There’s something in me, as a food blogger, that means that I can’t often go to twice to a place to eat. I guess I’m on the hunt and searching for the next blog post and next experience. However, when my sister was in Sydney from London recently I knew that she just needed to try the breakfast here at Wharfys and since it is near where I live, she could combine it with a visit.
She’s not a great fan of eggs however, having a morbid fear of raw eggs (I don’t like raw eggs either, the omnipresent dish Eggs Coccotte nauseates me) so I had to convince her that their poached eggs would indeed be cooked enough for her. Just to be safe I ordered the Eggs Benedict ($14.50) , she ordered the Fish and Chips $13.90 (well we were right next to the wharf), Rose ordered the Nasi Goreng ($11.90) and Ronald ordered the French Toast ($10.90). While Blythe sips her latte we amuse ourselves with the stash of trashy but fairly current magazines (always a bonus).
Nasi Goreng ($11.90)
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January 23, 2008
by Not Quite Nigella
One thing that helps lull you back into the rat-race after the bliss of Christmas holidays are the January Domain concerts. Its been a while since I went to one but it used to be a regular yearly thing to see either the Symphony, Opera or more recent addition Jazz, for free and flinging your picnic blanket onto the lush green grass of the lawn. Its always a battle to get there and back as driving is not really a great idea and it inevitably rains but that, I keep saying to friends and family, is all part of the charm. And perhaps they’ll believe me one day…
I have many memories of eating pâté with water crackers, not the fantastic kind you get from DJs but the tinned kind, but when you’re young, do you really know the difference? Now that I am “grown up” I am a big fan of trout or salmon pâté and will any excuse to make this rather than buy the version from the supermarket, no matter how excellent it might be. For this recipe I used smoked salmon as that was just what I happened to have in the fridge which I lightly steamed to get the same texture as smoked trout.
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January 22, 2008
by Not Quite Nigella
Its been a long time between visits to Le Petit Crème. Since moving across the bridge I’ve had to say goodbye to some of my favourite haunts and Le Petit Crème is a place that I do miss. So when my friend Carbon Debit and I decide to have breakfast, on a bleary eyed Saturday morning before she sets off for a long drive, I figure that sustenance, in the form of delicious eggs, is in order. We meet at 9am and since its too early for most Darlinghurst-ites to have rolled out of bed, we have our choice of tables and nab ourselves an outside table.
There’s no menu to be had at the tables, only one large chalkboard menu in the front of the cafe. Amazingly, it looks like nothing has changed in the years between visits. I have a hankering for one of their fabulous omelettes, unmatched whenever and wherever I’ve travelled. They’re offering us their weekend special Eggs Benedict, two eggs on toasted brioche with a choice of either ham or smoked salmon with hollandaise and a touch of parika. Carbon Debit orders the Eggs Benedict $14 and I order the cheese and ham and mushroom omelette (served with greens and baguette) $14. There is a choice of other fillings that can be added to it but I am going with tradition. I also order a bowl of cafè au lait $4.50-yes that’s right, they have bowls of it and we’re not talking tiny dainty little bowls, we’re talking heaping great-serve-soup-in-bowls.
Bowl of Cafè au lait $4.50
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January 21, 2008
by Not Quite Nigella
When I was teaching in Japan, whenever I went back home to Sydney, I’d ask my Australian colleagues what I could bring back for them. Forget Vegemite and Tim Tams, the most requests were for Cherry Ripes.
I bought these cupcake liners from an ebay seller and it only seemed fitting to make cherry ripe cupcakes (quite frankly it would seem strange making a non cherry themed cupcake in them!). I adapted these from the Womens Weekly Cupcakes book recipe called Coconut Cherry Hearts. I prefer the name Cherry Ripe Cupcakes as you’ll know exactly how these will taste just from hearing the name-like a Cherry Ripe!
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January 20, 2008
by Not Quite Nigella
Along with Haymarket’s weirdly named Thai eateries e.g. Crocodile Senior Thai, comes another oddly monikered place, Baby Pork Thai. In a little arcade off Sussex Street, its modern looking, with large communal stainless steel and wooden tables and benches and offers your standard fare of Thai dishes along with two little goodies that caught my eye. Feeling peckish but not hungry enough for a whole meal we popped in and in true food blogger fashion, not even a snack can go unrecorded and unphotographed.
I ordered one of each, one would have probably satisfied me but who am I to pass up new food? I ordered 1 grilled marinated Baby pork $1.60 (buy 4 get one free) and 1 Loong Chin Ping -deep fried chicken ball served with homemade chili sauce $1.80. The sign says made to order and we indeed sat there for a good 5-10 minutes waiting for it.
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January 19, 2008
by Not Quite Nigella
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