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Not Quite Nigella
www.notquitenigella.com
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The slightly eccentric eating and cooking adventures of a Sydney girl who loves cakes, cooking, Nigella Lawson and eating. She eats, breathes and dreams food and indeed will never get cable TV as she'd quit working and watch the Food Channel all day long.
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Win 1 of 5 La Zuppa & Peugeot Mill Sets!

With the weather getting steadily chillier, I tend to crave soups and other warming items. And if you want something quick for lunch that is also low in fat (because you know winter is the best time ...

14 h ago

Cinnamon Sugar Coated Nuts

When I told people that we were moving from the north side to the east side of Sydney, to the same suburb in which my parents live, friends gave me a look of alarm. Some even asked if I had seen R...

1 day ago

The Wines and Spirits of Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand

Hawke’s Bay is the last leg of the New Zealand adventure and we leave Breckenridge Lodge early in the morning. We figure that the early hour means that breakfast is not an option but chef and o...

2 days ago

Pho – Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup & Luke Nguyen’s Tips For Making The Best Pho

Have you ever been intimidated by certain words? As the borders between countries shrinks and the world gets closer and closer, there are “foreign” words that have now become part of the ...

3 days ago 1 person likes this

PaperPlanes, Bondi

“Please don’t let that be our table…please don’t let that be our table…please don’t let that be our table…” I say to myself quietly willing the woman l...

4 days ago

Puppy Dog Cake!

I have a compulsion. It’s not one that Mr NQN encourages but it is so strong that I am unable to resist… It’s the compulsion to always bringing a cake to a party. I need to join cak...

5 days ago

The Falconer, Surry Hills

I’ve never really had a local place that I revisit. The reason probably is because of what I do and the fact that I’m always trying to find new places. But the idea of having a local soun...

6 days ago

Win Two Tickets to the Variety Of Chefs Dinner Worth $500!

Whilst food can be nourishing for the body, what can be good for the soul is giving to a charity. And when you can combine the two, well that is even better! Variety is a wonderful children’s c...

18 may 12

Road Trip: Robe to Goolwa & The Australasian Circa 1858, South Australia

Do you know how you can lure certain creatures with food? Well I can easily be lured in a similar fashion by a crayfish roll. We had just left Coonawarra and Penola on our South Australian road trip ...

17 may 12

Hot Crab & Artichoke Dip

I’m a huge fan of daylight savings time and the extra hours are like an extra layer of icing on the day. I love the extra light, not just for photography but also because I am not fond of the d...

16 may 12 1 person likes this

Glasshouse Cakes & Supplies, Revesby

Although I consider myself a complete cake enthusiast, what I know about cake decorating is vast. Scratch that, what I don’t know could probably fit into or be found at Glasshouse Cakes and Sup...

15 may 12 1 person likes this

Norwegian Lefse – Potato Pancakes With Butter & Cinnamon Sugar

I had a very strange, semi psychotic friend in High School. She used to claim several things: that she was distantly royal to either the Danish or Norwegian royal family as well as to a very popular ...

14 may 12 1 person likes this

Misky Cravings, Fairfield

“I think it’s time for another adventure” I said to Miss America and Queen Viv. It was only a couple of weeks ago that the lovely Maeve O’Meara suggested that we visit Misky C...

13 may 12 1 person likes this

Sushi Tengoku, Kensington

So there I was, sitting down at a table with a plate full of food in one hand, a table full of food in front of me and I looked up in alarm and saw that the waitress was coming towards us with a bowl...

12 may 12

Win 1 of 5 Madame Flavour Tea Packs!

I don’t know many things for certain but I do know this. Having a cup of tea makes everything better. And sometimes the mood you are in, or indeed the mood you want to be in, can depend on the ...

11 may 12

Healthy Vegetarian San Choy Bau (Filled Lettuce Cups)

Dearest Reader, I confess that I mistakenly, unintentionally married into a good looking family and I cannot tell you how annoying that can be. They’re tall and athletic, the boys chiselled and...

10 may 12 1 person likes this

Hello Hong Kong!

So where is the most unusual place that you’ve had high tea? 30,000 feet up int the air perhaps? I should really explain myself (and no we weren’t perched high on a mountain Everest when ...

09 may 12

Made From Scratch: Flour Tortillas!

“Interesting” is a great word. It can be used to convey subtle disapproval yet it can be taken to mean of great interest rather that “Oh my, what a freakshow, now that is interestin...

08 may 12 2 people like this

Xanthi, Sydney CBD

It’s all Greek.I mean it, specifically it’s all Greek here at restaurant Xanthi (Greek for Blonde). From the imported lights, the cutlery style called Athena, even the bill comes from a B...

07 may 12

Haute Couture Dress Cookies

Happy Monday Dear Readers! Just one last plea, if you don’t mind, if you could please vote for me for the People’s Choice awards at the Sydney Writer’s Centre. The voting closes on ...

06 may 12

Neu’s Delicacy, Bondi Junction

Bread is often called the staff of life and not usually a delicacy. However when the bread in question is given a light touch and is made by a skilled artisan, then it does qualify as a delicacy. At ...

05 may 12

Win 1 of 5 Double Passes To See Jiro Dreams of Sushi!

I’m not a huge romantic comedy person and instead I adore documentaries because I truly believe that truth is stranger, or at least more intriguing than fiction. One movie that I have been eage...

04 may 12

Hunter Valley Good Food Month

As the proverbial carrot dangling at the end of a very long and arduous leash or week, a weekend in the Hunter Valley was an incentive to hand in the book’s final edit on time. I dislike having...

03 may 12

Cheese, Caramelised Onion, Pork & Fennel Sausage Rolls

There’s an innate sense of bargaining and loathe of wastefulness in Chinese culture. I could give you countless examples of this but the one I remember most clearly was when one of my mother’s ...

02 may 12 1 person likes this

Cornersmith, Marrickville

When I was in High School I used to use all sorts of excuses to get out of doing P.E. I would say invent all sorts of ailments because excuses like “the dog ate my homework” wouldn’...

01 may 12

Pink Victorian Scroll Sponge

I have a hilarious friend, Buxom Wench, who is honest when she is telling me how it is. When she first met me, she looked at me up and down and said “You look better in photographs, much better...

30 apr 12

Vaucluse House Tearooms For Afternoon Tea

There we were, the five of us crammed in the Night Nurse’s car. We were dressed in our Sunday best, hats on, skirt hems stiff and ironed shirts having waved Mr NQN goodbye for the afternoon. Wh...

29 apr 12

Napier: The Art Deco City, New Zealand

I often annoy my friend Queen Viv who calls me Pollyanna because I am hopelessly optimistic. Simplistically speaking, I do believe that things happen for a reason although with a tragedy as large as ...

28 apr 12

Win A Pastilla Nash Pack!

How do you like to eat your cheese? Do you have it with something fruity like quince paste, muscatels or pears or do you prefer it with something nutty? Well if you have said yes to both then you may...

27 apr 12

Armenian Nutmeg Cake With Rose, Honey & Pistachios – Daring Bakers April 2012

Do you want to know how I seduced Mr NQN into liking me? Well it was with an animation of Santa with a turkey down his pants. I’m pretty smooth that way don’t you think? I should explain ...

26 apr 12

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