Tag: Featured
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salted chocolate and caramel tarts
Though preparing your own shortcrust pastry is massively satisfying, having flour from one end of the kitchen to the other is sometimes not what you’re after when you are about to have friends around for afternoon tea.
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chilli jam
Nigella. Beyonce. Me. Hard core, self-proclaimed chilli addicts. At an early age I learned that there are very few meals that can’t be improved with a touch of heat, our breakfast often served pickled chillies on the side.
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anzac biscuits
This batch of biccies falls into the ‘Any Knucklehead Can Bake’ category of cooking. Great treat for the long weekend or in my case, motivational cookies for my project team. Though my Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cookies are also a massive crowd pleaser, these delicious melt and mix cookies are stress free and easy to…
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pear, pistachio and chocolate cake
So I am back! And cannot believe it has been two years since my last blog post. Am actually fast-tracking my return to blogging because my lovely colleagues at work have been badgering me for the recipe for my recent baking triumph. I didn’t think I could find an easier cake recipe than my Flourless…
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nomad, surry hills
Oh Sydney, you funny thing. You sure know how to get excited about a new restaurant. No sooner have the doors swung open on a shiny new restaurant and you’re queuing ‘round the block or hanging desperately at the bar panting for your table. The challenge, as I’ve discussed before, is maintaining that level of…
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new shanghai, chatswood
I’m not sure what is better. Securing Egyptian Cotton Sheets at 30% off or securing a table at New Shanghai Chatswood Chase in less than a half an hour at lunchtime.
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watson’s bay beach club, watson’s bay
I feel like I can count on one hand the harbourside restaurants in Sydney that are equal parts beautiful and good value. As a general rule of you have found a restaurant on our beautiful foreshore you pay through the nose and for a meal that seriously falls short on offerings further inland.
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american pork ribs
There are many things I would never do on a first date and pork ribs is one of them. Call me old fashioned but finger lickin’ food consumption is something best saved for that familiar more settled stage in the relationship. Lucky for me my relationship has graduated from those impressionable early days to the…
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mexican pulled pork
I’m not a massive fan of leftovers. As a general rule I love to enjoy a meal on the day and am ready to move on to a brand new culinary day. Of course, ‘they say’ that many meals are even better the next days curries in particular. This is true, but as someone who…
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el topo, bondi junction
Back in the late 90s lamenting about the lack of Mexican food in Australia was one of the favourite whines for every food lover we who has spent any time at all in America. It was such an obvious, gaping hole in our culinary offering and given the very addictive and moreish nature of great…
nibble & slurp 