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My big fat feasting long weekend part 1
Yeah I know it’s been a week since I last gave you a bang up insight into the world of my kitchen, but it was new menu time at the restaurant and, as any head chef* will tell you, new menu time does not offer us much personal space, family time or blog-land time. When…
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One Ingredient – Sweet and Savoury… The Choko
Extra language of the salty old sea dog alert. So I got my theme ingredient for the sweet and savoury challenge from my sister in law Liz. She is clearly trying to prove that in-laws are the nasty evil new-family-member-hating peeps they are made out to be. CHOKOS. I hate fucking chokos. I don’t mean…
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Paul’s Caul – Fennel in all its glory… & ‘the Lido’ crew
We seem to be doing more requests of late and that means someone must actually be reading this, so kudos to us! Today’s request is from another blogger named “pantryobsession” and we like her for several reasons, her name is cool and she likes us… both brilliant reason’s. The request is in the same format…
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Mussaman curry spiced lamb by Gareth the work experience kid
While I am in the mood for doing odes and paying homages, this one is for Gareth, the work experience kid we had in the kitchen last week. Gareth is also my nephew. I think he thought he may have got off quite lightly working with his ol’ Uncle Graz, but we worked that little…
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My Rum Diaries, A Birthday Feast, Lemonade for Breakfast, and Other Ramblings…
This is just a little FYI, a heads up, a snippet of information about me, and my Achilles Heal of the world of alcoholic beverages. If we by some random twist of fate ever meet and say, go out for a bit of a drink and a laugh, please do not buy me rum. Rum…
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One Ingredient – Sweet and Savoury… Quinoa
One ingredient, two dishes, one sweet and one savoury. My ingredient? Quinoa. Yep, quinoa. I can picture Pauly now, sitting there in his spa bath after drinking three too many ciders, a trained monkey offering him a Cuban cigar as he types this damning word on his Hunter S. Thompson-esque typewriter… Q U I N…
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One Ingredient – Sweet and Savoury… Paul’s Caul
“Pretty lame, unimaginative title, I know, but we’ll come up with something better soon. I could almost guarantee it…” G One ingredient… two dishes… one sweet… one savoury… two chef’s… one gerbil… a Spanish man named Kevin… hang on I went slightly of track for a second. Someone out there and you know who you…
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An Ode to Sunday Afternoons
Sometimes I “write stuff down in my notebook” aka type it into my iPhone’s notes. And sometimes future Graz remembers to check those notes and use them to make himself seem funnier than he may be, or just for a bit of backup when the funniessness isn’t flowing like a young mans wet dream. I…
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Dim Sum magic varified by Paul’s Caul
Asian people are magical I don’t want to alarm the general public or cause young children to run and hide when they come across Asian’s in the street… quite the opposite in fact. The magic I speak of should be marveled, embraced and placed on a small pedestal. Perhaps a pedestal crafted from gold or…
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Bayger Burgers, Byron Bay
Bayger burger joint, Byron Bay Yep. You see what they did there with the name? Very sneaky. Like little white trash kids sneaking into the big top circus when it rolls through town… Very sneaky indeed. Bayger is another addition to the ever-growing family of new wave eateries modern society calls “the burger bar”. Local…