This is my favourite breakfast in Melbourne. Ricotta whipped with honey, maple syrup, strawberries, banana and pancakes with bacon. You wouldn’t want to eat it often but your life is incomplete without it. It hits the perfect savoury/sweet balance; that urge that can only be sated by true American barbecue,
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Apr 10, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 3 Comments
Pancakes at Fandango
Apr 14, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 87 Comments
French Fry Coated Hot Dog On a Stick: The Recipe
I shouldn’t be left unattended in the kitchen. One thing that struck me about finding the French fry coated hot dog on a stick in South Korea was that they were doing it wrong, the sort of cultural misunderstanding that happens when one culture cooks the food of an unrelated
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Apr 14, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 55 Comments
French Fry Coated Bacon on a Stick
When Brillat-Savarin said that “the discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity than the discovery of a new star” he perhaps hadn’t spent much of his time near the deep fryer. This dish confers on humanity nothing but moral decline. I present to you french fry coated
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Mar 20, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 20 Comments
Making Bacon
There is a descent into a darker realm when you begin cooking with a product labelled “CAUTION: Do not swallow”. The possibility of inadvertently killing your loved ones rises and your ability to rely on the way that a preparation tastes before cooking declines. The normal sensory cues that stop
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Sep 11, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 138 Comments
Korea: French fry-coated hot dog
If Coney Island witnessed the birth of the hot dog, Seoul in South Korea saw subsequent generations mutate into a an entirely new genus of animal. An animal coated in a skin of batter and french fries then presented deep-fried on a stick. After first witnessing this monstrosity on Newley
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