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Birthdays.  Good excuses for getting together with family and friends to celebrate, and what better way of celebrating than with food!  My birthday, which was earlier this week, is stretching out into a week long celebration.  Fitting I suppose as I am entering a new decade (and no, I am not telling you which decade [...]

Theme:  Noodles Cookbook: Simply Asian by Neil Perry Recipe: Beef, Black Beans and Rice Noodles with Oyster Sauce Like many of my generation who were exposed to poor quality Chinese takeaway in our youth, I abstained for quite some time from eating or cooking Chinese meals.  This was not totally the fault of those who [...]

One night, in the only somewhat distant past, The Beloved and I went to an art exhibition’s opening night.  The paintings and sculptures were a dynamic and diverse sampling of Melbourne’s women artists (including The Beloved’s mum).  The food at the exhibition, in stark contrast to the fine quality of the art, left rather a [...]