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A photo of a sesame bagel sitting in a cardboard takeaway container with some cheese and sauce visible through the hole. It's hard to see in the photo but the piece of chorizo was nearly as large as the bagel and probably would have been close to a centimetre thick.

Today is the last day in the office, finished it off with a chorizo, cheese, and pickle bagel from the A.P. Bakery that opened up right around the corner from the office, and hot damn was it good. I got a croissant to have with my coffee and that was delicious as well.

Posted on 29 September 2023, 15:11

A photo of the spiced halloumi pizza, which is actually Turkish pide with a tomato sauce inside it and strips of halloumi and what I think was sun-dried tomato.

A photo of triangular stand in the middle of the table, with three levels and little nibbly desert things on it. There's some Turkish delight, some pastry thing, a couple of little bits of cheese cake, and a piece of chocolate something or other that I had and was delicious.

Nothing exciting to report food-wise yesterday, but today's paid-for-by-work food was dinner at Meccah Bah at Darling Harbour (https://meccabah.sydney/functions-and-events/). Because there were 39 of us all up (!) we did the $79 set menu. The starters were the bread and trio of tips, falafels, lamb sigara boureks, and North African meatballs, we could choose which main we wanted (I got the spiced halloumi pizza) and then we got a selection of desserts to share. The whole meal was absolutely incredible and I am stuffed to the gills right now. I also had my first margarita because several people expressed surprised that I'd not had one before. It was... fine, but definitely reinforced my stance of not paying for cocktails if I'm paying for it because MAN are they not worth it. 😛

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Posted on 26 September 2023, 21:08

A photo of a bowl of laksa in a white takeaway food bowl. The broth is thick and rich and it's got slices of barbecue pork sitting atop the noodles.

First lunch of the office week: laksa. 😎

sydney work food portrait mode laksa

Posted on 21 September 2023, 13:29

A wide-angle shot of the interior of an art deco restaurant. The ceilings are really high and there's massive green marble pillars.

A photo of a wagyu shin ragu with pasta. It was seriously incredible.

A photo of a chocolate marquise with cream on top like it's a little shallow cup, and whiskey caramel pooled inside the cream. Next to it is some chocolate sorbet.

Today we had the day off work for @yayKM's birthday and went to Rockpool in the city for lunch. Such a cool location, it's an old art-deco building, and the food was AMAZING! Top-notch service too.

sydney food portrait mode pasta art deco

Posted on 18 August 2023, 17:31

A photo of a white rectangular casserole dish with tuna mornay in it The top is covered in Panko breadcrumbs that have gone all golden and crispy and it looks amazing. (And it tasted amazing too.)

Awww yissss, made Nagi's tuna mornay (https://www.recipetineats.com/tuna-mornay-casserole-pasta-bake/) with the sixteen year-old and it was GOOOOOOOOD. I really need to look up how to make white sauce without it taking an eternity though, because jesus christ it was seriously half an hour of non-stop stirring and we ended up cheating and putting corn starch in anyway.

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Posted on 22 July 2023, 20:22

A photo of a bowl of ramen with a slice of pork in it, and half a boiled egg sitting on top.

I WAS going to go home after I'd finished work, but then some people said they were going to Ramen Zundo and I couldn't say no to that.

sydney food portrait mode ramen

Posted on 22 June 2023, 19:27

A selfie of me, a white man with a short red beard and short hair, wearing a pair of sleek, dark, frameless sunglasses.

New sunglasses day! I know this ordinarily would be completely unremarkable, but these are replacing the ones I've had for almost fourteen years that I bought on my very first trip to visit @yayKM when she was still living in the US. They were broken from a small child stepping on them when I was over playing music at my friend's house a couple of weeks ago. 😭 The original pair were the style "Dash AF" style from Native Eyewear which has since been consumed by the horrible massive conglomerate Luxottica but I managed to find an alternative (thanks to Reddit's r/sunglasses in fact) that looks almost identical and the company is still independent, "Parallel 2" from Smith Optics.

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Posted on 18 June 2023, 15:08

A photo of a very large burger with lettuce, cheese, and onion visible from the side. A big bowl of chips is visible behind it.

A photo of a stylised sculpture of a black and white whale, it's short and stubby and has big teeth for some reason.

We are in Canberra! First order of business was lunch at Brodburger. Pretty delicious, though not the BEST burger I've had. We went to check in at the Hyatt and they weren't able to give us the room we asked for, and also they weren't ready for early check-in like they said it should have been so we went to the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery. They were both pretty dinky, and fully half the National Gallery was closed. I took a handful of photos which I've uploaded to Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/virtualwolf/albums/72177720309063596), and I loved this little whale sculpture by Horace Wikmunea. The Portrait Gallery was actually significantly more interesting, though still far smaller that I was expecting. Then we got back to the Hyatt and waited for ages for someone to actually come to reception to check us in, got our room key and went to the room, and realised it was directly overlooking the breakfast area despite us having specifically requested a quiet room. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Went back to reception and got moved to ANOTHER room, this one actually quiet, and now we're killing time until we head out for dinner with @[email protected].

food portrait mode burger canberra sculpture

Posted on 15 June 2023, 16:30

A photo of fifteen lightly golden cut rounds (basically scones but more savoury) sitting on a cooling rack.

And FINALLY, a batch of cut rounds! ::collapses::

our house darkroom food portrait mode cut rounds

Posted on 11 June 2023, 14:29

A photo of two golden brown loaves of bread covered in flour, with wonderful-looking splits on top, sitting on a cooling rack.

A photo of two slices of the aforementioned bread with cooked sliced tomato and mushrooms on top, sitting on a white dinner plate. There's just a little scattering of grated Parmesan cheese on top.

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog sitting on the kitchen floor in a patch of sunshine. He's looking up at the camera and is squinting because the sun is coming in directly behind where I'm standing.

Part three of The Weekend of Deliciousness is bread, for the first time since March! The yeast I've been using expired in June last year so I've just slowly been increasing the amount that I use and it seems to be fine. Lunch was mushrooms cooked in sage, rosemary, thyme, and garlic on top of cooked tomatoes on the bread. And the SECOND I start slicing the bread Beanie is in the kitchen like a shot because he knows there'll be crumb fallout, and he always gets a little end piece of bread when I'm done.

beanie our house dog darkroom food portrait mode bread mushrooms

Posted on 11 June 2023, 14:06