we were in the city early on sunday morning and hadn’t pre-picked a place for brunch/lunch, which wasn’t really a smart idea. there’s such a thing as too much choice. umming and aahing for a while, we headed in the direction of cellar bar. xm suddenly remembered hutong dumpling bar (14-16 market lane, melbourne 03 [...]
Archive for March, 2009
hutong dumpling bar, melbourne
Posted in age good food guide 2010, asian, melbourne on March 31, 2009 | 5 Comments »
maedaya, richmond
Posted in japanese, melbourne on March 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
after claire of melbourne gastronome fame wrote about maedaya (400 bridge road, richmond 03 9428 3918) xm promptly booked a table for the girls. well, we did book for a much larger party but the boys were out of town.
remember how i’m condiment crazy? well, maedaya was certainly my kinda place! we were greeted with [...]
apte, alphington
Posted in age good food guide 2010, brunch, melbourne on March 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
ever since the breakfast blogger bestowed the honour of a perfect score on apte (538 heidelberg road, alphington 03 9482 2991) i have wanted to see what the fuss was about. melbourne is after all full of places that do a great breakfast, what sets them apart from the rest? well, the distance from my [...]
fun in the kitchen – beef burgers
Posted in eating in on March 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
i was feeling distinctly under the weather yesterday, so the greasy goodness of a burger was doubly appealing on a day where i just could not stop snacking! god, i think i had 7 digestive biscuits in 5 minutes, along with many many grapes and multiple pieces of Club Original in the next 15 minutes [...]
the $10 takeaway challenge
Posted in random ramblings on March 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
k’s away for the whole of next week, and i’ve decided to try a new takeaway dish every night for dinner to avoid the dreaded washing-up. as we spend about $50 each on groceries each week i’ve set a $10 budget on my dinners next week, and have limited the suburbs i can visit to [...]
fun in the kitchen – lamb cutlets and potato salad
Posted in eating in on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
i LOVE chewing the bejesus out of lamb cutlets, although my tendency to get sauce all over my face means that i stay away from ordering any meat with bones out in public if possible.
on sunday i marinaded some lamb cutlets in a mixture of garlic powder, cumin, lemon pepper, lea & perrins sauce and [...]
fun in the kitchen – beef and red wine stew
Posted in eating in on March 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
i have a thing against red meat in stew. call me crazy, but i just can’t bring myself to like it. i don’t really know why, but i think it may have something to do with the beef you get in lean cuisine meals… you know… the ones like disintegrate into powdery mush in your [...]
claypot hainanese chicken rice at ecpot cafe, qv melbourne
Posted in asian, melbourne on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
michelle introduced me to ecpot cafe (level 1 qv urban market, 200 lonsdale st melbourne 03 9663 8319) last year and it was here that i tasted one of the best chicken rice dishes i have ever tasted. and this is a pretty big statement considering i grew up eating bloody good chicken rice! unfortunately [...]
crust pizza
Posted in melbourne, pizza on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
not wanting to go out for dinner, we opted for some takeout from crust in armadale (1162-1164 high street, armadale 03 9021 9999). i got a half and half of the garlic prawns and mediterranean lamb for k…
which disappeared too quickly for me to sneak a bite, but from past experience the mediterranean lamb is [...]
fun in the kitchen – chicken, celery and leek pie
Posted in eating in on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
the weather was cooling down substantially in melbourne and so i decided to go for comfy winter food. good way to hide veggies too if you don’t feel like having a salad on the side.
i fried some bacon pieces before adding two chopped leeks, and then a mixture of shredded roast chicken and some leftover [...]
