Category: Travel
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Dippy eggs at The Paddock Bakery
Woe betide me for having “discovered” dippy eggs only weeks ago. The breakfast pictured here is pretty much the epitome of perfection: dippy eggs, labneh with fennel, minced parsley and crispy bacon bit. With sourdough toast “soldiers” on the side. Available at The Paddock Bakery here on the Gold Coast. It’s your choice whether you…
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Octopus salad with avocado and olives
I’ve been wanting to visit my local fishmonger, which just happens to be a a major seafood distributor and some of the freshest catch imaginable. Best of all it’s right around the corner from my house! When I read about how easy it was to cook octopus in an Italian cookbook I put two and…
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Australian Street Food
Here in Australia, the sausage sizzle is the holy grail of street foods. I stifled a chuckle the first time I ran into a sausage sizzle on a Sunday at a local community fundraising event at the neighbourhood hardware store. White bread instead of a hot dog bun? It’s just not something we would ever…
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Burleigh Market Saturday
Spring has burst forth here in the Gold Coast, and the array of fresh produce is exhilarating. Burleigh Markets is a year round market featuring fresh local produce from around the region. Today we were thrilled to find plentiful cheap blueberries, mangos, avocados, kale, corn and watermelon. I couldn’t believe how beautiful these heirloom tomatoes…
Allspice & Olive 