Diary of a home cook and avid food lover
With all the salted craze that’s been going around for some time, it comes as no surprise that salted milk froth has become a popular trend of late, particularly in the wide, colourful realm of Asian drinks. It’s a gastronomic flavour combination which seems unusual, but works surprisingly well. Tea + in Burwood is a…
I have fond memories of many a finger-licking cheeseburger consumed on our annual family road trips up the coast when I was little. I was always a cheeseburger-happy-meal child, relishing the sweet tomato sauce, tasty mustard and flecks of onion which sandwiched together my flat cheeseburger, in all it’s greasy goodness. Then as I grew…
Imagine if someone told you that all the best features of Asian sweets existed in a single dessert. The sticky, chewy texture of mochi, the roasted aroma of black sesame, ginger’s signature hot zing, and the warm fulfilment of a sweet dessert soup, melded together to create what encompasses the pinnacle of everything that I…
There’s something so enjoyable about eating dumplings. Here are some of the reasons I think why. Dumplings are small, so you can eat a lot of them. They have a very high filling to wrapper ratio, so when you eat a lot they don’t feel as heavy as something wrapped in thicker bread or rice….
Omelettes! Frappes! Poached eggs! Labneh! Ha, that last one surprised you, didn’t it? There’s only one meal I can be talking about.. And it doesn’t begin with a D or an L. It’s breakfast! What excites me so much about breakfast is not that my stomach hasn’t seen food in 10+ hours (although that may…
Sometimes, when we go to a restaurant that doesn’t take bookings, as we approach the restaurant I will quicken my pace from a leisurely walk to a hurried trot in an attempt to reach the end of the queue before anyone else walking in front of me to said restaurant does. It is as if…
We don’t tend to celebrate Thanksgiving here in Australia as much as it’s celebrated in America. Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated widely in the United States, on which thanks is given for the harvest season or simply to celebrate and be thankful for the preceding year. Traditionally held on the fourth Thursday of November,…
I’d like to confess that I’m no Ramen connoisseur. I’m not one to religiously scope out Ramen eateries and rave about their broth intensity or collagen factor. My palette is not accustomed to the pork-rich flavour of Tonkostsu, nor the full, complexity of Miso Ramen. But, nevertheless, I do love noodles of any sort and…
It’s an old wives tale that spicy food is good for sickness – naturally ‘hot’ foods like horseradish, wasabi and chilli are good remedies for when you’re feeling a bit off or fluey. Likewise, it’s also well known (especially in warm, humid places like Malaysia) that eating spicy food can help cool you down on…
Some foods are just not very graceful to be seen eating in public. A piece of cake, yes. A bowl of salad, sure. A coffee, or cup of tea, of course. But something on a stick like, say, a kebab, or juicy like watermelon…not so much. Spaghetti, hmm maybe. Pizza? Perhaps. But a burger? Uh…
Maddie Loves Food 