05
Sep
Stir-fried Eggplant with Thai Basil, Chilli Bean and Garlic
This is one of those incredibly easy Thai dishes to make. It’s one of those dishes I make when I basically can’t be bothered. The original version uses yellow bean sauce but since I’m so in love with the Chinese chilli bean sauce, I used that here. It’s also easy to omit the oyster sauce...
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05
Sep
Melbourne Food Review: Supper Inn, Chinatown, City
We have been to Supper Inn a few times but we never had a chance to actually eat there because the queue is usually all to the way to Fitzroy. But on the day, we were quite early (probably just before 7?) so we only had to wait five or so minutes for the table....
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30
Aug
Pumpkin and Sweet Potato Purée
I completely forgot about this. This is what I served with the country style rabbit casserole and I forgot to write about it. This is for four side serves: 500 g. pumpkin, peeled and sliced 1/2 sweet potato, peeled and sliced 1/2 cup of cream 1 tsp of ground nutmeg a pinch of salt The...
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29
Aug
Melbourne Food Review: 2009 Taste of Melbourne Festival
This year’s Taste of Melbourne was held at the Royal Exhibition Building near the Carlton garden. It’s basically a festival of all things food with food and food-related stalls. The highlights of the show are of course the food stalls held by some of the more popular Melbourne fine-dining scene. We consumed a fair bit...
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27
Aug
Savoury Vegetable Pancakes with Smoked Salmon
This dish started off in our household as my attempts at okonomiyaki, which worked really well. I even added katsuobushi for the dancing fish effects. Josh, on the other hand, had decided that because I wasn’t around (this came about during my project in Singapore period) he was free to bastardise my okonomiyaki recipe however...
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