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italian

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 laziness.  [...]

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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 Nicolas Belfrage MW, [...]

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Bolognese Sauce

February 11, 2010 Recipes

I’m feeling brave … after all, a bolognese sauce is one of those things that everyone makes, everyone knows how to make and everyone has an opinion on how it should be made.
In Bologna, the home of the Bolognese sauce, it is called a ragù and the ‘Bolognese’ comes from the sauce’s French name, sauce [...]

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Farina

December 2, 2009 Restaurant Reviews

FARINA IS CLOSED.  THERE ARE RUMOURS IT IS MOVING TO NEW PREMISES …
date of visit:  25 Nov 2009
Adelaide has no shortage of pizza and pasta places … cafés line Rundle Street and menus merge in to one another.  It’s such a shame because Italy offers such a wide range of variations on the pizza and [...]

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Balzari, Melbourne

October 22, 2009 Restaurant Reviews

Fri 9 Oct 2009
We found ourselves in Melbourne with only an old copy of Australian Gourmet Traveller as food guide.  On the basis of little more than a footnote we decided to head to Balzari on Lygon Street and see if the menu appealed.
I am a huge fan of Italian food but find nothing more [...]

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