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The Cookbook Challenge - Week 17 - Vietnamese - Chicken with Vietnamese Caramel Sauce 17 Mar 2010 | 12:36 pm
Yes, I'm late. I'm sorry. Fitting blogging in around my life is harder than I anticipated. Uni's back, and I went away for the weekend - not making excuses... ok, maybe I'm making excuses. But, I'm bl...
Double Post Monday part 2! The Cookbook Challenge - Weeks 15 & 16 8 Mar 2010 | 01:27 pm
The weather has been frightful in Melbourne this weekend. You can see photos on The Age website here. Check out photo 37. There's a car under there. I saw it with about a foot to go. Funnily enough, I...
Double Post Monday! The Cookbook Challenge - Weeks 15 & 16 8 Mar 2010 | 12:49 pm
So, I log in today to post Week 16 (noodles) of the cookbook challenge. Turns out I hadn't posted week 15 despite what my, apparently faulty, memory was telling me. So today's posts are Week 15 - Muf...
The Cookbook Challenge - Week 14 - Japanese - Japanese Eggplant Slices 22 Feb 2010 | 11:18 pm
Like most of the challenge participants, I don't have a Japanese cookbook either, and a few indexes of a few books didn't yield a lot of options. I turned to Stephanie Alexander's, The Cook's Companio...
The Cookbook Challenge - Week 13 - Love - Molten Chocolate Puddings 15 Feb 2010 | 12:20 am
Love is.... serving chocolate pudding just the way he likes it - to his desk while he plays Battlefield on the computer on Valentine's Day. Love is.... serving it undercooked because that's the way h...
The Cookbook Challenge - Week 12 - Eggs - Strawberry Vacherin 14 Feb 2010 | 12:08 pm
I'm late, I know. I'm sorry. No excuses, I just didn't have time. Don't ask me what I was doing, I have no idea how I had no time this week, I'm not convinced I was actually doing anything, sometimes ...
The Cookbook Challenge - Week 11 - Mixed - Lime and pistachio zucchini cake 31 Jan 2010 | 07:02 pm
"What are you putting zucchini in a cake for? That's s**t." "I like it, so shut up." This lime and pistachio zucchini cake never fails to provoke mixed reactions. People say they hate it - then they...
Slow Fashion - The New Slow Cooking? 27 Jan 2010 | 03:18 pm
Ok, so this isn't a food related post. It's my blog and I'll digress if I want to. Slow fashion is a movement to attain style with a lighter environmental footprint. It's about quality over quantity a...
Who Won? And - The Cookbook Challenge - Week 10 - Cool - Spicy Chicken Thighs with Cucumber and Cashew Salad 26 Jan 2010 | 05:35 pm
And the winners of the Bondi Chai giveaway are..... Sarah from http://imasugarjunkie.wordpress.com/ with her suggestion of a vanilla honey chai cupcake, with honey buttercream icing, and Agnes from h...
The Cookbook Challenge - Week 9 - Berry - Berry and Yoghurt Muffins 15 Jan 2010 | 08:11 pm
It appears that baking is not my forte. While I love it, and the result is always edible, I seem singly unable to bake something that doesn't stick to the pan. Check out my brownies for an example. Th...
