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A Sticky Pudding To End Your Life With
2007-08-08 10:20:00
A few weeks ago, the people behind Chew On That asked me one of the hardest questions I?ve ever been asked in my life, and this is no overstatement. The question left me stumped. The question was ?what would your last supper be??I can see some of you already going into blank stares, lost in thought about which gastronomic fare you would bookend your life with. Sounds rather morose I know, but don?t let me interrupt that pensive state you are already in and let me ask you this same question. When faced with the last supper of your life, what would you get the chef to cook up? What would be the perfect culinary ending to your life? What after tastes do you want lingering on your tongue as you enter the after life?I had to tell the ever so patient people at Chew On That, that I needed some time to think about it, and even when presented with the deadline, I gave them the first thing that came off the top of my head. The thing is, my last supper was far from my mind, it?s not something ...
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Mushroom and Gorgonzola Rotini
2007-08-05 16:31:00
As promised, here is the recipe for the mushroom pasta I made yesterday for lunch using the fabulous hunk of cheese I bought at the markets . On a lazy Saturday afternoon, the last thing you want to do is linger too long in the kitchen. Now, this pasta is so simple and so easily modified that I don't even know if I should provide you a recipe. You could almost make it up as you go, I did. But here it goes. I used the regular swiss brown mushrooms you can find at any supermarket for this dish as that is what I had in the fridge, but really you can use any mushroom you want. If I were to make this again, I am imagining some porcini, chanterelles, oysters, or if you happen to be very lucky or loaded, you can lace the pasta with shavings of fresh truffle. Divine.You can't tell from the picture above but the sauce becomes a beautiful seafoam green and is quite runny in consistency. The taste is quite strong because of the gorgonzola, and if you don't want such a prominent cheese taste...
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Good Living Pyrmont Grower's Market: August
2007-08-04 18:55:00
My hands, brimming with newly bought wares were slowly getting tired. Two bags on each hand, a bunch of flowers clutched under an armpit and a handbag slung over the other shoulder. I don't remember having to walk so far to get to the markets. Especially when I got there just a half hour after it opened. I thought I was early enough, but judging by how far I had to park it was clear that the markets was the place to be this morning.Yes, that's right, it's the Good Living Grower's Market at Pyrmont again. It's been a bit of a spell since I last posted about these market- I was busy and sick the past few Saturdays, but this time I was determined not to miss it. Besides, with a winter's morning so hospitable as this, how could I resist?The first thing I passed was a floral stall that for some reason is tucked away in a corner apart from most of the other stalls. If it weren't for the fact that I entered this way and its convivial proprietor and perhaps the chocolate truffle stal...
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8 Quick Random Facts About: Me and Pears
2007-08-02 17:25:00
In my grand tradition of responding to memes dutifully tardy, here is my response to Kelly, Myriam and Jerry?s tag of 8 things you didn't know about me. And to keep this post somewhat food related and to also provide a smooth segue into the following pear and hazelnut recipe, I thought I would share some quick facts about pears as well. (The pear facts come from all over the Internet)JEN FACT #1She was born in the Philippines and immigrated to Australia when she was six with her family. She has called Australia home since then.PEAR FACT #1Pears that are left to ripen on the tree will turn mealy and unappetising. So most ears are actually picked before they are ripe and are left to ripen in the shop or at home.JEN FACT #2Jen once had to get stitches in her cranium when she was about 5, after an unfortunate mishap while trying to prove she was old enough to bathe herself. To avoid being too graphic, all I will say is that she put her head under a faucet when the accident occurred.PE...
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Another day, Another Donna Hay
2007-07-30 18:16:00
Issue 8. It's the one I'm having a love affair with at the moment. And yes, you guessed right, it's a Donna Hay Magazine- the autumn issue, number 8.So far I have baked this, this and this from issue 8 and it?s not stopping there. Somehow Miss Hay has managed to compile all of my favourite cold weather recipes into this one issue. There?s a lot more where that came from and there?s still a gaggle of recipes I have book marked and there?s still a whole month of winter left. You still haven?t seen all of issue 8.And obviously you haven?t seen the last of Donna Hay. If I could paint a picture of how I want my dream kitchen to look like, well it would look like a Donna Hay Magazine- clean and crisp, modern with a few vintage twists. I absolutely love her taste, and not to mention the eye candy in every issue, it?s food porn at its grandest. And I actually hate calling it food porn, because it sounds rather vulgar, but unfortunately it is probably the most apt way of describing it.Any...

Pooch Pampering
2007-07-27 03:34:00
Now, I have been quite loyal in providing my family and friends, and even you my dear readers with as many toothsome morsels as I can. There?s been a lot of fodder exchanged on this blog and, many a meal has been passed around but somehow I have been forgetting one thing. What about man?s best friend?Well, it seems that my dog Jack has expressed his discontent at the way that I have catered to everyone else?s taste buds, but never his. Now we do feed him good (dog) food and even try to be creative by adding combinations to his normally boring cans of food. However it?s been far and few between the treats that really matter- the kind that comes from the heart.So when I stumbled upon this recipe on Chubby Hubby that he made for his puppy?s birthday, I knew it was Jack's sixth sense spurring me to bake these for him. Now I usually make a point to taste everything I make so that I can faithfully recount it for you on the blog. But this time I thought I would leave it up to Jack.As I me...
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Kinda-a Surprise
2007-07-23 03:50:00
You know how I have that strained relationship with yeast? Well, I think that relationship might be on the mend. We have never worked well together before but now things are looking up for us and we might actually make a great team. How do I know this? Well, by the way that these brioches have turned out (a big cheesy big cheesy grin erupts on my face).These are my first ever attempt at brioche. I always thought that they were quite complex to make, but then I thought about it and wondered why I ever hesitated in making them in the first place. Okay, so croissants are complex and puff pastry doesn't even seem to be in my capacity right now, but in comparison brioche is a cinch. And I'm not getting ahead of myself, nor am I overestimating my ability and I am by no means a yeast-baking expert. This post is merely an expression of exclaimed joy and astonishment over how successful this current yeast venture has been. Especially when most times the opposite has been the case.Most of t...
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Bagel House, Rozelle (or How To Have a Carb Overload)
2007-07-21 11:52:00
I have often lauded over my love for carbs on this blog. And on many occasions I would state how great carbs were, in a spirited attempt to curb those who are anti-carb back into the habit. What can I say, I love carbs and would fight for them to the end. But can this carb lover ever get too much carb? Well let me say after a trip to the Bagel House in Rozelle, I can aptly say that I went into a carb overload. If it weren't for the immense pile of things I needed to do, I think my body would have gone into shut down mode just so my digestive system could process that inundation of simple sugars into my body. It all started when G decided that we needed to go to a tennis supply store in Gladesville as he needed some more things for work (he's a tennis instructor). Well whenever we are in the remote vicinity of Balmain, we always make the excuse to go into Darling St and make a pit stop into some of our favourite food haunts. One is Bertoni Casalinga, home of the Ciambelle alla Nute...
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Brownie Love
2007-07-19 13:30:00
I usually hate getting all those batch emails that get forwarded and passed around by most people. You know which ones I?m talking about; it?s not only the spam that bothers me, but it?s the junk mail that gets circulated by all your friends that are supposed to be hard at work in the office. Hey, aren?t you supposed to be working?Sorry to say, but I?m not really interested in the next thing that I should stop using because it might cause cancer, nor do I want to know that I will have bad luck or never find true love if I don?t pass on this email to ten people in the next five minutes. I think the only exception to this peeve is a forwarded email I received about chocolate and women. I can?t even remember the details of the email, not even vaguely, but I do remember laughing in concurrence about how right the email was about women and their affection for chocolate.I can?t speak for every woman, but I can speak for the ones I do know and it?s true, we cannot say no to chocolate. And ...
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Easy As Muffins
2007-07-15 06:10:00
I?m feeling a bit better now; the good news is I?ve now managed a little spring in my step and I no longer feel like that seething cesspool of bacteria like I did a mere week ago. I think my immune system suffered a battering while at the conference last week eating lots of nutritionally deficient foods like hot chips, pizza and meat pies. All great when on the go, but terrible when you are trying to fend off disease.So in my effort to wage war against those recalcitrant little bugs that have invaded my body and have yet still to pack up and leave completely, I bought a whole bag of Navel Oranges. Not only are they delicious this time of year, when they reach their season but they are also full of virus-fighting vitamin C. I don?t exactly know how adept they are at fighting disease, but it was more to soothe my conscience than anything else. I have little faith in antibiotics and really hate to even more pollute my body with drugs that I am happy to be sick longer and just let my ow...
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Baba Who?
2007-07-13 11:10:00
We are now smack bang in the middle of winter and I can feel it. As I sit on the couch, in my warmest winter woollies, thick socks, scarf and if I didn?t have to type I would probably have a pair of gloves on too. Sydney homes weren?t really made for frosty conditions; they were built more to withstand those harsh Australian summers most people know about. But it appears that the construction industry seems to forget that we have winters down here too, and it gets pretty darn cold.You will hear me every winter, every year, complain about the cold, and I realise that what I mean by ?cold? is quite feeble compared to what other people go through in say, Canada and Upper Siberia. It?s not even cold enough to garner any snow here, but no matter how you look at it, to me cold is cold. It?s cold when you can feel it in your bones, and feel it in my bones I do.So when on the hunt for recipes, all I was looking for was something to warm me up. Now after having a pumpkin stew for dinner, I n...

Outbarking the Dog and Surfing the Net
2007-07-09 07:25:00
I've confined myself indoors while recovering from what the doctor has now diagnosed as Laryngitis. So I have been giving Jack my dog a good run for his money as I've been pretty stiff competition in terms of barking it up. He's given up trying to out-bark me, i've won the past few rounds. The cough still persists and I've pretty much lost my voice, so on a social level, there is really no point in me going out or hanging out with anyone.So as I veg out at home alone, with the dog, lemon and honey tea in hand, the heater on, blankets strewn all over the couch and laptop firmly secured on where else but my lap, I browse the wide world of the web. I'm filling up my del.icio.us album with lots of tags of recipes I want to make and alas here are a few other things i've found that have caught my eye.Believe it or not, this is a toaster that I found on designboom.com. The toaster is called "Glide" because the toast simply glides through that little opening where the bread is heated...
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Under The Weather
2007-07-08 05:47:00
I held up pretty well all week throughout the conference where I was serving on the televesion crew, but now I'm feeling a whole lot worse. To give you an apt description, my throat feels like razorblades, my nose is blocked, my eyes are bloodshot and all I want to do is sleep. In order not to spread my "cooties" to everyone else, I am opting to strike out of cooking and baking until I get a lot better. But so as not to neglect this poor old blog, here is a recipe from the vault that I haven't posted about.I made this layer cake about 4 weeks ago and took photos but then completely forgot all about it. I think it may have been overshadowed by other pressing posts- like all those cookies I made during the bad weather week in the series A Cache of Cookies. Not that those cookies tasted so much better, but this cake disappeared with such speed and stealth that I almost forgot that I made it.The original recipe asked for groundnut oil, although as I was making this cake on the fly, I ...
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Gone Shopping...
2007-07-01 19:53:00
You might be asking, why the influx of posts in the last few hours? Well the answer is that I won't be posting on the blog for a whole week. And this time, it's not just neglect but I am actually going to be away, so I thought that I would leave you with a few extra things to look at and muse over. I feel like this blog is my kid, so I feel the inclination that I should leave it an appropriate amount of rations while I'm gone. It must be that maternal instinct kicking in.I will be at a conference for a whole week and thus will be away from my laptop, my kitchen and that seemingly endless supply of sugar and butter. I might be able to sneak a peek or two at the blog, probably only short enough to read your comments and put them up. But during the week i'll try to secure myself a short pocket of time where I can make a quick detour to the supermarket and replenish my dwindling pantry. And soon enough there should be a new array of goodies for you to chew on.For now, let me take yo...
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Let Them Eat Ice Cream Cake?
2007-07-01 14:12:00
My first experience with ice cream cake was when I was at a birthday party; I must have been around 5 or 6 years old. And since then I never really gave ice creams cakes anymore thought. To me they are just part of those juvenile whims that you try to shed once you reach a certain age along with say, wetting your bed and running barefoot around the neighbourhood in your PJs. Okay, so it might be a bit of a stretch to mention ice cream cake in the same sentence as wetting your bed, but you get what I mean.So you might be glad to know that I?m way past those childhood dilemmas but I think that it?s time to resurrect the ice cream cake. I?ve only ever seen the ice cream cake come out for two types of birthday parties- they are usually reserved for children?s birthdays and for those over the age of 60. Is it because we revert back to that child-like state when we get older and thus requires the presence of an ice cream cake? Well, I say enough of having it merely at the polar end of our...
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Intellectual Food
2007-06-30 22:15:00
I don?t want to upset any foodie aficionados here, but I am a bit reluctant to jump on this molecular gastronomy bandwagon. You might think why the heck not? I jumped right on top of the cupcake craze and was suitably taken in by the no-knead bread fad and am completely convinced by wagyu. But somehow I am happy for this speeding bandwagon to zoom right past me. Perhaps it?s because I?m not convinced. The idea of eating foam really doesn?t get my mouth salivating, and to be honest neither does the sound of bacon and egg ice cream or snail porridge; it actually gets my stomach churning. Call me boring but I would much rather stick to eating my bacon and eggs just how they were intended- crispy and sunny side up. All this said, I am no authority on the subject of molecular gastronomy and to be honest I have never experienced the stuff. It all sounds too scientific for me. This is coming from the girl who tried every trick in the book to skip her chemistry class. Once you start talk...
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A Cranberry Fixation
2007-06-26 15:32:00
It seems that I have been baking a lot from blogs lately. But who can blame me; I suffer from an overload of recipes from so many food blogs that continually tease and entice me with their recipes. And my eyes are never satiated; my bookmarks are full of recipes that I have spied, salivated over and envied and the list keeps growing. So what I decided was that it was high time I start tackling some of those recipes rather than just letting them go to waste. If my online bookmarks could gather dust, I assure you there would be a thick mantle of dirt that no feather duster could remove.So before virtual cobwebs start to form on these recipes, here is one of the oldest ones that has been sitting there for almost as long as this blog has been alive- Elise?s Cran berry Nut Bread Recipe. Now it not only seems that I have been baking from blogs lately, but it also appears that I have been baking with cranberries a lot too. I just can?t get enough of them, which I surmise is a probably a goo...

The Accidental Cake: Love At First Slice
2007-06-23 18:29:00
Contrary to what the title suggests, this cake never came to me through any sort of serendipity or eureka. It was by no means an inadvertent light bulb moment, but simply came about through pure chance; completely unintended and coincidental. Yet through this fortuity, this cake has afforded itself as one of my favourite gastronomic finds of late, tipped to become a staple in my kitchen and on future menus.The story of how the cake found its way on my kitchen table starts several months ago after receiving an email from a reader, K. She was looking for a ?chocolate marbled pistachio cake? that she stumbled across while skimming through several food blogs, but could not remember exactly where she found it. She suspected that perhaps the recipe was posted on my blog. After disappointing both her and myself that no such recipe was posted on this blog, I sent off a reply bidding K good luck in her search. And as luck would have it, I received another email from K not long after, informi...
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A Cache Of Cookies Part III: Checkmate
2007-06-21 16:47:00
THE WEATHER REPORTIf you have been reading the last few posts, you will have noticed that I have been chronicling this saga that we in Sydney have come to know as the weather. We?ve seen it all; being at the mercy of some sort of meteorological cataclysm, we?ve seen everything from rain to cyclones, to furious winds and even snowfall. After all the beating we endured in the last two weeks, it?s nice to see that rain clouds have finally been benched in favour of some sunshine. Although we?ve been told that this genial weather will be short-lived, it?s safe to say that sunshine is finally back in the game.COOKIE COMES FULL CIRCLEDuring all this bad weather, I started a so?called series of cookies from The Australian Women?s Weekly cookbook that I have been baking from while stuck indoors. So to cap-off this cookie trilogy of sorts, here is a recipe for cookies that comes full circle. Although these cookies are actually square, I use the same type of dried cranberries as I did in thes...
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A Cache Of Cookies Part II: On Days Like These
2007-06-19 17:38:00
As the rains continue to pour over Sydney, it appears that most of the city has occupied itself in the business of talking about the weather. It has become somewhat of a national sport, where strangers who normally would have no business talking to each other find themselves engaged in conversation about the wild weather. While Sydney engrosses itself in a collective dialogue about climate conditions, predicted rainfall and dam levels, allow me to put my two bits in- in the form of biscuits that is.With all this wet, dreary weather, what one desperately needs is a good dose of warmth and comfort, something to cosy up to on the couch and if you?re lucky in front of a fireplace. And there?s nothing that says comfort like good cosy-up-on-the-couch food. Now if you are thinking, warm stews and hearty casseroles, then you are at the wrong blog. Although stews are casseroles are probably the perfect remedy for a cold winter?s day, I am the kind of blogger that usually turns to something s...
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A Cache Of Cookies Part I: When Indoors
2007-06-12 04:21:00
A week has come and gone, the heavens have opened, the sun has shone and the rains have returned. The city is once again covered in a mantle of grey clouds, and is perhaps bracing itself for another destructive run. The rains? homecoming was at first received gladly, although now that it has left our state with a potential billion dollar clean up bill, we are hoping that Mother Nature eases up a bit. Bring on the rains but hold off the floods and gale force winds please. If only the weather was as easy as ordering a chicken chow mein at your local take away; but unfortunately we have to take what can get.Now although it?s great that we are finally getting some rain, what comes with it isn?t always that agreeable. The temperature has dropped and it is officially freezing outside, the hems of my jeans always seems to get wet no matter how high my shoes are, the ground is eternally muddy and my hair in a perpetual state of frizz. Now it may seem that this is just a lot of whining and i...
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At Last...
2007-06-09 02:05:00
It?s Thursday morning; I hear the pitter-patter of raindrops against my bedroom window. It?s been a long time coming, but finally Sydney and pressumably the rest of the state receives a serious drenching that it has been waiting a long time for. I don?t think it?s safe to say that the drought has been lifted but it certainly was nice to see some moisture descending upon this dry state. I know I have never been happier to see a thick blanket of grey and a continual downpour, and I am sure many farmers were ecstatic too. No sooner than when I said that the winter weather has been ?unusually clement? that we get a beating of gale force winds and heavy rains, let?s just say the weather turned inclement all of a sudden. I guess we all wanted it to rain, but the weather has been out of control. I know I?ll be spending my weekend curled up in a ball at home but I really don?t mind.* * * * *On a sweeter topic, you have heard me harping on it before and h...
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Lazy Sunday Lunch On A Not So Lazy Day
2007-06-04 09:26:00
Sunday afternoons in Sydney are meant to be spent lazily, it?s almost mandatory, especially when our newly started winter season is unusually clement. Not that I am complaining but where have our Sydney winters gone? It seems that every year the winters get milder and milder. Could Mr. Gore be right about this inconvenient truth? Well, wherever it is our winter has run away to, it has given Sydneysiders the rare opportunity to enjoy a June weekend outdoors unladen with the burden of a thousand layers of clothing. So what do you do when you have become locked away indoors working on a Sunday afternoon while everyone you possibly know is either lounging at home, or enjoying the Primo Italiano Food Festival?The obvious answer would be to throw yourself a pity party and wallow in that pool of despair that you have created for yourself. Perhaps sit in a dark corner crouched in the foetal position passing the hours pondering on how much more pitiful your weekend can get. I know that?s exa...
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Baked, Not Fried
2007-05-31 10:53:00
I never met a donut I didn?t like. Those fried yeasty rings of saccharine indulgence always seem to crush any sort of will power I may have to resist them. There?s no escape, but only to yield to the inexorable temptation that they put forward; and what they put forward sounds like a really good offer- yeasted dough fried up then coated in a sprinkling of sugar and spice, oh that sounds real nice! And having been introduced in 2003 to the beguiling and sinister powers of Krispy Kreme after they set up shop here in Oz; the donut has been given a new evil persona. You just know there is something so sinfully wrong about them, but it?s not until downing five consecutive Original Glazed? that the shameful recognition of what you?ve done becomes apparent.What is it about the excessive consumption of donuts that brings so much shame? It certainly never stoped Homer Simpson, but neither does an all you can eat buffet until he has eaten all he can physically eat. But that aside, is it becau...
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Cake Of My Dreams
2007-05-28 12:53:00
A few years back, I dreamt that I had won $50,000 in a raffle and consequently spent almost the entire length of my morning shower mentally calculating how I would spend the money. A car? A vacation perhaps? Clothes, shoes? Definitely shoes. I had already spent at least half the money when somewhere in between shampooing and conditioning came the stark realisation that this money that I had surprisingly come into was in fact all a dream. Haplessly duped by a mirage of my own mind. So I stepped out of the shower and back into reality, $50,000 poorer. It seems that I tend to blur that fine line between consciousness and sub-consciousness all too often. Often times my being awake gets all muddled up with the sub-consciousness of sleep, perhaps because sadly sometimes my dreams seem a lot more eventful. One time, I dreamt that there were bush fires near my house and convinced myself of it when I woke up. I rounded up the dog and a few keepsakes and just before I was ready to leave, I re...
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Methinks, that I should say Thanks.
2007-05-22 09:26:00
She?s not just a pretty blog...I was delightedly surprised when I chanced upon a post by Megan of Chez Mégane that tagged this blog, among other illustrious ones, with the Thinking Blogger Award. Like I said, I was delighted, however quite amazed and very thankful for the nod. I commented on Megan?s post that I never thought that my musings, or should I say ramblings about food, and on occasion life in Sydney would ever be considered thoughtful. I don?t particularly aim to instigate thought; usually what appears on the blog is a written up version of the verbal diarrhoea that goes on in my brain. Nonetheless, I am very honoured and thankful that Megan would choose me. And in the spirit if the award, here are four other blogs that I always come away from, thinking. I am a visual person, so it makes perfect sense to me that some of these blogs have a visual or photographic element.1. THE SARTORIALISTAside from food, I love clothes. I know that not all women love to shop, but I happen...
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Northside Produce Markets, Miller St
2007-05-19 16:00:00
I don?t normally go to the Northside Prod uce Mark ets , simply because I never wake up early enough to get to them. And besides the drive to get to these markets is the same route I take to get to work and it just pains me to go even remotely that way on my days off. I like to stay as far away as I can from the vicinity of my workplace whenever possible. Anyway, I did happen to be at these markets as I was picking up some product for some photography work I am doing and managed to get some snaps of the place while I was at it. The sun was out and the morning was just starting to warm up. I quickly unravel the scarf around my neck, take off my jacket and eagerly snap away. I have to say though, that these markets are a lot harder to manoeuvre around than the Pyrmont ones. The thoroughfares are a lot narrower and it seems that the newest accessory around is a stroller. I don?t mind prams at all, although I do mind mothers that feel they have the right to bulldoze anyone and anything in ...
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La Plage, Bronte Beach
2007-05-17 12:58:00
along the Bron te walk and the Bronte Swimming PoolI adore breakfast. The very concept of it excites me and as one who isn?t at all interested in engaging in anything in the early parts of the day, the prospect of having a great breakfast is enough to pry my lifeless body out of bed. The odds do get slimmer when the climate becomes much cooler, the warmth and comfort of my bed seems to stitch and hedge me in, and it would take something extraordinary to get me out.I?m sure you all know what I mean. It is a rarity to find a person who isn?t belligerent when woken up from deep hibernation, especially during cold wintry nights. I?m sure a caterpillar won?t have a bar of being taken out of the comfort of its cocoon until the time is ripe; and okay, I am no butterfly, but I feel the same way.reading the morning paper...But with every rule always comes the exception- the however. So if there is one thing that will haul me out of bed prematurely in the morning, it is a little place called L...
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The Autumn Morning
2007-05-14 16:49:00
As the morning breaksSleepy eyes pry openContemplating the dayDaylight awaits,The traffic and soundsWhispers and notionsHints of commotionShades and huesAll waiting for cuesAs the day urges to beginThe autumn leaves fallEvergreens and leavesAll sounding their callYearning for beautyIts beckon so strange,Waiting and wishingFor something to changeI cannot help but thinkThat this feeling insidethis longing for somethingjust cannot abide.So I give in to you, morning lightArise and call out its nameYou have me by the handLead me wherever you please.I am in your charge,Crisp autumn wind,Blow me to wherever you please.Finishing a shift at 7 in the morning at different times comes different sentiments. There are those earnest longings for slumber, just craving to get some much needed shut-eye; and then there are those times, though seldom, that I greet the morning with expectation.You take a huge breath, the new day ahead and somehow it?s yours for the taking. As infrequent as this disposit...
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No Alarms and No Surprises
2007-05-12 08:08:00
Fearing a backlash from faithful readers, I thought I should post about food again. I know you can only take so much of this I love my city so much it hurts chatter. Now back to the grub. If you ask me, there is nothing more humdrum than a brownie, it?s flat, monochromatic and always tastes of chocolate. It?s almost ludicrous to expect something other than that of a brownie, because really that is what it is, and I must say that this one is no different. When it comes to brownies I don?t like to stray too much left of centre, I like to keep within the brownie boundaries and never wander off into wild interpretations and unique embellishments. I like my brownie just like that girl-next-door, you know exactly what to expect and there are no surprises. Unlike the girl across the street and down the road to the left, who?s full of twists and turns and palatal meanderings; I like to keep my brownie just as it is. I've always been this way when it comes to the brownie, even when I was y...
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