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Continue reading →: *Slow-Roasted Crispy Pork BellyBy Nagi Maehasi (Recipe tin eats): https://www.recipetineats.com/crispy-slow-roasted-pork-belly/ Very simple and delicious: Served with apple sauce (Thermi recipe: apples, sugar, lemon juice), onion, carrots, and potato timbale, and American mustard. The crackling was one of the best I have had. Not that hard toffee tooth dislodging stuff!
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Continue reading →: NSW: Darlinghurst: Malabar IndianAlways good food, service & value. Great wine glasses (Riedel 001) and its BYO 23 August 2026 – Onam Sadya From right to left: On the banana leaf: Served with steamed Matta rice, Pappadum & pickle 16 April 2025 CHILLI GARLIC MUSHROOMS button mushrooms coated in a spiced chickpea batter…
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Continue reading →: *Product Review: Toscano Pizza BasesI purchased this new product at the local Woolworths Metro (at least new for this store), on promotion with Mutti. Best Pizza Base I have found so far. Not as good as making yourself, but that takes planning 24 hours in advance. I made the classic margarita.
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Continue reading →: Buckwheat Pizza with Olive Tapenade and Zucchinifrom The Whole Pantry by Belle Gibson (p112) Despite being exposed as a health fraudster, I like a lot of the recipes in this book. Buckwheat Pizza Base: buckwheat flour, arrowroot, sea salt, bicarbonate of soda, flat leaf parsley, macadamia il and apple cider vinegar. The mixture was supposed to like “more…
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Continue reading →: NSW: Lindfield: Café Lyon
Date visited: 18 August 2026 Bread Citrus Cured Trout, Celeriac Remoulade & Prawn Beignet. Remoulade is a dressing of eggs, oil vinegar, mustard, capers and herbs. Beignet here means fritter. Served with Yarra Valley Salmon roe and chives. Good presentation, but something was not right with the oil the prawns…
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Continue reading →: NSW: Paddington: Imperial HotelIn-between cooking, I often look for something local that is cheap and good. I tried the $20 Steak Frites (with cafe de Paris butter and jus) Wednesday at the Royal Hotel Paddington. Let’s just say it was not worth writing about. Then I tried the Chicken Schnitzel Parmigiana option at…
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Continue reading →: NSW: Sydney CBD: The Restaurant PendolinoDate visited: 21 July 2026 House-made Breads and Pendolino Extra Virgin Olive Oils Delicious breads and EVOO Ravioli Di Magro: “Pendolino Classic Hand-Made Spinach & Artisan Cheese Ravioli, Pepe Sayo Cultured Burnt Butter, Sage“. Magro generally means light, although for this dish it means without meat. The “Artisan Cheese” comprised…
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Continue reading →: NSW: Gerringong: Curries & Spirits Indian RestaurantDate visited: 19 July 2026. The dishes we had were very good, plus you can BYO and bring your fur friends and sit outside. We ordered spicy and very hot ( but they were all mild on my scale, and certainly no-one at our table thought they had too much…
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Continue reading →: *Luv-a-Duck confit duck legs with white beansUpdate: Legs were further sous vide at 68C for 3 plus hours and then under the grill to crisp up. Definitely the best by far. Previous Trial Confit legs were kept in their bag and sous vide at 90C for about 30 minutes, and out of the bag and under…
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Continue reading →: Andy’s chilli tuna pasta bakefrom The Next Element by Andy Allen (b35) Apparently according to Andy: “This is a massive hit with my family and was also a hit with my housemates at the MasterChef house.” It wasn’t a hit for me! Why take a perfectly al-dente pasta, and then bake it for a further 5mins? Give…
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