12
Oct
Breast Cancer Awareness Pink Cupcake Drive
We had a cupcake drive today to support breast cancer awareness so a few of us baked some cupcakes. The theme was pink. I tried to make mine pink but that kinda failed. Heather’s butterfly cupcakes were gorgeous with fluffy, buttery texture (I asked for recipe) with delicious strawberry cream in the middle. (Vanilla cupcakes...
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11
Oct
Melbourne Food Review: The Grand Tofu, Glen Waverley
Gayle, Murray, Josh and I went looking for a dumpling place on the main strip of Glen Waverley. Gayle, being a local, was completely out of touch with the Asian bit of Glen Waverley. Tsk tsk, Gayle! Unfortunately, it was 11am (we tried to make brunch because Josh and I had to be at Richard’s...
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08
Oct
Melbourne Food Review: Korean BBQ, Box Hill
We ended up in Box Hill one night since I felt like lots of meat. I’m really not a big meat eater generally and I tend to stay away from all-you-can-eat because I have this bad habit of killing myself at all-you-can-eat. It’s a serious bravado thing. It is fortunate that Josh is not competitive...
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07
Oct
Pad Thai (with Treasured Family Secret Recipe Sauce)
No. Not really. I am one of those people who can safely say that I have no family recipes as my parents never really cooked so there was nothing to pass down. But last week I had a play around with the pad thai sauce and came up with something I rather liked. Basically, a...
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05
Oct
Lemongrass and Chilli Beef (Bo Xao Xa Ot)
Josh made this the other night with a recipe that I suggested (got to get myself in for a bit of credit here) from Pauline Nguyen’s Secrets of the Red Lantern, which is a really, really fantastic book. I literally took it on the train and read it everyday from cover to cover. This is...
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