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Sarah Cooks: 4/1/09 - 5/1/09
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Amnesty III: Restaurants

4/27/2009 08:29:00 PM
I think I might have missed out on Jackie's Amnesty fortnight... but better late than never! Today's post is on restaurants! These were visited in a period from November last year up until the present...Della Nonna's BruschettaDella Nonna844 Glenferrie RdHawthorn Vic 3122(03) 9819-6444We visited Della Nonna in November 08 for a Sunday lunch... as it was so long...

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Quick Update: The Gastronomer's Bookshelf

4/19/2009 09:05:00 PM
My latest book review is up at The Gastronomer's Bookshelf, of Sudi Pigott's How to be a Better Foodie.If you've just gotten a new-release cookbook and would like to share your opinion, why not contribute a review? ...

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Chicken

Dinner at Thanh's

4/19/2009 06:50:00 PM
We went for dinner at Thanh's house last week. As per usual in the preceding week there were a flurry of back and forth emails deciding what to cook, when to have it, how we'd get there etc... (sorry Duncan!). In the end Thanh decided on a chicken recipe followed by chocolate puddings for dessert from his Movida...

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Amnesty II

4/18/2009 02:09:00 PM
More backlog...11/3/2008 - Roast Pork and DumplingsThis dinner was made quite speedily with store-bought ingredients.Small pork roast: Otway Pork, shrinkwrapped in plastic from Safeway. Got good crackling from it.Semmelknoedel, from box. You drop them im Kochbeutel! into a pan of boiling water until the little grains in there become one big dumpling.Dessert was grilled plums topped with brown...

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Cafes

Monsieur Truffe

4/17/2009 04:59:00 PM
Milka is one of my 3 favourite milk chocolates.The current edition (April 09) of Gourmet Traveller is really good. There's a feature on tempering chocolate by the lovely Lindt-man Thomas Schnetzler, an article about The Commoner, spectacular-looking sandwich recipes by Thomas Keller, and a spread of cute cupcakes (well, apart from the "tiny chocolate fudge cakes" which have...

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Backlog

Amnesty I

4/14/2009 08:25:00 PM
Inspired by Jackie's Amnesty post, I have decided to finally, properly clear up this backlog of food photos that I've been accumulating since I came back from Germany. Let's start at the oldest and work our way forwards, shall we?Incidentally, Jackie blames Twitter for her reduction in blogpost frequency. I don't even tweet, and I still have a...

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Chinese

HuTong

4/13/2009 11:22:00 PM
Hu Tong. I have been craving dumplings like crazy lately, and after reading glowing reviews on Tummy Rumbles and I Eat Therefore I Am, I was really keen to go. We were meeting up with some uni friends in Chinatown on Thursday night, so I suggested we try it. It ended up being pretty bad. To my uni...

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