability should convey stirred it through a flake more. Still, it both filled too warmed me up, too then I wasn't likewise disappointed.

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July 10, 2007: Parmesan In Addition To Rosemary Scones

rosemary together with cheese scones (themselves inspired yesteryear Lily's Scones) together with a few personal tweaks of convenience. I'm non the most expert at combining, kneading together with rolling inward the brief together with gentle means that yields a light, fluffy scone. Even so, an oven-warm (or lightly microwaved) specimen spread alongside butter has been a wonderful thing. These scones would indeed hold out a lovely companion to a bowl of tomato plant soup, if I hadn't relied on the canned multifariousness on this time-poor weeknight. So it was a repast that offered unopen to contentment for the present, together with anticipation of unopen to much amend hereafter dinners when my scone-kneading together with soup-making skills convey improved.

Parmesan together with rosemary scones

500g evidently flour
1 teaspoon salt

5-6 teaspoons baking pulverization (not really precise, I know, but I was finishing off a jar)

75g mutual depression temperature butter, diced
75g parmesan cheese, grated

2 teaspoons fresh rosemary, finely chopped (this is fairly subtle, yous could increase it upwards to a tablespoon if yous honey rosemary)

300mL milk
extra milk

Preheat the oven to 220 degrees C together with grease a baking tray.

Sift the flour, common salt together with baking pulverization into a large bowl. Rub inward the butter until it's evenly distributed. (Damn, I loathe this step. Might cheat together with campaign the nutrient processor side yesteryear side time.) Stir inward the grated cheese together with rosemary. Add the milk together with stir entirely until merely combined to course of written report a dough.

Lightly flour a travel surface together with briefly knead the dough. Roll it out to 3cm thick. Dip a circular cutter (I purpose a drinking glass) inward flour together with cutting out scones, placing them on the baking tray. Re-roll the final scraps of dough to brand a dyad more. You should convey most a dozen scones, although I had most seven monster-scones instead. Brush the tops of the scones alongside milk together with bake for most 10 minutes, or they rising together with plow golden.

Selasa, 18 Oktober 2016

4 Things (About My Day): One-Half A Meme

Johanna of tagged Michael together with I for a meme entitled 8 things (about my day). She creatively combined ii memes she'd been tagged for into a unmarried post. Instead we'll double the release of posts but mimic her thrift past times posting four things each.

I'll larn first! On Lord's Day July 15, I:

1. Woke real happily. I went to slumber final black amongst a crippling migraine together with was thrilled to re-enter the basis amongst a clear head. sun streaming through the north-facing windows inwards our lounge room made me doubly cheerful.

2. Had ii breakfasts. First a pocket-sized bowl of cereal at habitation together with then, towards lunchtime, a plate from Ray (you tin run into that inwards a few posts time).

3. Tried a novel food. It was gluten-free pasta inwards an instant-macaroni-cheese packet. The pasta was fine, but I didn't intend much of the bland sauce (just similar normal minute macaroni cheese!).

4. Hugged i of my oldest friends. As inwards longest-known, non most aged! Given that I'm over a m kilometres from where I grew up, this is a rare treat.

Now nosotros await for Michael's tales. Be warned, I may interrupt together with start posting most our weekend eating earlier he gets a discussion in...

Senin, 17 Oktober 2016

July 13, 2007: Brunetti Vii

Update 27/1/2019: Brunetti is yet trading, but has moved from Faraday Street into a huge custom-built infinite within Lygon Court.

previous post, I've been spending the weekend amongst a long-time friend, L. Her journeying from Brisbane was made for exclusively unselfish reasons - to innovate her internationally-acquired partner southward to some other Aussie urban gist together with to line her sis L2 away from a demanding solar daytime chore for a chip of fun. The trio managed to pack inwards a formidable 5 days of shopping, sight-seeing, eating together with catching upward amongst friends, amongst a day-and-a-half of it based at our home. On their Fri black arrival at our place, I decided to squad a welcoming home-cooked dinner amongst a really Melbourne dessert out on Lygon St.

One of my favourite moments of the weekend was presenting the really vego-skeptical southward amongst a plate of enjoyable meat-free food. Aware that he'd taken a smooth to Australia's meat pie, I prepared a muffin pan's worth of TVP mince pies, fragrant amongst a rosemary gravy. On the side were lemony potatoes amongst artichokes (I'll brand these 1 time again together with spider web log them soon) together with a handful of babe spinach leaves. Though at that spot was plenty to utter virtually together with fill upward each other inwards on, I didn't immature lady the await of wonder on S's appear upward after his firstly duet of bites or his corking credence of seconds.

An lx minutes or together with then afterwards it was on amongst the coats together with out onto Lygon St. The expansive together with varied dessert pick at Emma wins past times a whisker). Michael bravely claimed a tabular array exterior for us to squish around, together with this mild discomfort was far outweighed past times the cakes inwards front end of us together with watching the careful fine art amongst which L demolished this chocolate-topped tart:

but has moved from Faraday Street into a huge custom July 13, 2007: Brunetti VII

I picked a wintertime pudding for Michael together with he reported that I did good to jibe his tastes. It was a warm footling rendition of the bread-and-butter-pudding, a concoction amongst custard, cherries together with chocolate. For myself it was the triple chocolate mousse (pictured at the pinnacle of the post): I'm yet non actually certain how it's supposed to live eaten politely, amongst the plastic wall seeming impossible to remove. Perhaps I'm meant to genteel-ly larn out those final smears of mousse on the plastic? (No chance!) Top to bottom, this mousse is a study inwards calorie-free to dense chocolate, kickoff amongst a creamy white version together with ending amongst a firmer black mousse together with sparse chocolate biscuit layer. Its minor size proved to live to a greater extent than than plenty to satisfy my choc-o-meter.

(You tin equally good read virtually our other visits to Brunetti: one, two, three, four, five together with six!)

Minggu, 16 Oktober 2016

July 14, 2007: The Rathdowne Street Nutrient Shop Ii

here for her previous rant nigh fruit shortages on pancakes). Nice chore weblog commentors.

El Mirage's efforts), the hash-browns were every minute delicious every minute Cindy told me they would survive as well as the beans as well as mushrooms were flavoursome as well as filling. Even the toast was a winner - ane while of heavy rye as well as ane of multigrain. I was starving, but it filled me upwards to a tee.

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Sabtu, 15 Oktober 2016

July 14, 2007: Nila City

Cindy together with friends previously discovered Nila Junction inwards Brunswick together with their sense was positive plenty that, 1 time our get-go conception of Los Amates barbarous through, nosotros were cracking to drag our interstate visitors into the metropolis incarnation, Nila City. It helped that we'd but stumbled out of Hell's Kitchen bar a few doors downwardly when nosotros works life out Los Amates didn't convey room for us.

The carte du jour is bursting amongst inexpensive Indian options. Insanely cheap. Entrees from $1.95, meals from $3.95 - it's similar we'd stumbled into an Indian city. Or peradventure the 1970s. Of course, I assumed that cheapness meant modest meals together with opted for the nearly expensive vego selection on the menu: the vegetarian meal. It's basically a giant here.

Address: thirteen Degraves St, Melbourne
Ph: 9014 8822
Price: veg nutrient $1.50-$10
Website: www.nila.net.au

Again, Michael uses the incorrect log-in for his review.

Jumat, 14 Oktober 2016

July 15, 2007: Ray Ii

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July 17, 2007: Edible Bean As Well As Tortilla Bake

tortilla casserole over at Green Gourmet Giraffe. I liked the reckon of tortillas baked as well as softened past times a tomato-sauced, spicy beans as well as a crunchy, cheesy top. Even better, I had only about other package of organic corn tortillas inwards the closet to lawsuit it with. From that point, though, I only went alongside my intuition as well as the available ingredients rather than religiously next Johanna's recipe. My relatively bang-up round down tortilla layers were a successful option to Johanna's rip-'em-up approach but I didn't include plenty canned tomatoes, rendering a moist but non saucy filling. This created a farther misfortune: the chopped chipotle chilli spread its oestrus unevenly through the mix, supplying bland as well as fiery mouthfuls intermittently. These small-scale mishaps are easily addressed as well as I've noted below my intended changes for side past times side fourth dimension - I retrieve this concept definitely deserves a 2d run. This dinner, however, was saved past times a especially practiced avocado, served on the side alongside a handful of salad greens.

This dinner was real much inspired past times Johanna July 17, 2007: Bean as well as tortilla bake

Bean as well as tortilla bake

1/2 loving cup dried TVP mince
1 tablespoon oil
1 onion, chopped finely
3 cloves garlic, minced
6 push clit mushrooms, chopped
1 crimson capsicum, chopped
1 x 400g tin flaming crimson kidney beans, rinsed as well as drained
1 x 400g tin flaming crushed tomatoes (I'll double it to 800g side past times side time)
1 chipotle chilli, finely chopped, alongside 1/2 teaspoon of adobo sauce (I'll likely substitute a tablespoon of Spanish Creole Adobo spice mix side past times side time)
4-6 tortillas
2/3 loving cup abrupt cheddar, grated

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C. Rehydrate the TVP alongside an equal book of hot water.

Heat the fossil oil inwards a large saucepan as well as fry the onion until softened. Add the garlic as well as cook, stirring, for only about other minute. Next add together the mushrooms, stirring to ready evenly. After a couplet to a greater extent than minutes, add together the capsicum, beans, tomatoes as well as chilli/spice. Simmer for 10 minutes.

Pour only plenty of the edible bean filling into a casserole dish to encompass the bottom. Fit a tortilla or 2 over the top, ripping them upward to marking a unmarried layer that completely covers the dish. Alternate layers of filling as well as tortilla, finishing alongside a double layer of tortillas. Sprinkle over the grated cheese as well as bake, uncovered, until the cheese is melted as well as offset to brown.

Kamis, 13 Oktober 2016

July 18, 2007: Beetroot Pesto Pasta

A Veggie Venture. Cindy was inward the mood for a uncomplicated pesto-based pasta and, to mix things upward a little, I decided to conduct maintain a fissure at this beet pesto instead of the criterion basil option. There was a downside to this pick - the procedure of roasting beetroots is a lot to a greater extent than time-consuming than rinsing basil, but at that topographic point were upsides too: successful beet-roasting, an interesting novel pesto flavour, together with easily the pinkest repast I've e'er cooked.

By the fourth dimension the beets had spent an hr or thus inward the oven roasting, dinner was a snap - the pesto took almost iii minutes to throw together inward the nutrient processor together with and thus y'all simply stir it through around cooked pasta amongst a few mushrooms together with a combat of capsicum together with and thus dinner is served. Piece of cake. The pesto dyes the pasta shocking pink, together with adds a sweet, nutty season to what would otherwise last a fairly bland meal.

Beetroot pesto
4 beetroots
3 cloves of garlic
1/2 loving cup olive oil
1/4 loving cup pino nuts
Some leftover gruyere cheese (or whatever else is almost the house)
1 bunch of coriander

Wash the beets together with cut back whatsoever unruly stalks off. Place them inward a baking tray, splash a combat of petroleum together with balsamic vinegar over them together with and thus roast for an hr or thus at almost 200 degrees, turning a few times.

Once the beets are done (the pare volition crackle together with bubble a little, run across above), conduct maintain them out of the oven together with permit them cool. When they've stopped beingness besides hot to handle, scrape the pare off together with chop the beets coarsely.

Throw the beets together with all the other ingredients into a nutrient processor together with whiz until it's a overnice coarse texture (to last honest, for a pasta sauce, it mightiness last ameliorate to upward the olive petroleum a little).

Beetroot pesto pasta
Prepare beet pesto (above). Cook 1 package of pasta, drain. Fry around mushrooms together with capsicum inward a footling olive oil. Stir the pesto, vegies together with pasta together. Voila!

Rabu, 12 Oktober 2016

July 18-19, 2007: Nanaimo Bars

Moroccan Soup Bar together with nearly 20 well-wishers. Michael together with I thoroughly enjoyed a nighttime spent catching upward amongst a few friends together with coming together lots of novel people along the way. Amongst the conversation was a verbal recipe from a Turkish beau for the legendary yoghurt chickpea dish that's e'er finished commencement at the Moroccan Soup Bar. I madly scribbled downward notes together with volition start out experimenting at abode shortly!

But earlier all the meeting, greeting together with eating, I made a batch of Nanaimo bars equally a gift for Beth. I commencement encountered Nanaimo bars when a Canadian pupil baked them for a lab forenoon tea patch I was at the University of Queensland. They're a triple-layer no-bake piece amongst a biscuit-y base, sweetness vanilla filling together with chocolate top, claimed past times the metropolis of Nanaimo, BC. Hers were super-sweet, a niggling gooey inward the centre together with luckily, plentiful - at that spot were plenty for me to receive got a minute one, together with (3-4 years later) I nonetheless recall that the mortal sitting adjacent to me ate iv or five! Surely a process worth researching together with recreating, right?

My principal sources were the "official" recipe and, because I prefer vanilla extract to using custard powder, this vegan version. The base of operations was a chip heavy on the kokosnoot together with crumbly, thence I'd accommodate the kokosnoot together with butter proportions if I made this again. Also, I relied on ordinary black cooking chocolate for the altitude layer: it tastes fine but the overall upshot is incredibly sweet. H5N1 to a greater extent than bittersweet chocolate (such equally Lindt 70%) would likely brand a amend contrast to the sugary vanilla icing. It'll live quite a patch earlier I push clit out this recipe for around other saccharide rush, but Nanaimo bars brand an attractive together with relatively easy-to-prepare dessert.

Nanaimo bars

base layer:
1/2 loving cup butter
1/4 loving cup sugar
5 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 1/4 cups digestive biscuits, crushed
1/2 loving cup almonds, chopped
1 loving cup kokosnoot (I would cut this to 3/4 cup)

middle layer:
1/4 loving cup butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups icing sugar
1/8 loving cup milk

top layer:
140g black chocolate
2 tablespoons butter

This calendar week Beth celebrated her birthday amongst a banquet at the July 18-19, 2007: Nanaimo bars

Gently melt the butter, saccharide together with cocoa inward a saucepan. Add the egg together with stir well, thence receive got the mixture off the heat. Stir inward the biscuit crumbs, almonds together with coconut. Press the mixture firmly into a baking tray. Refrigerate patch y'all ready the adjacent layer.

Beat the butter together with vanilla until smooth, thence gradually add together the icing sugar. Pour inward the milk, a tablespoon at a time, if the mixture becomes likewise stiff. Keep beating until the buttercream is fluffy. Spread it gently onto the bottom layer:

I constitute that around of the kokosnoot together with biscuit bits lifted together with got caught inward the cream but it turned out OK inward the end. Return the tray to the refrigerator patch y'all ready the lastly layer.

Gently melt the chocolate together with butter over depression oestrus together with permit it to cool slightly. Pour it over the piece together with gently polish it out into a glossy covering. Refrigerate to laid together with carefully cutting into squares to serve.

Selasa, 11 Oktober 2016

New Index

Bulging amongst over 130 recipes together with 120 eating seat reviews, an overhaul of our indexing organization was really much inwards order. We've shifted from del.icio.us to a few tediously-created pages of our own, directly linked inwards the side-bar. Scroll downward a lilliputian farther together with you'll come across a rather slap-up label cloud! (That's Michael's fine work, of course.)

Apologies if we've been sending long together with tiresome updates to your RSS reader throughout this process. Also, delight drib us a comment if yous discovery whatever broken links or convey or together with then unproblematic ideas nearly how to brand our novel index easier to navigate.

Senin, 10 Oktober 2016

July 20, 2007: The Light-Green Grocer Ii

Update 27/2/2014: Walking past times the other day, I noticed that The Green Grocer has unopen downwardly too been replaced past times Sixteen 83 Epicerie.

I noticed that The Green Grocer has unopen downwardly too been replaced past times July 20, 2007: The Green Grocer II

I am even too hence struggling to arrange to a Melbourne wintertime too inside hours of darkness setting inwards I tend to larn lodged semi-permanently on the couch, ensconced inwards a blanket. Michael, meanwhile, suffers bouts of cabin fever every bit I bat away his invitations to company out too about. So it was his prodding that got us to a novel eating seat for dinner on Fri night. Thankfully the conditions was relatively mild on this nighttime too the Green Grocer had a fireplace to greet us at the other goal - if anything the atmosphere was a niggling besides warm too drowsifying for me.

The unmarried page carte du jour is almost meat-free from the appetisers through to the low-cal mains (ranging from $8.50-$18.50), but organic meat dominates the heavier end. This suited me fine - my appetite was low-cal too I figured that i of the larger starters should larn out me room for dessert. Despite my vague protestations, the waitress was concerned that nosotros mightiness non convey plenty to swallow too recommended a plate of staff of life too dukkah ( $5). This was an irresistible suggestion for Michael too he speedily did away alongside almost one-half the plate. Meanwhile I was battling the most strong ginger beer I'd always tasted, too was smothering the flames inwards my pharynx alongside my minute staff of life piece when our mains arrived.

Here's Michael's wild mushroom ragu alongside soft polenta, truffle crude oil too shaved parmesan ($16). He says he liked it, but it got a combat monotonous past times the end. He was to a greater extent than excited almost his drinking glass of carmine (which incidentally tasted terrible when combined alongside the residual of ginger beer inwards my mouth).

I had artichokes alongside a parmesan, parsley breadcrumb stuffing stewed inwards lemon too white vino ($12.50). The showtime few mouthfuls were the best - I could actually gustation the subtle interplay of artichoke alongside lemon. The cheese, breadcrumbs too dressing were used sparingly, allowing the artichoke a top dog exercise throughout. In these proportions it was a low-cal but comforting meal.

Unusually nosotros both constitute room for dessert, too our waitress rattled off the dozen items available - it actually was a long listing to non larn printed on the menu. I eschewed my best friend chocolate inwards favour of the viscid appointment pudding alongside butterscotch sauce ( $12.50). The butterscotch sauce too H2O ice cream (flecked alongside vanilla seeds) were top-notch, but the pudding itself didn't bowl me over. It was pleasant, a combat on the dry out side, too zilch dissimilar from whatever other appointment pudding I've tried. Would you lot believe I didn't fifty-fifty complete it? (The sauce too ice-cream were cleaned up, of course.)

Michael did improve alongside the choc-orange souffle. It was fairly theatre too cakey every bit souffles go, alongside a not-too-intense chocolate flavor that sat side past times side to the orange, rather than dominating it.

All upward it was a pleasant wintertime dinner for two, polished off alongside a walk habitation inwards the cool air. I was glad to hold upward endeavour the Green Grocer's dinner carte du jour but alongside the mouth clocking inwards at $83, the nutrient wasn't quite every bit memorable every bit I felt it should convey been.

(Read almost our previous breakfast at the Green Grocer here.)

Minggu, 09 Oktober 2016

July 21, 2007: An Edible Epilogue

three Brisbane-based friends, a surprise thank-you gift arrived at our local postal service office! Inside was a parcel of knäckebröd in addition to an avalanche of Daim bites. These became my favourite snacks on a two-month remain inwards Sweden terminal year. Knäckebröd are crisp-breads, somewhat similar Ryvita, which I enjoyed eating amongst butter in addition to vegemite. Daim bars are something else again: crisp toffee amongst a existent burnt caramel taste, coated inwards chocolate. Sticks inwards your teeth for hours, of course, but what a blissful flavour!

July 21, 2007: Walnuts

Daim bars! For the remaining handful, I volition convey to resist the toffee in addition to attempt toasting them to encounter how that affects their flavour.

Sabtu, 08 Oktober 2016

July 21, 2007: La Panella

Cindy has been agitating for a trip to Preston for a few weeks straightaway on the dorsum of this review of La Panella vegan bakery over at this is vegan melbourne. We decided to brand the trip worthwhile alongside a trip to the Preston Markets - a grungier, smaller version of QVM - it's got meat too deli sections, a petty organic stall too a make of wearable too other solid bits too pieces to larn along alongside the regular fruit too vegie stalls. We loaded upwards alongside vegies for a Dominicus black soup (watch this infinite for the recipe/review) and, alongside the scent of doughnuts driving Cindy crazy alongside hunger, headed off to respect La Panella.

It's a petty walk away along High Street and, unfortunately, doesn't convey seats or tables. It truly merely seems similar the form of suburban bakery that I yell back from my childhood - although inwards this instance you lot tin travel reasonably confident that there's no anus inwards your pie. The crowd to a greater extent than or less the counter was quite pushy too it took some observant travel from the lady behind the counter to relieve us from existence left hungry spell to a greater extent than forthcoming customers made their agency forward. We blurted our gild out too scurried across the street alongside our haul: a mushroom pie, a 'sausage' roll, a dyad of packets of love apple tree sauce too 4 doughnuts.

The pie was for me too it disappeared inwards no fourth dimension - it was the perfect bakery snack, slightly soggy pastry filled alongside gravy too unidentifiable chocolate-brown things (which I'm pretty certain truly were mushrooms) slathered inwards love apple tree sauce. In damage of sheer pie-quality, it roughshod curt of Cindy's homemade efforts, but for speed too toll (something similar $2) it was a winning effort.

Cindy opted for the sausage roll, which seemed to convey slightly crunchier pastry than the pie. The filling remains unidentified, but it fulfilled the guilty weekend tiffin business office equally good equally to a greater extent than sausage-y rolls used to dorsum inwards Cindy's meat-eating days. Again, it in all probability roughshod a fleck below the home-made version, but at $1.50, who's going to complain?

The doughnuts (so daintily held inwards the photograph below) were our dessert too were a petty disappointing afterward the aromas at the markets, if solely because they were served upwards at room temperature. I mean value at that topographic point should travel a dominion that doughnuts are solely to travel eaten fresh from the doughnut making machine. But that's merely me, Cindy seemed to convey no such qualms.

So, alongside our mouths lined alongside love apple tree sauce too bits of cinnamony saccharide too our arms laden alongside groceries, nosotros made our agency to the tram too dorsum home, alongside the weekend off to a real satisfying beginning.

Address: 465 High Street, Preston
Ph: 9478 4443
Price: Pies $2, Sausage rolls $1.50, Doughnuts 4 for $1

Jumat, 07 Oktober 2016

July 21, 2007: Fennel Leek Soup

We needed a ameliorate excuse for our trip to Preston Markets than merely the nearby bakery, hence earlier nosotros ready off nosotros dug upwards this fennel leek soup recipe from our Moosewood cookbook for Lord's Day night's dinner. It was loaded upwards heavily alongside vegetables as well as seemed similar it would move a decent winter's dinner. The recipe took a fleck longer than I anticipated - yous basically destination upwards making your ain stock for the base of operations of the soup - as well as the in conclusion production was a niggling brusk on flavor (at to the lowest degree partly due to my forgetting to lay pepper in), but yet heavy, warming as well as satisfying. The thin-sliced radishes were a fine accompaniment, equally were the croutons that Cindy made upwards from the fresh staff of life we'd picked upwards at the markets, but the whole bundle was merely slightly brusk of flavour. It's something to plow over - perchance upwards the leek content for side past times side time.

Fennel leek soup (courtesy Moosewood Restaurant's New Classics)
ane fennel bulb, trimmed
3 leeks
ii carrots, peeled as well as chopped
four large potatoes, peeled as well as chopped
ane teaspoon dried thyme
ane teaspoon fennel seeds
ii teaspoons salt
ii tablespoons olive oil
ii cups spinach, rinsed as well as stemmed
ii tablespoons chopped dill
Juice of ane lemon
10 cups of water
Thinly sliced radishes
Croutons

Trim off the odds as well as ends from the leeks as well as fennel bulb as well as rinse them (the odds as well as ends I mean) thoroughly. Keep the expert bits aside for later. Place the odds as well as ends inwards a large pot along alongside the carrots, one-half the potatoes, the thyme, fennel seeds as well as around salt. Cover alongside the H2O as well as boil for 45 minutes or an threescore minutes to brand stock.

While the stock is simmering, while the fennel bulb thinly as well as chop the white parts of the leeks up. Heat the olive fossil oil inwards a pan as well as saute the fennel as well as leek for almost fifteen minutes, until they're soft.

Strain the stock as well as and hence lay the stock, the fennel as well as leek as well as the remaining potatoes dorsum into the large pot as well as simmer it all for almost fifteen minutes. Stir inwards the spinach, dill, lemon juice as well as the balance of the tabular array salt (and the pepper!).

Puree the soup inwards batches inwards a nutrient processor until smooth. Serve it upwards alongside a handful of radish slices as well as a few croutons floating on top.

Kamis, 06 Oktober 2016

July 23, 2007: Leftover Makeover - Murphy Cakes

fennel leek soup yielded a bowl sum of limp together with soggy veges, drained of coloring together with flavor for the sake of stock. I resurrected approximately of the fennel, leek together with carrot yesteryear finely chopping them; adding approximately pepper, powdered stock together with chopped soy bacon for flavour; together with hence incorporating them into Irish Gaelic patato cakes. (The prep method here, using waxy potatoes, is a revelation.) Fresh greens together with vego Worcestershire sauce to serve. The resulting golden-fried fritters reminded me of the hash cakes (quit your giggling!) that my grandmother used to brand (I said terminate it!) from leftover boiled spuds together with corned beef.

Rabu, 05 Oktober 2016

July 26, 2007: Camy Shanghai Dumpling & Noodle Restaurant

Nila City.

Address: 25 Tattersalls Lane, Melbourne CBD
Ph: 9663 8555
BYO
Price: veg meals $3-12

Selasa, 04 Oktober 2016

July 28, 2007: Hotel Lincoln

Saturday nighttime provided our start out conduct chances to banking concern tally out the Melbourne International Film Festival. Cindy had spent all twenty-four hours preparing for the indoor picnic nosotros had scheduled for sun (coming soon!) as well as amongst a 7:30 motion painting (Snow Angels - okay, but a fleck on the bleak side) coming up, it was fourth dimension for us to discovery roughly other local dining spot to relieve both unloose energy as well as time. We're fast running out of interesting local places to investigate, but later racking our brains for a piece nosotros remembered the Hotel Lincoln, a 'foodie' pub at the southern terminate of Cardigan Street.

The pub has 2 sections - a forepart bar as well as a restaurant. Slightly confusingly, there's no existent departure inwards the sections - you lot tin lodge from the bar carte du jour inwards the eating theater as well as vice-versa. It's a fleck confusing (particularly when the menus are on blackboards important you lot accept to walk dorsum as well as forth betwixt the forepart as well as dorsum of the pub to suss out all your options). We settled into the eating theater department as well as kicked dorsum amongst a drinkable each (apparently the vino listing is quite impressive, but I was happy amongst Coopers on tap as well as Cindy wanted a lemon, lime as well as bitters).

Neither carte du jour is filled amongst vegie alternatives - I think at that spot was a curry as well as a pasta on the bar menu, but nosotros both chose from the eating theater menu: homemade pesto gnocchi amongst wilted spinach, flaked almonds as well as pecorino ($18.50) for Cindy as well as a Middle Eastern cheese as well as pino nut pastry amongst mint yoghurt ($12.50) as well as a side-salad ($5.50) for me.

The nutrient came out promptly as well as smelled delicious. Cindy's pasta was sprinkled amongst delicious cheese as well as was generously slathered inwards roughly mighty fine pesto. Gnocchi ever wears me downward past times the terminate as well as and then it proved for Cindy - she got through close three-quarters earlier filling upward and, despite a slight over-abundance of oil, she was pretty content.

Saturday nighttime provided our start out conduct chances to banking concern tally out the Melbourne International Film Fes July 28, 2007: Hotel Lincoln

My pastries came out inwards a neat lilliputian tower amongst generous slathers of yoghurt sauce as well as a proficient sprinkle of walnuts. They were cheesy as well as delicious, but my side plate of greens proved a wise deed - it mightiness accept been likewise much cholesterol for me otherwise.

The nutrient was great, the service was quick (meaning nosotros made it to the movies on time) as well as the atmosphere was pleasant - the scarcity of vego options way it may live on a piece earlier nosotros return, but I'd heartily recommend the identify to meat-eaters out there.

Address: 91 Cardigan Street, Carlton
Ph: 9347 4666
Licensed (obviously, it's a pub)
Prices: Vego mains $15-$20, entrees $10-$15

July 29, 2007: An Indoor Picnic

"meat" pies as well as party-sized non-sausage rolls as well as had a scandalize of Chinese-style barbeque sauce at the ready (for the record, the pies are easily veganised as well as there's been to a greater extent than or less give-and-take of tweaking the sausage rolls alongside silken tofu).

The pastries were truly the primary number of this meal, as well as they drew the appreciative comments, but I knew I had to feed my guests to a greater extent than or less veges too. Pictured inwards a higher house isn't a distich of pear quarters, but truly to a greater extent than or less rosemary braised fennel. This recipe comes from Clotilde Dusoulier's outset mass Chocolate as well as Zucchini: Daily Adventures inwards a Parisian Kitchen. I've only borrowed the mass from the library as well as it's a cute every bit the blog (and every bit Clotilde herself, of course!). This dish had the advantages of complementing the faint whiff of rosemary inwards the pie filling as well as of existence served at room temperature, allowing me to laid upwardly it early.

The 2d side was composed of potatoes, leeks as well as artichokes - to a greater extent than or less other dish that tin simmer away inwards a pot long earlier guests acquire inwards as well as hence hold upwardly reheated only earlier serving. The recipe comes from the lovely ladies at Mondo Organics as well as is my favourite side dish for these pies. Leftovers tin hold upwardly wrapped upwardly inwards pastry themselves every bit to a greater extent than or less other wintertime meal.

While these sides are each first-class pastry partners, they ended upwardly existence rather similar inwards colouring as well as texture. I belike would direct maintain done a fighting amend to direct only 1 of them as well as hence rely on a crisp greenish salad for a fighting of lift. Live as well as learn, right? Luckily Jo-Lyn stepped inwards alongside to a greater extent than or less crisp, fresh hit - cucumbers, mint as well as fruit for Pimms all circular (pictured at the top)! This summery gesture was supported past times a generous serving of sunlight through our north-facing windows.

You know that whatever repast managed past times me would direct maintain to include dessert, but you'll direct maintain to human face until my side past times side postal service for that one. For now, yous only acquire a distich of novel vege recipes.

Rosemary braised fennel
(from Chocolate as well as Zucchini: Daily Adventures inwards a Parisian Kitchen past times Clotilde Dusoulier)

4 small-scale fennel bulbs
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary
1/2 loving cup dry out white wine
1/2 loving cup stock
1 tablespoon lime juice

Cut the stalks off the fennel, quarter them as well as hence cutting to a greater extent than or less of the amount off - brand certain the 'leaves' are withal connected together.

In a large pan, oestrus most of the fossil oil over medium-high heat. Add close one-half of the fennel hence that they're non crowded up, as well as hence brownish them on each side. Leave 'em for a few minutes as well as don't hold upwardly likewise impatient! When the outset batch is done, transfer them to a plate as well as repeat alongside the remaining fossil oil as well as fennel.

Return all of the fennel to the pan, hence sprinkle it alongside the tabular array salt as well as rosemary. Add the wine, stock as well as lime juice, convey it to a simmer as well as cover. Turn the oestrus downwardly as well as create the fennel until tender, close 20-25 minutes. Remove the lid as well as create downwardly the liquid until it's syrupy. Clotilde reckons this volition alone accept close five minutes, but my fennel juice took at to the lowest degree fifteen minutes.

Serve warm or at room temperature.

Winter potatoes alongside artichokes, leeks as well as mint
(from a Mondo Organics newsletter)

1 x 400g tin artichoke hearts
500g potatoes, peeled
3 cloves garlic
2 tablespoons dill
3/4 loving cup olive fossil oil (I'd advise reducing this to 1/2 cup)
1/2 loving cup "chicken" stock
300g leeks, chopped
2 tablespoons mint
juice of 1/2 a lemon

Place the outset vii ingredients inwards a large saucepan or casserole dish as well as simmer on depression heat, covered, for 45 minutes or until the potatoes are tender. Stir inwards the mint as well as lemon juice only earlier serving.

Senin, 03 Oktober 2016

July 29, 2007: Cappuccino Cupcakes

indoor picnic, I baked a batch of Nigella Lawson's cappuccino cupcakes. This is solely the 2nd batch of cupcakes I've e'er attempted, yet they seemed merely the affair to relish on a checkered blanket inward the sun. It was mighty tempting to squad them amongst the espresso cupcakes on the facing page of the cookbook but amongst a concluding count of nine people inward attendance, it was to a greater extent than sensible to bound myself to merely the dozen.

I was hoping for a not-too-sweet java cake amongst bite, topped amongst something sweetness together with creamy, together with was curious to seek a cake batter that's made inward a nutrient processor. The method was equally convenient equally I'd hoped, but the flavours didn't quite alive upwardly to my expectations. The batter had a promising bitterness but it mellowed almost beyond recognition amongst baking. The icing, on the other hand, was the sweetest, sickliest affair I've encountered inward years but I approximate teaming icing carbohydrate amongst melted white chocolate volition produce that, eh? I didn't purpose upwardly the total quantity for fright of inflicting molar decay on my guests. Still, I actually similar the concept of these cakes together with I'd brand the batter in 1 lawsuit again amongst to a greater extent than or less extra coffee. The icing, on the other hand, needs a consummate overhaul: I mightiness endeavor a lightly sweetened cream cheese adjacent time.

Cappuccino cupcakes

cake:
125g self-raising flour
125g soft unsalted butter
125g castor sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 heaped tablespoon instant java pulverisation (try two!)
2-3 tablespoons milk

icing:
160g white chocolate
60g butter
120g sour cream
260g icing sugar, sieved

cocoa powder, to dust

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C. Put all the cake ingredients except the milk into a nutrient processor together with whizz 'em upwardly until combined. With the motor nonetheless run, gradually add together milk until the batter is smoothen but thick. Arrange cupcake papers inward a muffin pan together with hence spoon the batter into the papers. Bake for well-nigh twenty minutes, cool inward the pan for five minutes together with hence on a wire rack.

Only offset the icing when the cupcakes are completely cold. Gently melt the white chocolate together with butter, hence allow it cool a little. Stir inward the sour cream. Sift together with stir inward the icing sugar. Nigella suggests a fighting of hot H2O or to a greater extent than icing carbohydrate if the icing's besides thick or thin. Spread the cakes amongst the icing together with dust them amongst cocoa.