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birthday indulgence: Luke Nguyen’s Red Lantern on Crown
pan fried rice cakes with tiger prawns, caramelised pork, shallot oil, fried shallot, peanut and pork floss Baby, you had me at pork floss. This year’s birthday was very low key. While my graceful...
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recipe | soft matcha and white choc cookies
Some things are made to be together. Seasides and summer breezes, snow and hot chocolate, leg warmers and crimped hair. Or maybe I should be talking more to my actual audience… so picture this...
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recipe | matcha swirl butter cake
It’s kind of hard to believe that for a while there, I went off matcha. I remember I’d just bought a box of matcha, adzuki and mochi ice cream and was so excited to get into them and then WHAM. Puke...
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recipe | pandan cake (using pandan extract)
When the stars align, you just have to run with it. It’s a fact that the human condition means we focus on the negatives in life. We complain when stuff goes wrong, but we often don’t appreciate when...
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recipe | chocolate marble chiffon cake (and how stress can bring on labour)
Before I starting warbling on, I should probably warn you that this post isn’t about a chocolate marble chiffon cake at all. What, you say? I know this is misleading, given that yes, that there is a...
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recipe | milo ‘lactation’ cookies
“Welcome to the world, beautiful baby boy”, reads the card. What it omits to say is “welcome to the world, a world full of unsolicited advice, beautiful baby boy”. Much like the urban myth that stress...
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recipe | 5 minute choc nut muesli slice
Where has the time gone? 2013 has been quite the year for me. We got married (ok, granted that was 27 December 2012 but who’s counting), got pregnant, bought a house and oh hey, we had a baby! As is...
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PappaRich: fried chicken skin heaven
In case you haven’t quite worked it out, what you’re looking at right there is a big plate of fried chicken skin. Fried. Chicken. Skin. I’m pretty sure they serve this in heaven, or if not then well...
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recipe | mango sticky rice
On Wednesdays every week, I go along to a mothers group. It’s not a ‘community’ mothers group (which they harass you into joining when you give birth); it’s just six of us friends, who so happen to...
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recipe | fudgey walnut brownies
No one ever tells you this but one of the biggest sacrifices you make when you have a baby is not sleep. It’s not your social life. It’s not even a good hot shower. It’s baking. Yes, baking. Because...
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restaurant | West Juliett, Marrickville
You know a restaurant has really hit the jackpot when there’s a dish you always order and it never disappoints. When you recommend it to your friends, they end up always ordering it, and it never...
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recipe | healthy sticky date muffins
A couple of weeks ago, my friend Mags came over and cooked dinner for Panu and I. She made Cambodian pancakes, which were delicious and I am insanely grateful that anyone would want to come and cook...
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restaurant | Sedap Malaysian Kopi Tiam
The flourish of Malaysian restaurants in Sydney over the past few years has been fantastic for those of us who can eat Malaysian every day and never get sick of it. My favourites around town include...
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restaurant | Wagaya Tapas, Newtown
Wow. It’s been a long time between posts. So long in fact that I had to work my brain hard to remember my website login. I don’t think I’ve ever gone this long without a post. But these days, finding...
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restaurant | Ippudo Sydney
I know I know, I’ve blogged about ramen twice in a row. Have I gone on a ramen bend? Have I let my noodle addiction out of the bag? Have I ditched my matcha obsession for ramen? Certainly not, and...
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recipe | white chocolate and macadamia soft cookies
It’s winter. It’s cold. I’m cold. I looked at my wardrobe the other day and felt utterly uninspired by everything I saw (and trust me, there was lots to see, this is my first world problem). What on...
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recipe | three ingredients. the best rocky road
I don’t really make ‘the best’ anything. I make lots of stuff, and mostly it’s good… I think. But the best? Never. Despite being raised by a tiger dad, dare I say I don’t aim for stratospheric...
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restaurant | Rising Sun Workshop Pop-Up
I love Rising Sun Workshop, that’s pretty much all I need to say about this. Their philosophy, their space, their people, their food. Gah, it’s the coolest little loved up community I’ve come across...
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review | Uncle Toby’s quick sachet oats
For the past (almost) ten months, I’ve been the busiest I’ve ever been my entire life. Ok, except that one time when I was onsite on a project for two weeks and we literally slept two hours a night,...
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recipe | savoury muffins (baby friendly!)
So. I’m officially well into my second week of work. How am I feeling? Lots of people have asked, mostly hesitantly because they just don’t know how I’m going to react. Considering my previous post on...
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