Monthly Archives: April 2009

No Signboard Seafood, Singapore

On our recent trip to Asia I ate and ate and ate, in no country more than Singapore (which F. affectionately calls, Singapork). Though, mostly that was because of the sumptuous buffet breakfasts daily, other than those, we really had only a few memorable meals here, with our Chinese New Year Reunion dinner* at no signboard [...]

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Rose Water Cheesecake with Baklava Biscuits and Ginger Cardamom Poached Plums – A Daring Bakers Challenge

The April 2009 challenge is hosted by Jenny from Jenny Bakes. She has chosen Abbey’s Infamous Cheesecake as the challenge. I have to admit that I was initially a bit disappointed that my first Daring Bakers Challenge would be cheesecake. I thought that it was a bit boring, too easy and not really a challenge [...]

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The great Anzac Biscuit Debate.

Ginger Oat Biscuits (fake Anzacs), Anzac Biscuits Chewy or crunchy, soft or hard, dry or moist, how do you like your anzac biscuits? It seems as though every Australian family has their own recipe, and we all grow up comparing all others unfavourably, holding our childhood biscuits in the highest esteem. So, what better to [...]

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Simple Green Beans

Have you ever had someone request a recipe for a dish that is so embarrassingly simple that you feel the need to fabricate extra ingredients and methods? Well, I’m taking that one step further and am now devoting an entire post to the simplest of dishes. Tender green beans, dressed with butter and seasoned. Embarrassingly [...]

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Roast Lamb with Rosemary and Anchovies, with Salsa Verde

I grew up around sheep. Their chewing and baa-ing woke me up in the mornings, and I would chase them back in when they got out, help round them up – jobs which I hated. Then, when the local abattoir stopped accepting sheep, I learned how to help out with that process, too. Maybe it was growing [...]

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