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Sarah Cooks: 11/1/06 - 12/1/06
Bill Granger

Bill Granger's Lemon Chicken

11/30/2006 07:27:00 PM
I think I should preface this post by explaining my stance towards that most clichéd of Chinese culinary clichés, lemon chicken. It's that type of dish available at every "Chinese" restaurant, right from the Flower Drum, down to your little suburban takeaway, in varying quality (usually poor). Generally it consists of pieces of battered, deep-fried chicken, doused in...

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Entertaining

Dinner Party

11/29/2006 01:53:00 PM
I recently mentioned that I was going to be cooking for a big real grown-up dinner party. That was on Sunday night. We had 9 people in total: my family (4 of us), my friend Frances, and 4 of my parents' friends (the grown-up contingent). 2 of them are a husband and wife team who run a fabulous...

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Jamie

More Happy Days with The Naked Chef

11/24/2006 12:49:00 PM
Square bowl of Spaghetti CarbonaraEarlier this week I cooked dinner for my good friend Daniel, who has recently moved out of home to his own place. Daniel just loves creamy food, so I made spaghetti carbonara and chocolate Cambridge creams. The spaghetti was not actually from Happy Days, but the dessert was.Chocolate Cambridge creams are similar to crème...

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Jamie

Happy Days with The Naked Chef and "Chicken in Milk"

11/23/2006 11:26:00 AM
Bill Granger

Bill's Semolina Syrup Cake

11/21/2006 04:45:00 PM
This is exactly the type of cake my parents love - Greek-style and moist, full of almond and citrus syrup. When they saw the photo in Every Day, they immediately requested that I make it.It contains butter and sugar, Greek yogurt, eggs, orange zest, almond meal, semolina, flour, milk and baking powder, with the egg white being whipped...

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Polish Festival

11/20/2006 10:27:00 PM
Here are the photos from the Polish Festival at Federation Square on Sunday.Polish Donut!I got a paczki (pronounced "ponchki") donut. It's filled with powidla (plum jam) and has a lemon sugar glaze on it. Fabulous!Inside a polish donutIf you missed the festival, fear not, because these fabulous donuts are available at Monarch cake shop on Acland street all...

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Johnston Street Fiesta 2006

11/20/2006 12:28:00 AM
The Johnston Street Fiesta is an annual celebration of all things Latin-American and Hispanic, with dance and music performances, arts and craft stalls, and my favourite, fabulous food!We went on both Saturday and Sunday. Stupidly, I had lunch before hitting the festival on Saturday, and only had room to eat a meat and onion empanada, some Peruvian flan...

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