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What was that about doing what you love and being paid for it?

Here we are talking about food, cooking food and making tv shows about food.  And along comes a cool person whose name I shall not disclose (!)  and says..would you be interested in trying some ultra premium, gourmet, Swiss chocolate - cos I thought I could send you some?

WOULD I?!  Send the truck on over baby!

And...how I love a good cause...ask anyone I know!  For the foodie in me - this stuff is organic.  And for the human rights crusader in me.. wow, this stuff supports fair trade for those poor cocoa farmers.  What else could a girl want?  (Hmm...I'm a bit feminist too..so how about it guys? hehe..)

Wow, it's been almost three days since Sunday lunch and you're just now getting the pictures! Never mind *grin*

Now, it's not often that your average Malaysian fronts up to a Malaysian haunt and finds ..not one, not two..but three menu items that she's never heard of before. Well, of course you'd know a noodle dish or a rice dish. But I haven't seen these specific offerings elsewhere: [img_assist|fid=459|thumb=0|alt=Sunday specials|width=400|height=300]

It turns out that this place is run by a Penang lady and her Malacca-born husband - in later years a Singaporean, fyi. Victor & Mrs Saw. Unusual surname but apparently another incarnation of Soo or Soh. Ahh.

Further to the allergen topic I raised on Tuesday, here's a good introduction to the topic (click on the attachment links below).  Not much help without notes of course, but I'll get to that in a bit (The Allergen Resource Bureau can apparently provide notes to go with the first presentation)... Check it out!

I'd also suggest (to those who are interested) to get a guest login at www.allergenbureau.net  - there's some more resources under the "What's new" and "resources" pages.  For instance, an allergen fact sheet by the Institute of Food Science and Technology, and notes from a lecture series by an immunologist from New York. 

Let me know if you want this stuff but find it hard to get through to the site...  I don't want to post everything up here as it's obviously not fair to the allergen bureau! 

Cheers

Susan

 

Spoke with my London sis last night... and she informs me that the whole gang is watching foodie.tv from there. So I thought she might like to watch crash test tv, seeing as it's now officially local entertainment hehe.. "check it out":http://www.crashtestkitchen.com/?p=36

Yesterday..Ohhh...yesterday!  Well, it was my mom's 60th birthday party which we turned into an all day shopping jaunt, starting with hot Chinese style breakfast at Glen Waverley, and flowing into a 4 hour tour of Springvale's many delights, followed by a further 2-3 hours at Cheltenham DFO (direct factory outlet - fashion, gifts etc) then the big birthday dinner at a Chinese restaurant.   Not a bad way to spend a birthday really :-)

Foodie highlights - hmm...

1. Has anyone had Taiwanese savoury pancakes?  That's a new one for my gastronomic dictionary.  Worth trying if you meet it although not something to go hunting for. 
2. Also had a good version of crunchy pig's ear.   (That's right.. and hands up who likes pig's ear!!  Check out Dumpling King's version too!)
3. Jackfruit smoothie (can of ripe jackfruit, ice, water...blend until smooth, enjoy!  Use as sorbet stand-in between courses, or dessert, or party drink, or snack on the run, or just because.  Yum!)
4. Dinner at East Empress in Ringwood (Eastland Shopping Centre)

Foodie lowlights - hmm..

I thought I'd share the challah recipe I was doing on Saturday...As most of you will know, it's the braided sweet loaf of Jewish origin.  The nice thing here is that either it's a ridiculously easy bread to make anyway, or that Charmaine Solomon has managed yet again to find the easiest way to make any given thing (As me about her beef rendang recipe!)

For the interested, her recipe comes from "The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002Z0HRO/qid=1130727885/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-0580310-8167111?v=glance&s=books and goes roughly as follows: 

Meaning, this blog entry has come about due to the Omnivoribus which is itself a monthly compilation of the top foodie blog posts as submitted by fans of thefoodpalate.com :-) Sheesh. Must find originality. *grin* Went on an exploring trip yesterday following the "Omnivoribus":http://www.thefoodpalate.com/2005/10/blog-in-dont-wait.html links and found lots of amazing stuff. Which leads to the real thing I wanted to say - Euge and I had an exciting session creating a new vision for foodie.tv... this is huge and I can't wait to unveil it :-) *happy sigh*

I think I'm onto a theme here. No no's.

Last night I decided we really needed to go use some Hoyt's vouchers that my clever hubby won for filling out some feedback/survey thingy.

(We watched Wallace & Gromit) (Did I spell that right?) (Hmm..they've polluted claymation with digital effects. grrr.)

Then I decided we needed to eat out for dinner as moi was starving. Lucky we had our trusty Entertainment Book with us! Decided to try Thai Garden on High St road just up from Glen Waverley Shopping Centre.

Hmm..can I tell you all that I think it's a bad idea to show the waitress your book and discount voucher at the start? We ordered two dishes: a seafood curry stir fry thingy (Chiu Chee seafood I think) and a green curry chicken.

Hello again everybody! Thought I'd log in briefly to tell you about my brave move last night (although it was preceeded, or in fact, necessitated by) a not-too-smart move. What on earth am I babbling on about?.. at least, I think I hear some of you *thinking* that hehe..

Well, I was staying in Moama last night because of work. Some of you may know that I audit food factories, among other things, and yesterday and today I was due to visit the factories located in Echuca and Tongala. Anyway. come dinner time on such a beautiful spring evening, I felt that the oysters on the motel menu looked too attractive to pass by. A small voice whispered (but was ignored) that it might not be a good idea to order oysters this far from the sea - but then, they were offering them!! So perhaps they knew what they were doing??

Those of you who followed the chocolate cake experiment (in reality, a sequel to the orange cake experiment) will know that the chocolate was well finished...but the most astute of you may have noted that a 3/4 block of Copha continues its lonely existence in a kitchen somewhere in Glen Waverley.. What happened to it?  Did it meet a noble end? 

This is the story of that block of Copha.. (3/4).

Ok, let's put in some background first!  Some of you may remember Sharini from that amazing weetbix video.  Anyway, she mentioned that she makes a good date scone off the recipe on the back of the self raising flour packet (don't ask me which brand hehe..) ..so I bought some flour when we went shopping.