Who doesn't love chocolate? Everybody loves chocolate!! Do you know whats better than chocolate? Chocolate with peanut butter! Since we've been having some cold weather of late, oh summer how...
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Duchess Of Spotswood 87 Hudsons Road Spotswood, Victoria 03 9391 6016 Pork and I have a love/hate relationship. I love it to bits, but for some reason it hates being in me. Despite the...
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Dining Date: October 2010 Rating: 36th, 2 Stars Chef: Teage Ezard & Sharn Greiner Location: 187 Flinders La, Melbourne, VIC, (03) 9639 6811 Website: www.ezard.com.au I’ve been putting off wri...
To be honest, I made this recipe a little while ago. After eating at Sarti I was inspired by the flavours in their rabbit tortellini with Jerusalem artichoke puree, so of course me being me I...
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Josie Bones 98 Smith Street Collingwood 03 9417 1878 Look! Its a naked rabbit *giggles* When Conor from Hold the beef was in town recently to watch a furry little yellow ball getting smas...
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“Forgive me father for I have sinned, it has been over 4 weeks since my last blog post”. Can you believe that it’s been 4 weeks since I posted this recipe and I still haven’t managed to ...
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And now for the very last course in the Great 3 Course Jacques Reymond Challenge. Dessert is my favorite course of all time, so this one is going to be a doozie. So far we've had balls , balls a...
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Its December and that means two things, hot weather and Christmas!!!! Its been a funny start to December in Melbourne, hot weather coupled with torrential downpours converting our once mild li...
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Sometimes I wonder how chef's come up with flavour combinations. Do they have the Issac Newton moment when an apple falls out of a tree smacking them plainly in the face?, or do they purposef...
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And now for the main course to the Jacques Reymond 3 course delight! So far the appetizer and the starter have gone well. I'm not so sure about the main course though. While flipping through the...
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Sarti 6 Russell Pl Melbourne, 3000 (03) 9639 7822 Daz and I often perve on people…..of both sexes, I know its a little weird and slightly strange, but I'm not like most girls. I love check...
Has anyone else noticed that I seem to be cooking alot of "balls" ? For some reason I seem to be attracted to spherical shaped food items, and you know what?.....I'm not complaining. How c...
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My attempt at making the appetizers for my Jacques Reymond 3 course dinner went really well, and now for the starter course. I decided to choose something light and and refreshing, something that...
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Gougères are French for yum!* I thought I would do the smart thing and only make a half serve of the recipe. You know, there’s only Daz and I and I don’t want to be tempted with too many ...
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Restaurant: Jacques Reymond (Vic) Recipe from Cuisine du Temps, Jacques Reymond 2011 Rating: Number 15, 2 Stars I'm setting myself a challenge within a challenge. I recently purchased a ...
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Tea Rooms at Yarck 6585 Maroondah Hwy Yarck, 3719 (03) 5773 4233 Do you remember when you were a kid and doing silly stuff for a laugh was the best thing that could happen to you during the...
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I've had a terrible day, not the worst in my life, but definitely in the top ten. It kicked off with mega awful traffic, something that I've sadly become accustomed to, it just means theres m...
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Restaurant: Rockpool (NSW) Recipe from Neil Perry (Originaly seen in Rockpool by Neil Perry) 2011 Rating: Number 2, 3 Stars Sometimes a girl just feels like a tart. A little while ago I st...
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Trendy and me usually don't go together. I always get in on something really late and usually miss the whole period when something is cool. Case in point, I'm not on facebook and I still love my ...
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For the past week I've been sick! I'm a terrible sick person, every 2 minutes I must announce in my most annoying croaky voice...."I'm sick". Poor Daz has to put up with it and I have to admit th...
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This is how naive I am, a little while ago I bought a savory cheese scroll, I was hungry and in desperate need of carbs. I chomped into my scroll and was surprised by how much vegemite was in...
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Donuts or doughnuts? Who cares!! These ones have beer in them!! As a treat recently Daz and I trekked out to Healesville to visit the White Rabbit Brewery . There are two things that I really...
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Dining Date: June 2010 Rating: 10th, 2 Stars Chef: Dan Hunter Location: 98 Parker Street, (Glenelg Hwy), Dunkeld Victoria 03 5577 2241 Website: www.royalmail.com.au Recently, both the Gourm...
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This is both my favourite part of the year and my most hated. The 2011 Gourmet Traveller Restaurant awards have just been announced. I get to see the list that I will hungrily chase for the nex...
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I like beans in dip, I like beans on toast and now I've discovered I like beans in soup. Who would have ever thought! Overall I was pretty pleased with my attempt at the Comme Kitchen recipe. ...
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