- Adventures, Drink
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January 1, 2012
A while ago at the Carriage Works markets I spoke to someone selling apple juice, I buy literally liters at a time from this stall and in that conversation the assistant to the person who runs it advised that her son had “special lids that makes things into alcohol”. I’d googled at length trying to {Tags: Brewing, Food Science, Technique} {More...}
- Adventures, Food Tech
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August 31, 2010
Fairtrade coffee (a system intended to pay coffee farmers a fairer price for their product) always seemed a bit suspicious to me, largely because I know as someone who tries to eat (and drink) ethically, that pictures of happy coffee farmers wearing knitted clothing are probably more marchitecture than grounded in fact. I also know {Tags: Coffee, Fairtrade} {More...}
- Adventures
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May 9, 2010
Last night I went to Tetsuya’s with friends, the 16th best restaurant in the world last year and considered either the best or the second best in Australia (battling Quay for the title each year). It was an absolutely phenomenal experience, thirteen courses of incredible Japanese, French and modern Australian style delicacies. We met first {Tags: Gourmet, Japanese, Restaurant} {More...}
- Adventures, Dinner
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May 3, 2010
Thai food is such a contemporary staple that it’s almost just “Aussie take away”. Pad thai, pad khee mao and green curry chicken are meals that Sydneysiders eat if they can’t be bothered cooking tonight, delivered on a motorbike from the place that you probably could’ve walked to. Longrain in Sydney’s “no bookings please, we’re {Tags: Chillies, Salad, Surry Hills, Thai} {More...}
- Adventures, Dinner
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April 12, 2010
On Saturday afternoon I caught up with a friend for beers in Surry Hills. After a few hours of drinking and talking technology (will the iPad dominate?) we decided that the only logical thing to do given both of us were hungry and both of us were three quarters drunk, was to go back to {Tags: Pasta, Salmon, Sweet Potato, Technique} {More...}
- Adventures, Dinner, Recipes
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March 17, 2010
Lamb Rump My brother in law came around late last week on a lat minute work trip, which is good because I had lamb rump that I wanted to eat and only one other person to eat it with (he’s a great guy too). I’ve noticed that the Masterchef website actually has some decent recipes {Tags: Festivals, Lamb, Masterchef} {More...}
- Adventures
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February 27, 2010
I’m in California at the moment, having just returned from an IBM Tivoli conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. My wife came along and stayed with me on holiday while i went to the conference which afforded us the opportunity to have a night at a truly special restaurant together once my presentation was complete and {Tags: fine dining, French, Gourmet} {More...}
- Adventures, Food Tech, Recipes
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February 1, 2010
Making your own sushi is nowhere near as hard as you’ve been led to believe. A lot of people worry about how hard it is to roll sushi rolls, you may have heard weird horror stories and you may have even seen that this non-problem solved with a sushi rolling machine. The truth is, you {Tags: Japanese, Rice, Sushi} {More...}
- Adventures, Food Tech, Wholesome
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January 26, 2010
On our national day I’m writing a few words about our national emblem and how delicious it is. You should know how to select, cook, serve and eat roo and you should do it regularly because it contains 200% of your recommended daily intake (RDI) of awesome. Kangaroos are animals of the family Macropodidae meaning {Tags: Kangaroo, Steak, Technique} {More...}
- Adventures
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January 25, 2010
ABC Radio Brisbane has just mentioned on Twitter that Poh Ling Yeow, recently famous due to the TV show Masterchef, has offered that salt and pepper calamari is our national dish. It took my five minutes to calm down enough to be flabbergasted. I have some strong opinions about national dishes, and I want yours. {Tags: Australian, Poll} {More...}
