Ricotta and smoked salmon bruschetta With big Edison light bulbs, all day brunch, to the three little pie birds on the wall and eclectic Northbridge location, the Tuckshop is just so right. This is the cafe I wish was my local. But, for now, for the duration of a lunchy breakfast (or a breakfasty lunch) [...]
Prawn and chive dumplings. Before my cousin’s current life as a dentist, he worked in a dim sum restaurant. He’s our inside man for our favourite style of brunch, so when he said Imperial Court’s egg tarts were fabulous – even more so than his own, which is no small feat – we were there [...]
Turn my little babies, turn…. The thing about New Year’s resolutions is that they fail. My tendency to procrastinate usually trumps the good intentions of yet another year into the dust. But this year I finally did one. No, I haven’t managed to lose weight, that’s still on the to do list. (If there ever [...]
I think as a lactose intolerant I’ll always be masochistically attracted to dairy. I just can’t help myself. This cake is up to its neck in dairy. First, there’s the milk in the batter. Then it’s completely drowned in a delicious alcoholic syrup of evaporated milk, condensed milk and (quite a lot of) rum. [...]
"She. Is. Stunning.” I may as well have been talking about the maître d (not that I was looking closely but Lapa’s staff are noticeably, very good looking…) but the beauty is actually the metal behemoth in the kitchen. It’s a huge barbeque on which impaled morsels of meat are cooked over gas flame. [...]
