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Sarah Cooks: 10/1/06 - 11/1/06
Bill Granger

Bill Granger's Crab & Asparagus Risotto

10/28/2006 08:52:00 PM
In my attempt to try and eat healthier food (takeaway pizza and Nando's every day does not a healthy girl make!), I've been looking through my Bill Granger books. Last night, we had crab and asparagus risotto, from bills food. It is an ordinary risotto, with finely sliced asparagus, crab meat, lemon juice and lemon zest added at...

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Ice-cream! Just in time for summer

10/22/2006 12:57:00 PM
I wandered into Borders yesterday, (heading straight to the cookbook section, as usual) and picked up a couple of books.The first was Iced, which is a big book full of delicious looking ice-cream recipes, and great photos.There are lots of exotic and classy flavours in here too - think black sesame, wasabi, sour cream and so on -...

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Brownies

Nigel Slater's Very Good Chocolate Brownies

10/19/2006 03:59:00 PM
I made Nigel Slater's Very Good chocolate brownies yesterday. I think the recipe appears in his book, The Kitchen Diaries, and is also available online, here. The words "Nigel Slater" preceding a recipe already indicate that it will be good; a recipe entitled "Nigel Slater's Very Good" recipe would, logically, be extremely good - somewhere in the realm...

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Melbourne

Walter's Wine Bar

10/18/2006 05:35:00 PM
On Saturday morning, some friends and I went to see Alva Noto and Ryuchi Sakamoto perform in Insen as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. It was amazing! And as a bonus, seeing this performance left us in Southbank on a Saturday afternoon. Southbank is a really nice area, with loads of good restaurants. I keep meaning...

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Cake

Retroactive chocolate cake

10/16/2006 10:56:00 PM
You may remember that whilst I was in London, my friend Clarice and I made Nigella's Storecupboard Chocolate Cake, with cherry jam in place of the marmalade. Clarice then told me, very enthusiastically, that I should try it with sweetened chestnut puree sometime after I got home to Melbourne.That 'sometime' arose about 2 seconds after my short-lived detox.Nigella...

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Bill Granger

A Week of Healthy-(ish) Home Food

10/15/2006 01:32:00 PM
I mentioned in my last post that I wanted to try and eat some proper meals to fuel my studying. Most of the things I made this week came from the October Delicious, whose theme this month is "Feel-Good Food: Low fat, low carb and gluten free". Perfect!Bill Granger's Pearl barley, broccoli & cashew salad with tamari dressingBill...

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BBQ

The Great Aussie Tradition

10/07/2006 02:49:00 PM
I do love barbecues, but rarely do them. They take a lot of effort, what with having to drag our Beefmaster 2000 out of the garage, and they're really messy, creating lots of smoke and spitting fat. However, today there were a few factors which meant that only a real barbecue would do. Firstly, the weather was totally...

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L'Shanah Tovah!

10/06/2006 11:30:00 AM
During Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish bakeries around town make these awesome big challah. Usually they're long and plaited, but they make big round ones for the new year. My dad came home last night with one such challah...Giant challah - Check out the "timtam to challah size ratio".He also got a poppyseed pastry thingo...And I had these for...

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Jamie

Pasta Con Acciughe e Pomodoro

10/05/2006 03:06:00 PM
Tonight's dinner was yet another recipe from Jamie's Italy. I was knackered after a hard day at uni, (seriously, does anyone wake up at 8 in the morning anymore?), but managed to knock this up after coming home.Pasta Con Acciughe e PomodoroJamie says to use margherita pasta if you can find it - kind of like fettucine with...

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Steve, Don't Eat It!

10/03/2006 10:11:00 PM
My cousin put me onto this hilarious site today. Apparently she stumbled across it at work one day and was in tears laughing for hours.Basically this dude eats really digusting food and then writes about it. He's really, really funny. My favourite quote is from the entry where he eats natto (Japanese fermented soybeans).The entire experience is difficult...

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Muffins

Another Springtime Lunch...

10/03/2006 07:45:00 PM
The warmer weather always makes me feel like sitting outside with a bowl of pasta, soaking up the deligtful sunshine. For lunch on Thursday last week, I made Nigella's tagliolini al pesto amaro (which I actually made with casarece) from Forever Summer, as well as a batch of her rhubarb muffins from Feast.The pesto is different from ordinary...

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Bars

Alumbra's Gourmet BBQ or "Happy Birthday Mark!"

10/01/2006 11:53:00 AM

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