Sunday, February 28, 2021

June 10, 2009: Cumulus Inc

I had a quick jaunt overseas inwards the by calendar week (for the record: Copenhagen's best vego repast is the buffet at breakfast-specific Min Lokal's baked eggs showtime sucked me in, together with these finished the job. For the record, I consider Min Lokal's are all the same slightly better, but there's no shame coming minute to my favourite breakfast inwards Melbourne.

A quick banking concern complaint on the coffee: it's outstanding. But don't but accept my give-and-take for it, Melbourne's most prolific coffee blogger agrees.

Hellenic Republic, which she idea was marginally to a greater extent than enjoyable.

raved about elsewhere. They're good worth the xv infinitesimal wait.

It's taken us a long fourth dimension to larn to Cumulus Inc - we're clearly non at the cutting border of Melbourne food-bloggery - but it was worth the wait. Great food, fantabulous friendly service together with non unreasonable prices. If I worked inwards the metropolis I'd endure in that place for java every day, but Cindy together with I are to a greater extent than probable to revisit Min Lokal or Greece if we're later on something a flake fancy for a weekend brekkie.

Address: 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Ph: 9650 1445
Price: $6-$16
Licensed
Website: http://cumulusinc.com.au

Saturday, February 27, 2021

June 10, 2009: Broccoli Soup Amongst Lemon-Chive Cream

this, from Orangette. It's all relatively uncomplicated - a chip of chopping, a chip of frying, a chip of simmering too an awesome few moments of devastation amongst the stick blender. Good times. Luckily, it's likewise damn tasty. Between the stalks of the broccoli too the faux-chicken stock, it had a variety of meatiness to it, commencement past times the delicious herbed sour-cream too the parmesan hints left past times the rind. H5N1 few pieces of breadstuff on the side too we'd establish the antidote to Melbourne's flare-up of winter.

Broccoli soup amongst lemon-chive cream

The soup
1 tbsp butter
2 leeks, washed too sliced (just the white parts)
1 onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, chopped
1kg broccoli, chopped (include everything - stems too all)
1l faux-chicken of vegetable stock
1 parmesan rind
salt

The cream
1 loving cup sour cream
2 shallots (the long, light-green kind), sliced thinly
1/4 loving cup finely chopped chives
1 tsp lemon zest
2 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 loving cup grated Parmesan
salt
1/2 tsp powdered garlic

In a saucepan, melt the butter too and then add together the leeks too onion, cooking over medium rut for most 10 minutes. Everything should instruct overnice too transparent.

Add the garlic too stir through, cooking briefly, earlier throwing inward the stock, broccoli, parmesan rind too salt. Stir everything together, convey to the boil too and then simmer.

While things are simmering, brand the cream. Basically merely stir all the ingredients together too modification the amounts of salt/garlic/lemon juice to your tastes.

Once the soup has simmered for most 20 minutes, take the parmesan rind too assail the soup amongst your powerful stick blender (or instruct through the whole rigmarole of batches inward the nutrient processor).

Add most one-half of your sour-cream mix to the soup too stir it through, using the residuum of it equally a garnish to dollop on top.

Friday, February 26, 2021

June 13, 2009: Juanita's

Babka, Ici, Julio in addition to Min Lokal?

this one excepted), but it had a lovely vanilla flavor in addition to was offset nicely past times the tangy, juicy fruit. I would convey liked to convey fifty-fifty a fiddling to a greater extent than fruit, but I happily polished off this bowlfull in addition to was satisfied for hours afterwards.

Last calendar week Brian from Fitzroyalty made a bold claim  June 13, 2009: Juanita'sThe breakfast bill of fare isn't long but it offers something dissimilar to nearly of the local cafes in addition to is rattling reasonably priced. All 7 items are either vegetarian or veg-adaptable; fifty-fifty the empanadas listed on the blackboard include 2 vegetarian fillings. The preponderance of eggs volition constrain vegans, though I've heard a rumour that the churros are safe! And the churros are simply the outset of the tempting sweets on offering at Juanita's. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 closer expect at the display cabinet had me resolving to a greater extent than firmly than e'er that I'd endure dorsum for dessert.

Update 22/11/10 - Juanita's has closed in addition to volition before long leave of absence however roughly other chocolate cafe

Address: 370 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
Ph: 9415 9396
Price: veg breakfasts $6-$12.50

Thursday, February 25, 2021

June 13, 2009: Crimson Spice Road

the kickoff time together with decided to get a novel eatery amongst him on his minute visit. I suggested Red Spice Road on the dry soil of Adski's recent rave review, though I was aware that experiences convey been mixed. While Claire enjoyed the luncheon special, JamesBluntKnife loved the service, Melbies/Foodies were less impressed together with Gingerboy.

Gingerboy, simply about other Asia-inspired urban meat eatery amongst $30 mains, than provide here; Ed compares it instead to Longrain, which nosotros haven't visited. Either means there's a feel that at this price, nosotros tin flame expression a piffling better.

Having non seen him inwards mortal for several years June 13, 2009: Red Spice Road
Address: 27 McKillop St, Melbourne
Ph: 9603 1601
Fully licensed
Price: mocktails $8, veg mains $22-$28, desserts $12-$14
Website: www.redspiceroad.com

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

June 14, 2009: Butterscotch Biscuits

posted on Orangette a few months ago, a spider web log that had already supplied us amongst one winning dinner that week. I was (gasp!) a footling weary of chocolate. And then, instead of chocolate, these were studded amongst pecans, which I already had sitting happily inward the pantry.

The biscuit dough comes together quite easily but needs careful surveillance 1 time inward the oven. The full general consensus over at Orangette seems to survive that the duo tablespoons of milk pulverization increase its browning too crisping properties, too there's non a long interval betwixt pleasantly chocolate-brown too burnt. It's worth striving for that perfect hue, though, 'cause the biscuits I undercooked didn't prepare quite the same complexity. Molly is right, though - they all amend amongst age, hence relieve around for later. The biggest challenge on that front end is that the uncooked dough is 1 of the loveliest I've sampled.


Butterscotch biscuits
(seen at Orangette, who credits them to The Tenth Muse past times Judith Jones)

1 3/4 cups evidently flour
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
200g butter, softened
1 1/4 cups chocolate-brown sugar
1 egg
2 tablespoons milk powder
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 loving cup pecans, finely chopped

Preheat the oven to 190°C. Line 1 or ii baking trays amongst newspaper too lightly spray them amongst oil.

In a modest bowl, stir together the flour, bicarb soda too salt.

In a larger bowl, cream together the butter too carbohydrate using an electrical mixer. Beat inward the egg, milk pulverization too vanilla. Gradually shell inward the flour mixture, too then flexure inward the pecans past times hand.

Drop spoonfuls of the mixture onto the baking tray, leaving enough of infinite betwixt dollops. Molly suggests pressing the dough drops into circles - I didn't create this but you lot powerfulness similar to if you lot desire crisp biscuits. Bake the biscuits for 8-10 minutes, until they're lightly chocolate-brown all over (watch them carefully to ensure they don't burn).

June 14, 2009: Baked Beans As Well As Hushpuppies

home-made vegan sausages, retrieved from the freezer, cooked inward alongside the beans towards the terminate of the oven time, together with so sliced into small-scale chunks in ane lawsuit tender. Highly recommended.

Hushpuppies. I'd never heard of hushpuppies before, but I got caught upward inward Lindyloo's nostalgia together with enthusiasm together with gave them a go. By contrast, Michael was distraught at having to swallow anything with 'puppies' inward the name. These piffling balls of crunchy corn eventually won his reluctant approval, beingness perfect for dipping into those saucy baked beans. Though they went downwards a treat, I'll in all probability revert to my commons cornbread recipe side past times side fourth dimension I'm inward the mood for such a thing.

Sauteed mushrooms. I simply finished these fungi off with a twain of teaspoons of vegetarian oyster sauce together with loved the salty-sweet effect.

Sauteed spinach. Much-needed greens.

Multi-grain toast spread with Nuttelex. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 cook-up staple, bright with the mushrooms.


It's rare that I gear upward a repast with so many variety components, but they were all good appreciated. The quantity of beans together with hushpuppies made for a twain of envy-inducing workday lunches too.




Baked beans
(based on the Cheater Baked Beans inward Yeah, That "Vegan" Shit, where it's credited to VegCooking)

1 teaspoon powdered egg replacer
2/3 loving cup rice milk
1 1/4 cups polenta
1/2 loving cup plainly flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon pepper
1/2 loving cup corn kernels
1/4 loving cup dark-green onions, finely chopped
1 tablespoon pickled jalapeno, minced
spray oil

Preheat the oven to 200°C. Line a baking tray with newspaper together with lightly spray it with oil.

In a large bowl, whisk the powdered egg replacer into the rice milk. Stir inward the polenta, flour, baking powder, saccharide together with pepper. Next stir inward the corn kernels, dark-green onion together with jalapenos.

With build clean moisture hands, course of pedagogy the mixture into balls together with identify them on the baking tray. Spray them with to a greater extent than oil. Bake the hushpuppies for 10 minutes, plow them over together with bake for a farther 5-10 minutes, until they're crispy on the exterior together with lightly browning.

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

800Th Post, Sec Giveaway

Today this spider web log reaches some other piffling milestone - 800 posts! It's a practiced fourth dimension to update our where's the best? guide. New abode cooking highlights include:
Out together with about, we've loved:
Sadly, we've had to take away Filter, Vina Bar together with Three One Two from our favourites every bit they're no longer opened upwards for business.


Las Vegan's Lia Vandersant together with Liam Davies, together with a canister of Monsieur Truffe Hot Dark Chocolate Mix.

To run inwards the draw, tell us close your favourite veg-friendly recipe for winter inwards the comments department below. Give us plenty data that nosotros could crusade making it ourselves, or only link to the recipe if it's already available online. We'll brand together with spider web log the winning entry, together with whatever others that peculiarly make got our fancy!

If y'all don't wishing to add together a contact electronic mail address publicly to our comments, therefore electronic mail us at wheresthebeef_blog@yahoo.com.au as shortly every bit you've posted your entry therefore that, if y'all win, nosotros tin suit delivery of your prize. We won't part your electronic mail address amongst anyone else or hassle y'all ourselves in ane lawsuit this giveaway's been given away. Entries unopen at midnight on Tuesday June 30.

Monday, February 22, 2021

March 3, 2009: Leftover Makeover - Eggplant Curry

spiced eggplant salad was quite successful, past times the fourth dimension we'd eaten leftovers for luncheon both of us were a chip sick of it. Unfortunately nosotros nonetheless had one-half a saucepan total of the eggplant mix to bargain with. Cindy suggested turning it into or thence form out of curry, as well as nosotros combined it alongside the sauce from this recipe to smoothen it off. We too threw inward a handful of Nutrella soy chunks to endeavor to mix upward the texture a bit.

It wasn't quite equally successful equally I'd hoped - the spice mix was a chip overwhelming as well as the soy chunks had a slightly weird flavour. Still, nosotros managed to swallow the residue of the eggplant, which nosotros belike wouldn't accept if it had stayed inward salad form.

June 15, 2009: Pandan 'Chicken'

blogging as well as telling anyone who volition brain nigh the vegan pandan 'chicken' she discovered at a local supermarket a few months ago. So, when I noticed them at my ain nearby supermarket I was compelled to alternative upwardly a packet, fifty-fifty though my freezer was already bursting amongst mock meats.

 as well as telling anyone who volition brain nigh the vegan pandan  June 15, 2009: Pandan 'chicken'I'm glad I did. These Veaty Bites direct maintain rattling petty fourth dimension to bake from their frozen state, as well as they gustation delicious. Having never sampled the existent deal, I've no sentiment whether they're a convincing imitation. But these mock meat parcels are incredibly fragrant, amongst a abrupt lemongrassy earthiness as well as heating outburst of chilli. They'd brand a fun petty finger nutrient at a party, though I used them to altitude a salad. It was a whatever's-in-the-fridge mix of babe spinach leaves, grated zucchini as well as corn kernels, dressed amongst chives, ginger oil, vegetarian oyster sauce as well as apple tree cider vinegar.

Sunday, February 21, 2021

March 4, 2009: Forest Spoon Kitchen

10/01/2015: a deluge reviews as well as no-bookings policy meant that nosotros had no hope of obtaining a tabular array for 5 at 7:20 on a Th night. I wasn't also fazed; nosotros know enough of other great restaurants on Smith St, as well as at that spot was fifty-fifty closed to other i we'd been pregnant to try. Wood Spoon Kitchen is a cute niggling Japanese cafe merely a few shopfronts downwards from Gigibaba as well as its highly informative website had alerted me to its veg-friendly menu. With the vegetarian, vegan as well as gluten-free items clearly labelled, it begins amongst a diversity of flavoured onigiri, earlier listing an extensive ready of soups, a few don buri (rice bowls) as well as curries, earlier winding upward amongst sides, salads as well as desserts.

 reports that Wood Spoon Kitchen has been replaced past times Bowl Bowl Dumpling March 4, 2009: Wood Spoon KitchenHaving never eaten an onigiri before, I idea I'd hand the cheese curry i ($3.20) a try. The 'crumpled vintage cheese as well as basil inwards curry' melded beautifully into the rice, though I flora the cheese/nori combination a niggling incongruous.

Otsumami as well as Peko Peko.

 reports that Wood Spoon Kitchen has been replaced past times Bowl Bowl Dumpling March 4, 2009: Wood Spoon KitchenMichael went for the vegetarian pumpkin curry ($12.90), closed to other mild as well as pleasant offering that wasn't quite memorable.

 reports that Wood Spoon Kitchen has been replaced past times Bowl Bowl Dumpling March 4, 2009: Wood Spoon KitchenFor my primary repast I ordered the pumpkin gnocchi inwards Lycopersicon esculentum kokosnoot soup ($10.90). This was a steaming bowl of thick broth, concealing a multitude of tender vegetables every bit good every bit the promised balls of pumpkin dough. It was the perfect comfort on this unseasonably cool evening.

Wood Spoon Kitchen's flavours aren't quite every bit fragile every bit those at the nearby Peko Peko, but it has enough else going for it. The setting as well as staff are charming, the nutrient is cheaper, as well as the bill of fare offers a make of veg-friendly snacks as well as meals dissimilar whatever other Japanese eating seat I've visited.

Address: 88 Smith St, Collingwood
Ph: 9416 0588
Licensed
Price: veg snacks as well as meals $3.20-$12.90
Website: www.woodspoonkitchen.com

June 15-16, 2009: Blonde Choc-Nut Cookies

Hungry Hamster posted quite but about fourth dimension ago. I suspect I initially bookmarked the recipe for its vegan potential but I ended upward stirring dairy-riddled white chocolate chips into the dough.

Cookie doughs that role fossil oil instead of butter convey quite a distinctive greasy texture when raw - this ane reminded me of the chocolate-raspberry in addition to cryptic cookies I've previously baked. Unlike the butterscotch biscuits I baked a twenty-four hours earlier, this dough isn't peculiarly tasty before it's cooked - the baking pulverisation in addition to soda are rather strong. Unfortunately they're yet a chip likewise prominent inward the lastly product, though it's non all that hard to concentrate on the sweetness of the white chocolate chips in addition to accomplish for a 2d cookie.

There are 2 to a greater extent than quirks worth mentioning. First, Hungry Hamster's master quantity is relatively small, in addition to thankfully I noticed this inward fourth dimension in addition to doubled the recipe for the sizable grouping I was catering for. I didn't convey plenty macadamias, though, in addition to thus I topped them upward alongside raw cashews. The 2d quirk is that Hungry Hamster isn't clear whether she used canola or macadamia fossil oil inward the dough. Having macadamia fossil oil on hand, I gave it a become but couldn't actually abide by it inward the finished cookies.

All up, these were tardily to brand in addition to enjoyed past times many. But I likely won't role this dough recipe every bit a base of operations for futurity vegan-friendly baking.


Blonde choc-nut cookies
(adapted from Hungry Hamster's Food Adventure, where it's credited to Baking Bites)

250g manifestly flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
100g sugar
120g macadamia oil
160g maple syrup
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/3 loving cup macadamia nuts
1/3 loving cup raw cashews
2/3 loving cup white chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 170°C in addition to work a baking tray alongside paper.

In a large bowl, stir the flour, baking powder, carb soda, tabular array salt in addition to saccharide together.

In a smaller bowl, whisk together the macadamia oil, maple syrup in addition to vanilla. Pour it into the flour mixture in addition to stir everything together until but combined. Fold inward the nuts in addition to chocolate chips.

Scoop spoonfuls of the dough in addition to house them on the baking tray, allowing plenty of room for the cookies to spread. Bake them for 10-14 minutes, until lightly dark-brown in addition to but developing a crust.

March 5, 2009: Golden Bars For Golden Plains

last year's too for the nearly purpose nosotros happily gulped downward roti wraps, vegie burgers smothered inwards hot sauce, mango juice, too nutella-berry crepes. But come upward breakfast time, whether it occurred at 8am or 1pm, a chunky habitation made muesli bar was worth its weight inwards gold.

The muesli bars that nosotros ate were concocted a duo of days early, too based on Heidi Swanson's recipe for bubble slice I've eaten (and adapted) thus many times, they're genuinely quite a dissimilar proposition. The rolled oats brand them to a greater extent than chewy too filling, too though I would never accept recognised the java inwards a blind sense of savor test, it adds a terrific too unique depth of flavour. What this recipe does accept inwards mutual alongside my bubble spell is flexibility of ingredients: there's a whole host of sweeteners, cereals, nuts too seeds that you lot could attempt substituting. My ain selection of ingredients meant that I could ready these solely from ingredients already inwards our pantry!

As I stirred together the mixture I worried that it mightiness non gibe together (tip: press it into the baking tray using a fork, non a spoon!) too I stuffed it into the refrigerator overnight. This proved to live unnecessary, too genuinely made cutting it into squares much to a greater extent than difficult. Unless you're inwards a really warm place, you lot tin strength out in all probability continue this away from the refrigerator altogether.


Golden bars for Golden Plains
(based on the Big Sur ability bars at 101 Cookbooks)

1/2 loving cup pecans, chopped
3/4 loving cup almonds, chopped
3/4 loving cup macadamias, chopped
2/3 loving cup dessicated coconut
1 1/4 cups rolled oats
1 1/2 cups rice bubbles
1 loving cup rice malt syrup
1/4 loving cup brownish sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
two tablespoons soil java beans
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat the oven to 180°C. While you're waiting, chop upward the nuts, too then bake them for 5-10 minutes, stirring 1 time or twice. When they only start to colour, add together the kokosnoot too bake for a farther five minutes, stirring 1 time again along the way. Take it out to cool when everything's golden. Transfer the toasted nuts to a bowl too stir inwards the rolled oats too rice bubbles.

In a pocket-size saucepan over medium heat, stir together the rice malt syrup, sugar, salt, java too vanilla. Bring the mixture to the boil, all the same stirring, too permit it to thicken a lilliputian earlier taking it off the heat. Pour it over the cereal/nut mixture too combine everything thoroughly.

Lightly grease a baking tray too pour the mixture into it; I constitute the dorsum of a fork nearly useful for smoothing over the top. Allow the mixture to cool to room temperature (don't refrigerate it!) earlier slicing it into chunks.

Saturday, February 20, 2021

June 16, 2009: Sauerkraut Chowder

a previous calendar recipe). It's definitely a filling in addition to rich brew. It'll endure a acre earlier I'm brave plenty to plonk an entire block of cream cheese into soup again, but I'd similar to transfer the evaporated milk sentiment to other recipes.

Sauerkraut chowder

3-4 large potatoes
water
1 medium onion
400g tin forcefulness out or jounce of sauerkraut
300mL evaporated milk
250g cream cheese
2 teaspoons horseradish cream, or to taste
salt in addition to pepper

Chop the potatoes into bite-size pieces, leaving the peel on. Place the potatoes inward a large saucepan in addition to comprehend them amongst water. Chop the onion in addition to add together it to the pot. Bring the soup to the boil in addition to develop the vegetables until the potatoes are tender.

Stir inward the sauerkraut, evaporated milk in addition to cream cheese, continuing to stir until the cream cheese has melted in addition to blended in. Season amongst horseradish, tabular array salt in addition to pepper to taste.

Cover the soup in addition to simmer it on depression oestrus for thirty minutes earlier serving.

March 9, 2009: Lime Mayonnaise

a weekend of (over)indulgence, nosotros needed to scale dorsum a flake in addition to I decided to squad this lime mayonnaise amongst oven-baked tofu 'fish' bites. The freshest one-half of the plate features mixed greenish leaves in addition to a coleslaw recipe from Veganomicon amongst bonus radishes.

As if lime juice in addition to zest aren't plenty pep, this condiment also includes horseradish in addition to mustard. Fresh horseradish root isn't quite inward flavour in addition to thence nosotros took the minute alternative listed in addition to bought horseradish cream from the supermarket. I've non tried horseradish earlier but it's inward the same found identify unit of measurement every bit mustard in addition to wasabi - it has that same acidic oestrus that punches y'all inward the nose. The alone other modification I made to this recipe was downsizing - the master copy part listing added upward to over a litre of mayo!


Lime mayonnaise

1/2 loving cup mayonnaise
1/2 loving cup calorie-free sour cream
juice in addition to zest of 1 lime
1 teaspoon horseradish cream
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

Whisk all the ingredients together in addition to refrigerate until serving.

Friday, February 19, 2021

June 18, 2009: Smoked Tofu Stew

this recipe a try.

It's a pretty unproblematic recipe - lots of chopping as well as lots of simmering - zip real complicated. And it all ends upwards alongside a rich, warming as well as hearty meal. If anything, it was a petty curt on flavor - nosotros pepped it upwards alongside a generous splash of veg Worcestershire sauce, which was the perfect addition. It's a proficient agency to brand purpose of the smoked tofu, which was a suitably bulky stew centrepiece.

Smoked tofu stew
1 dark-brown onion
2 sticks celery
2 small-scale carrots
250g swiss dark-brown mushrooms
500g potatoes
300g smoked tofu
3 tablespoons olive oil
3 cups vegetable stock
2 tablespoons vegemite
2 bay leaves
Salt as well as pepper to taste
1/2 loving cup water
2 tablespoons manifestly flour

Chop all your vegies as well as the tofu into hearty chunks, as well as tiddler them inward a large pot alongside the olive oil. After things bring started to soften, add together the stock, vegemite as well as bay leaves as well as and then simmer for 45 minutes or so, until things are near falling apart.

Combine the the flour as well as H2O inward a form loving cup to brand a thick paste, as well as add together it to the stew to thicken it all together. Season alongside common salt as well as pepper, as well as serve alongside rice or cous-cous as well as a splash of Worcestershire sauce as well as and then experience the warmth spread through you.

March 14, 2009: Babble

APTE or Porgie together with Mr Jones but our goal was shifted to Prahran (in a completely non-food related aside - Cindy together with I both experience equally though one-half the folks on Chapel Street are eyeing us upward together with wondering whether nosotros ask their spare change) thank y'all to other shopping needs (in or together with so other completely non-food-related aside, Cathy at Everything Goes With Cream, who gave it a rave review a few weeks back. We stumbled inward the door but equally the heavens opened together with dumped or together with so much welcome rain. Luckily, we'd timed things perfectly together with at that spot was a tabular array for ii waiting invitingly for us.

The carte isn't especially exciting - lots of fairly basic egg varieties (benedict, florentine, the ane amongst salmon), a handful of omelettes together with the commons toast/cereal/pancake options. The couplet of exceptions were the ii dishes that Cathy talked upward on her blog: a vegetarian polenta-based breakfast together with a luscious sounding French fruit toast. Despite Cathy's enthusiasm (and Cindy's pressure), I didn't experience upward to polenta for breakfast, instead opting for the Baroness omelette, which promised spinach, fetta, sun-dried tomatoes, chilli together with olives equally fillings ($16).

comments elsewhere), the infinite was pleasant together with the nutrient was decent if perchance a tad overpriced.

Address: 4 Izzet Street, Prahran
Ph: 9510 6464
Price: veg breakfasts $7-$16

June 19, 2009: The Press Lodge Ii

George Colambaris fan, though his electrical flow stint on peppered fig served at Hellenic Republic). Though the flavours were for sure pleasant, I intend it was the novelty of the organization that impressed us too had us excitedly wondering what powerfulness come upwardly next.

Thursday, February 18, 2021

March 18, 2009: Due East Brunswick Gild V

Edit 22/05/2012: The EBC has right away closed, but most of the carte has migrated to The Cornish Arms.
  We received data terminal weekend from a trusted root that the EBC has a few novel ve March 18, 2009: East Brunswick Club VTime for an East Brunswick Club update! We received data terminal weekend from a trusted root that the EBC has a few novel vegan-friendly meals to try. For starters, their $10 Mon meals are right away followed upwards amongst Mexi Night on Wednesdays. This completely veganisable carte features jalapeno poppers (battered, deep-fried, stuffed amongst fetta as well as rice, served amongst guacamole), spiced Mexi fries (served amongst to a greater extent than guacamole as well as sour cream), a taco plate, a burrito plate, nachos as well as chilli fries every bit good every bit a few of their commons favourites - traditional, nacho as well as Americana parmas, vegan fish & chips, vegan chicken salad, wedges as well as chips.

Michael had a shot at the vegan burrito plate ($15, pictured above). It's described thus: "Char grilled chicken, cheese, rice, dark edible bean chili as well as chunky salsa, wrapped inwards a 12-inch wheat tortilla. Served amongst a side salad, guacamole as well as sour cream." We assumed that the vegan option to chicken powerfulness hold upwards roughly seitan chunks, but instead he industrial plant life zucchini as well as eggplant.

  We received data terminal weekend from a trusted root that the EBC has a few novel ve March 18, 2009: East Brunswick Club VI chose the vegan taco plate ($12): "3 soft or hard-shell taco's filled amongst beef, dark edible bean chili, chicken rice, cheese as well as shredded lettuce. Served amongst a side salad, guacamole as well as sour cream." Again, the EBC refrained from their commons vogue towards mistaken meat, filling this out amongst only the edible bean chili as well as rice. There was roughly mistaken dairy to hold upwards had, though, amongst first-class 'cheese' as well as sour 'cream' on offer.

Both meals were enjoyable, though they were lilliputian to a greater extent than than rearrangements of the same ingredients, as well as offered like value for coin every bit Mi Corizon upwards the street. On a less lazy level nosotros could likely produce every bit good for ourselves at dwelling (though nosotros powerfulness non hold upwards able to replicate the jalapeno poppers or Mexi fries too on offer!). I'm to a greater extent than inclined to supply for the $10 Mondays, or for 1 of their electrical current specials - the vegan chilli burger as well as and vegan Philly agency cheese steak (available for a express fourth dimension on other nights) audio incredible!

(You tin too read close our first, second, third as well as fourth visits to the East Brunswick Club.)

Last Hazard To Win Our Wintertime Warmers!

There's trivial to a greater extent than than a twenty-four hours left earlier nosotros depict the winners for our electrical flow giveaway.

Leave us a comment here telling us your favourite veg-friendly wintertime recipe, thus electronic mail us at wheresthebeef_blog@yahoo.com.au thus that nosotros accept your contact info. You'll survive inwards the depict to win a re-create of Las Vegan's Lia Vandersant as well as Liam Davies, as well as a canister of Monsieur Truffe Hot Dark Chocolate Mix!

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

March 20, 2009: Honeycomb

 on Fri for a yoke of groceries as well as Simon generously sent me off alongside a bonus sample  March 20, 2009: HoneycombI popped inwards to Allergy Block on Fri for a yoke of groceries as well as Simon generously sent me off alongside a bonus sample of honeycomb - he'd simply damaged the seal on the container as well as couldn't sell it on. This materials comes immediately from the beekeeper, Vincent Testa from Templestowe - the dearest is even as well as thus encased inwards the wax cells that the bees built to shop it. Biting in, it is of flat bursting alongside sweetness; I liked the chewy texture of the wax as well as the means it extended the dearest flavour. Thankfully Simon instructed me to non to eat the wax, equally gulping downwards that difficult clump would brand for a slightly uncomfortable finish!

Honey-lovers are saltation to uncovering this sense irresistable. It is nothing similar the sugar/water/bicarbonate of soda confection seen inwards Crunchie as well as Violet Crumble bars. Does anyone know how this sponge toffee came to hold upward called honeycomb?

And The Winner Is...


We'll endure cooking upwardly her roasted cumin together with pumpkin soup this evening using Michael's novel mate, the stick blender.

Thank yous to everyone who submitted an entry. I'm hoping to displace all of your favourite wintertime recipes earlier the weather condition warms upwardly again. (This could endure a challenge every bit nosotros accept merely about move lined upwardly over the coming months... could I truly endure wishing for an extended Melbourne winter?!)

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

March 21-22, 2009: Continental House

  It offers pocket-size accommodation equally good equally activities similar yoga March 21-22, 2009: Continental HouseContinental House is a 'vegan life sanctuary' inwards Hepburn Springs. It offers pocket-size accommodation equally good equally activities similar yoga, massage courses, chanting together with raw nutrient workshops. They likewise get got a vegan banquet on nigh Sabbatum nights. This is what drew a grouping of Vegan Potluckers to the Conti for a weekend route trip.

  It offers pocket-size accommodation equally good equally activities similar yoga March 21-22, 2009: Continental HouseMost of the rooms tally ii or 3 people, together with they're pleasantly comfortable if non modern. There are shared toilets together with showers unopen to the corner, though Michael together with I works life ourselves inwards the i room alongside an en suite. This proved to endure a bathroom room inwards the nigh literal sense, containing a zip to a greater extent than than a bathroom together with mirror! As good equally numbers the rooms get got nicknames (ours was 'Pixie'), subsequently the murals painted on their walls.

  It offers pocket-size accommodation equally good equally activities similar yoga March 21-22, 2009: Continental HouseThere are likewise communal kitchen together with lounge areas where you lot tin residue together with instruct to know the other visitors together with residents. While making toast inwards the kitchen, Michael met a resident who'd been on a water-only fast for the past times sixty hours. Why he was torturing himself past times standing inwards the midst of food, I don't know.

  It offers pocket-size accommodation equally good equally activities similar yoga March 21-22, 2009: Continental House____________

  It offers pocket-size accommodation equally good equally activities similar yoga March 21-22, 2009: Continental HouseThe banquet takes identify inwards a lovely room below the invitee bedrooms. There's plenty of room for everyone staying at the House, together with the 10 of us easily fitted unopen to the largest of the tables.

  It offers pocket-size accommodation equally good equally activities similar yoga March 21-22, 2009: Continental HouseThe Conti is alone alcohol free, but nosotros were treated to freshly squeezed orangish juice equally good equally non-alcoholic passionfruit, strawberry together with ginger wines.

  It offers pocket-size accommodation equally good equally activities similar yoga March 21-22, 2009: Continental HouseThe get shape was a sweetness potato, tomato, lentil together with basil soup served alongside corn chips. As nosotros happily slurped together with crunched together with chatted our agency through it, nosotros didn't notice the empty serving tables (pictured above) existence stacked generously alongside to a greater extent than food. It was an overwhelming array of salads, dips together with bakes.

  It offers pocket-size accommodation equally good equally activities similar yoga March 21-22, 2009: Continental HouseMy plate includes:
  • a pumpkin kokosnoot curry alongside chickpeas, coriander together with dark mustard seeds,
  • tabouleh,
  • beetroot dip
  • a spicy pickled cabbage salad alongside bitter greenish leaves,
  • avocado,
  • more corn chips,
  • a salad of tofu, seaweed, carrot together with shitake mushrooms,
  • a spicy mash bake,
  • lightly dressed kolrabi together with Chinese greens,
  • and the tabular array favourite, an orangish dip of eggplant, capsicum, garlic together with olive oil.
There was plenty to instruct around, alongside Toby piling upwardly his tertiary plate alongside avocado simply equally I was finishing my first.

  It offers pocket-size accommodation equally good equally activities similar yoga March 21-22, 2009: Continental HouseAnd of shape at that topographic point was dessert: fruit salad topped alongside banana icecream together with terra firma cashews.

This variety of banquet is hardly contest for Melbourne's degustation greats. Rather, it's stuffed amount of home-made hippy goodness, what you lot powerfulness expression to abide by at a Hare Krishna eating theatre (though alongside less deep frying). The tranquil setting is plenty to gear upwardly anyone at ease. That is, if your catch doesn't coincide alongside a raucous Vegan Potluck route trip!

Address: ix Lone Pine Ave, Hepburn Springs
Ph: 5348 2005
Alcohol free
Price: $70 per person, accommodation together with vegan banquet
Website: www.continentalhouse.com.au

June 21, 2009: Bebida Bar & Cafe Ii

tapas as well as alive music, as well as past times solar daytime it's a house to linger amongst coffee, nibbling at a muffin or filling upwards on a belatedly breakfast or pide. On this morn it wasn't every bit good total as well as then nosotros were treated to friendly as well as unrushed service throughout.

I liked the varied breakfast card - inward a unmarried column it captures the salubrious as well as the indulgent, sweetness as well as savoury, the calorie-free as well as the hearty. The savoury options aren't all egg-based, in that place are lots of optional extras, as well as most of the dishes are vegetarian.

  We rarely corporation due east of Brunswick St for a weekend breakfast as well as nosotros were surprised at  June 21, 2009: Bebida Bar & Cafe IIMichael ordered the eggs zeitgeist ($10.50) - "poached eggs on sliced fetta as well as babe spinach on English linguistic communication muffins amongst a impact of roasted capsicum sauce". This dish looked a lilliputian small-scale compared to some of the other servings some the tabular array but it proved to last most satisfying.

  We rarely corporation due east of Brunswick St for a weekend breakfast as well as nosotros were surprised at  June 21, 2009: Bebida Bar & Cafe IIThis pretty plateful is Tracy's Bebida burrito ($11.50) - "scrambled eggs wrapped inward a burrito amongst a tomato, ruby-red onion, coriander as well as lime concasse, topped amongst avocado."

  We rarely corporation due east of Brunswick St for a weekend breakfast as well as nosotros were surprised at  June 21, 2009: Bebida Bar & Cafe III went for the Belgian waffles ($12.50) - "handmade waffles served amongst seasonal fruit, natural yoghurt as well as maple syrup". The waffles were a lilliputian overcooked, but I prefer them crunchy rather than underdone. I liked the residual of this dish - it seems a lightheaded compliment to pay, but I've lost count of the times that a sweetness breakfast has disappointed me amongst every bit good much cloying sweetness or every bit good lilliputian fruit. These guys got it simply right!

Bebiba doesn't quite check the mold of Melbourne's so-hot-right-now bars as well as cafes, but it has its ain fashion as well as there's enough to appreciate if you lot accept the fourth dimension to sit down dorsum as well as soak it up.

(You tin give the sack read close our previous dinnertime view to Bebida here.)

Address: 325 Smith Street, Fitzroy
Phone: 9419 5260
Price: veg breakfasts $4-$15.50
Website: www.bebida.com.au

March 22, 2009: Himalaya Bakery Too Cafe

Our post-banquet post-pub morning time at The Conti was spent inwards diverse ways: I desire for a wander through Hepburn Regional Park, a committed gang got upwardly to suffer a massive yoga session together with everybody else waited to a greater extent than or less getting hungry. By the fourth dimension everyone had saluted the Sun sufficient times it was getting on towards xi together with the less flexible alongside the grouping were dying of hunger. Luckily, having rounded the whole gang upwardly it was but a brusk campaign to Daylesford together with our breakfast appointment at Himalaya Bakery together with Cafe.

They hope a broad attain of vegetarian together with vegan baked products, including pastries, cakes, muffins together with breads, along with amount breakfast together with tiffin menus. Everything is well-labelled, together with in that location are plenty of vegan together with gluten-free options both on the menus together with inwards the bakery case. Everybody with prior Himalaya sense raved close the smoked tofu pies together with the cherry danishes (more on these later), but nosotros needed to foremost things off with something hot together with delicious.

 I desire for a wander through Hepburn Regional Park March 22, 2009: Himalaya Bakery together with CafeCindy together with I basically ordered the same thing: mushroom scrambled tofu ($11) - a deliciously herby mess of tofu together with mushrooms fried upwardly into a big gooey scramble. Cindy was smart plenty to append a side social club of herbed potatoes ($2.50), which I happily stole past times the forkful. Outstanding.

I'd been pushing for either a smoked tofu pie or some assort of delightful dessert, but the charge of breakfast was but also heavy. Instead, nosotros packed upwardly a delicious accept habitation bundle for dinner: 2 smoked tofu pies together with a cherry danish to share.

 I desire for a wander through Hepburn Regional Park March 22, 2009: Himalaya Bakery together with CafeTo hold upwardly honest, the pies were a piffling disappointing - a chip on the dry out side together with a piffling brusk on the tofu. It was likely skilful for us that they were liberally packed with piffling vegie pieces, but I was looking for something a chip to a greater extent than rich together with tofu-y.

 I desire for a wander through Hepburn Regional Park March 22, 2009: Himalaya Bakery together with CafeContrastingly, the danish actually hitting the location - fruity together with sugarry, with some of the tastiest vegan pastry you'll e'er find. We likely should get got swapped the social club together with dived into 2 of these together with but ane of the pies.

The Himalaya is a fine vego house - perfect for a belatedly breakfast. The staff teach a piffling overrun at busy times (to hold upwardly fair, it's likely non frequently that a grouping of x wanders inwards looking equally ravenous equally nosotros did), but they're friendly together with helpful together with the nutrient to a greater extent than than makes upwardly for it.

Address: 73 Vincent Street, Daylesford
Ph: 5348 1267
Price: $5 - $13
Website: www.himalayabakery.com

Monday, February 15, 2021

June 24, 2009: Minestrone

To become along alongside the stick blender that she bought me for my birthday June 24, 2009: MinestroneTo become along alongside the stick blender that she bought me for my birthday, Cindy splashed out for a re-create of Soup For All Seasons from Aduki. It's a pocket-sized soup cookbook reveal yesteryear the practiced folks from Las Vegan, alongside 20 recipes for delicious vegan soups. Alas, real few of them postulate stick-blending - they're generally chunky as well as hearty. Take, for example, this minestrone.

It's chock amount of vegie chunks, pasta bits, beans as well as flavourings. It's practiced wintertime nutrient - filling as well as hot alongside simple, earthy flavours. On the whole the flavours are a lilliputian obviously - love apple tree as well as herbs produce most of the work, which is fine for dinner, but started to wearable us downward afterwards a few serves of leftovers.


Minestrone

2 leeks, sliced
2 garlic cloves, crushed
2 large carrots, sliced
2 sticks of celery, sliced
2 medium potatoes, cubed
1 tin hand notice diced tomatoes
1 tin hand notice cannellini beans
4-6 cups of vegie stock
3 bay leaves
1/2 tablespoon dried mixed herbs
1/2 loving cup pocket-sized pasta noodles
1/2 bunch fresh basil, chopped
1 tablespoon olive oil

Heat petroleum inwards a large saucepan, as well as add together the leeks, garlic, carrots, celery, bay leaves as well as dry out herbs as well as embrace as well as travail over depression oestrus until the vegies showtime to soften (about 10 minutes)

Add the tomatoes as well as stock, as well as stir together. Bring to the boil as well as simmer for virtually one-half an hour, alongside the occasional stir.

Add the beans as well as potatoes, ready for 10 to a greater extent than minutes.

Add the pasta as well as simmer for some other 10 minutes or so, until the pasta noodles accept cooked properly. Serve alongside the basil on transcend as well as alongside some breadstuff on the side.

March 22, 2009: The Chocolate Mill

Vegan Potluck tour of Hepburn was at the Chocolate Mill. The entirely exceptional close this house that I'd received, repeatedly, prior to our arrival was that the Chocolate Mill does vegan hot chocolates in a bowl together with they're huge together with rich together with delicious.

  The entirely exceptional close this house that I March 22, 2009: The Chocolate MillHere's the evidence. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few of these were spooned together with slurped rattling happily around our picnic table.

  The entirely exceptional close this house that I March 22, 2009: The Chocolate MillMichael together with I preferred to portion an iced chocolate - though the syrup together with flavoured icecream didn't quite alive upward to the melted Belgian chocolate, it was a to a greater extent than refreshing selection every bit nosotros sat inwards the sun. (Note that the iced chocolate is in all probability non veganisable, though the Chocolate Mill's milkshakes mightiness be.)

  The entirely exceptional close this house that I March 22, 2009: The Chocolate MillOf course, the Mill doesn't but melt chocolate into drinks - they also mould it around all sorts of other flavours. The vegan ones are helpfully labelled amongst a greenish V.

  The entirely exceptional close this house that I March 22, 2009: The Chocolate MillYou tin fifty-fifty cause got a peek at the moulding together with decorating inwards action!

  The entirely exceptional close this house that I March 22, 2009: The Chocolate MillNaturally, I took a couplet of extra treats abode amongst us. This Dark Connoisseur pack contains chocolate amongst 3 dissimilar levels of cocoa solids. I'm enjoying working my means upward inwards bites from lowest to highest cocoa content.

  The entirely exceptional close this house that I March 22, 2009: The Chocolate MillThis hand-picked assortment is pretty special, too. The cinnamon stick had a surprisingly stick-like texture, together with the cherry-centred nighttime chocolate lips are spectacular.

It's quite possible that the Chocolate Mill won't outperform your favourite urban nub chocolatier, but it's a must-taste terminate for whatever sweet-toothed travellers through the Hepburn shire.

Sunday, February 14, 2021

June 25-26: Torta Sacher

mushroom paprikash (made alongside The Vegeterranean as well as started flicking pages from the dorsum - I knew at that spot was a recipe for vegan Unlike Michael, I've non eaten a 'real' Sachertorte as well as thus didn't convey specific expectations. Well, perchance i or ii - I assumed it'd live on a round, multi-layered cake. Actually it's a smallish quantity of batter, to live on baked inward a foursquare cake tin. Though it's supposed to live on carefully sliced into iii layers, my cake proved to live on less than 2 inches tall. I had no promise of splitting it into to a greater extent than than ii layers!

I didn't convey high expectations of the chocolateyness of this recipe, given that both the cake as well as the 'ganache' role cocoa rather than chocolate. But y'all tin live on assured that it is a moist, rich as well as real chocolatey experience! The apricot jam that's spread betwixt the layers is hard to recognise, but surely contributes to the moist texture as well as fruity sweetness. Likewise it's unlikely that your guests volition spot the espresso (which is inward both the cake as well as the ganache) but I mean value it contributes to the depth of flavour.

Another neat matter nigh this cake? It doesn't ask whatever weird ingredients every bit vegan substitutes, but non-dairy milk (I used rice-based rather than the suggested soy), vegetable oil, margarine as well as vinegar. The most hard to locate element powerfulness live on the extra-refined '00' flour, which I constitute at our local independent grocer. I regard y'all could substitute your green apparently flour without sick effects.

The downside? It's non the polish as well as elegant creation I had envisaged. Moist cakes are hard to cutting cleanly, as well as I every bit good struggled to spread the ganache evenly. And as well as then there's the foursquare as well as squat dimensions. This Sacher's non something to daintily serve as well as nibble for high tea, but it is a neat basic chocolate cake to convey inward your repertoire. (Skip the fiddly jam layers for easy-peasy weeknight baking.) There's fifty-fifty one-half a run a peril that a vegan-friendly hit would convey all the ingredients on paw without a trip to the shops.


Vegan Sachertorte
(adapted real slightly from The Vegeterranean yesteryear Malu Simoes as well as Alberto Musacchio)

Cake
75g cocoa
200g Italian '00' flour
200g sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
80mL brewed espresso, cooled
100mL sunflower oil
2 tablespoons white vinegar
210mL rice milk
200g apricot jam

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a 20cm foursquare cake tin alongside newspaper as well as grease it lightly.

In a medium-sized bowl, sift together the cocoa, flour, sugar, tabular array salt as well as baking powder.

In a larger bowl, whisk together the vanilla, coffee, oil, as well as vinegar. Gradually whisk inward the dry out ingredients, as well as then the milk.

Pour the cake batter into the cake tin, polish the tiptop flat, as well as bake it for nigh 35 minutes, checking for doneness alongside a skewer. Allow the cake to cool completely spell it's inward the tin.

Take a facial expression at your cake as well as hit upward one's heed how many layers y'all want. Split the jam into every bit many equal portions every bit y'all volition convey layers. To i portion, add together a real minor amount of boiling H2O as well as force the mixture through a sieve. Mix the strained apricot pieces into the other portions of jam, as well as reserve the smooth, sieved jam constituent for the tiptop layer.

Use a serrated knife to trim back the tiptop of the cake until it's flat. Gently piece the cake horizontally into layers. Spread a constituent of the chunky jam betwixt each cake layer as well as stack them dorsum up. Spread the polish constituent of jam on the tiptop of the cake. Transfer the cake to its serving plate.

Ganache
2 tablespoons cocoa
3 tablespoons icing sugar
2 tablespoons warm espresso
2 tablespoons Nuttelex

Combine all the ingredients inward a double boiler, mixing until the ganache is polish as well as shiny (I but rig upward ii saucepans, alongside boiling H2O inward the bottom i as well as ganache inward the tiptop one). Pour as well as spread the ganache over the cake - y'all volition convey to function quickly, spell the ganache is yet warm. Allowing a drippy outcome downward the sides volition in all probability live on smoother as well as prettier than trying to strength total coverage of the cake.

Let the cake cool completely as well as store it inward the fridge.

March 27, 2009: Harvest

Conti House, Michael as well as I were at it ane time again - this fourth dimension jetting to Sydney to hang out with numerous friends nosotros originally made inward Brisbane. Phase One involved a ferry to Balmain to cheque out Jack as well as Emma's novel lodgings. They've been calling Sydney domicile for simply iii months as well as when they spied a highly recommended local vegetarian eating seat inward their Sydney Eats guide, they were variety plenty to concord off visiting until nosotros were introduce to bring together them.

Apparently Harvest has been closed to a long fourth dimension - yourRestaurants gives it 36 years, though I idea I read alone sixteen elsewhere. Regardless, it's a well-established nook intended for a slightly special dark out - it's white tablecloths, soft lighting as well as $20 mains, though the chalky vegetable drawings on the walls are to a greater extent than homely. The carte du jour is expansive - inward add-on to 6 entrees as well as 7 mains, there's a Chef's Special page with a farther iv entrees as well as iv mains. Vegans are good catered for - the vegan as well as vegan-adaptable items are well-marked as well as constitute 40% of the entrees as well as 45% of the mains - but the remaining items exhibit a penchant for cream-based sauces as well as cheese. We were all overwhelmed past times the array of tantalising options as well as came upwards with a conception that pleased me no terminate - we'd part iv entrees as as well as part tastes of our mains.

A mere v days afterward returning domicile from  March 27, 2009: HarvestEntree #1 is Three Mushroom Ravioli ($12.50). The carte du jour assures us that these pasta shells are stuffed with porcini, Roman as well as plain mushrooms but I simply tasted warm, comforting savoury mush. We chose the intriguing orangish as well as basil sauce over the grain mustard as well as cream alternative. They actually pulled it off; though it looked close similar a sugary Chinese takeaway condiment the season was subtler, less sweet. The basil ready it off perfectly.

A mere v days afterward returning domicile from  March 27, 2009: HarvestThe Indian pakoras ($10.90) were sizable but a lilliputian bland. However they were saved past times the accompanying yoghurt as well as mint dressing - perchance the best ane I've always tasted.

A mere v days afterward returning domicile from  March 27, 2009: HarvestFeta parcels ($11.95) may non audio specially imaginative but when they're this good executed, it doesn't matter. Fresh out of the oven, they had the balance of flaky outer as well as creamy inner simply right.

A mere v days afterward returning domicile from  March 27, 2009: Harvest
The twice baked goats cheese souffle ($13.95) came from the Chef's Special listing as well as it certain was special. The texture was perfectly cloud-like, the season non besides eggy, as well as the lemon myrtle sauce was stunning. The overall final result was really rich as well as I was content to bask my quarter part as well as transcend on the remainder.

A mere v days afterward returning domicile from  March 27, 2009: HarvestFor their principal courses, Emma as well as Michael chose the English linguistic communication spinach as well as kumara gnocchi ($20.50) inward its 2 guises. Emma's were baked inward a tomato plant as well as sage sauce (above), a decidedly less rich dish than Michael's lemon as well as garlic cream (below). Thankfully nosotros were handed a large bowl of salad to part closed to the tabular array as well as cutting through the fat.

A mere v days afterward returning domicile from  March 27, 2009: Harvest
A mere v days afterward returning domicile from  March 27, 2009: HarvestJack had the coveted Harvest Meditteranean Augbergine Tower ($21). In add-on to the obvious eggplant, this was layered with goats cheese, roasted cerise capsicum, sweetness potato, English linguistic communication spinach, tomato, basil as well as a plum as well as tomato plant glaze. Michael enviously declared this his favourite principal of the night.

A mere v days afterward returning domicile from  March 27, 2009: HarvestI had a become at the savoury mushroom pancake stack with an English linguistic communication spinach sauce ($21.50). In stark contrast to the other mains, the sauce was sparing - some would in all likelihood notice this dish besides dry out but I was quite content. The sauteed mushrooms as well as potatoes had the most incredible deep flavour, as well as the pancakes were theatre as well as crusty similar fritters.

A mere v days afterward returning domicile from  March 27, 2009: HarvestThat wily waiter of ours slipped dessert menus nether our noses earlier we'd fifty-fifty decided if nosotros could check it in. Once we'd seen the 8 options (only ane vegan!), of course, nosotros couldn't assistance but negotiate 2 or iii to part alongside us. There was a flake of a misunderstanding that meant they didn't arrive at an apple, berry as well as nut crumble for Emma, but she as well as Jackson had plenty on their plate with these 2 seemingly trifling truffles ($10.90). You tin in all likelihood say how creamy as well as rich they are but that's non the whole story. That dark chocolate ane upwards the back? It was some variety of dark hole of cocoa, sucking whatever other season into its trial horizon. Even the fairly violent cerise vino nosotros were drinking was completely defeated past times it! I don't retrieve those 2 fifty-fifty managed to destination the plate.

A mere v days afterward returning domicile from  March 27, 2009: HarvestMichael was generous plenty to allow me pick out for the both of us - the iii chocolate terrine with a citrus sauce ($10.90). The texture is amazingly smoothen as well as buttery; similar a mousse but denser, similar a ganache but firmer, similar ice-cream but less cold. I forced it downwardly as best I could.

Our dark at Harvest was a existent process all round. The atmosphere was serenity but comfortable, the service warm as well as capable, as well as the nutrient strayed alone occasionally from existence excellent. I may last biased past times the detail dishes nosotros chose, but the Harvest chef(s) seemed specially skilful at whipping upwards delectable as well as sometimes surprising sauces. Their cream content powerfulness last the alone thing belongings me dorsum from regular visits, if I lived inward the neighbourhood. (Because inward the bizarre parallel universe where I alive inward that neighbourhood, I retrieve naught of eating $20 mains regularly.)

Address: 71 Evans St, Rozelle, Sydney NSW
Ph: (02) 9818 4201
Licensed, BYO vino only
Price: entrees $9.50-$13.95, mains $19-$22.50, desserts $10.90