The Cookbook Challenge: Week 1 Recipe – Lemon white chocolate mud cake with coconut white chocolate ganache
on Nov 22, 2009 in Cookbook challenge Baking - Icing | Frosting Baking - Cakes recipes Theme: CitrusCookbook: The Australian Women’s Weekly BakeWeek 1 of the Cookbook Challenge is almost at an end and hopefully all participants got their recipes completed! It is still not too late for new people to join. You can find more details her...

And the winner of the Jamie Oliver flavour shaker is...
on Nov 19, 2009 in Giveaways Thanks to everyone for your lovely comments on my 100th post and to everyone who entered my Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker giveaway!I have done the traditional method (I can see you rolling your eyes Kat!!) and wrote the names down on pieces of paper an...

Helpful baking hints & tips for beginners
on Nov 18, 2009 in Baking - Tips As I have mentioned in previous posts, I hardly baked anything prior to starting this blog. Since then, 6 months on, I have learnt a whole lot more about baking and thought I would share those tips with other beginner bakers.Clockwise from top left:...

Church St Enoteca ‘Tour of the Obscure’ dinner
on Nov 16, 2009 in Foodie Events Church St Enoteca527 Church St, Richmond VIC(03) 9428 7898Hubby and I have been meaning to go to Church St Enoteca for some time but never got around to it. I follow Church St Enoteca's Executive Chef Ron O’Bryan on Twitter and from his tweets, it...

The Cookbook Challenge starts next week 16/11/09
on Nov 13, 2009 in Cookbook challenge Many thanks to Iron Chef Shellie for designing the logo!Thanks to everyone who responded to my Cookbook Challenge post. In collaboration with Kat from spatulaspoonandsaturday, Iron Chef Shellie and Agnes from offthespork we have decided to formalise...

My Food Trail’s 100th blog post & a giveaway
on Nov 11, 2009 in Giveaways This post marks my 100th blog post! Wow, what a journey it has been! I really never thought I would last this long (my ideas are normally short lived) but over the last 6 months, I have discovered a love of baking, been to a few foodie events, met a...

Review: Treasure Restaurant, Forest Hill
on Nov 10, 2009 in RR: Cuisine - Chinese RR: Location - Forest Hill Restaurant Reviews Yum Cha BYO Place Treasure Restaurant482 Springvale Road, Forest Hill VIC(03) 9803 2388Cuisine: ChineseBYO: YesPrices (yum cha): $4 standard, $5 super, $6 deluxe, tea $1.20 per personParking: Free on-site parkingThanks to Iron Chef Shellie’s comment on my Imperial K...

The Cookbook Challenge – at least one new cookbook recipe a week
on Nov 8, 2009 in Cookbook challenge I made a resolution a few months ago that I would not purchase any more cookbooks until I used my existing ones more. I don’t have that many cookbooks as I just started getting interested in cooking recently but they are all sitting in my bookshelf...

Recipe: POM Wonderful juice cupcakes with POM Wonderful pink buttercream
on Nov 6, 2009 in Baking - Muffins | Cupcakes | Mini-cakes Baking - Icing | Frosting recipes Thanks to Lindsay from POM I got delivery of a box of POM Wonderful juice which is 100% authentic pomegranate juice made from the Wonderful variety of pomegranates. I had seen these curvy bottles at Woolworths in the fruit and vegetables section, but...

Review: Esposito, Carlton
on Nov 5, 2009 in RR: Cuisine - Italian RR: Location - Carlton Restaurant Reviews BYO Place Esposito162 Elgin Street, Carlton VIC 3053(03) 9347 9838Cuisine: Italian / SeafoodBYO: Yes, $10 a bottlePrices: Entrées $19-$26, mains $35-$42, desserts $16-$21Parking: Street parking, nearby paid car parksOutside EspositoIt had been quite a while s...