Wagaya Tapas | Newtown

24.04.2013 Inner West
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I couldn’t help but feel a little déjà vu when we chanced upon this Wagaya outlet where long-running Italian restaurant, Mamma Maria, finally closed its doors late last year. The other half was craving some agedashi tofu so as we walked up King Street in the direction of Newtown’s few Japanese restaurants, we stopped to read [...]

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West Juliett | Marrickville

22.04.2013 Breakfast/Brunch
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So Marrickville gets another cafe. No, it isn’t on any of the main drags, and no, it isn’t garbed with op-shop oddities, mis-matched crockery and souvenir teaspoons. Yes, it does serve very decent White Horse coffee, from The Shire I believe. And yes, the digs have become a bit of a magnet for the weekend [...]

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Falafel, haloumi + mustard greens

19.04.2013 Recipes
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I kept the dressing relatively light in flavour. It’s a combination of buttermilk, tahini, coriander leaves and pomegranate molasses.

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Pan-fried haloumi, fig + pomegranate

17.04.2013 Recipes
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Adding the next ingredient was a little experimental. Shengdana lehsun chutney.

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Huong Giang | Marrickville

15.04.2013 Inner West
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Getting to Marrickville is a relatively straight forward exercise from my neck of the woods. Two train stops or an approximate half hour walk, depending on what part of it you need to get to. On this particular Sunday it took over an hour. I don’t blame it on the expected; traffic or delayed trains. [...]

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Salan masala baked peaches

12.04.2013 Dessert
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Sadly I didn’t embrace the stone fruit season this year as well as I could have. Yes I ate my share of them fresh but I didn’t get around to cooking much with them. One thing I did make is this baked peach dessert, spiced-up with my fragrant salan masala mix, some bourbon, vanilla and crunchy [...]

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