So my self-challenge to cook all the recipes from Nigella Lawson’s How to Be a Domestic Goddess continues with two muffin recipes: Lemon-Raspberry Muffins and Blueberry Muffins. I cooked the lemon-raspberry muffins first, as I had a pressing need to get rid of the absurd amount of frozen berries I had filled up our tiny freezer with … Continue reading
Third Wave Cafe 189 Rouse Street (near cnr Bay Street) Port Melbourne This review covers not one but two occasions at Third Wave Cafe: I ate here with a fellow food blogger a while ago, and Kenny wrote it up more eloquently than I ever could at his awesome western suburbs food blog Consider the … Continue reading
Fonda Mexican 248 Swan Street Richmond web: http://fondamexican.com.au/ I seem to get sucked into the local drinks when I’m travelling. In Vietnam, I smashed endless cups of Vietnamese coffee; India saw me chugging down chai from the most random of roadside stalls; and in Mexico, apart from the obvious one (tequila), I got rather obsessed with … Continue reading
So after devouring Nigella Lawson’s How to Eat cookbook cover to cover, I bought How to be a Domestic Goddess and have a bit of a blog project about to start: I’m going to try to cook every recipe in this book. This will result in: My getting a lot better at baking, perhaps turning … Continue reading
Liaison Cafe 22 Ridgeway Place (Lane off Little Collins St, between Exhibition and Spring) Melbourne CBD Danielle and I had a quick lunch here a little while back, to catch up on work gossip and also tick Liaison off my wishlist (it had been sitting there for quite a while!). For a while we were a little … Continue reading
N.Lee Bakery Cafe 62 Little Collins Street (just up from the corner with Exhibition St) Melbourne CBD World’s quickest review here to say that I finally, finally got around to trying the Vietnamese pork meatball baguettes that N.Lee Bakery does near my work, and it was just as good as everyone says. And that, if you … Continue reading
Spout Cafe 48 Glen Eira Road Ripponlea We only have a couple of months until we have to say goodbye to one of our good friends as she heads overseas to a really good American university, that took a lot of applying to get into, to study her MBA (prediction: she’ll go far). She suggested … Continue reading
Dumpling King 572 Station Street Box Hill Myself, Swannie and Sarah (who writes a beauty blog, if you’re interested!) last got together when sampling some Vietnamese down the road at Tien Dat, and the time for our semi-regular catch-up had rolled around again. Dumpling King is a bit of an institution in Box Hill. I’m … Continue reading
Roule Galette Scott Alley (241 Flinders Lane, between Swanston & Elizabeth) Melbourne CBD web: http://roulegalette.com.au/ So I always thought I was a bit of a savoury crêpe hater. Not sure why – I like nearly all carb-based products. Anyway, I suddenly decided I didn’t, and now it’s been raining crepes (yeah, you get the circumflex … Continue reading
Port Bakehouse And so it came to pass that we were unsatisfied from our breakfasts at seven:am, and decided to look for breakfast dessert elsewhere in Port Melbourne. Mr B’s favourite bakery treat is an apple cake. He had a really good one once, and since then, has been on the hunt for an equally … Continue reading
Fresh Bread 