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Un-Classic Chocolate Cakes

missmars — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:25:56 +0000

I’ve been doing quite a bit of chocolate based baking recently. Namely, Nigella chocolate based baking. I made her quadruple chocolate loaf cake from Feast for my brother’s birthday (always has to be chocolate cake for the brothers), her chocolate fruit cake for xmas presents, and my friend Mel and I made the chocolate olive [...]

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Happy Halloween!! A pumpkin latte and pumpkin butter direct from the U.S…

missmars — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 06:17:33 +0000

Halloween always conjures thoughts of America, but this year more so than ever with the devastation of Hurricane Sandy all over the news. A few close friends of mine are travelling in America at the moment and are currently in NYC and DC, experiencing the centre of the storm. I’m worrying about them, but they’ve [...]

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Caramelized White Chocolate Ricotta Mousse

missmars — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:04:43 +0000

A few weeks ago, my friends Silvia and Dani had an impromptu baking night. I was meant to join them but fell asleep, but made sure to still sample the goods the next day;). They made a white chocolate cheesecake that ended up as somewhat of a ‘deconstructed’ cheesecake as the springform tin broke and [...]

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Mojo Picon Stall @ The Entertainment Quarter Markets

missmars — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:44:56 +0000

Markets lend themselves well to grazing. A proper meal can easily be forgone in favor of sample after sample from each different stall. However, at the Wednesday Entertainment Quarter Village Markets, a heaping plateful from Mojo Picon is an almost inevitable purchase. There is an eat-me aroma that lingers around the stall, successfully distracting market [...]

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The Sailors Club, Rose Bay

missmars — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:07:13 +0000

I must have driven past the stretch of harbour at Rose Bay Pier thousands of times throughout my life, and I will never, ever get sick of the view. Now, thanks to Jacqui Lewis’ revamp of Pier, her father’s long time fine dining establishment, I can sit and stare at it for much longer than [...]

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Good Cafe Salads – La Grande Bouffe, Rozelle

missmars — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:49:51 +0000

Often when I’m out and about and want to stop somewhere to eat, I’m craving a well made, solid salad. A good solid cafe salad. By this I mean a salad that is satisfying, not overly fanciful though a little more interesting and involved than something you’d throw together for lunch at home, to watch [...]

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A Mad Hatter’s Tea Party @ Studio Neon

missmars — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:57:37 +0000

The topsy-turvy bizarre world of Alice in Wonderland will never, ever get old as an event theme. Ever. So when we read about Studio Neon’s Mad Hatter’s Tea Party dinner for Crave 2012, Connie, Mel and I snapped up some tickets immediately. We started off the night with a little bit of our own crazyness. [...]

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The 24/7 Breakfast Cafe! Benedict, Tel Aviv, Israel

missmars — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 04:21:10 +0000

If there is one sure-fire way for a cafe to attract customers, it’s an All Day Breakfast menu. There are plenty of places that have latched onto this. But what about when you want pancakes for dinner, or a fry up in the wee hours of the morning? Benedict has an ingenious concept that caters [...]

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Branching out at Bills

missmars — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:24:54 +0000

I know that it’s hard to go past the scrambled eggs and hotcakes at fave breakfast destination Bills, but there are other menu items that I feel also deserve some lauding. Such as the salmon salad, with three neat hunks of perfectly seared medium-rare salmon, supplied by Mizuna, with raw crunchy cucumber, greens beans and [...]

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Bacon Ice Cream and a Giant Chocolate-Potato Chip Cookie

missmars — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:17:51 +0000

About this time last year, my younger brothers introduced me to the youtube phenomenon ‘Epic Meal Time’. The clips are created by a group of Canadian guys who basically make stomach churning concoctions, from burger lasagne to meat sundaes. Their signature thing is the essential inclusion of looots and lots of bacon and Jack Daniels [...]

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