I recently attended a special lunch with the Australian Mushroom Growers Association. The event was a celebration of the year’s achievements and 50 years of the mushroom industry and the launch of Mushrooms Go Pink in October. I love mushrooms and wholeheartedly support the people who grow them, so I was pretty chuffed to be […]
I wrote about the mushroom dishes I ate at Clarke’s of North Beach back in July as part of Mushroom Mania. Here’s the meal in its entirety. The evening’s amuse bouche was cream of cauliflower soup with truffle (AU$6), served in cute little jars with teaspoons to eat it with. We flipped the lids open […]
Last week, I attended a cheese and wine masterclass featuring some of Blue Cow Cheese Company’s “Just Landed” range of imported European traditional, artisanal and handmade cheeses. Blue Cow is a Western Australian cheese company that specialises in farmhouse and specialty cheeses sourced locally and around the world. The mastercl…
Jac made “spicy, supercrunchy fried chicken” for lunch with friends at our house recently. The recipe came from The Essential New York Times Cook Book: Recipes for a New Century (2010). The recipe begins: Ready for a tip that will change your life? You don’t need to deep-fry chicken: you can shallow-fry it in half […]
Thank you so much to everyone who voted for me in the Malaysia Kitchen Blogger Summit and helped spread the word throughout August. Which was your favourite post or dish? The results are out and it’s official – I’m going to Malaysia! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your support and […]
We hosted a family lunch recently at our home to celebrate Jac’s mum Pattycakes’ birthday. Jac loves to cook for company and had a great time planning and preparing the meal. I helped her with recipe research and the boring stuff like setting the table on the day. :) Our starter dish was prawns sauteed […]
For brunch on Saturday, I bought myself takeaway BBQ noodle soup from Canton at the Carousel Shopping Centre food court. The thick egg noodles, fried shallots, bean sprouts, steamed bok choy and meat were in one container, the broth in another. When I got home, I placed the noodles, sprouts and bok choy into a […]
Update, March 2013: Suria is under new management. Some of the dishes described in this post may no longer be available. Nasi lemak (AU$8.50) Suria Cafe, located at the Summerfield shopping centre in Girrawheen, serves traditional Malay dishes. On a weekend with good traffic it’s about 20 minutes drive from the Perth CBD. There was […]
A couple of weekends ago, Jac and I went to a quiz night with my siblings and their partners. It was a fundraiser for Jac’s hockey club. We all brought food, of course. Jac made her savoury eggs (some people call them deviled eggs). Jac’s never written her recipe down – it’s all done by […]
Hainanese chicken rice (AU$8.00) Bull Creek Hawker is located at the busy shopping village on Parry Avenue in Bull Creek. We pulled into the rather congested centre car park just before 12 noon. We were both starving – neither of us had eaten breakfast. It was Sunday and the place was buzzing with activity. Apparently […]