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Sarah Cooks: 10/1/13 - 11/1/13
Breakfast

Grain Store

10/27/2013 10:54:00 PM
Grain Store 517 Flinders Lane Melbourne VIC 3000 Ph: (03) 9972-6993 Website While I was away in Germany earlier this year, I started seeing quite a bit of online love for this new cafe, Grain Store. Loads of people in my Instagram feed were going gaga for it, and my cousin described their poached eggs as "life-changing" on...

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Pastry

Fine Apple Tart (or Tarte Fine aux Pommes)

10/25/2013 10:14:00 PM
Fine apple tart When we caught up with a couple of friends at Simon's Peiking Duck a couple of weeks ago, I offered to make dessert at our place. That way, we could do the early 6 PM seating, stuff our faces with amazing Peking duck, get out before the hungry customers for the 8 PM seating arrived, then...

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Events

Melbourne Festival Foxtel Festival Hub

10/21/2013 08:06:00 AM
The Melbourne Festival Foxtel Festival Hub We're really lucky in Melbourne to have a vibrant arts and cultural scene - we get heaps of concerts, plays, musicals and art exhibitions, and there always seems to be some sort of fun festival going on. Apart from the whole food thing (no Sarah, really?), I love musicals and concerts, so...

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Bread

Father's Day Dinner and some Ottolenghi Goodness

10/16/2013 06:28:00 PM
Chicken with cardamom rice Mmm... don't you just love a big comforting pot of chicken and rice? It's my dad's favourite dish, so for Father's Day this year, I decided to make him a dinner with Ottolenghi's chicken with cardamom rice as the central dish. I chose some other recipes from Jerusalem as accompaniments, with a simple Donna Hay...

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German

Germany 2013: Snapshots

10/13/2013 03:09:00 PM
Here's my last post about our trip to Germany. I've blogged about Germany a zillion times before, so rather than going on about everything in great detail, I just wanted to share some pictures with you. Enjoy! (If you want any more info on any of the pictures, just hit me up in the comments section and I'll...

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