Today we have another in-the-background blog update for you. We've refined our 12-hour bucket list of things to do in the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne, with lots of new photos and a few new venues.
great stuff - if I had a free day I would be quite happy to spend it this way though I would duck into the vegie bar for chocolate cake rather than eating gelati after all the wonderful street art but I am glad to see Smith and Daughters is your final destination. Maybe I will get there one night.
In 2008, Michael and I are stepping into the unfamiliar world of high culture with a subscription to the Melbourne Theatre Company . Thus, on seven Fridays in the next ten months, we'll be hunting for delicious dinners around the CBD that we can gobble down before the curtains rise at 8pm. I'm clumsily dubbing this series of posts Friday Featre Food. We've got a few ideas for future meals but we're also keen for your recommendations - casual or classy, just be sure it's tasty and timely. First up, an old favourite with a new flavour: Lord of the Fries . They have a second outlet now at Shop 5 Flinders St Station, facing Federation Square. We picked up the $13.40 deal - an original regular-sized burger, a spicy regular-sized burger and a cone of chips. The night's sauce of choice? The Indian chutney/yoghurt mix. It was pleasant enough, but the Belgian mayonnaise holds a special place in my heart (or is that arteries?). We relaxed on the grassy south bank...
January 3, 2016 I couldn't stop thinking about Family Favourites . I would have loved to make a frozen chocolate crunch or shared around some mango coconut splice blocks , but they just wouldn't work at a picnic. Then I thought of nutella pudding . I didn't need to make more food at all, really, but I couldn't resist a go at veganising nutella pudding. This one goes in the style of British self-saucing puddings, with the nutella in the sauce and a typical cake batter plonked on top of it. I tracked down a jar of biona dark chocolate spread , which was a little less sweet than nutella and completely lacking in hazelnuts, but it did the vegan silky chocolate job perfectly. Dairy cream became coconut cream, buttermilk begat vinegar-spiked soy milk, butter was replaced with margarine, and I switched the eggs for apple puree (I'll go for a mashed banana instead, one day). For all those changes, it was the same pudding in every way that mattered. It's probably inten...
August 23, 2016 Today we celebrate the 10th birthday of this here blog. We started where's the beef? in our first month of living in Melbourne and it's grown into an incredible document of our time in this city - it's threaded with the broadening acceptance and availability of vegetarian foods, the ebbs and flows of food trends, and our own evolving kitchen habits. We've collated some year-by-year highlights below. ____________ Year 1 Being our first year living in Melbourne, we spent our weekends exploring various restaurants, markets and festivals all over the city . Michael started working in Fitzroy and launched the Gertrude St Grub series ; Cindy's workplace showed off their home cooking skills . Best recipe: spiced chickpeas Best restaurants: Three, One, Two , Moroccan Soup Bar Year 2 Cindy had a slow culinary start because she had her wisdom teeth removed . After that week we got much more sociable, participating in our first food blogger mee...
great stuff - if I had a free day I would be quite happy to spend it this way though I would duck into the vegie bar for chocolate cake rather than eating gelati after all the wonderful street art but I am glad to see Smith and Daughters is your final destination. Maybe I will get there one night.
ReplyDeleteThanks Johanna! Yes, you really must book a spot at S&D when you get the chance. Brunch/lunch is more kid-friendly than dinner, if that helps.
DeleteI did have brunch last year which I enjoyed but would love to do the evening meal which is more of a challenge for us!
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