Originally, I was thinking about making these No Sugar Oat Drops, but it being the holidays I decided they were maybe a little too close to a granola bar...a little too healthy (yes, I'm crazy). I even bought the overripe bananas at the grocery in anticipation of making them, but then settled on a batch of Anzac biscuits.
Anzac biscuits are a brilliant invention all their own. Coconut, oats, brown sugar, butter, Lyle's Golden Syrup and a little baking soda and water. What's not to like? But since the holidays are all about gilding the lily, I thought I'd dress 'em up a little. By altering the recipe, it's not strictly an Anzac biscuit anymore, but it's an oaty, coconutty drop of delicious, that's for sure, and with a couple of additional tweaks, it just gets better. So coconut, oats...plus what?
Yesterday, while doing early morning yardwork, Wolf and I were talking about breakfast.
"You want me to go get doughnuts?" (An offer that's hard to refuse.)
"Mmm, doughnuts. I'm surprised you want doughnuts."
"I thought you might want doughnuts."
After this many years of marriage, yep, we still have these conversations. I'm not usually one to be lukewarm on doughnuts, especially Top Pot, but after a relatively light dinner last night, I thought, we need some real breakfast.If Americans have heard of Bill Granger, they’ve probably either been to his restaurants in Sydney (and now Japan, apparently) or possibly seen his show, “bills food” on the Cooking Channel (Sunday mornings, 9 a.m. ET -- plug plug!). Why Curtis whats-his-name is catching on Stateside and bill remains a secret, I can’t tell –…
Bill's corn fritters with bacon & roasted tomato
as made by Michelle
From Bill's Sydney Food
The bacon and tomato are key - providing salty and acidic counterpoints
to the sweetness of the corn. Would it be fine without? Sure, but what fun is anything
without bacon?
The beauty of it is the filling is 90% of the content. There's only…
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You know you've had a really terrific vacation when more than a month later, you're desperately holding on to the vestiges of the trip. Sure, I've stopped reading the Sydney Morning Herald and even more recently given up using the milk frother everytime I make coffee, but we did find ourselves at South Food and…
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Here comes the Sun...
Here comes the rain - doo n doo oo
That's for real
And so is this - bats in the Sydney Botanical Garden
Sydney from Circular Quay (that's key, not kway)
Anzac War Memorial
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Lobby entrance at qualia
After a few days of getting used to city life in Sydney, we headed up to Hamilton Island (part of the Whitsundays). It's a 2 hr. flight (direct - yay! - on Jetstar) to Hamilton Island. Jetstar is a low-cost airline -- low cost to the point where you don't even get…
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We were being dropped off at the Sydney Opera House to see Wil Anderson -- the Rock Star of Australian Comedy, according to The Age-- when we passed by Wagamama. Not only was it a noodle bar, but with a name like that, I knew we'd be coming back no matter what they had. C'mon…
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Image from the Smith's Snackfood Company
A new favorite from Australia. The flavor in all the bus stop adverts was Moroccan Chicken with Lemon. Chicken-flavored chips?! But Sweet Chili and Sour Cream we saved for the flight home with our turkey, cranberry and brie sandwiches from the David Jones Foodhall. The full lineup of Red…
