The Perfect… Chocolate tart

April 10, 2012

Check out the chocolate tart video on Daily Life. A feast of colourful foil-wrapped eggs and golden bilbies were the chocolate prizes of excited garden hunts on the weekend. Now it’s the adult’s turn, try this chocolate tart with Italian coffee icecream. These two recipes were published in my new column in Sunday Life magazine on [...]

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Bookish bags

April 9, 2012

Lovely Olympia Le-Tan book clutch, ridiculously cute. Source: honestlywtf.com via Glitter on Pinterest ShareTweet

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Happy Monday

April 9, 2012

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The Perfect…

March 27, 2012

Finally, I hear you sigh, an explanation. Yep this is why I’ve been so hopeless at the blog. I’ve been working. It’s a funny thing this blogging thing. We start because we are dying so hardly to write about food and take pictures and visit excellent places and then say all there is to say [...]

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Pink clouds

March 18, 2012

Snapped somewhere between Dublin and New York, these pink billowy clouds will soon hang on my wall. Bought it from Etsy and now it flies itself, somewhere between Chicago and Sydney. ShareTweet

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Urban things

March 18, 2012

Detektivbyrån – Nattöppet With no time to write because of actual paid proper work on the agenda, I post this gorgeous little video made my some guy who maybe likes this band as much as I do. There will be posts, and posts about why there have been no posts too. x ShareTweet

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Stoked, New Zealand

January 31, 2012

If cooking with fire is going to be the big thing in 2012, and I have no doubt it will, then Al Brown’s book Stoked is going to be the hot cookbook of the year. Labelling the barbecue an icon of Kiwi life, the book explores a vast range of cooking outdoors techniques, from grills [...]

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El Capo, Surry Hills

January 30, 2012

Little video I made about El Capo, a little place for Latin street food in Surry Hills. Our waiter brings grits with pork and an almond milk that’s supposed to cut through grease, and a kingfish ceviche with tiny white cubes of perfect fish. He talks of Oaxaca in southwestern Mexico, where you can eat anything [...]

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Mussels with speck and cream

January 27, 2012

Though this is such a simple dish, it has plenty of flavour. Try to use the sweet, juicy and plump South Australian mussels which need no scrubbing and preparing. This is a great dish for sharing, with a pan on the table, along with plenty of crusty bread for mopping up the sauce. 100g butter [...]

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Bloggers, beetroot and bites

January 27, 2012

Is that the time? For heavens sake the weeks and days and, yes, months have flown by. Japan, the sprawling city of explorable gastronomic nooks, was of course amazing, and Christmas too. Oh dear. Back on track and planted at my desk, I’ll start posting on the various skiing, food and travelling adventures. Meanwhile, thank [...]

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Mochi sweets, Tokyo

December 2, 2011

Mochi sweets, those glutenous rice balls, are traditionally filled with sesame paste, cream or red bean paste. But the wagashi parlour and cafe, Higashiya, has overhauled the culinary tradition, filling the doughy balls with the likes of peach, edamame paste and blueberry. Rolled balls of gelatinous rice  are gem-like sculptured pieces, pretty morsels of silk and goo. [...]

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Tasty wordy morsels

November 24, 2011

A pretty collection of books for food lovers has been released by Penguin Books, giving makeovers to some of the world’s top food lit. A Dissertation upon Roast Pig and Other Essays by Charles Lamb and Claudia Roden’s A Middle Eastern Feast can fill in the gaps of your foodie library. I’ve been told only [...]

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Words and paints

November 16, 2011

Leslie Shows’ fascinating technique reinvigorates the landscape, but with words, clippings and futuristic sci-fi tones. Check her out, here. ShareTweet

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Coconuts, queues and rolls

October 8, 2011

Peking duck pancakes and the most incredible, sweet, soft coconut flesh laden drinks, and Vietnamese rice paper rolls stuffed with silken prawns. Yes, this was lunch, found at a Miss Chu stall at the MasterChef Live event in Sydney. A production line worked away scattering Vietnamese mint, coriander, and pretty bunches of marinated tofu, prawns [...]

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