Monthly Archives: September 2008

That restaurant across from Chinese Noodle Restaurant.

I have to admit it. I am a terrible restaurant reviewer, see, I’ve eaten here many times, I know exactly where it is and what my favourite dish is, yet I can’t remember its name. It is just across from the Chinese Noodle Restaurant in Chinatown, and I think that some of the dishes on [...]

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Panna Cotta with rhubarb compote.

Sometimes the most rewarding and enjoyable meals are those that are the simplest. Often I will spend hours cooking a meal and the finished product has lost all allure for me. After tasting and nibbling I’m not hungry and however fresh and delicious the meal is, it feels tired and boring to me. So when [...]

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Asparagus Frittata – tastes of Spring

Spring has finally struck Sydney, and those organic eggs and vegies delivered to me only hours previously were begging to be eaten. The asparagus was first on the list, any longer in the fridge and these tender tendrils would start to resemble the woody, tough and wrinkled bunches on sale at the supermarket. But what [...]

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Fresh, organic and free. I’m lucky.

At home, on the farm, we have a process when it comes to making dinner. I’m not going to talk about the wood stove (the bane of my existence when I lived there), but, instead, the produce. It is my turn to cook dinner. Early evening, on holidays, relaxing. Its a few years ago. I [...]

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Strawberries.

The past few weeks the strawberries have been divine. Heralding the beginning of spring and on sale everywhere. Strawberries, which all too often disappoint, are packed with flavour and unbelievably fragrant. Standing in the fruit shop, nose hovering about the air holes in the plastic punnets, I have almost swooned on more than one occasion [...]

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