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Mango, Pomelo, Sago.
“You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way”. Bob Dylan, Mississippi. Well, I came back. Back to a Hanoi that I was only too happy to leave 2 months ago. Much changed here in my absence, this city is speeding towards something like modernity, but my opinion of it remains [...]
Posted in Dessert
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Homemade Orecchiette
I feel as though I have missed out. Born to two food-apathetic Australian parents I’m bereft of a food culture. The food I ate growing up was all about freshness, seasonality and healthfulness, but with no deference to those things that I yearned for: tradition, technique and interest. Maybe this is one reason why I [...]
Posted in pasta, vegetarian
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Browned butter date loaf
Sometimes plans are well considered and made, executed to a tee and expectations are met. Other times spontaneity rules. Then there are the situations where everything happens by coincidence, this date loaf could be used as a case study for the outcomes of coincidence. No, the browned butter and sugar didn’t have an accidental collision [...]
David Lebovitz’s Fresh Ginger Cake
Molasses, yet another long derided, overlooked and misunderstood ingredient in my kitchen. It reminded me of Little House on the Prairie, wholesome for humans and horses both. In other words, not my kind of comestible. Growing up we always had a jar of blackstrap molasses hanging around. It was an essential ingredient in PMum’s revolting [...]
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Chocolate, prune and rum biscuits
Bourke Street Bakery opened in Marrickville the perfect distance from my house a few months before I left. It was within walking distance, but not too close that I could just duck out for a brulee tart or chocolate croissant whenever I felt the urge, which was altogether too often. Last spring made itself known [...]
