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Sarah Cooks: 8/1/05 - 9/1/05
Cake

Eating for a good cause

8/29/2005 07:39:00 AM
Last week on Wednesday, An and I were walking through Union house on our way to our fave coffee place, when I saw a table run by some liberal-arts-hippy-politically-minded-and-op-shop-clothed types, raising money for West Timor, covered in wholesome looking cakes. One cake in particular caught my eye, "Vegan Sponge Cake"... So I walked up to the table...Me: Did...

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Breakfast

Breakfast at the Pancake Parlour

8/28/2005 01:50:00 PM
Yesterday morning I met my friend Robbie at Pancake Parlour in South Yarra for breakfast. He had an "IT", which you can just see in the background - two buttermilk pancakes with hot buttered walnuts and bananas and a scoop of ice-cream.And for me... seeing as I'm back to bacon... I had a Buckleberry Pancake.This is a buckwheat...

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Shopping

The Essential Ingredient, #2

8/26/2005 03:45:00 PM
I just came back from The Essential Ingredient, and having spent a whopping $218.82, I am now an Essential Ingredient VIP customer!! Which means that I get 6% off all full-priced goods for two years. Schweeeeet!Here's what I bought...Italian 00 type flour, $4.21Marlux Pepper Mill, 14cm, $36.00Saffron Powder, 2gm, $14.70Buckwheat Flour, 500gm, $3.98Non-Stick Flan-tin with removable base, 20cm,...

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Shopping

The Essential Ingredient

8/12/2005 12:38:00 AM
There was an article in the latest issue of Delicious magazine, entitled "Reality Checkout"."Finding the ingredients for some recipes can be harder than cooking the dish, as Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray, of London's River Café, discovered when they tried to rustle up two of their recipes from the shelves of Laura Barton's local supermarket."The author, Laura Barton,...

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Cake

Chocolate Malteaser Cake II

8/07/2005 01:58:00 PM
Last night a bunch of us had dinner at Nyonya on Lygon Street, to celebrate my friend Adriana's graduation.I made a Chocolate Malteaser Cake for her, as it is her favourite of all the chocolate cakes I've ever made (and I have made a lot, hehe!). She tells me she loves the malty taste.Malteaser Cake, Adriana & INow,...

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