Cocoa Nut Coconut Cake

06:24 PM, April 9, 2014 |
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Got to love a pun.

Got to love cake. And together? Gold.

Let’s not bury the lede on this. This is a quick as a flash, blitz it together, whizz of a dessert, particularly if you have some swift pieces of kitchen kit at your disposal (food processor/ stand mixer/ thermomix, what have you). What else? There’s no dairy. There’s no flour. It’s even got room for that steeping-the- zeitgeist ingredient of the moment; coconut oil (though it wouldn’t suffer too much if you opted for olive or sunflower). Its flavour lives somewhere between a bounty bar and a nut studded brownie. It’s texture is like a line from a Robert Frost …

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Roast Miso Pumpkin with Carrots, Onion, White Bean and Kale and Carrot Top Pesto

03:15 PM, April 3, 2014 |
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A meal in two chapters.

MONDAY: At least dinner was pretty. It was pleasing to look down at and it was politically correct.  There was no meat on the plate. Beyond that- it was thrifty- the tops of the heirloom purple organic carrots were re purposed in the pesto.  The seeds were pepitas- the very same seeds I wrenched from the gloopy cavern in the centre of the pumpkin. The orange orb was grown organically, locally- in my mother’s kitchen garden no less. And we even ate the skin (roughage, I guess). And there was kale on the plate (of course there was kale).

But everything else? Everything else was a little …

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Porchetta, Fennel and Applecrack Toastie at Sly Surry Hills – Is This Sydney’s Best Sandwich?

04:48 PM, March 25, 2014 |
Porchetta, Fennel and Applecrack Toastie at Sly Surry Hills – Is This Sydney’s Best Sandwich?

Stop what you’re doing. Put down your salad. Step away from your bowl of quinoa and kale. Make your way with haste to 212 Devonshire Street Surry Hills. There’s a new kid on the block in Sydney, and it’s cheekily serving one of the city’s best sandwiches.

It would be easy to get distracted at Sly; by the gleam of the custom made cut glass decanter lamp shades and jars of house made preserves up on the shelves. Then there’s the exposed brick walls (if only they could talk) laguiole cutlery and nostalgic easy listening (in a good way) soundtrack.

You could lose yourself in conversation with chef/owner Dean Wilkinson (ex Bathers …

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