textured soups as well as the unproblematic pleasance of simply the correct slice of fresh staff of life on the side of the smoother varieties. It's the latter variety that's going to possess got over our weeknights, I mean value - minimal chopping, one-half an hr of bubbling on the stove, a quick whizz inward the nutrient processor as well as a relatively slowly as well as nutritious repast is born. This is i such example, which Michael picked upward from this website during Mon inward a bid to purpose upward a sad-looking leftover sugariness white patato inward the fridge.
Senin, 14 Desember 2020
March 26, 2007: Sweetness Murphy Soup
It's simply every bit good I'm warming to soups because there's a wisdom molar removal on my horizon!
Sweet white patato soup
a generous milkshake of vegetable oil
1 leek, chopping quite finely
3 cloves garlic, crushed
3 modest sugariness potatoes, diced
2 Massel chicken-style stock cubes, dissolved inward 1L of hot water
1/2 loving cup milk
1/3 loving cup fresh coriander, chopped finely
Heat the stone oil inward a saucepan, add together the leek as well as garlic as well as tiddler until softened. Add the sugariness white patato as well as cook, stirring occasionally, for v to a greater extent than minutes.
Add the "chicken" stock as well as select to the boil. Reduce rut as well as simmer for almost twenty minutes until the sugariness white patato has softened.
Blend the soup inward batches. Stir inward the milk as well as coriander as well as serve.
Minggu, 13 Desember 2020
March 28, 2007: Ume Nomiya
once or twice my vegetarian reservations nigh the average Japanese eating topographic point menu, together with and so I didn't answer alongside much enthusiasm... until I tasted Umi Nomiya's shiitake mushroom balls at the Flour Festival concluding weekend. They were an incredibly tasty alter from the tempura veges I ever rely on when everyone else is gobbling downward sashimi. Michael revealed that this was the eating topographic point on his wishlist together with I was forthwith much to a greater extent than amenable to a see - together with so amenable that I made a moisture umbrella-less walk to come across Michael in that location less than a calendar week later, equally the early on dinner halt on a black out.
Ume is actually to a greater extent than bar than eating topographic point - high stools along the bar, which offers a dozen kinds of sake, in all likelihood render a 3rd of the seating. It's small, dimly lit together with sparsely but elegantly furnished inward an urban-Oriental style. At half-dozen o'clock on a Midweek in that location were few punters, together with the daughter behind the bar provided us alongside casual but really helpful tabular array service. The carte is divided into sushi plates (all fishy: pass), bar snacks (two thirds vegetarian), together with mains (1 out of half-dozen is vego). The vegetarian items are clearly marked together with exclude fish, which makes skimming the options much simpler for V-kids similar us! We picked out 3 of the bar snacks to part together with settled inward alongside a beer each.
flour festival post. This turned upward several hours AFTER I wrote this review together with so nosotros didn't score the costless drink, nor has it influenced the content!
Edit (6/5/2008): Unfortunately Ume Nomiya appears to direct maintain shut (replaced alongside a really hip looking Castilian place. We're non certain whether the catering arm of the draw organization remains active.
Edit (26/10/2008): ... together with forthwith we've visited the Castilian eating topographic point inward its place, Anada. You tin read our review of it here.
Address: 197 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
Ph: 9415 6101
Licensed
Price: vege bar snacks $5-10, vege primary $14
Website: www.umebar.com
Jumat, 11 Desember 2020
March 29, 2007: Gertrude Street Grub - Radio Bar & Cafe
Wednesday night is that lack of leftovers for Th lunch. Still, it's the excuse I postulate to run downward about other Gertrude Street luncheon review. Today's lucky venue was Radio, a cosy bar almost straight across from work. I've non been at that topographic point for an eve out, but the Kirin on tap together with the erstwhile soul, reggae or funk tunes that are ever spinning on the tape histrion brand me intend it would hold upwardly a prissy identify for about post-work drinks.
During the hateful solar daytime they produce a fleck of nutrient together with about really prissy Brazilian coffee. The nutrient card is pretty limited: cereal, muesli or toasties for breakfast together with a selection of virtually v baguettes for lunch. The $6 baguettes all come upwardly amongst rocket, tomato, avocado, swiss cheese, a divine homemade mayonaise together with your selection of 'meat'. The solely vegetarian alternative is grilled eggplant, but it works pretty good amongst the residuum of the fillings, together with then I was fairly content. The baguettes are fresh together with crunchy together with all the fillings are great, but it's actually all virtually the mayo - it could brand whatever sandwich a winner.
Update: Things convey changed a niggling at Radio since this review. They've added a selection of outstanding pizzas to the luncheon menu, a daily soup exceptional together with they've broadened out the brekkie options. Everything's a niggling to a greater extent than expensive, but it's all the same my favourite luncheon identify upwardly my destination of Gertrude.
Address: 79 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
Ph: 9417 4723
Licensed
Price: Baguettes $6, Breakfast $3-$6
During the hateful solar daytime they produce a fleck of nutrient together with about really prissy Brazilian coffee. The nutrient card is pretty limited: cereal, muesli or toasties for breakfast together with a selection of virtually v baguettes for lunch. The $6 baguettes all come upwardly amongst rocket, tomato, avocado, swiss cheese, a divine homemade mayonaise together with your selection of 'meat'. The solely vegetarian alternative is grilled eggplant, but it works pretty good amongst the residuum of the fillings, together with then I was fairly content. The baguettes are fresh together with crunchy together with all the fillings are great, but it's actually all virtually the mayo - it could brand whatever sandwich a winner.Update: Things convey changed a niggling at Radio since this review. They've added a selection of outstanding pizzas to the luncheon menu, a daily soup exceptional together with they've broadened out the brekkie options. Everything's a niggling to a greater extent than expensive, but it's all the same my favourite luncheon identify upwardly my destination of Gertrude.
Address: 79 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
Ph: 9417 4723
Licensed
Price: Baguettes $6, Breakfast $3-$6
Kamis, 10 Desember 2020
March 29, 2007: Tandoori Veges Amongst Lemon Rice
Tandoori Times, I've been re-inspired past times the marinade that is thence oftentimes entirely seen on chicken. Michael noticed a pouch of tandoori spices at Spice Bazaar last weekend too straight off I had to ain it, I had to stimulate my ain paw at tandoori veges! After looking at i or 2 recipes on the internet, it was Michael who adlibbed his ain marinade too it turned out rattling well. The resulting veges didn't closely resemble their TT inspiration, but a lack of petroleum too mistaken colouring tin entirely live a skilful thing. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 hot oven doesn't give equally much charring equally I like, but nosotros did pack the veges inward pretty tightly together. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 barbeque would in all likelihood live an effective option cooking method.
What I especially enjoyed almost the Tandoori Times cauliflower was the distinct lemon tang, too this was what had me chasing upwards a lemon rice recipe equally an accompaniment. It's some other jewel from Mridular Baljekar's Low-Fat Indian Vegetarian Cookbook - the mustard seeds too cashews are a existent treat, too the luminous colouring comes non from scary mistaken lemon, but from dry soil turmeric.
Tandoori veges
Ingredients:
Lots of peeled too diced veges: nosotros used v medium potatoes, a huge carrot, a caput of cauliflower, 2 cerise capsicums too 8-10 large white mushrooms
For the marinade:
1 1/2 cups yoghurt
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon tandoori spice mix (a quick mesh search volition give you lot an stance of what dry soil spices to combine if you lot don't convey a pre-mixed combination similar ours)
juice of i lemon
1/3 loving cup water
Whisk together the marinade ingredients too a bowl. Arrange the veges inward a duet of baking dishes too pour the marinade over. Gently stir the veges or thence so that they're evenly coated inward the yoghurt mix. Let the trays sit down for one-half an sixty minutes thence that the flavours develop, thence bake at 200 degrees for almost one-half an hour. Stir the veges occasionally to recoat amongst the settled marinade.
Lemon rice
Ingredients:
1 loving cup basmati rice
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 teaspoon dark mustard seeds
a handful of cashews, roughly chopped
1/4 teaspoon dry soil turmeric
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Wash the rice inward mutual depression temperature H2O too exit it to soak for 15-20 minutes. Drain.
Heat the petroleum inward a saucepan too thence add together the mustard seeds too cashews. Let them sizzle for no to a greater extent than one-half a minute, thence take away the cashews (it doesn't affair if some of the mustard seeds come upwards out too).
Add the rice, turmeric too common salt to the saucepan too stir-fry for 2-3 minutes. Pour inward 2 cups of hot H2O too the lemon juice. Bring the rice to the boil too run along to boil for 2 minutes.
Cover the saucepan, trim the estrus to depression too produce for 10 minutes. Remove from estrus too permit the rice represent 6-7 minutes. Only at nowadays should fluff upwards the rice amongst a fork.
Serve the rice, garnished amongst the cashews.
Selasa, 08 Desember 2020
April 1, 2007: Easter Buns
her recipe for hot cross buns together with strongly encouraged her readers to endeavour making their own. Never having tried it myself, together with amongst a spare Lord's Day forenoon on hand, I decided to accept the challenge. As Melinda notes, baking amongst yeast oft puts people off: I inherited this mental attitude from my mum, who presented my teenage self amongst a decades-old box of dry out yeast sachets when I commencement raised an interest. I raised no farther questions nearly home-baked yeasty delights until a few years ago, when I finally got sick of inferior purchased pizza bases together with resolved to brand my own. My revised theory on yeast is that anyone who tin sack carefully follow a recipe together with spare or hence fourth dimension for the dough to ascent is capable of making or hence pretty skillful breadstuff products - superior to anything you'll purchase from a supermarket bakery. Beyond that it may accept or hence research, experimentation together with experience to make or hence genuinely sublime eating. I'm far from reaching that point! By the fourth dimension 1 batch of dough is inwards my stomach, I'm non at all interested inwards trying a refined recipe whatsoever fourth dimension soon.
Thankfully, this recipe proved gratifying from the really commencement mouthful. I couldn't resist breaking off 1 still-warm bun together with smearing it amongst soon-melting butter. Carbolicious bliss! As y'all tin sack in all probability see, my crosses are a chip wonky. I remember my glue could receive got been a chip to a greater extent than watery together with flexible, but ultimately I involve to piece of employment on my icing skills! Maybe amongst a chip of practise together with a hundred to a greater extent than posts, I'll live able to grade the occasion to a greater extent than attractively...
... because this is our 200th post! (We got at that topographic point inwards 225 days, which agency we're getting faster.)
I'm reproducing the method I used here, because I made a couplet of substitutions. I similar peel, not sultanas, together with my spice province of affairs was looking a chip different. But this is essentially Melinda's recipe.
Easter Buns
Ingredients:
Dough:
2 x 7g packets of dried yeast, amongst a youngster tumble that agency y'all travel 12g every bit directed past times Melinda
1/2 loving cup castor sugar
1 1/2 cups lukewarm milk
4 1/2 cups patently flour, sifted
1 teaspoon each of set down cinnamon, allspice together with ginger
1 generous milk shiver each of set down cloves, star anise together with nutmeg
50g butter, melted
1 egg
2 cups mixed citrus peel, finely chopped
Paste:
1/2 loving cup patently flour
1/3 loving cup H2O (I'll endeavour using a chip to a greater extent than side past times side time)
Glaze:
(This was a lot to a greater extent than glaze than I needed, hence y'all could larn downwards to 1/8 loving cup each)
1/4 loving cup castor sugar
1/4 loving cup water
shakes of set down cloves, star anise together with nutmeg
Place the yeast, ii teaspoons of the saccharide together with all of the milk inwards a bowl. Set it aside for 5-10 minutes, until the mixture foams.
Gently mix inwards the flour, spices, butter, egg, tegument together with remaining saccharide until y'all receive got a mucilaginous dough. Get it onto a lightly floured surface together with knead for 8-10 minutes or until it feels elastic (I definitely needed to knead inwards a chip to a greater extent than flour at this stage, because the dough was really sticky). Place the dough ball inwards an oiled bowl, roofing it amongst a tea towel, together with stand upwardly it inwards a warm identify for an lx minutes or until it has doubled inwards size.
Divide the dough into 12 pieces together with curl them into balls. Grease together with draw of piece of employment a 23cm foursquare cake tin or baking dish amongst non-stick baking newspaper together with identify the dough balls into the tin. Cover the tray amongst a tea towel together with ready it aside for thirty minutes, or until the buns receive got risen.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C. Combine the flour together with H2O for the glue together with identify inwards a piping handbag (or a plastic handbag amongst the corner snipped off) together with pipage crosses on the buns. Bake for 25-35 minutes, or until good browned together with springy to touch. Remove from oven together with brush on the warm glaze piece the buns are notwithstanding hot.
To brand the glaze, combine all ingredients inwards a minor saucepan. Stir over a medium oestrus until the saccharide dissolves, convey to the boil together with and hence simmer for ii minutes.
Senin, 07 Desember 2020
April 1, 2007: Beetroot Together With Carrot Soup
another soup. I mean value every bit wintertime comes on, we'll survive souping it upwardly to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than often. Luckily, Cindy's been keeping upwardly alongside dozens of unlike nutrient blogs in addition to taking depository fiscal establishment annotation of unopen to of the especially delicious looking recipes she stumbles across. This week's winner was the tremendously pink-looking creation on Eat Me: beetroot in addition to carrot soup.
I made a few changes, through both laziness in addition to a lack of ingredients (we likewise decided to cutting dorsum on the quantities), but it nonetheless turned out pretty well. It was slightly starchy, then I mightiness readjust the vegie proportions adjacent fourth dimension - mayhap an extra beetroot in addition to i or 2 less potatoes, but otherwise it actually hitting the spot. I'm actually getting a gustatory modality for these blended soups - it's difficult to believe that I coped for then many years without a nutrient processor.
I'll reproduced my version of the recipe here, but experience gratis to endeavour out the original instead.
1 tbsp butter
1 carmine onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 large carrots, diced
1 large/2 minor beetroots, peeled in addition to diced
1 large/2 minor potatoes, peeled in addition to diced
2 tsp terra firma cumin
1/4 loving cup milk
1 Massel chicken-style stock cube, dissolved inwards 2 cups of hot water
Salt, pepper in addition to balsamic vinegar to taste
Melt the butter inwards a large pot in addition to ready the onion in addition to garlic for nigh x minutes. Add the cumin in addition to mix it upwardly thoroughly.
Throw inwards the diced vegies in addition to add together inwards the stock - y'all actually desire a fair flake of stock to boil the vegies in. I ended upwardly padding things out alongside a flake of extra hot H2O here, then y'all may desire to merely brand upwardly to a greater extent than stock.
Simmer for 45 minutes to an threescore minutes - until all the vegies are overnice in addition to soft. Whizz the whole mix upwardly inwards a nutrient processor in addition to furnish it to the pot. Stir inwards the milk in addition to add together salt, pepper in addition to balsamic vinegar to taste.
Serve upwardly alongside unopen to fresh staff of life slices in addition to relish the warming goodness.
I made a few changes, through both laziness in addition to a lack of ingredients (we likewise decided to cutting dorsum on the quantities), but it nonetheless turned out pretty well. It was slightly starchy, then I mightiness readjust the vegie proportions adjacent fourth dimension - mayhap an extra beetroot in addition to i or 2 less potatoes, but otherwise it actually hitting the spot. I'm actually getting a gustatory modality for these blended soups - it's difficult to believe that I coped for then many years without a nutrient processor.
I'll reproduced my version of the recipe here, but experience gratis to endeavour out the original instead.
1 tbsp butter
1 carmine onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 large carrots, diced
1 large/2 minor beetroots, peeled in addition to diced
1 large/2 minor potatoes, peeled in addition to diced
2 tsp terra firma cumin
1/4 loving cup milk
1 Massel chicken-style stock cube, dissolved inwards 2 cups of hot water
Salt, pepper in addition to balsamic vinegar to taste
Melt the butter inwards a large pot in addition to ready the onion in addition to garlic for nigh x minutes. Add the cumin in addition to mix it upwardly thoroughly.
Throw inwards the diced vegies in addition to add together inwards the stock - y'all actually desire a fair flake of stock to boil the vegies in. I ended upwardly padding things out alongside a flake of extra hot H2O here, then y'all may desire to merely brand upwardly to a greater extent than stock.
Simmer for 45 minutes to an threescore minutes - until all the vegies are overnice in addition to soft. Whizz the whole mix upwardly inwards a nutrient processor in addition to furnish it to the pot. Stir inwards the milk in addition to add together salt, pepper in addition to balsamic vinegar to taste.
Serve upwardly alongside unopen to fresh staff of life slices in addition to relish the warming goodness.
Minggu, 06 Desember 2020
April 4, 2007: Wednesday Black Mexican
It's been a piece since nosotros entertained anyone inward our home, but roughly newcomers to my workplace provided a proficient argue to describe out the biggest saucepan too purchase an extra 6-pack of beer. Tracy too her partner Lee are the latest Brisbane migrants to Melbourne's inner N too from fifty-fifty farther afield (the Northern Territory!), Beth has at 1 time taken upwards residence at a desk side yesteryear side to mine. On Wed eve they gave me an hr or hence caput showtime from the role to gear upwards up a Mexican-themed dinner at home.
On my previous night's planning, I made the determination to move along this weeknight repast quite casual too low-stress. This meant no-fuss appetisers too desserts, too a serve-yourself top dog course. Michael had picked out roughly perfectly ripe avocadoes too it didn't accept also long to mash them alongside a really juicy lime too stir inward roughly finely chopped crimson onion too a flake of sour cream. Voila! Tangy guacamole. I brought out the Chilli Factory salsa every bit a spicy side, too in that location were Coronas all round.
Michael tin accept most of the credit for dinner - an enormous pot of TVP/red edible bean chilli. This is the variety of hearty vegetarian dish that ensures we'll never hanker for spag bol: thick love apple tree sauce alongside chopped veges, crimson kidney beans too our favourite pseudo-mince ladled into bowls too garnished alongside a dab of sour cream. My contribution was to whip upwards a cheesy cornbread batter too bake it inward a muffin tray. We kept the chilli too cornbread minimally spicy, offering pickled jalapenos too finely diced chipotles to cater for the varying tastes too tolerances amid us.
For once, I showed a flake of restraint on the dessert front. Rather than poring over cookbooks for days too baking something rich too labour-intensive, I turned to Allergy Block for roughly theme-appropriate chocolate. I constitute the Green too Black's Maya Gold I was later on too also picked upwards roughly other doozy - dark chocolate with cayenne! Good intelligence that it's organic, vegan too made alongside ethically-purchased cocoa. It was a pleasant 70% cocoa block too a deadening burner - I was chewing for a proficient 5 seconds earlier I detected the cayenne, but it's an unmistakable estrus at the dorsum of the pharynx 1 time it does arrive. The G&B's was everything I remembered it to be: shine but non waxy too alongside an intensely orangish too subtly spiced edge.
Admittedly this was a flake to a greater extent than involved than our green weeknight meal, but nosotros lost naught inward stripping the bill of fare dorsum from my to a greater extent than elaborate efforts of the past. When the guests get got left too I'm stacking the dishwasher, I experience to a greater extent than satisfied from having spent fourth dimension inward proficient companionship than I e'er volition from huddling inward the kitchen for hours on end, trying to print alongside risky too complicated food.
Chilli alongside TVP
(from Moosewood Restaurant New Classics)
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 crimson onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon set down cumin
1 tablespoon set down coriander
1-2 teaspoons chilli powder
1 medium zucchini, diced
1 large crimson capsicum, diced
2 cups of TVP, re-hydrated inward 2 cups of hot water
2 x 800g cans crushed tomatoes
2 x 800g cans crimson kidney beans, rinsed too drained
2/3 loving cup love apple tree paste
2 tablespoons fresh parsley, finely chopped
Tabasco or other hot sauce to taste
salt, to taste
optional garnish of grated cheese or sour cream
Heat the petroleum inward a large saucepan, frying the onions too garlic until soft. Add the cumin, coriander too chilli pulverisation too stir well. Next add together the diced zucchini too capsicum, embrace too gear upwards for three minutes. Stir inward the TVP too gear upwards for a few to a greater extent than minutes until it's heated through. The canned tomatoes too beans larn inward next, hence lastly the parsley too seasonings. The chilli tin rest covered on a depression to medium heat, alongside occasional stirs, if you lot are preparing other nutrient (such every bit delicious cornbread!). If the chilli is thicker than you lot prefer, sparse it out alongside a footling H2O or stock only a infinitesimal or ii earlier serving. To serve, ladle the chilli into bowls or mugs too garnish if you lot wish.
Cajun Cornbread
(from Kurma Dasa's World Vegetarian Food)
1 loving cup polenta
1/2 loving cup obviously flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon paprika (substitute roughly or all of this alongside cayenne if you lot like)
1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
1/4 teaspoon freshly set down dark pepper
2 tablespoons minced dark-green chillies (optional)
1 loving cup buttermilk
3 tablespoons oil
3/4 loving cup grated tasty cheese
Preheat the oven to 220 degrees C. Combine the dry out ingredients, polenta through to the optional chillies, inward a bowl too mix well. In a sort out pocket-size bowl, whisk together the buttermilk too oil. Combine the dry out too moisture ingredients (don't over-mix) too crimp inward the grated cheese. Spoon the mixture into a greased loaf pan, pie dish or muffin tray (I made 8 pocket-size muffin portions). Bake for close xx minutes or until golden on top. Serve warm.
Chilli alongside TVP
(from Moosewood Restaurant New Classics)
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 crimson onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon set down cumin
1 tablespoon set down coriander
1-2 teaspoons chilli powder
1 medium zucchini, diced
1 large crimson capsicum, diced
2 cups of TVP, re-hydrated inward 2 cups of hot water
2 x 800g cans crushed tomatoes
2 x 800g cans crimson kidney beans, rinsed too drained
2/3 loving cup love apple tree paste
2 tablespoons fresh parsley, finely chopped
Tabasco or other hot sauce to taste
salt, to taste
optional garnish of grated cheese or sour cream
Heat the petroleum inward a large saucepan, frying the onions too garlic until soft. Add the cumin, coriander too chilli pulverisation too stir well. Next add together the diced zucchini too capsicum, embrace too gear upwards for three minutes. Stir inward the TVP too gear upwards for a few to a greater extent than minutes until it's heated through. The canned tomatoes too beans larn inward next, hence lastly the parsley too seasonings. The chilli tin rest covered on a depression to medium heat, alongside occasional stirs, if you lot are preparing other nutrient (such every bit delicious cornbread!). If the chilli is thicker than you lot prefer, sparse it out alongside a footling H2O or stock only a infinitesimal or ii earlier serving. To serve, ladle the chilli into bowls or mugs too garnish if you lot wish.
Cajun Cornbread
(from Kurma Dasa's World Vegetarian Food)
1 loving cup polenta
1/2 loving cup obviously flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon paprika (substitute roughly or all of this alongside cayenne if you lot like)
1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
1/4 teaspoon freshly set down dark pepper
2 tablespoons minced dark-green chillies (optional)
1 loving cup buttermilk
3 tablespoons oil
3/4 loving cup grated tasty cheese
Preheat the oven to 220 degrees C. Combine the dry out ingredients, polenta through to the optional chillies, inward a bowl too mix well. In a sort out pocket-size bowl, whisk together the buttermilk too oil. Combine the dry out too moisture ingredients (don't over-mix) too crimp inward the grated cheese. Spoon the mixture into a greased loaf pan, pie dish or muffin tray (I made 8 pocket-size muffin portions). Bake for close xx minutes or until golden on top. Serve warm.
Sabtu, 05 Desember 2020
April 5, 2007: Shakahari Ii
Cindy together with I marked the starting fourth dimension of the Easter long weekend amongst a jaunt to Cinema Nova to come across here.
April 6, 2007: Carry Populace Bar
Post-modern sculpture? If it looks to you lot similar the variety of overblown interpretive concrete geometry that belongs inward a populace infinite such equally Federation Square you're getting warmer. It's truly the deck article of furniture at Transport Public Bar (perhaps you lot noticed the white sneaker toe only by the scarlet padded seat). Even amongst nearly retail outlets closed, the metropolis (and the pub) were healthily populated on Good Friday. With books too blankets, Michael too I sought an lx minutes or two's refuge inward the metropolis gardens earlier our growling stomachs led us dorsum to the concrete commons too the deep-frier. (Ironically, the Transport populace bar claims an "emphasis on organic meals too environmental design". With non a leafy light-green to last seen, nosotros truly missed their point.)
While much idea has clearly gone into the modern pattern of the Transport populace bar, it's to a greater extent than pub than trendy bar. It's a house for a beer, a steak or burger amongst chips too mayhap a yell at the footy on hide - non truly somewhere to last seen, too definitely non the house for a date. In the absence of whatever televised football, this was only fine for us - an opened upwardly ceiling too wall of louvres allow the Sun too 'fresh' metropolis air inward too provided ample sentiment of the Swanston St goings-on.
The carte du jour at the bar has a few vego options. Michael was good pleased to run into a veggie burger (with chips, $10) amidst them, too I predictably had eyes solely for the chips ($6.50). They were of a pretty expert standard, I mean value they were lightly battered for extra crunch, amongst a sizable dose of seasoning. Get 'em downwards quick, though, because they're far less interesting in ane lawsuit lukewarm. The Lycopersicon esculentum sauce too capsicum mayo were portioned quite generously, but were average inward flavour. Michael's burger was an first-class residue of crunchy too chewy, fried too fresh, but the potato-heavy patty is a chip much given that the prescribed side is a handful-and-a-half of chips.
When solely partially full, the Transport populace bar is a pleasant (and well-located) house to sit down dorsum amongst a friend, a beer, too a salty snack or meal. For this role a vegetarian is only equally probable to relish it equally whatever other punter.
Address: Ground Floor, Transport Hotel, Federation Square, cnr of Flinders too Swanston Streets, Melbourne CBD
Ph: 9654 8808
Licensed
Price: veg mains $10-13
Website: www.transporthotel.com.au
When solely partially full, the Transport populace bar is a pleasant (and well-located) house to sit down dorsum amongst a friend, a beer, too a salty snack or meal. For this role a vegetarian is only equally probable to relish it equally whatever other punter.
Address: Ground Floor, Transport Hotel, Federation Square, cnr of Flinders too Swanston Streets, Melbourne CBD
Ph: 9654 8808
Licensed
Price: veg mains $10-13
Website: www.transporthotel.com.au
Jumat, 04 Desember 2020
April 6, 2007: Leftover Makeover - Mexican Toastie
Wednesday black Mexican comes Fri night's dinner: a toasted sandwich filled amongst chilli too tasty cheese too topped amongst guacamole.
Kamis, 03 Desember 2020
April 7, 2007: Cafe 3A
Update 31/12/2014: Cafe 3A is closed.
The carte du jour makes for impressive reading. The savoury breakfasts are egg-based, but alongside a few intriguing variations from the measure fare. Slightly exotic ingredients similar capers, olive tapenade as well as goat's cheese are dotted throughout the carte du jour as well as y'all tin create your ain brekkie from a base of operations of eggs on sourdough. I decided to skip the poached eggs for a alter as well as instead opted for a vegetarian omelette (see above), filled alongside blood-red peppers, goat's cheese, salsa verde as well as capers. It was quite tasty - the capers inward detail providing tiny bursts of flavor equally my teeth located them. Unfortunately it was all a flake dry out - the toast came without butter (although I could convey asked if I actually cared), as well as the omelette seemed only slightly overcooked. I was hoping that the salsa verde would hold upwardly a form of sauce for the omelette, but it had instead been stirred though the omelette mix. It was fine (and quite inexpensive at $9.50), but the positive things I'd read elsewhere had me hoping for more.
Cindy spent a skilful land studying the sugariness breakfast options on the carte du jour - at that spot were 2 wonderful sounding choices. First of all, turkish breadstuff slathered alongside rhubarb, strawberry as well as nectarine compote, alongside cinnamon as well as juniper berries, organic yoghurt as well as pistachios (for a remarkable $6.50). There was besides a french toast dish, incorporating sour cherries, roasted almonds as well as cherry syrup ($8.50). After much humming as well as hahing, Cindy bizarrely opted for something off the tiffin menu: a vegetarian panini alongside plum chutney, avocado, goat's cheese as well as rocket ($8.50). I stole a tiny gustatory modality of the cheese as well as chutney, both of which were wonderful - it made me wonder where the goat's cheese had gone inward my omelet, the flavor didn't compare at all. Cindy raved almost the fresh avocado as well as she seemed rattling content alongside her surprisingly non-dessert styled breakfast.
Address: 3A Edward Street, Brunswick
Ph: 9380 4996
Licensed
Prices: Veg brekkies $3.50-$10, lunches $8.50-$10
Cafe 3A roughly the corner was opened upwardly for business.
The carte du jour makes for impressive reading. The savoury breakfasts are egg-based, but alongside a few intriguing variations from the measure fare. Slightly exotic ingredients similar capers, olive tapenade as well as goat's cheese are dotted throughout the carte du jour as well as y'all tin create your ain brekkie from a base of operations of eggs on sourdough. I decided to skip the poached eggs for a alter as well as instead opted for a vegetarian omelette (see above), filled alongside blood-red peppers, goat's cheese, salsa verde as well as capers. It was quite tasty - the capers inward detail providing tiny bursts of flavor equally my teeth located them. Unfortunately it was all a flake dry out - the toast came without butter (although I could convey asked if I actually cared), as well as the omelette seemed only slightly overcooked. I was hoping that the salsa verde would hold upwardly a form of sauce for the omelette, but it had instead been stirred though the omelette mix. It was fine (and quite inexpensive at $9.50), but the positive things I'd read elsewhere had me hoping for more.
Cindy spent a skilful land studying the sugariness breakfast options on the carte du jour - at that spot were 2 wonderful sounding choices. First of all, turkish breadstuff slathered alongside rhubarb, strawberry as well as nectarine compote, alongside cinnamon as well as juniper berries, organic yoghurt as well as pistachios (for a remarkable $6.50). There was besides a french toast dish, incorporating sour cherries, roasted almonds as well as cherry syrup ($8.50). After much humming as well as hahing, Cindy bizarrely opted for something off the tiffin menu: a vegetarian panini alongside plum chutney, avocado, goat's cheese as well as rocket ($8.50). I stole a tiny gustatory modality of the cheese as well as chutney, both of which were wonderful - it made me wonder where the goat's cheese had gone inward my omelet, the flavor didn't compare at all. Cindy raved almost the fresh avocado as well as she seemed rattling content alongside her surprisingly non-dessert styled breakfast.Address: 3A Edward Street, Brunswick
Ph: 9380 4996
Licensed
Prices: Veg brekkies $3.50-$10, lunches $8.50-$10
Rabu, 02 Desember 2020
April 7, 2007: Pizza Meine Liebe
food blog to see precisely the same restaurant. But nosotros bided (bode? bid?) our fourth dimension for a Northcote gig earlier getting ourselves a vague booking at Pizza Meine Liebe. (Vague inwards that they consented to writing downward the reservation but idea that at that topographic point powerfulness last unopen to other grouping nonetheless finishing their repast at that tabular array - equally it happened, the tabular array was build clean as well as prepare to work on our punctual arrival.)
Tonight our booking was for 3 - along for the ride was my young-at-heart aunt Carol, who would also last joining us at the Northcote Social Club for unopen to indie rock. Glancing at the circles traced on the wall, nosotros presently agreed to percentage 2 large pizzas but required unopen to to a greater extent than bargaining fourth dimension to handle on the toppings. There's a page-long listing alongside extra specials, also - non precisely traditional (as evidenced yesteryear the Queenslander as well as Ozzi pizzas inwards Mellie's review), but carefully grouped into complementary flavours (nothing irritates me to a greater extent than than a unmarried 'vegetarian pizza' alternative on a menu, consisting of every non-meat production inwards the pantry). Multiple vegetarian choices were scattered throughout the list, as well as I suspect that the staff would willingly omit the meat from unopen to of the non-veg choices too. Our terminal consensus was to social club a Madame Pi Pi (mozzarella, pumpkin, porcini, rocket as well as fetta; $17) as well as from the specials list, Rosemary iv Michelle (mozzarella, taleggio, potatoes, slow-cooked onions as well as rosemary; $17.50).
Oskar as well as at I Carusi. The departure I noted was that the pizza trays are liberally greased alongside stone oil but don't worry, we're non getting into icky Pizza Hut territory here! Similarly I was pleased that the cheeses played restrained roles rather than creating a congealed as well as oily elevation layer. Madame Pi Pi was a delicious clash of sweetness as well as tender pumpkin against fresh leafy rocket - the porcinis were flavoursome but scarce. I enjoyed Rosemary iv Michelle to a greater extent than than my similar social club at Oskar - the cheese was to a greater extent than subtle as well as the onions were eye-rollingly soft as well as sweet. Some slices had only the correct aromatic hitting of rosemary, spell others left me needing more. It takes a flake of tending for the bread/potato/cheese combination to overstep its heavy, obese foundation!
Comparison to I Carusi runs farther than the pizza bases, alongside loud conversation bouncing off the walls as well as efficient, hip staff who autumn only curt of friendly. Oskar nonetheless tops Michael's pizza listing as well as nosotros alive closer to I Carusi, but I'd similar to revisit Pizza Meine Liebe adjacent fourth dimension there's a gig inwards Northcote - non to the lowest degree because nosotros skipped dessert.
Address: 231 High St, Northcote
Ph: 9482 7001
BYO & licenced
Price: veg pizzas $11-20
Selasa, 01 Desember 2020
April 8, 2007: Peanut Bread
I am steadily accumulating a recipe wish-list from other nutrient blogs in addition to alongside a relatively gratis in addition to slow Easter weekend at hand, I decided to knock i to a greater extent than down. This sum of spare fourth dimension made to a greater extent than yeast activity a possibility in addition to hence I travel retrieved i of my earliest bookmarks, for toasted peanut bread. I came across the recipe when Heidi wrote most it on 101 Cookbooks, but the recipe is originally from The Soul of a New Cuisine yesteryear Marcus Samuelsson. It's a curious African-style mix including kokosnoot milk in addition to your ain spicy home-made peanut butter. As bread-baking volition do, this recipe takes a piece to teach together, hence fills your household alongside a rattling homely aroma in addition to is delicious direct out of the oven alongside a chip of butter. Even cooled, it has a warm tint of chilli powder, in addition to the texture is a chip to a greater extent than cakey in addition to less spongey than I await from bread.To live perfectly honest, the kneading in addition to feeding of abode yeast-baking isn't equally therapeutic for me equally it is for Nigella in addition to many other abode cooks. As pleasant equally this recipe was, it didn't thrill me plenty to justify the hours spent in addition to the kitchen mess made. I'll belike give yeast a residuum (pun unintended) for a while, alongside the exception of pizza!
Peanut bread
1 x 400mL tin kokosnoot milk
3 tablespoons honey
1 sachet active dry out yeast (7g, I think)
1 1/2 cups peanuts
1 1/2 teaspoons chilli powder
1/2 teaspoon position down cumin
2 1/2 cups obviously flour
2 1/2 cups wholemeal flour
1 teaspoon salt
60g butter, melted
Pour the kokosnoot milk into a minor saucepan in addition to convey to the boil. Add the dearest in addition to stir until dissolved. Remove from the estrus in addition to allow it cool until it's simply lukewarm. Whisk inwards the yeast in addition to allow it stand upwards until frothy, 5-10 minutes.
While you're waiting for the kokosnoot milk to cool or froth, estrus upwards a frypan in addition to toast the peanuts for a duad of minutes, until they're golden in addition to smelling de-li-cious. Add the chilli pulverization in addition to cumin in addition to toast, stirring, until they're bursting alongside spicy smells too. Let them cool a bit, hence blend inwards a nutrient processor until you've got a polish paste.
In a large bowl, combine the flours in addition to salt. Add the butter, kokosnoot milk in addition to peanut glue in addition to mix together carefully. It's hard to teach all of the peanut butter mixed in, in addition to it doesn't wound to induce got simply a piddling marbling visible. Plonk the dough onto a floured surface in addition to knead for most five minutes. Then it's into a greased bowl, covered alongside a tea towel to ascent for 1 1/2 hours, or until doubled inwards size.
Butter i large or 2 minor loaf pans. Mush upwards the dough into i or 2 loaf shapes in addition to plonk it/'em into the pan(s). Cover them in i trial again in addition to give the dough or hence other xl minutes of rising time.Bake inwards a 280 degrees C oven for most 35 minutes.
Senin, 30 November 2020
April 9, 2007: Cream-Cheese Brownies
Many moons ago, for some no-longer-fathomable reason, I told Cindy I'd bake her a cake for her birthday. All sorts of things conspired against me genuinely doing so (for starters, she was swanning almost Brisbane on her birthday spell I was even so downward here) as well as it had perish something of a running joke inward the subsequent months. With iv fairly empty Easter weekend days to fill, it finally happened - I baked for Cindy.I insisted that the baked goods move of her choosing, but that they had to move from Nigella Lawson's 'How to Be a Domestic Goddess'. This was partly due to the startling ratio of its toll to the break of things Cindy has made from it as well as partly due to my wish to experience similar a fully fledged goddess. Just i time inward my life. After much careful browsing (mostly inward the chocolate department it must move said), Cindy settled on cream-cheese brownies. I induce got a sneaking suspicion that she combined remain of training amongst perceived deliciousness inward her pick criteria, but I'm non going to complain.
Now I'm non genuinely a baking human - I've never been enthusiastic plenty almost sugariness things to justify all the endeavor that goes into their preparation. But my mind occupation I intend is all the fiddly precision that's required - I'd prefer recipes that asked for a slosh, sprinkle or chunk of something rather than those that specify things correct downward to the 1/4 teaspoon. And equally presently equally something goes fifty-fifty slightly incorrect I only autumn to pieces.
This recipe started well, amongst lots of fairly straightforward tasks similar whisking eggs as well as melting butter but things began to perish off the rails when it asked me to draw of piece of work a baking tin. I'm all for making things slowly to extract from cooking receptacles, but greaseproof newspaper as well as I are non skillful friends. I tin laissez passer notice never larn inward sit down properly as well as whatever pretence at neatness presently flies out the window. Dominicus was no exception. Things weren't helped past times the mixture non quite filling the pan too equally I'd induce got liked (see - the tiniest piffling things tin laissez passer notice gear upwards me off when I'm baking) as well as past times the awkwardness of slicing 'spreadable' cream cheese. But, amongst a piffling aid from Cindy (mainly amongst the pan-lining), I struggled through and, inward the end, I was pretty proud of my efforts. The brownies could belike induce got used some other 5 minutes inward the oven, but they're a credible origin effort: the cheese ended upwards inward a fairly well-defined layer, the dough was moist, gluey as well as chocolatey and, most importantly, Cindy chomped i downward gleefully. I must induce got done something right.
Cream-cheese brownies
125g night chocolate
125g butter
2 large eggs
200g caster sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
75g manifestly flour
pinch of salt
200g mutual depression temperature Philadelphia (or some other cream cheese that is to a greater extent than amenable to beingness sliced)
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
Melt the chocolate as well as butter inward a saucepan over depression heat.
While it's all turning to mush, combine the flour as well as the common salt inward a bowl as well as whisk the eggs inward some other bowl amongst the saccharide as well as the vanilla extract (Nigella suggests "idly beating" the eggs, but I intend only manifestly whisking volition do).
Just earlier the finally of the chocolate is melted, induce got the saucepan off the oestrus as well as permit it cool for a few minutes. Once it's cooled slightly, stir inward the egg as well as saccharide mixture as well as and then the flour as well as salt. Beat the mixture until it's smooth.
Pour almost one-half the mixture into a smallish baking tin (the recipe suggests a 23cm foursquare tin, 4 cm deep - I'd perish for something slightly smaller if possible) that has been greased as well as lined.
Slice the cream cheese equally finely equally y'all tin laissez passer notice as well as layer it on pinnacle of the brownie mixture inward the tin. If you've got problems slicing cream cheese (as I did), you'll honour this pace is to a greater extent than almost smearing than layering. Still, equally long equally there's a skillful layer of cream cheese on pinnacle of the brownie mush, things volition move okay.
Finally, pour the residue of the brownie mixture on pinnacle of the cream cheese layer as well as smoothen things out so that none of the cheese is peeking out as well as the whole affair is a) vaguely rectangular as well as b) about smooth.
Bake for almost 20 minutes, perchance a piffling longer if y'all similar the within of the brownies to move alone slightly moist as well as sticky. Once it's done, permit the tray cool as well as and then extract the slab of brownie (aren't things slowly when you've lined your tray?) as well as piece into appropriately sized pieces.
Minggu, 29 November 2020
Sabtu, 28 November 2020
April 11, 2007: Leftover Makeover - Savoury Breadstuff Pudding
loaves of bread in addition to yous tin exclusively materials yourself alongside thence much during that start solar daytime of freshness. What to create alongside the balance - French toast? Bread in addition to butter pudding? Thing is, this bread's got chilli in addition to cumin going on! Lucky for me, Heidi from 101 Cookbooks of late demonstrated that staff of life pudding goes downwards only equally sweetly when it's made inwards savoury form. I used her recipe for the telephone substitution ingredients in addition to proportions in addition to got my ain slightly dissimilar combination of flavours going - push mushrooms, shallots, flat-leaf parsley in addition to parmesan. Served alongside a salad of babe spinach leaves in addition to strips of roasted reddish capsicum, this made for a really tasty in addition to satisfying dinner - a existent autumn/winter warmer. Leftovers are nifty re-heated or at room temperature.
Savoury staff of life pudding
500g of stale bread, sliced or cubed
2 shallots, chopped finely
2 cups push mushrooms, sliced
1 tablespoon continental parsley leaves, roughly torn
3 cups milk
1 stock cube, dissolved inwards 1 loving cup hot water
3 eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 teaspoon freshly terra firma dark pepper
1 loving cup parmesan cheese, grated
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C in addition to lightly grease a baking dish.
Arrange the staff of life inwards the dish in addition to and thence layer it alongside the shallots, mushrooms in addition to parsley. If your bread's cubed, mix it upwardly a bit; otherwise yous could tuck only about of the veges betwixt the staff of life slices.
Whisk together the milk, stock, eggs in addition to pepper. Pour it evenly over the bread, in addition to and thence sprinkle over the grated cheese.
Bake for close 45 minutes, until the cheese is browned in addition to there's no liquid inwards the core of the pudding. Let it sit down out of the oven for close 10 minutes earlier serving.
Kamis, 26 November 2020
April 14, 2007: Q11
CERES, Queen Vic, Collingwood, as well as Prahran. We've slacked off a fleck lately - spending our weekends hanging some the northern suburbs rather than heading off into the residuum of the city. This weekend nosotros live got dorsum into the swing of things, amongst a trip to the South Melbourne markets via breakfast on Coventry Street. Knowing total good that yesteryear the fourth dimension nosotros made it across the river we'd live starving, nosotros skimped on our query barely consulting Melbourne breakfast experiences.
Address: 303 Coventry Street, South Melbourne
Ph: 9645 7311
Licensed
Price: Veg breakfasts: $6 - $15
Website: www.qeleven.com.au
Address: 303 Coventry Street, South Melbourne
Ph: 9645 7311
Licensed
Price: Veg breakfasts: $6 - $15
Website: www.qeleven.com.au
Rabu, 25 November 2020
April 15, 2007: Wonton Soup
In our explorations of the South Melbourne Markets, nosotros stumbled onto Mama Tran's dumpling store - they brand the dumplings piece yous lookout adult man as well as sell them inwards packs of ix for $5.90. I'm certain proper foodies would conduct keep bought all the ingredients from the fresh stalls at the markets as well as thus made their ain petty vegie parcels, but I was happy to accept the tardily agency out as well as selection upward a pack of pre-made dumplings.
The conception for the dumplings was but about kind out of improvised won-ton soup: a big pot filled amongst garlic, vegie stock, soy sauce, rice vino vinegar, a dash of kecap manis, a few dried chillies, but about chinese cabbage as well as carrot peelings as well as the dumplings, all boiled together into a delicious soup. It was thrown together pretty much off the pinnacle of my head, but things turned out good - spicy as well as richly flavoured, amongst but plenty of the dumplings to fill upward us up. Tremendous.
The conception for the dumplings was but about kind out of improvised won-ton soup: a big pot filled amongst garlic, vegie stock, soy sauce, rice vino vinegar, a dash of kecap manis, a few dried chillies, but about chinese cabbage as well as carrot peelings as well as the dumplings, all boiled together into a delicious soup. It was thrown together pretty much off the pinnacle of my head, but things turned out good - spicy as well as richly flavoured, amongst but plenty of the dumplings to fill upward us up. Tremendous.
April 16, 2007: Indian-Spiced Potatoes
posted a recipe that would transform our Eastern vegetarian burgers into Eastern vegetarian burgers and chips! These are chips of the self-saucing variety, moist alongside a glue of garlic, ginger together with ghee together with luridly yellowish cheers to turmeric together with yes, to a greater extent than ghee. If anything, these spuds were a flake likewise oily for my gustation thus side past times side fourth dimension I'll start alongside ii tablespoons of the ghee together with thus upwardly it to iii if they hold back similar they tin soak upwardly a flake more. Now that I've had 'em, I don't mean value I'll locomote making these burgers without 'em.
Indian-spiced potatoes
500g of waxy potatoes
salt
a thumb-sized slice of ginger
3 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon solid set down turmeric
4 tablespoons ghee (next fourth dimension I'll role 2-3 tablespoons)
1 teaspoon fennel seeds
Scrub the potatoes, house inwards a saucepan, comprehend alongside mutual frigidity H2O together with add together a pinch of salt. Bring the potatoes to the boil together with thus simmer them until tender. Drain, cool, together with dice.
Peel together with coarsely chop the ginger together with garlic. Add them to a mortar alongside the turmeric together with a teaspoon of salt, pound it all together into a paste. Lucy says you lot could role a nutrient processor instead, together with inwards that illustration you lot mightiness require to add together a few tablespoons of H2O too.
Warm the ghee inwards a frying pan together with showtime add together the fennel seeds. Let them sizzle together with sputter for a few seconds earlier reducing the heat. Add the spice glue together with stir-fry for a twain of minutes.
Next inwards larn the diced potatoes - plough the rut upwardly i time again together with continually stir the potatoes for nearly 10 minutes equally they cook. Hopefully they'll prepare a flake of a crispy peel together with your self-saucing chips are done!
Senin, 23 November 2020
April 18, 2007: Crunchy Chewy Chocolate Clusters
we entertained Beth inwards our home, the run a jeopardy daughter did or thence serious harm to her human foot spell stone climbing! She'll move stuck inwards infirmary for several weeks, amongst surgical procedure together with months of recovery to come. After hearing the tidings on Tuesday afternoon, a pocket-size delegation was swiftly organised to view her for luncheon on Midweek - obviously the infirmary nutrient is depressingly bland. As I walked domicile on Tuesday evening, I racked my encephalon for or thence pocket-size but flavour-packed offering that I could throw together without likewise much fuss. H5N1 most successful solution came from ingredients already inwards the closet after I made a crucial connectedness betwixt Beth's habitual work-time snacking on dried fruits together with the purse of dried cherries that I impulsively purchased at the Queen Vic markets together with had nonetheless to use. Combined amongst pistachios together with black chocolate, I would move guaranteed fiddling mouthfuls of vibrant colour; crunchy, chewy together with smoothen textures; tart sweetness, rich cocoa together with a hint of the exotic. One gustation (for enquiry purposes, you lot understand!) confirmed that every bit long every bit these dried cherries are available, my human relationship amongst the Cherry Ripe bar is over. I've moved on together with I'm seeing mortal else now! He mightiness non move every bit well-groomed, but he's got a lot to a greater extent than substance. It mightiness bring been the morphine talking, but Beth was only every bit intrigued together with later won over. She fifty-fifty detected the hint of rose!
Crunchy chewy chocolate clusters
100g black chocolate
2/3 loving cup pistachios
1/3 loving cup dried cherries
a pinch of salt
1/3 loving cup dessicated coconut
a drib of rosewater
Gently melt the chocolate inwards a saucepan. While it's melting, combine the pistachios, cherries together with tabular array salt inwards a bowl. When the chocolate's cook add together the rosewater together with stir through the coconut. Finally mix through the cherries together with pistachios.
Cover a baking tray amongst foil together with drib teaspoons-full of the mixture onto it. Use a 2nd teaspoon to force the stray bits together if you lot postulate to. Refrigerate the clusters for most an hour, or only freeze 'em for 10 minutes if you're inwards a rush.
Store these inwards a cool identify thence they don't melt but don't worry likewise much - they'll move gobbled upward pretty quick!
Crunchy chewy chocolate clusters
100g black chocolate
2/3 loving cup pistachios
1/3 loving cup dried cherries
a pinch of salt
1/3 loving cup dessicated coconut
a drib of rosewater
Gently melt the chocolate inwards a saucepan. While it's melting, combine the pistachios, cherries together with tabular array salt inwards a bowl. When the chocolate's cook add together the rosewater together with stir through the coconut. Finally mix through the cherries together with pistachios.
Cover a baking tray amongst foil together with drib teaspoons-full of the mixture onto it. Use a 2nd teaspoon to force the stray bits together if you lot postulate to. Refrigerate the clusters for most an hour, or only freeze 'em for 10 minutes if you're inwards a rush.
Store these inwards a cool identify thence they don't melt but don't worry likewise much - they'll move gobbled upward pretty quick!
Minggu, 22 November 2020
April 24, 2007: Kingaroy
harira soup concluding nighttime - its peppery warmth was simply the nourishment my wearisome tastebuds in addition to small-scale appetite needed. Furthermore, we've been meme-tagged yesteryear the Gourmand (of the nutrient weblog Eat Me!), in addition to then there's at to the lowest degree i to a greater extent than post service to come upwards every bit my honey of all things edible recovers.
Sabtu, 21 November 2020
5 Things Nearly (Him And) Me
Paul lately tagged us for a "5 Things About Me" meme. He cheekily handed the chore of selecting 5 things nearly him over to his partner, too Mike provided a most pithy profile of the gourmand. We've decided to appropriate this persuasion too write 5 things nearly each other.
Here are 5 things you lot mightiness non already know nearly Michael:
1. Michael's CV boasts 3 degrees: inwards maths, information technology too criminology.
2. The origin repast that he cooked for me was a huge wok-full of noodles, chicken, veges, peanut butter, too a sachet of curry paste. This was his signature dish too he was secretly disappointed at the lukewarm reply it received from me. I was but trying to croak along my watering eyes inwards cheque - I was no check for the chilli oneupmanship that goes on inwards a sharehouse of 20-something males. Still, a human being who cooks at all is pretty attractive, right? He's since refined his fashion but notwithstanding provides most of the enthusiasm (and labour) for the hearty and/or spicy meals on our table: one-pot wonders, curries, Mexican, too the like.
3. Much to my bewilderment, Michael's a sport lover. He thoroughly enjoys a social game of soccer or netball, too has been known to ascension early on (3am early) to lookout adult man a soccer or cricket game inwards some other fourth dimension zone.
4. Michael's most hated foods are fresh tomatoes too bananas. His love apple tree tolerance has gradually developed to sauces, sun-dried too the occasional sandwich but there's been no shift on the banana front. Consequently they rarely motility into our household at all.
5. Contrary to pop assumption, Michael decided to larn vegetarian earlier I did. (Seems similar it's the sort of bleeding-heart matter girls do, too and so smashing their boyfs into...?) He challenged himself to attempt it for 5 weeks too and so didn't stop. I followed his Pb nearly a calendar month later.
So, to render the favour: 5 things you lot don't know nearly Cindy:
1. Cindy has a PhD. Unfortunately, she makes scant purpose of her impressive title, leaving it to me to mass flights too things for Dr Cindy.
2. Cindy is a weird eater. There are all kinds of rules past times which her eating is governed: fizzy drinks exclusively larn amongst obese foods, pasta too salad must move to go inwards classify tiffin boxes, java tin dismiss exclusively survive consumed amongst chocolate. And so on. Most weird of all though, is her obsession amongst eating neatly. On i of our earliest outings together, I sat too watched Cindy painstakingly alternative at a piece of cheesecake so that it ever looked similar it had but been served up. There was nary a bump or chunk missing anywhere, strictly require lines. After watching this for some fourth dimension (another thing: Cindy eats to a greater extent than tardily than anyone I've ever known), I took my fork too mashed her cake upward a bit. Not a wise move. I honestly retrieve she didn't taste the residuum of the cake at all. Weird.
3. Cindy's vegetarianism (while copied off me) brought her into describe of piece of job amongst the way most people saw her anyway. I've lost count of the pose out of people who've met Cindy too somehow decided that she was vego. It used to come about amongst startling regularity. At to the lowest degree instantly their assumptions don't brand an donkey out of anyone.
4. Contrary to our inner-city, latte-sipping lifestyles, Cindy doesn't similar olives. I've been working on her for years, but fifty-fifty a tapenade is plenty to plough her off. Other nutrient phobias: uncooked onion too uncooked mushrooms (despite an almost pathological honey of cooked mushrooms).
5. Cindy is a talented (if currently inactive) painter - at that topographic point are at to the lowest degree iii of her pictures adorning the walls of our house. She's tried to pigment pictures of me twice, but I can't sit down notwithstanding for long plenty without falling asleep, so they're both of me inwards the country of nod (I wonder if it but agency she doesn't know how to pigment eyes? Hmmm.)
We won't tag anyone else inwards particular, but delight bring together inwards if you lot experience so inclined too give us a link to your post. I'd honey to know at to the lowest degree 5 to a greater extent than things nearly you!
Jumat, 20 November 2020
April 28, 2007: Turkish Delight
Lemon Zucchini inwards Olive Oil together with Turkish Lentil Balls (see links for the total recipes).
The whole procedure was quite fourth dimension consuming, especially because I'm non big on multi-tasking. I'm certain I could convey laid the vegies upward to laid upward together with hence made the lentil balls spell they were simmering away, but that's non how I create things. I firstly at the firstly together with move all the agency through to the end. So yesteryear the fourth dimension I'd cooked the lentils together with the onions, stirred through the bulghur, tomato plant glue together with spices, a expert one-half hr had passed together with I hadn't fifty-fifty started on the zuchs. I mucked upward the recipe for the vegies slightly yesteryear halving the entire recipe except for the zucchini, which likely threw the remainder out slightly. Still, subsequently to a greater extent than or less other one-half an hr or hence of vegie cooking, it was all laid upward to go. Cindy chipped inwards yesteryear lightly toasting to a greater extent than or less Turkish breadstuff together with the repast was complete.
The lentil balls were quite tasty, but I intend I may convey enjoyed them a footling to a greater extent than if we'd eaten them fresh from the stove - or peradventure given them a quick plough inwards the child pan earlier serving them up. Still, they were remarkably slow patties to brand and, amongst a footling tweaking of the spices (I'd add together inwards something amongst a chip to a greater extent than oestrus - chilli or cayenne), these could come upward inwards handy every bit business office of a Turkish feast. The vegies were too a success - the stone oil together with lemon juice combined good together with the thoroughly cooked vegetables were soft together with flavoursome. With the breadstuff on manus to mop upward the oily run-off together with the lentil patties to supply to a greater extent than or less bulk, I was pretty happy amongst this Turkish experiment.
The whole procedure was quite fourth dimension consuming, especially because I'm non big on multi-tasking. I'm certain I could convey laid the vegies upward to laid upward together with hence made the lentil balls spell they were simmering away, but that's non how I create things. I firstly at the firstly together with move all the agency through to the end. So yesteryear the fourth dimension I'd cooked the lentils together with the onions, stirred through the bulghur, tomato plant glue together with spices, a expert one-half hr had passed together with I hadn't fifty-fifty started on the zuchs. I mucked upward the recipe for the vegies slightly yesteryear halving the entire recipe except for the zucchini, which likely threw the remainder out slightly. Still, subsequently to a greater extent than or less other one-half an hr or hence of vegie cooking, it was all laid upward to go. Cindy chipped inwards yesteryear lightly toasting to a greater extent than or less Turkish breadstuff together with the repast was complete.
The lentil balls were quite tasty, but I intend I may convey enjoyed them a footling to a greater extent than if we'd eaten them fresh from the stove - or peradventure given them a quick plough inwards the child pan earlier serving them up. Still, they were remarkably slow patties to brand and, amongst a footling tweaking of the spices (I'd add together inwards something amongst a chip to a greater extent than oestrus - chilli or cayenne), these could come upward inwards handy every bit business office of a Turkish feast. The vegies were too a success - the stone oil together with lemon juice combined good together with the thoroughly cooked vegetables were soft together with flavoursome. With the breadstuff on manus to mop upward the oily run-off together with the lentil patties to supply to a greater extent than or less bulk, I was pretty happy amongst this Turkish experiment.
April 28, 2007: Pumpkin As Well As Spelt Muffins
Probably the biggest in addition to baddest eating temptation inwards my routine is mid-afternoon at work. The mensuration slows downwardly in addition to every bit the hours plod on, I start thinking nearly the fat-laden snacks at the FoodWorks no to a greater extent than than 50 paces from my desk. While at that spot is certainly a psychological chemical gene to my cravings, I am often really hungry past times 4:00 in addition to I need to swallow to hold those lastly threads of concentration. Thus, I'm often on the scout for recipes in addition to snacks that I tin gear upwards in addition to pack from dwelling identify that'll minimise the harm done. Muffins receive got oftentimes popped upwards every bit a possible solution but they're unremarkably really cakey in addition to sweet, non much amend than the chocolate bar I'm most tempted by! Trust the super-natural Heidi from 101 Cookbooks to acquaint me amongst an alternative, amongst a recipe taken from Homegrown Pure in addition to Simple past times Michel Nischan.
The photograph of Heidi's batch had the austere in addition to no-frills await I sought to emulate, hinting at lots of fibre in addition to piddling sugar. The inclusion of pureed pumpkin gave me promise that at that spot would all the same live closed to smoothen sweetness to enjoy. My batch, past times contrast, turned out to live glutinous in addition to spongy piddling critters, non at all dry out or humourless. They're pretty tasty, but I in all probability won't reproduce them inwards their master copy assort because they accept a lot of fourth dimension in addition to a lot of dishes! If you lot bother to read the recipe properly earlier commencement (I didn't) you'll realise why: non solely gain you lot receive got to roast the pumpkin, but you lot receive got to cut back a litre of apple tree juice to a syrup of solely a quarter of a cup. That took me nearly an hr in addition to a half. It's really quite a revelation to gustatory modality in addition to play amongst this syrup in addition to if you're curious, don't allow me dissuade you lot from attempting it! But for a weekday muffin an equal quantity of honey, golden syrup or maple syrup volition sure gain the job. The other nuisance mensuration is the separation of eggs, in addition to the gentle folding inwards of the fluffy whites. To live honest, this afternoon grazer couldn't really divulge the peppercorns, cinnamon or coriander seeds inwards the terminal product. My hereafter adaption of this recipe would in all probability role maple syrup, closed to solid lay down cinnamon in addition to a pinch of nutmeg.
Pumpkin in addition to spelt muffins
(Heidi made 12 muffins, I got xix small-scale cupcakes out of this quantity)
10 dark peppercorns (Heidi said 8, but 10 popped into my mitt in addition to I wasn't going to mail the lastly ii back)
2 cinnamon sticks
2 tablespoons coriander seeds
4 cups apple tree juice
500g pumpkin, peeled, seeds removed in addition to chopped into cubes
1 teaspoon salt
1 loving cup raw sugar
2 egg yolks
1/2 loving cup apple tree puree
1/4 loving cup sunflower oil
4 egg whites
2 cups spelt flour
2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon bicarb soda
1 teaspoon salt
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.
Put the peppercorns, cinnamon sticks in addition to coriander seeds inwards a saucepan over medium to high oestrus for a few minutes, tossing until fragrant. Take them off the oestrus for one-half a minute, hence pour inwards the apple tree juice. Return it to the oestrus in addition to simmer until the liquid has reduced to a 1/4 loving cup of syrup. (This took me nearly 1 1/2 hours.)
While the juice is simmering, spread the pumpkin cubes inwards a baking tray in addition to sprinkle amongst the initiative of all teaspoon of salt. Bake until tender, twenty to xxx minutes.
When the juice is reduced, force it through a fine seive in addition to discard the spices. Puree the cooked pumpkin in addition to the reduced juice inwards a nutrient processor.
In a divide large bowl, crunch the saccharide in addition to egg yolks together for a few minutes, until low-cal in addition to fluffy. Stir inwards the apple tree puree, crude oil in addition to pumpkin puree until only combined.
Make sure your beaters are construct clean in addition to dry, hence crunch the egg whites inwards yet closed to other bowl until foamy but non quite at the soft summit stage.
Got whatsoever bowls left? You need 1 more, inwards which to combine the flour, baking powder, bicarb soda in addition to 2nd teaspoon of salt. Gradually add together it to the cake batter stir, in 1 lawsuit again until solely only mixed. Gently flexure inwards the egg whites.
Lightly grease a muffin tray or trace it amongst patty cases. Spoon the batter into the cups until 3/4 full. Bake for xxx to forty minutes, until a skewer comes out clean.
Kamis, 19 November 2020
April 29, 2007: The Expert Shepherd's Circus Pie Classic
I dearest stone as well as coil as well as I dearest food. If entirely at that spot was some means to combine the two. Oh wait, at that spot is! Lord's Day evening's entertainment, billed every bit "A Rock 'n' Roll Cook Off for Charity", was a sort of Iron Chef for Melbourne's indie stone elite. Devised every bit a fund raiser for Good Shepherd Youth as well as Family Service, the upshot pulled together Melbourne musicians, media personalities as well as nutrient journalists for a surreal eventide of fun at The Corner Hotel.
The basic construction of the eventide involved 4 teams of v 'celebrities' each, ii savoury cook-offs as well as a dessert challenge betwixt ii oestrus winners to detect out whose cuisine reigned supreme. But the basic construction doesn't do justice to the chaotic, noisy as well as hilarious evening.
We arrived to a moderately busy band room, alongside the ii stages laid up: a minor ane scattered alongside amps, mics as well as drum kits as well as a big ane alongside a makeshift kitchen, overhead mirrors to give the crowd a practiced sentiment of the activity as well as a clever apron collage for wallpaper.
After a food-themed D.J. laid (my personal highlight: Cherry Pie past times Warrant), Helen Razer (our cough-medicine addled host for the evening) took control, introducing her swain commentators: Clem Bastow (Inpress, The Age etc) as well as Matt Preston (Epicure, Melbourne Food as well as Wine Festival). The rules were explained: each oestrus would pit ii teams against each other for one-half an hour's fiercely competitive cooking producing at to the lowest degree 3 courses for judging. All of which had to contain... the cloak-and-dagger ingredient.
To larn the start oestrus underway, Helen introduced the start ii teams, pitting a vegan-friendly Team 1 (Lindsay 'The Doctor' MacDougall as well as Macromantics plus 3 non-vegans) against Team 2, ably led past times Lisa Miller alongside back upward from members of Mach Pelican, Dallas Crane as well as The Meanies. After a minute of well-orchestrated suspense, the cloak-and-dagger component subdivision for battle #1 was revealed: mushrooms!
As the cooking got underway, Little Red outburst into some assort of amalgam of The Strokes as well as The Jackson Five. Our attending was divided betwixt the band as well as the kitchen, but the refer of dumplings from Team 1 caught it as well as had me cheering on Macromantics as well as the gang. The alert went off and, afterwards some frantic plating, the dishes were ready to hold out served upward to the judges: John Lethlean from The Age, Cath Claringbold from Mecca Bah as well as Andrew McConnell from Three One Two).
I imagine it's some fourth dimension since these 3 gourmets ate nutrient prepared inwards such a haphazard manner, but they gamely tucked into their feasts. From Team 1: shitake sugariness soy stir-fry, Macro-dumpings as well as chocolate shitake surprise, piece from Team 2: a suite of dishes dubbed 'Blitzkrieg Wok' including a mushroom penne as well as a twain of other dishes lost to the mists of time. According to the judges, squad 1 produced both the best dish (Macro-dumplings) as well as nearly inedible endeavour (choc-shitake surprise). Unfortunately for them, the 'surprise' was plenty to toll them the match, alongside the judges unanimously pronouncing Lisa Miller's Team 2 the winners of oestrus 1.
A brief recess for to permit everyone larn their breath dorsum (and to allow the kitchen-roadies some cleaning time) followed, alongside Joelistics from TZU providing the music. Heat 2 followed, as well as out came the big guns of stone 'n' coil cooking: Team 3 was led past times Dan Kelly, whose pre-rock career-path included a stint cooking at Claypots, piece Team 4 boasted Rebecca Barnard - formerly of Rebecca's Empire as well as a cooking spot on JJJ. The cloak-and-dagger component subdivision for oestrus #2: the less veg-friendly chicken.
This fourth dimension when the cooking started nosotros moved across to the stone phase to sense SixFtHick - terrifying Brisbane rockers who cause got no abide by for the comfortable business betwixt the audience as well as the performers. Fronted past times brothers Ben as well as Geoff Corbett, the demo was chock total of insanity: prowling, screaming as well as kicking their means through short, precipitous bursts of rock. As the clock ran downwards on oestrus #2, the 'Hick injure things upward alongside a Queensland cocktail: a stubby tipped into a cowboy boot, shaken as well as poured downwards audience members' throats from on high.
I'm non certain how people manage alongside a total SixFtHick demo - afterwards xxx minutes I was ready to larn away from the frightening the world of stone as well as dorsum to the gentle fine art of cookery. The judges, starting to demo some alcohol-influenced apparel as well as tear (I don't recall nutrient critics as well as chefs ordinarily cause got access to a rider), dived into their 2d circular of stone 'n' coil dishes. Team 4 were upward first, alongside Rebecca taking charge. They came upward alongside some assort of gyoza, a chicken-based pizza as well as something known every bit Spazzy-surprise (named afterwards squad fellow member Ally Spazzy).
Team 3 produced 4 courses: Ming Dynasty chicken, Marvin the chicken sandwich, chicken alongside Dan Kelly Sauce and, inwards a determination that toll them the heat, Bog Log III's boobscotch whiskey chicken alongside a human breast-milk sauce. The judges were a picayune disappointed past times Dan Kelly's endeavour given his pedigree, but the breast-milk flavoured chicken was the existent occupation for squad 3 - alongside all of the judges disgusted both past times the concept as well as past times the taste. Despite Bob Log's disappointing functioning inwards the kitchen, he got my vote for wittiest apron, proudly wearing the slogan, "Got to a greater extent than fourth dimension for misbehavin', since I started microwavin'".
So Rebecca Barnard's Team 4 advanced to the dessert-themed concluding against Lisa Miller's Team 2. The concluding was a 15 infinitesimal affair, alongside each squad producing sugariness treats based on the cloak-and-dagger ingredient, bizarrely presented past times a Devo-inspired helper, BANANAS!
Despite my anti-banana agenda, the dessert circular was the highlight inwards damage of sheer cooking action: Andy as well as Scott from The Living End came upward alongside chocolate bumholes: cored banana slices filled alongside a Mars bar mush.
In addition, Team 4 came upward alongside ii to a greater extent than dishes: maple foliage rag (bananas caremalised inwards maple syrup) as well as Elvis Presley's favourite, fried banana as well as peanut butter sandwiches. In comparision, Team 2 expended all their unloose energy on ane dish: banana filled crepes. While all this was going on, The Wayfaring Strangers were dancing unopen to the music phase wearing picayune to a greater extent than than aprons as well as strategically places tongs. The judges traipsed out for the concluding fourth dimension as well as hoed into the diverse dessert plates. Team 2 looked the favourites merely through sheer release of dishes and, when the concluding scores were announced they were victorious, taking abode the initiatory Golden Wok (see above).
This long as well as rambling post service has barely begun to comprehend merely how action-packed the whole eventide was - the nearly fun I've had inwards ages. The whole thought is quintessentially Melbourne: stone 'n' coil as well as nutrient mushed together into a chaotic mess where all of a abrupt it makes perfect sense for John Lethlean as well as SixFtHick to hold out sharing a bill. And, of course, the whole thing was for a practiced drive - everyone involved donated their fourth dimension as well as a practiced chunk of the coin raised volition halt upward helping immature disadvantaged Melbourne-ites. Foodie amusement can't larn much amend than that.
The basic construction of the eventide involved 4 teams of v 'celebrities' each, ii savoury cook-offs as well as a dessert challenge betwixt ii oestrus winners to detect out whose cuisine reigned supreme. But the basic construction doesn't do justice to the chaotic, noisy as well as hilarious evening.
We arrived to a moderately busy band room, alongside the ii stages laid up: a minor ane scattered alongside amps, mics as well as drum kits as well as a big ane alongside a makeshift kitchen, overhead mirrors to give the crowd a practiced sentiment of the activity as well as a clever apron collage for wallpaper.
After a food-themed D.J. laid (my personal highlight: Cherry Pie past times Warrant), Helen Razer (our cough-medicine addled host for the evening) took control, introducing her swain commentators: Clem Bastow (Inpress, The Age etc) as well as Matt Preston (Epicure, Melbourne Food as well as Wine Festival). The rules were explained: each oestrus would pit ii teams against each other for one-half an hour's fiercely competitive cooking producing at to the lowest degree 3 courses for judging. All of which had to contain... the cloak-and-dagger ingredient.To larn the start oestrus underway, Helen introduced the start ii teams, pitting a vegan-friendly Team 1 (Lindsay 'The Doctor' MacDougall as well as Macromantics plus 3 non-vegans) against Team 2, ably led past times Lisa Miller alongside back upward from members of Mach Pelican, Dallas Crane as well as The Meanies. After a minute of well-orchestrated suspense, the cloak-and-dagger component subdivision for battle #1 was revealed: mushrooms!As the cooking got underway, Little Red outburst into some assort of amalgam of The Strokes as well as The Jackson Five. Our attending was divided betwixt the band as well as the kitchen, but the refer of dumplings from Team 1 caught it as well as had me cheering on Macromantics as well as the gang. The alert went off and, afterwards some frantic plating, the dishes were ready to hold out served upward to the judges: John Lethlean from The Age, Cath Claringbold from Mecca Bah as well as Andrew McConnell from Three One Two).I imagine it's some fourth dimension since these 3 gourmets ate nutrient prepared inwards such a haphazard manner, but they gamely tucked into their feasts. From Team 1: shitake sugariness soy stir-fry, Macro-dumpings as well as chocolate shitake surprise, piece from Team 2: a suite of dishes dubbed 'Blitzkrieg Wok' including a mushroom penne as well as a twain of other dishes lost to the mists of time. According to the judges, squad 1 produced both the best dish (Macro-dumplings) as well as nearly inedible endeavour (choc-shitake surprise). Unfortunately for them, the 'surprise' was plenty to toll them the match, alongside the judges unanimously pronouncing Lisa Miller's Team 2 the winners of oestrus 1.
A brief recess for to permit everyone larn their breath dorsum (and to allow the kitchen-roadies some cleaning time) followed, alongside Joelistics from TZU providing the music. Heat 2 followed, as well as out came the big guns of stone 'n' coil cooking: Team 3 was led past times Dan Kelly, whose pre-rock career-path included a stint cooking at Claypots, piece Team 4 boasted Rebecca Barnard - formerly of Rebecca's Empire as well as a cooking spot on JJJ. The cloak-and-dagger component subdivision for oestrus #2: the less veg-friendly chicken.
This fourth dimension when the cooking started nosotros moved across to the stone phase to sense SixFtHick - terrifying Brisbane rockers who cause got no abide by for the comfortable business betwixt the audience as well as the performers. Fronted past times brothers Ben as well as Geoff Corbett, the demo was chock total of insanity: prowling, screaming as well as kicking their means through short, precipitous bursts of rock. As the clock ran downwards on oestrus #2, the 'Hick injure things upward alongside a Queensland cocktail: a stubby tipped into a cowboy boot, shaken as well as poured downwards audience members' throats from on high.I'm non certain how people manage alongside a total SixFtHick demo - afterwards xxx minutes I was ready to larn away from the frightening the world of stone as well as dorsum to the gentle fine art of cookery. The judges, starting to demo some alcohol-influenced apparel as well as tear (I don't recall nutrient critics as well as chefs ordinarily cause got access to a rider), dived into their 2d circular of stone 'n' coil dishes. Team 4 were upward first, alongside Rebecca taking charge. They came upward alongside some assort of gyoza, a chicken-based pizza as well as something known every bit Spazzy-surprise (named afterwards squad fellow member Ally Spazzy).
Team 3 produced 4 courses: Ming Dynasty chicken, Marvin the chicken sandwich, chicken alongside Dan Kelly Sauce and, inwards a determination that toll them the heat, Bog Log III's boobscotch whiskey chicken alongside a human breast-milk sauce. The judges were a picayune disappointed past times Dan Kelly's endeavour given his pedigree, but the breast-milk flavoured chicken was the existent occupation for squad 3 - alongside all of the judges disgusted both past times the concept as well as past times the taste. Despite Bob Log's disappointing functioning inwards the kitchen, he got my vote for wittiest apron, proudly wearing the slogan, "Got to a greater extent than fourth dimension for misbehavin', since I started microwavin'".
So Rebecca Barnard's Team 4 advanced to the dessert-themed concluding against Lisa Miller's Team 2. The concluding was a 15 infinitesimal affair, alongside each squad producing sugariness treats based on the cloak-and-dagger ingredient, bizarrely presented past times a Devo-inspired helper, BANANAS!
Despite my anti-banana agenda, the dessert circular was the highlight inwards damage of sheer cooking action: Andy as well as Scott from The Living End came upward alongside chocolate bumholes: cored banana slices filled alongside a Mars bar mush.In addition, Team 4 came upward alongside ii to a greater extent than dishes: maple foliage rag (bananas caremalised inwards maple syrup) as well as Elvis Presley's favourite, fried banana as well as peanut butter sandwiches. In comparision, Team 2 expended all their unloose energy on ane dish: banana filled crepes. While all this was going on, The Wayfaring Strangers were dancing unopen to the music phase wearing picayune to a greater extent than than aprons as well as strategically places tongs. The judges traipsed out for the concluding fourth dimension as well as hoed into the diverse dessert plates. Team 2 looked the favourites merely through sheer release of dishes and, when the concluding scores were announced they were victorious, taking abode the initiatory Golden Wok (see above).This long as well as rambling post service has barely begun to comprehend merely how action-packed the whole eventide was - the nearly fun I've had inwards ages. The whole thought is quintessentially Melbourne: stone 'n' coil as well as nutrient mushed together into a chaotic mess where all of a abrupt it makes perfect sense for John Lethlean as well as SixFtHick to hold out sharing a bill. And, of course, the whole thing was for a practiced drive - everyone involved donated their fourth dimension as well as a practiced chunk of the coin raised volition halt upward helping immature disadvantaged Melbourne-ites. Foodie amusement can't larn much amend than that.
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