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April 15, 2008

pink rock salt

Rev. Dr. Wu Yi knows well that in my cooking, pepper and salt are the two main ingredients. And everything tastes a lot better once it is served on square plates. I recently acquired some pink rock salt. So... (read this entry)

Posted by Antony on 15 Apr 2008 5:59 PM | read this entry

April 11, 2008

Cadbury owns purple colour? Court says not.

Today's interesting news. A delightful news for Australia's local chocolate maker Darrell Lea. The Federal Court in Melbourne has dismissed an attempt by Cadbury Schweppes to try to stop Darrell Lea using the colour purple. The purple colour in... (read this entry)

Posted by Antony on 11 Apr 2008 9:16 PM | read this entry

February 15, 2008

my Valentine's meal

Yesterday was Valentine's Day, instead of celebration, I was helping Laurent with his La Péniche Restaurant. It was quite busy. I took a photo of five major courses from his 8-course Valentine's meal: Those are Velouté of Japanese Mushrooms &... (read this entry)

Posted by Antony on 15 Feb 2008 10:44 AM | read this entry

December 15, 2007

my first decorated cake

For the last 8 weeks, I've been taking the cake decorating class in Laurent's Cooking School. Finally, there's the result: It was not that fantastic actually, but it was my first cake that I decorated it myself. The cake itself... (read this entry)

Posted by Antony on 15 Dec 2007 5:49 PM | read this entry

September 21, 2007

going nuts with cashew nuts

In general, I don't like nuts. I don't like walnuts, hazelnuts, peanuts... etc, but roasted cashew nuts are always my favourite. When the cashew nuts price is $9.98 a kg in local Woolworths supermarket, how could I resist myself... (read this entry)

Posted by Antony on 21 Sep 2007 5:31 PM | read this entry

August 3, 2007

All food taste nice once you put them on square plates

Monday was my third week of Italian cooking in Laurent's Cooking School. I made three dishes on Monday. I made Chicken Risotto, Cauliflower with Italian Cheesy Sauce and Amaretti Peaches & Apricots Crumble. Of all those three, I like... (read this entry)

Posted by Antony on 03 Aug 2007 9:02 AM | read this entry

July 27, 2007

Ratatouille (Rat-a-too-ee)

Walt Disney and Pixar have a new animation - Ratatouille (Rat-a-too-ee), about the story of Rémy, a rat living in Paris who wants to be a chef. Ratatouille is coming to cinemas in Australia on 30th August. (Released in... (read this entry)

Posted by Antony on 27 Jul 2007 7:59 PM | read this entry

July 25, 2007

Veal Parmigiana and Trivelle Pasta with Spinach

Desperate Housewives season 3 ended Monday last week, and I started taking Italian Cooking class in Laurent's Paris International Cooking School. I made three dishes on Monday. Since I don't eat spicy food, I made the Spicy Seafood's Soup... (read this entry)

Posted by Antony on 25 Jul 2007 6:35 PM | read this entry

May 3, 2007

Aeroccino is back

Some of you know that I am a big coffee drinker, and I love Nestlé's Nespresso machine, especially the Aeroccino - the milk frothing machine. (Previous blog entry on Aeroccino and milk.) Two days ago, I noticed my Aeroccino stopped... (read this entry)

Posted by Antony on 03 May 2007 12:43 PM | read this entry

January 20, 2007

coffee and milk

Well, believe or not, I have three different brands of milk in my fridge, all for myself. Not three different types (as in full, lite or skim), but three different brands (Pura, Dairy Framers, and Woolworths brand one.) Why do... (read this entry)

Posted by Antony on 20 Jan 2007 5:56 PM | read this entry