Esurientes - The Comfort Zone

It's really cold. The coldest winter in a couple of years, at least. Certainly the coldest I've felt for a while, and I'm loving it...Most of the time I'm loving it. The times when I'm walking ...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2007/07/best-stew-for-winter.html

I recently started a new job at a newspaper, along with my other part-time position, so I've been a bit distracted recently, but an email yesterday from Ray Capaldi, co-proprietor and chef at F...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2007/06/fenix-restaurant-offer-to-readers.html

These should come with a health warning. There is truly nothing nutritious contained inside, just peanut butter, sugar, butter & chocolate, but f%*@$ they're SO DAMN good!!! Like many people I'...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2007/04/homemade-peanut-butter-cups.html

On the 30th March it was my 30th birthday, and so far it's been an extended one starting with this birthday cake at a rehearsal 4 days beforehand, and a ending with an afternoon drinks party fo...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2007/04/autumnal-birthday-cake-for-autumn-of-my.html

On Monday night I turned up at Fenix demanding my just desserts. My friend had emailed me soon after the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival program came out asking if I'd be interested in going al...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2007/03/desserts-of-future-at-fenix.html

How many times have you looked at that bottle of limoncello in the freezer and thought "My god, that must have been there for at least two years. What are we going to DO with it?!" I know we're...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2007/02/summer-chicken.html

Shrove Tuesday today, and for breakfast another batch of those excellent wholemeal buttermilk pancakes I made last year. Mmm - crispy edges from being fried in real butter. :-) This year my br...

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This weekend it's damn hot...too hot! 3 days at the upper end of the 30s is not great incentive for doing much. Flicking half-heartedly through Nigella's Forever Summer a few weeks ago, when it...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2007/02/too-damn-hot.html

The Bern bear city symbol on a ginger cake I've been completely pathetic putting up the photos of what-we-ate-in-Europe, and I'm annoyed with myself. I'm not going to abandon this project halfw...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2007/02/bern-luzern.html

I haven't yet mentioned that I received a shiny red Kitchen Aid for Christmas, just like the one Plum received and I've been getting stuck into playing around with it. Last week I decided to m...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2007/02/i-havent-yet-mentioned-that-i-received.html

It's been a recurring theme on many Aussie foodblogs over the past year: we miss our bananas. I think most of you have heard by now that in mid-March 2006, Cyclone Larry announced itself in far...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2007/02/going-bananas.html

Is this the best doughnut in Melbourne? It could well be; it's definitely the best one I've tasted in a long while. Except for the amazing Polish plum jam donuts from Europa bakery in Acland St...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2007/01/best-doughnut-in-melbourne.html

Going through the freezers before Christmas, trying to clear some space, we found a previously unknown hidden cache of lamb. Specifically legs of lamb in varying sizes, and no memory of having ...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2007/01/lamb-fest.html

I had a lot of fresh mint hanging about in the week after Christmas. I made my usual fetta & watermelon salad, which uses it, but as the days around Christmas were so cold, it wasn't really the...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2007/01/fresh-mint.html

Being time-rich and money-poor this Christmas, I decided to make foodie gifts for friends and fam, hoping that old maxim about homemade gifts meaning so much more blah blah etc. held true. The ...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2007/01/handmade-foodie-presents.html

Sorry, I've been very lazy and had an almost computer-free post-Christmas week, laying on the couch eating leftovers and watching Little Britain DVDs. I hope you had an enjoyable Christmas and ...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2007/01/more-chocolate.html

Is there any better reason for Christmas leftovers?

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2006/12/leftovers.html

In my Payerne post I dropped a comment that we were to visit a Swiss chocolate factory, but wrote nothing more. I thought that such a note-worthy, life-changing experience deserved its own post...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2006/12/cailler-chocolate-factory.html

This is another thing I tasted at one of the baking demonstration classes I sometimes attend. In this case, the description didn't appeal, but the samples handed around certainly did! Also, I'...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2006/12/dutch-almond-christmas-ring.html

Payerne was the beginning of our Festival Of Cheese. And chocolate. Belinda said she was going to write a book about how to lose weight with cheese and chocolate. Using the choir as a test case...

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Yeah, back on the low-fat delights again. And it's definitely Christmas. I can tell because there's about 3,000 people outside out house, checking out the lights on the street where I live, pre...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2006/12/low-fat-egg-nog-cake.html

This is a good one: Cinnamon and coriander. Interesting. Unusual! Seasonally flavoured things seem to be all the go in Europe. Even though I was in Dresden in mid-October, the Christmas spirit ...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2006/12/unusual-lindt-flavours-for-christmas.html

It's cherry season here now, and incredibly, despite the crazy weather we've had in the past month, from frost and snow to 42 degree scorchers, the cherry harvest has managed to be a bumper one...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2006/12/cherry-clafouti.html

I've finally got around to reading the December issue of Donna Hay magazine. It only arrived about 3 weeks ago, and it's not like I have many other pressing concerns stopping me from reading i...

http://esurientes.blogspot.com/2006/12/salmon-noodles-with-mirin.html

View of Madonna del Sasso church and the town of Locarno in the Swiss lakes district. Our first stop in Switzerland was in the south, in the region called Ticino; Tessin in German. Looking at a...

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