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Pinterest Recipe – Avocado Pasta Sauce
HOW have I not known about this before – creamy & healthy pasta? I love pasta – Dukan / Atkins – not my favourite words! Carbs get bad deal in life – I believe in everything in moderation! This is a great compromise of getting your carbs on and adding a healthy twist! With fresh avocado as the king ingredient we are getting our good fats and a creamy sauce! Few other key ingredients and this is a winner! Checkout all the details at Key…
Cannellini Bean Dip
Cannellini Bean Dip Ingredients; 1 can cannellini beans Quarter of garlic Squeeze of lemon Salt & Pepper Method; Easy – put all in blender and blitz until not too smooth! Serve with crusty fresh baguette and a tin of very lovely anchovies – YUM!
Moscato Cupcakes
This one has been waiting for a blog for sometime! BUT as the last days of sunshine leave Melbourne enjoy these light and wonderful Moscato Cupcakes from the Fabulous Ladies Wine Society. Perfect with our favourite Brown Brothers Moscato – the new mini bottles perfect for this recipe too! Moscato Cupcakes Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1 tsp baking soda 3/4 tsp salt 1 1/4 cups sugar 1 cup oil 1/3 cup Moscato 3/4 cup buttermilk 2 large eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract…
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M.Y. China – San Fran
Happy memories of our holiday and the last lunch we had after a hard days shopping in San Francisco before we had to head back to the airport for the loooooong flight home! The website says it much better than I would so; James Beard Award winning chef and TV host Martin Yan transports the sights, tastes and discoveries of modern day Chinese food to America. He and his all-star crew create a fun and approachable restaurant where every visit offers a new experience. See,…
Phoenix Phuong Hoang
Any Victoria Street Regular will know the love of Pho (Fur?!?!) Big… sorry HUGE steaming bowls of noodle soup, pimped with your choice of chicken, beef, tripe and more! Add fresh, chilli, chilli oil, chilli and garlic, beansprouts, lemon / lime,Vietnamese herbs and ….slurp! I recommend you go in low and close to the bowl to save your top half from a re-design of splatterings!! A long time fan of I Love Pho (click here) I was excited to here I love Pho 2 or…
Straits of Malacca
Popping up across Melbourne The Straits of Malacca, it’s fast and fabulous Malaysian cuisine and it is really good!! Noodles packed with tofu puffs, veggies and so much flavour YUM! Satay – Divine! Loved this as my ‘Dukan lunch’ Generous, succulent, great flavours and that satay source was perfection! Nasi Lamak – what can I say? Peanuts, salty little fish, chilli, curry… amazing! Mouth is watering – must go back soon!
Neanderthal Grrrreat!
Commercial Road hotspot gets another cool spot for brunch, lunch, coffee and wild dogs! The menu screams debauchery with canadian hotcakes with strawberry and bacon, pork belly with bourbon dipping sauce, wagyu beef sliders and …. oh yes…. Neanderthal Wild Dog… Double hot dog with chilli relish and a cheeky side of fries! Delish, you can’t go wrong and if you need to make it a touch more wrong… You can make a chip butty like my hubby!! Great spot, good morning coffee and dogs…
Jimmy Watsons
Historical Jimmy Watson’s is a landmark on Lygon and offers a friendly bar for a drink, easy going restaurant for eating and a cute courtyard for .. whatever you like! A great spot to nip in for lunch, the menu has an abundance of fresh fish, pasta and pizzas to enjoy. Special entree BBQ prawns are a real treat, huge and fresh and served with a splash of lemon, fennel and spring onion – a perfect example of letting fabulous ingredients speak for themselves. Entree…
Blondie on the Block
My Mexican Cousin has left the building and in it’s place is Blondie – offering a quick and simple bar menu outside and a more extensive menu inside this is a great spot for something fast and yummy before a show. It feels like everyone is still finding their feet, wrong menus, missing tabs and missing plates, cutlery etc but roll with it and the reward at the end is overall pleasant! The arancini were delicious – could eat a bucket of them! The Chicken…
Cookbooks
Lorraine Pascale – Fast, Fresh & Easy Food
Lorraine Pascale – Fast, Fresh & Easy Food From Model to TV Chef Lorraine offers easy and effective cooking that will wow your socks off!! Recipe 7 – Really Simple Sri Lankan chicken curry with coconut milk and cashew nut rice Loved loved loved! Didn’t quite look like the picture and my curry powder was a bit weak but super easy and LOVED the rice, the sweetness of the cashews was a perfect balance to the heat of the chilli and creaminess of the coconut…
WIN – Flavours of Urban Melbourne
Grab your car keys, pushbike or Myki (Ggggrrrrrr!!) and get exploring the wonderous world of Melbourne! We all know it is a hub of foodie fun with cool bars, cafes and some world class restaurants… and everything in between!! But I sat in wonder at this food adventurers coffee table book – it is huge AND gorgeous!! Packed with many favourites from each suburb you can start one hell of a bucket list to plan your next brunch, lunch or dinner! From old favourites like…
Super Natural Everyday
Recipe 11 – Oat Bran Muffins Super healthy and super fab! With fresh strawberries hidden inside these oat bran muffins get a little strawberry compote surprise! Genius, no fuss recipe for a great healthy start to the day!! Recipe 10 – Fennel and Zucchini salad I love this book, especially when you want a good healthy flavour packed dish. This salad is the perfect example of fresh produce dancing in flavours that we meant to be! Super thin, raw fennel and zucchini with zesty lemon…
Ramsey’s Ultimate Cookery Course
Gordon Ramsey – Ultimate Cookery Course The book is big and full of all of the 100 recipes from the show and my only comment is that the photos are a bit of a let down and don’t do the recipes justice after seeing them on the show! But regardless of piccies this is a great book – one that you could cook from for weeks on end and produce something different every night!! Recipe 12 – Baked Cheesecake LOVE LOVE LOVE! Baked cheesecake is…