So my domain has been transferred (as of midnight two days ago), but the actual data it contains has not, and until I hear back from Hostpapa, I can’t actually transfer it without going page manually by page, because of…
Category: Reviews
Review: Degustation Menu at Budapest Restaurant, Elsternwick
(Yeah, I don’t know what’s happening with the move either. I’ll keep you posted. But on the bright side, my new website for all things musical is now up and running at Cate Sings, and I even have plans for…
Review: My Cousin Rosa: Rosa Mitchell’s Sicilian Kitchen
Oh wow, I went to the Book Depository to get the link for My Cousin Rosa and discovered that Rosa has another book out! And that was probably the one that Rita (aka The Italian Lady at the farmers’ market)’s…
Review: Chocolate Degustation at Shocolate
I had this really irritating dream very early on Saturday morning. I dreamed that I’d gone out to lunch somewhere, and halfway through the meal, the restaurant moved me and my friend to a table with ten other people. Then,…
Eating Out: Zaatar, Coburg
For many years, there was a truckies’ café called Zorba’s on the corner of Sydney Rd and Munro St, which served cheap souvlaki, chips, hamburgers, and other food of that ilk until 2am weeknights (4am on weekends). In my more…
Slice! Which is sort of a review of a cookbook, but mostly about me being obsessed with slice
Recipe for a Baking Frenzy 1. Be seduced by the new Women’s Weekly Little Squares and Slices cookbook when out at lunch on Thursday. Accidentally buy it (this could happen to anyone). 2. Spend quite a lot of Thursday afternoon…
Book Review: The $120 Food Challenge, by Sandra Reynolds
I can’t actually remember what I was doing online that led me to this cookbook, but when I read that it was by a Melbourne food blogger who had started off in 2010 trying to feed her family for $120…
Adventures with Ingredients: La Latteria and Gewürzhaus
I had the day off today, which meant it was a day to go exploring interesting food shops! After I went to that cheesemaking workshop, my father mentioned that his grandfathers both used to make cheese (and that, in fact,…
Review: A La Carte, by Tanita S. Davis
I’m reading a fair bit of young adult literature at the moment. There’s some very good stuff around. So when an online friend reviewed a YA book that was full of food and cooking I thought, yep, that’s one for…
Review: Breakfast at Veri Koko
I’m having rather a nice re-introduction to work this week after my holidays, at least as far as the non-work parts are concerned (alas, work itself has been pure trained-monkey stuff since Monday). About half my scientists are off at…