I’m rather partial to Lebanese pizza, particularly the minced lamb variety. I’ve been eating them since a very young age, thanks to the Lebanese family who lived across the road from us when we lived in Reservoir. The mother of the family, Yolanda, gave my mother a recipe for mini-lamb pides. Very delicious and all … Continue reading »
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The 2011 Great Hot Cross Bun taste-off
Just in time for Easter I bring you the 2011 Great Hot Cross Bun taste-off. This is something I’ve been talking about doing for years, and in all honesty, one of the reasons I started to blog. I’ve previously written about my annoyance at the inner suburban and eastern suburbs focus of food articles from … Continue reading »
A hot February night – Dinner at Pinarbasi
With dark clouds gathering overhead at the end of an extremely hot and humid day earlier this month, we raced down to Pinarbasi for dinner, one of the many Turkish restaurants along Sydney Road near our house. We made it indoors before the downpour began and safely ensconced in the air-conditioned comfort of the restaurant, … Continue reading »
Coburg Cool – The Post Office Hotel
> Battered potato moons The hot and humid weather really isn’t any inducement for either of us to cook, so it was to the Post Office Hotel that we went for dinner on our way home from work last Thursday. We’ve enjoyed a few bar meals here since they opened in around the middle of … Continue reading »
>I like my local pub but really… The Quince Poacher bites back
>It’s been a while since my last entry but I’ve not not been busy, oh no! There’s been recipes cooked, restaurants dined at and cookbooks read, in between finishing off this semester’s uni subject and a busy period at work. During this hiatus I spied this article in M magazine, one of the Sunday Age … Continue reading »
