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Rocket Pesto

November 29, 2011 Recipes

So, rocket, or arugula, or even more irritatingly, roquette.*  It grows like a weed in my parents’ garden and there’s only so much that can be used in salads or as decoration.  Mum gave me a huge bunch after a weeding session and probably thought it would sit in my fridge until it was thrown [...]

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Rigoni’s Bistro

November 14, 2011 Restaurant Reviews

    date of visit:  Friday 11 November 2011 Our last visit to Rigoni’s Bistro was over a year ago.  We returned on Friday night for a very quick pre-Christmas party dinner, just the two of us.  The restaurant doesn’t start dinner service until 6pm so that’s when we arrived. There were quite a few [...]

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Barendoe

September 15, 2011 Restaurant Reviews

    date of visit:  Sunday 4 Sept 2011 To be perfectly honest, I forgot that it was Fathers Day* so I thought nipping for an early dinner in town (and when I say early, I mean 6pm-ish) wouldn’t be  a problem.  By the time I remembered the occasion, we were already committed and it [...]

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Competition: San Remo Diamonds Dinner

September 9, 2011 Competitions

Photo by ClumsyJim. San Remo is offering three people the chance to take a friend to the Diamond Dinner, to be held in Adelaide on Monday 24 October. The Australian Diamonds (that’s the national netball team) are taking on the Silver Ferns on Wednesday 26 October and this is the fourth year in a row [...]

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Osso Buco

September 7, 2011 Recipes

I thought I’d make the most of what I hoped was the last of the cooler weather and cook up an osso buco. Our butcher sells the pieces of shank quite cheaply and I figured that the leftovers would make a good freezer standby. I started to look around for recipes and turned first to [...]

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Enoteca Italian Restaurant, Adelaide

June 21, 2011 Restaurant Reviews

date of visit: Saturday 4 June 2011 Something of a delay in this review hitting the web, not dissimilar to the delay in getting to the restaurant in the first place. We’ve been saying we must go to Enoteca for well over a year now and the closest we’ve come was me trying to book [...]

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Andre’s Cucina and Polenta Bar

May 8, 2011 Restaurant Reviews

date of visit: Friday 6 May 2011 It might seem odd for a food blogger, but I have very little interest in Masterchef Australia. I loved the original UK version: the shouting, the food, and of course, Gregg Wallace and John Torode. But I find the Australian offering too personality focussed – it feels like [...]

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Risotto all’Isolana

May 5, 2011 Recipes

Risotto doesn’t happen nearly often enough in our household.  I don’t know why – maybe it’s the fact that it does take a bit of effort in the stirring, or that we never have quite the right things to go in it. And you know what, it also doesn’t photograph very well! I was flicking [...]

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Pasta Presto

May 18, 2010 Recipes

We eat pasta at least once a week and, often, it is an emergency meal.  We get home late from something and throw some frozen filled pasta in boiling water and mix through some bought pesto.  Proper lazy food. But then there are occasions (all the time, really) where there is no excuse for such [...]

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Rigoni’s Bistro

April 22, 2010 Restaurant Reviews

    date of visit:  20 April 2010 A friend is heading to Hong Kong for a 3 month stint and, as a final farewell dinner, requested something ‘not Asian’.  Having walked through Leigh Street that same morning, I suggested Rigoni’s Bistro, which I last visited in November last year for a wine dinner with [...]

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