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A sucker for strawberries [Flickr]
2007-05-01 03:50:00
Ellie W. posted a photo: These white choc mousse and strawberry jelly cups are a wonderful pairing - not too sweet or rich, a harmonious balance of two very different elements! Recipe is on my food blog - Kitchen Wench
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A sucker for strawberries
2007-05-01 03:45:00
Who knows how it started? Perhaps I enjoyed those childhood viewings of Stra wberry Shortcake a little too much, or perhaps it’s the fact that a strawberry was the very first berry that I ever ate, all I can say is that I’ve always been a sucker for a strawberry, and I doubt that my love ...
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Late Night Lips [Flickr]
2007-04-30 03:22:00
Ellie W. posted a photo: This is what happens when you're wide awake late at night and armed with a camera - partial self portraits with deep shadows.
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Oops, I did it again?
2007-04-29 05:01:00
If I look to my right, there is a big, dark brown wooden bookshelf that reaches almost up to my ceiling, and it is absolutely bursting with books. Sure, there is plenty of casual reading, but two bookshelves are completely overwhelmed by cook books and food magazines. A lot fewer than some, but an impressive ...
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Come on over, we?re firing up the barbie?
2007-04-25 01:00:00
Though I am fiercly proud of my Korean heritage, I have always maintained that my home is Australia, and that I cannot envisage living anywhere else in the world. Tucked away in our own little corner of the world, this country is about as extreme as you could get - wet leafy rainforests, tall alpine ...
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Sugar beware, I?m armed and dangerous
2007-04-23 15:50:00
Halfway through last year, a few months after starting this blog, I decided that I should take the jump and buy myself a little kitchen blow torch. My custard-loving sister is always desirous of new desserts that elevate the humble custard beyond it’s status as yellow goop, and therefore crème brûlée was something that I ...
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No bananarama here, just banana-love
2007-04-21 11:11:00
I have a confession. I don’t like bananas. It’s a bit strange really - I adore banana in things that utilize the flavour (tarts, cakes, smoothies etc) but I cannot bring myself to grab a ‘nana, peel back the yellow skin and take a bite. There’s something about that thick, sticky texture that makes me think that ...
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Moussin? about (and happy blog-iversary?)
2007-04-17 13:12:00
When Helen announced the theme for this month’s HHDD event, my ears perked up. Whilst I’ve tried my hand at most desserts, the humble mousse was completely unknown to me, and therefore it was a challenge that I was totally raring to go for! After all, what’s not to like about a nice, creamy, light-as-air ...
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Oodles of noodles
2007-04-14 16:25:00
This colourful dish is one of my favourite Korean noodle dishes, warming, refreshing and filling at the same time! Korean cuisine has many brothy dishes, and the many that I love have a peculiar quality in that drinking them always makes me feel warm and refreshed at the same time. I can’t say exactly what it ...
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What?s mine is not yours.
2007-04-12 18:42:00
I apologize for this non-food related post but there’s something that I need to air. The internet is a big, broad expanse and it is impossible to keep track of it all as there is simply no way of doing so. Therefore, when putting my words and images online, I realize that there is a chance ...
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How to say ?thanks!?
2007-04-11 06:47:00
Now, although my food photography skills have slowly been (in my opinion) improving, I’ve never been able to take nice landscape and scenery shots. I ended up finally getting together with Melbourne Flickrite Adam last Saturday, and though I doubt I’ll ever take pictures quite as well as he does, he did manage to give ...
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Achoo!
2007-04-08 10:16:00
So, after a week of my body fighting off the onset of a cold, it seems to have finally dug it’s germy little claws into my body - I have been sneezing and shivering all day, with these ol’ bones of mine creaking and aching away. Of course, this is probably my own doing after ...

No frills, no fuss, just flavour
2007-04-04 05:06:00
This is ridiculously quick and easy and not too bad in the flavour department! Since quitting my job, I often have lunch at home with my ma and we take turns to cook. It’s usually a bit of a quick, whatever’s in the fridge, gotta get rid of leftovers affair, but sometimes we’ll do something a ...
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Running a bit behind
2007-04-02 09:39:00
I’m running a bit late with everything at the moment - Weekend Dog Blogging being no exception to the rule! I meant to have this up last night to submit to Cate at Sweetnicks, but alas, I was up late studying and it completely slipped my mind! I do have a few recipes that need ...
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This Nostalgia Tastes Bittersweet - the roundup :)
2007-03-30 07:32:00
Late last month, I was feeling rather nostalgic about the past, and as a result I decided to hold a once-off event celebrating foods tied to events in our past. Having extended this invitation out, I’ve been utterly overwhelmed by the response from food bloggers looking to take part and share some wonderful memories and ...
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Deep Fried Delight (aka food bloggers rock)
2007-03-28 16:31:00
So what are these crazy little sugar-covered, golden brown non-churrosy churros all about? Well, let me tell you… Early on in the month, I’d been going through my regular food blog reads when I happened across this post over at Matt Bites. Hoboy. Those golden brown nuggets of bliss absolutely won me over, and if that ...
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Peaches divine, please be mine
2007-03-26 09:44:00
Who doesn’t love pancakes? Light, fluffy and oh-so-versatile, they can be adapted to sweet or savoury dishes (though I stop short of serving a rump steak on top of a buckwheat pancake, as once witnessed at the pancake parlour!) and are generally just a marvellous way to start, sustain or end the day And ...
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Attack of the sweet tooth
2007-03-24 07:34:00
What on earth are these gooey, sticky little morsels? Read on to find out What a thing to have a sweet tooth. Anyone who has a sweet tooth knows what it’s like to have a craving for the sweet and sugary, to bite into something that clouds the senses in tooth-achingly luscious decadence. Unfortunately, ...
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My life, as told by a bowl of soup
2007-03-20 15:34:00
Every culture has it’s traditions, and though I may have grown up here in Australia, my mother brought many of these traditions over from Korea, and so they became a part of my life and identity. One of these traditions is the serving of ‘Mi-Yok Guk’ (seaweed soup). The soup is high in nutrients and ...
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Baby, I need your carb-lovin?
2007-03-15 11:34:00
“WHO THE HELL MOVED MY ARBORIO RICE?!” I growled as I continued pawing through the endless stream of plastic packages in the pantry, searching for the elusive bag which contained these short, stumpy, pearly, carb-a-licious grains. After one heckuva long day where nothing seemed to go my way, I had dreamt of making risotto all the ...
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Smells like home
2007-03-11 13:33:00
There is something to be said for the act of baking your own loaf of bread. Sure, in this day and age when there are artisan bakeries and loaves enough to supply all (or a Baker’s Delight product if you’re used to that supermarket flavour), why would anyone bother going through the time-consuming motions of ...
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The long-awaited dumpling post!
2007-03-05 00:32:01
There are many different kinds of dumplings, but here I’m going to concentrate solely on the Korean kind, called mandu. Here are some little tidbits of information regarding these treats: Wahng Mandu are ‘king’ dumplings about the size of your palm with a slightly thicker and fluffier skin (called ‘pi’) When served on their own, they are usually served either steamed or fried. Steamed dumplings are called ‘jjin mandu‘ and fried ones are called ‘goon mandu‘, but they are both still mandu. Another way these dumplings can be served is in a slightly thickened soup with rice cakes (dduk) called ‘dduk mandu gook‘. Whilst the fillings are usually similar/the same, there is a distinction drawn between regular mandu and kimchi mandu (mandu which has also got diced kimchi in the filling) This recipe is purely for the filling as we no longer make the skins ourselves - whilst my grandmother used to handroll hundreds of th...
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Not-so-blackberry smacks!
2007-03-01 12:30:02
When I first saw the recipe for these brombeerbusserl by Nicky over at Delicious:Days, I knew that this was one recipe that needed to be made. How could something so tiny and cute and biscuitty possibly be denied? Now, though I’ve never really been much of a girly girl (you should’ve seen my childhood collection of matchbox cars!), I’m finding that as I get older, I’m really starting to dig cute things a whole lot more. This means that my collection of knee-length ‘flouncy’ skirts has exponentially increased and is threatening to take over my wardrobe, but also means that I’m wanting to make cute little biscuits and mignardises. What can I say about this recipe except that it is almost a walk in the park. If you’ve stronger hands than I am then you probably won’t as difficult a time as I did when piping out the cookies, but don’t worry too much as it’s not too stiff a batter, and after holding the piping bag for a few...
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Five minutes of fame!
2007-03-01 12:30:02
I got a message today from a mate of mine, with some completely unexpected news: Emma: Hey Elki Ellie: Hey Ems, what’s happening? Emma: dude your blog was in the herald sun on mon or tue about foodie blogs Ellie: WHAT THE FRUITCAKES? ARE YOU SERIOUS? *many more expletives* It may only be the URL featured in a little list of Australian food blogs at the bottom of the article, but still - my first ever mention in a print newspaper! *swoons* I’ve since tracked down a copy of the page and once I figure out how to keep the paper from dying, I’ll get to keep it forever and ever Technorati Tags: herald sun, newspaper, blogging Share This
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This nostalgia tastes bittersweet - a once-off event
2007-02-24 12:27:01
“A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles the sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Nostalgia is a tricky beast - it is often the rose-tinted glasses through which we view events of the past, but sometimes is the genuine wistful longing we feel when thinking of people and times that are no more. These memories that are tied into past feelings of love, and I think that many people revisit them from time to time, losing themselves in their reverie. We’re nearing the end of our summer here in Australia, and perhaps it’s that my body feels Autumn slowly creeping around the corner, but lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the past - the friends I’ve gained and lost, the loves that have come and gone, and the way that time has ticked on relentlessly through it all. So many of the memories that we have are tied in with food. For example, bananas will forever remind me of the way I used t...
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Chocolate Confessions
2007-02-23 00:25:02
For someone who proclaims that they aren’t a chocaholic, I sure seem to post a lot of chocolate recipes! Am I just in denial? Perhaps somewhere under this hardened exterior lies a sweet, gooey, intense rush of chocolate love? Maybe I should just take a deep breath, step forward and admit it - my name is Ellie, and I’m a chocaholic. To be honest, I’m not the world’s biggest chocaholic. I don’t find myself constantly craving it’s cocoa kiss, nor am I driven to seek it out very often. However, when there’s a freshly baked chocolate cake (or a beautiful chocolate truffle) in my vicinity, the smell enters my nose and my eyes roll back into my head with pleasure as my senses are awakened. Anyone who knows what I’m talking about understands what I mean when I say that chocolate is a beautiful thing. This being my very last week at my workplace (and Friday being my last day ever), I decided to treat my coworkers by making them this very speci...
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Please stand by
2007-02-11 00:16:02
Sorry for the lack of posts folks, but there’s been a couple of things happen recently. The bigger thing is that after almost 30 months at my place of employment, I handed in my resignation and 2 weeks notice this week. No, I don’t have another job to go to, but with going back to Uni at the end of this month and my continuing health struggles, I need to cut down the stress in my life to a bare minimum. The second thing is that my computer has DIED IN THE ARSE. Now, for a food blogger, this presents the teeny tiniest of dilemmas - I have nothing to type out posts on! Sort of the last thing I needed as I dropped and broke the viewing screen on my digital camera in December which has made taking photos a royal pain in the derriere! It’s waiting to be taken to the shop (I don’t drive so I need my pops to find time to deliver it there) so it will be yet another week before I’m back online properly. xo Ellie Share This
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Hay Hay it?s Donna Day roundup!
2007-02-06 12:12:02
The final, fluffy round-up of Souffle Season has been put together over at Running With Tweezers - head on over, have a look and email Tami with who you think should win this edition of ‘Hay Hay it’s Donna Day’ I have a substantial post on making dumplings coming up…but there’s a heckuva lot of typing involved! Hopefully have something for you, my lovely readers, by tomorrow Share This
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Swiss roll bliss
2007-02-03 12:10:02
With the success of this humble yet untried (by me) recipe, I get to mark yet another food-to-try off my list! The humble sponge roulade - otherwise known as a swiss or jam roll. It seems simple enough, nay, in it’s barest of forms it almost seems a bit plain-jane or boring! Nonetheless, I had put it down in my diary as another one of those recipes to try. The reason I wanted to try making one of these is that I have only eaten them once in my life - just once, when my mother tried making it when I was a little kid. I was only about 8 years old and the fact that ma had rolled this cake up seemed absolutely magical to me. As soon as the jam inside had set, she cut me a slice from the still warm cake, and I still remember staring at the swirl of ruby-red jam encased in the soft, fluffy cake. And then, for reasons unbeknownst to both my mother and myself, I proceeded to smush it into a mountain of sticky, jammy cake before devouring every crumb. Kids do the darndest things! At an...
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Bittersweet beauty
2007-01-30 18:07:01
Dark, dusty, misshapen lumps - what secrets do these homely brown nuggets hide? Sometimes, you find that you come across something and you seriously understimate it. Like that Jamie Oliver recipe that you came across that seemed simple enough, but left you standing in the middle of an exploded kitchen asking “what went wrong?”. Or perhaps, more like the time you decided to post some homemade marshmallows to a friend, only to discover that the postage cost 4x the cost of actually making them, making them the most expensive marshmallows you’ve ever come across. Or perhaps it’s more like that time when you woke up with a hangover and a rumbling stomach, and went to fix a bowl of cereal for breakfast and since your eyes were blurry, you mistook the carton of buttermilk for regular milk, and after taking a big mouthful, you were left worshipping the porcelain gods for half an hour afterwards. Not that I’ve done any of the above, mind you. Ahem, moving onR...
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