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Sarah Cooks: 10/1/12 - 11/1/12

The Best Roast Pork Shoulder and my tips for perfect crackling...

10/29/2012 06:34:00 PM
Roast pork shoulder The centrepiece of my most recent PORKTOBERFEST lunch was a resplendent roast pork shoulder, all juicy and tender with a crisp layer of crackling on top. Normally when I cook roast pork, I simply point you in the direction of the recipe I used - but in this instance I made the recipe up myself,...

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Canberra

Human Brochure

10/26/2012 12:07:00 AM
Hey hey everybody! Just a quick one today: I wanted to let you all know I'm off to Canberra for the weekend, as part of the Human Brochure campaign that Australian Capital Tourism have put together to promote the nation's capital! Basically, they created a big competition to bring 500 humans to Canberra for an all-expenses-paid weekend. (Half now, half...

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Beef

Featured Dish: Beef on Fried Noodles, Hills BBQ

10/23/2012 06:31:00 PM
A new featured dish: my favourite noodles ever! Beef on Fried Noodles (ngow yok chow minh), $8.50, Hills BBQ Hills BBQ in Box Hill is famous for its roast meats, but if you can tear yourself away from the glorious sight of the shiny lacquered ducks, the crispy roast pork, and the glossy chickens hanging in the window, may I...

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Healthy

Power Salad

10/21/2012 12:41:00 PM
I know that if you read my blog a lot, you might somehow get the impression that I'm constantly in the kitchen, whipping up tasty treats and elaborate dinner parties on the weekend, and virtuously making and bringing my lunches to work during the week. And you know what, that can be the case... sometimes. But we all get into...

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Accommodation

The Olsen Hotel's "Spring at Spoonbill" Dinner

10/18/2012 04:14:00 PM

Silken Tofu with Century Egg

10/14/2012 11:17:00 AM
Silken Tofu with Century Egg This was the lovely tofu dish I made for our Chinese lunch party. It is so very good, and incredibly simple to make. As I previously mentioned, it is literally just a block of cold silken tofu, topped with shallots, some different seasonings (soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, black vinegar), a chopped up...

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Degustation

Tetsuya's

10/10/2012 10:55:00 PM
So now we come to the final post from our Sydney 2012 trip: Dinner at Tetsuya's! Tetsuya's 529 Kent Street Sydney NSW 2000 Ph: (02) 9267-2900 Website We have a tradition with our friend An, where we shout each other dinner for our birthdays each year. (Last year he took us to Vue De Monde, and we took...

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