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Sydney is changing the Table

May 18th 2013 08:03
Howdy peeps.

Just wanted to let you all know that everything that has been Sydney Table has and is moving over to its new stand alone website - SPOONINGAUSTRALIA.COM.

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It is time that I got the layouts the site needed and to strike it out in the big bad world on its own. Besides, Orble is facing some sort of destruction and abandonment and does not offer as much as others - I have the freedom to design my own sites. SALTYPOPCORN started its move off Orble a month ago and it has been working well - you should suss out and subscribe to both sites if you like all things food and all things film.

I currently own the majority of the content of SydneyTable.com and Amy owns the rest - you will be happy to know that Amy will be writing on Spooning Australia and I will be slowly transferring all 350 articles over one at a time.




It has been a pleasure writing for you and reading all that you have offered on the Orble network and wish you all the best. But this is not goodbye - this is the start of something big, for tomorrow is a new meal for a bigger and badder audience.

Please stay in touch and have a suss of the new site and subscribe to keep updated. Salty Popcorn now has 10 writers and Spooning Australia has myself full time and Amy writing casually plus a new foodie soon to join the ranks in Melbourne to get the Melbourne restaurants looked into more.

May all your spoons be filled with much pleasurable nomonmnomnoms.

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Jamie Oliver's One Tray Bake Chicken Recipe with some Tweeks

February 8th 2013 03:21
You gotta love Jamie Oliver - I mean the guy is a food revolutionary - he is also an Energizer Bunny who goes on and on and on and keeps himself fresh - he is like the Madonna of the culinary world with no bullshit pretentiousness. It appears we get what we see and nothing more or less.

And so we came to this recipe out of necessity for something quick. Good friend Brookie was having a few of us to her house for a dinner party after work on a Friday. Brookie would organise the main and the dessert, the rest of us would bring the nibbles (in place of an entree) and also bring alcohol. So as none of us would get to Brookie's until about 630ish on a Friday night then whipping up a roast was out of the question.

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Brookie used to be my flatmate years ago and there was one thing I worked out about this lady - she is anally organised - she has to be for a PA but it came about the other way. She is so goddamned organised that she became a PA - the lady lives a life of post-it-notes and schedules organising months in advance. And so it was with this meal. I was sent a bunch of options and had to choose the one to cook - this one looked the nicest but Brookie does not eat olives. We agreed she would pick the olives out although magically they never turned up with the groceries - must have been Colesworths fault!

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And funnily enough I was going to get to Brookie's house before her so somehow I got to cook this simple and amazing and divinely tasty dish!! But like Brookie said "how awesome was the salad" - guess who made that then?

Jamie Oliver, One Tray Bake, Quick Chicken Meal


YOU WILL NEED:
* Small ciabatta loaf
* 8 chicken thighs
* 1X punnet of cherry tomatoes
* a whole bunch of basil with all the leaves picked
* an entire garlic, cloved and skinned
* a handful of black olives (if you remember them at the shops)
* olive oil
* 1X red chilli
* 8 slices of pancetta or thin sliced smoked streaky bacon
* 1X deep roasting pan

Jamie Oliver, One Tray Bake, Quick Chicken Meal


YOU WILL NEED TO:
1) Get one of your guests to cook the entire meal, oh wait................
1) Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C
2) Get a deep roasting tray big enough to fit all the chicken in one layer
3) Rip the ciabatti into medium bite-sized chunks
4) Place the bread in the roasting dish with the chicken, tomatoes, basil, garlic cloves, chilli and (hopefully) olives
5) Add a drizzle of olive oil - AND PLEASE NOTE - JUST A NORMAL DRIZZLE - IT MAY BE A JAMIE RECIPE BUT YOU WILL SURVIVE WITHOUT POURING AN OCEAN OF OLIVE OIL OVER EVERYTHING
6) Add some freshly cracked salt and pepper
7) Get your hands in there and mix the whole lot up and all over and end by placing the chicken on top
8) Bake in the oven for about 35mins
9) After 35mins turn the chicken and drape the pancetta/ bacon over the top of the meal
10) Return to the oven for about 15mins
11) Serve that delish food with a lovely white wine and a simple green salad
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Bizarre Eateries of the World: THE WORLD'S FIRST BARBIE RESTAURANT OPENS

February 7th 2013 03:34
Home to the first Hello Kitty-themed café, Hello Kitty-themed airplanes and now -- taking cute perhaps one step too far -- the world's first Barbie-themed restaurant has opened in Taiwan.

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Licensed by U.S. toymaker Mattel, Taiwan restaurant company, Sinlaku, in January opened the Barbie Café on Zhongxiao road, one of the busiest shopping districts in the capital, Taipei.

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The cafe's decoration, costing TW$50 million (US$1.7 million), is mostly in suitably Barbie-style magenta and pink. I am holding down a wee rainbow vomit at the moment

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The furniture couldn't be more princess-y - bar tables look like the heel of a stiletto, chair backs resemble bustiers (some with a tutu) and chandeliers are shaped like elegant teapots and teacups with saucers. Barbie dolls and logos adorn walls and tabletops.

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The restaurant also has a gigantic Barbie box allowing customers to step in and feel like a packaged up, life-size Barbie. (Now we're talking - I am in!)

Waitresses wear tutus and tiaras while their male counterparts try, mostly in vain, to look like Ken, Barbie's on-off squeeze.

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Barbie's abnormally, and anatomically-challenging, slim figure may diminish some appetites. With that in mind, the restaurant menu has been designed by professional nutritionists, local media reported (Chinese). There's a calorie chart on the first page of the menu, with calorie data listed alongside each item.

The menu itself is a hodgepodge of offerings, including Chicken toast box, Hazelnut tiramisu, Macaroons in martini glasses, Philadelphia steak salad, Salmon beauty salad and Barbie 128 (a pink drink named after the café's address).

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I suppose if they were making squillions from their Hello Kitty restaurants this was definitely going to be a next step and I can totally see young girl birthday parties happening here although the bar seems to indicate it's an adult's restaurant. Information courtesy of CNN. Photos off the interwebby thing - if you want to be credited or have them removed please get in touch.
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Healthy Quinoa Lunches and the JK Diet Plan

January 26th 2013 23:01
A few months back I had the unfortunate opportunity to see a photo of me at the beach with some friend's kids and I was astounded - I was starting to resemble a walking talking M&M man more suited to being a stay indoors person than someone parading on the beach. I mean seriously - the kids were trying to roll me back into the water.

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ROJO ROCKET: A Review of the Best Mexican I have eaten

January 20th 2013 23:41
I have grown up and lived in Sydney most of my life. Ever since I was a kid my life has somehow been surrounded by food and abundant restaurants and Mexican has always been a favourite ever since me and the school mates would get shitfaced and pig out on tacos and enchiladas at the local Tex Mex in Mona Vale before dancing away to 80s beats at the local Rock Lily. But most Mexican restaurants are similar - a commercialisation of what American fast food restaurants imagine a Mexican restaurant should be. So low and behold how the hell is it I find the best Mexican restaurant I could have hoped for on the Central Coast of NSW at Avoca?

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A Chocolate and Salted Caramel Brownie described as the Crack Cocaine of the PMS World

December 11th 2012 03:09
I used to make brownies commercially, and they were incredibly gourmet, they were all made with 70% Belgian Chocolate and I made liqueur versions and they sold for a pretty penny. And none of them can beat this brownie for sheer awesomeness. It comes from one of my all time favorite cook books and requires a bit of an effort but what you put into making this you receive back ten fold in a taste sensation that is guaranteed to make you fatter.

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Sydney Table Thai Fish Cakes are nom nom nom

November 21st 2012 08:10
I finally had a chance to spend some money on a big three course dinner party at my newly occupied Tower of Terrigal and was stoked when Bec and her beau Daniel came to visit. It is nice finding a friend living close by who has a similar snobbery in food taste. We reacquainted at the most amazing Masterchef kitchen earlier in the year and spent the whole night indulging in expensive wines and divine food.

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Cafe Opera - InterContinental Hotel, Sydney

November 6th 2012 01:11

From the Overture to the grand finale, Cafe Opera delivered a memorable performance.

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Roast Leg of Lamb making love to Sage and Proscuitto

November 1st 2012 08:42
The parental units finally came to stay at the quaint Tower of Terrigal and as I now have a deep freeze and a penchant for bulk wholesale meat I have so many options to cook now without having to purchase from Colesworth - so this time I wanted to impress and as the kitchen opens into the loungeroom I could take my time cooking and make it delish.

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Indian Styled Mango Chutney

November 1st 2012 07:53
It's that time of the year again when mangoes are on sale and there is the extra joy of boxes on special from roadside sellers - picked up two dozen the other day for $20- WOOT. I just love this time of the year - not only can I gorge on mangoes but I can start making my Christmas presents for everyone - this year people will be getting a mix of this delish Mango Chutney and jars of my Rhubarb and Raspberry Jam.

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