High Coffee Experience

“…we really enjoyed our first High Coffee experience and loved the twist to the traditional afternoon teas…”

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Playground Series: Fruits of the Earth

“…aptly named Fruits of the Earth, I think the Boy captured Mother Nature’s gifts perfectly on the plate…”

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Baking Frenzy Returns with aChai Tea Cake

“…I thought I would merge my newfound love of baking with my love of chai tea and create a Chai Tea Cake recipe…”

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Behold…Double Choc Lamingtons

“…the recipe not only makes a fine chocolate cake (which I’ll probably make again), it certainly added some colour and fun to Peanut’s party…”

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Lady GaGa – Monster Ball 2010

On March 26, 2010 By

She ate my ate… she at-at-ate my heart…

Cheers!! To the best concert I’ve ever been to. Ever. Period.

It had style, it had oomphed… and GaGa gave us her all… she loves her little monsters!

She opened the concert with Dance in the Dark… techno style…quickly [...]

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Seven Seeds @ 114 Berkeley Street, North Melbourne

On March 24, 2010 By

Sisterly love knows no bounds… The same blood runs through their veins… Quiet and a boring facade she shows…

Seven Seeds… quaint Big Sister of Brother Baba Budan

A cute coffee plant grows in their grounds

Beautifully knitted lamp shades…

Menus kept in old [...]

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Brother Baba Budan

On March 23, 2010 By

Smells of great coffee drifts out onto the Little Bourke Street between Queen and Elizabeth every morning I walk pass…

The beauty and elegance of freshly roasted and brewed coffee beans asails my mind and drives me to their front steps…

Visions of chairs falling on my impending head [...]

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Singing the night away with the Naked Chef…

On March 20, 2010 By

(We were entertained by Jamie’s guests band, the Wonderbrass!)

Ahhhh… Jamie Jamie Jamie.. where do I begin… we knew we were in for a treat, but we didn’t how the night would start. First up, we went there with our tickets for the Floor seats.. 6 row’s from the stage… close enough to jump [...]

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Oui Oui!! Ooh La La…

On March 19, 2010 By

(Old picture from: SMH)

OMG! OMG!… Sudden heart palpitations… sweaty palms… butterflies in my tummy…

I just saw the teaser trailer for Masterchef 2010…. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

And that is all I wanted to say…

I’ll post up some Jamie pictures tomorrow… been languid lately

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Harry’s On the Esplanade

On March 11, 2010 By

Let’s try Harry’s on the Esplanade!

One Tuesday morning (it was the morning of Melbourne Cup, hence a public holiday!)… the Boy announced, “Wake up, and let’s go!”… and being groggy from sleep, I didn’t ask where we were going… and when I asked, apparently we were going to Eastland [...]

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Up, Up and Away

On March 9, 2010 By

The view from me morning walks to work, and sometime morning breaks…Fitzroy Gardens

So the D.N.A. contributor has up and gone again… typical… I should be more than used to it by now…

We were getting along fine, I think… It had come to the point where I was willing to listen to him [...]

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Dragon Boat Restaurant @ Little Bourke (Chinatown), Melbourne

On March 8, 2010 By

I am a tad slow with my postings. I don’t know how other working people blog and work and live their lives, because I’m pretty much exhausted and much too lazy to want to do anything after work.

Anyway, today’s post will be about my visit to the newly renovated and refurbished Continue Reading →

Pot Luck with an Asian Twist

On March 7, 2010 By

Cousin Dinner round 20! (okay, I exagerate!)…

This time, we decided to do a pot luck instead, but the group kept getting smaller… (oh well!)… more for us to eat… We kept the theme, “Asian”… and it was fun…!!

Gula Melaka or Palm Sugar

Forgive me and the lack of [...]

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Minted Strawberries and Crepes Recipe

On March 5, 2010 By

It’s been a while since I last posted up anything to do with my own cooking (or the Boy’s). Just an hour (or two) ago, I felt like having some dessert… high tea style.. and I had all the ingredients, so why not?

The crepe base was made using:
30g butter
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