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The NEFF Market Kitchen Launches

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The NEFF Market Kitchen Launches

MELBOURNE | After a brief break and a generous renovation, South Melbourne Market‘s cooking school is back as The NEFF Market Kitchen. Through a partnership with kitchen appliance manufacturer NEFF, the new look school offers facilities at home in professional kitchens, and with professional chefs.

For those unfamiliar with the area, the kitchen is located on the Cecil Street side of the market and is easily accessible via the 96 or 11 trams, or the local railway station. Like its next door neighbour, South Melbourne Market Dim Sims, the cooking school has long been an institution within the area.

Purposely and thoughtfully redesigned by the team at Adele Bates Design, the kitchen is modern, bright, and welcoming with the aesthetic designed to feel both residential and a commercial. It’s a little bit intimate too, at least when compared to something like a school classroom, but this seems to make it right at home within the market. Based on reports from the instructors we met, the new design boasts a significant change from the original, with darker woodgrains replaced with a more elegant light wood-look.

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Launched with a ribbon cutting by the mayor of the City of Port Phillip Amanda Stevens and Councilor Andrew Bond, the NEFF Market Kitchen launch also boasted the skills of Coda and Tonka chef, Adam D’Sylva who made himself at home in the kitchen making his signature curry. The kitchen is also supported by some of Australia’s finest chefs such as Daniel Wilson from Huxtable, Luke Croston from The Press Club, and Jesse Gerner from Bomba, Anada, and Green Park Dining just to name a few. You can read about our experience at The NEFF Market Kitchen with Jesse Gerner later this week.

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As noted by South Melbourne Market general manager Ross Williamson, “South Melbourne Market is a quintessential village market – a place where people come not only to purchase fresh food, but to meet, eat, drink, shop, discover and connect.” The connection between the market kitchen and the market was further highlighted with the launch organiser’s decision to choose the always excellent South Melbourne Market favourite Sarah Carnegie to provide the music for the evening.

Looking beyond the launch and to the school itself, the available classes cover a wide variety of cuisines such as Peruvian, Vietnamese, and of course dumplings, with the latter is run by the excellent Lou Wang of Dumpling Mania. These are run in day, night, and on weekends, depending on the session.

In the end, the NEFF Market Kitchen is shiny, elegant, and filled with some of the finest chefs Australia has to offer. Whatever cuisine you want to learn, I suspect you’ll find out how here.

The NEFF Market Kitchen

Stall 90
Cecil St
South Melbourne Market, South Melbourne
Victoria 3205
Australia

Website: http://southmelbournemarket.com.au/cooking-school/
Open for day and night sessions. Please see individual sessions for details.

How To Make Ricotta At Home: Recipe

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How To Make Ricotta At Home: Recipe

Have you ever wanted to make your own cheese at home but never bothered because you thought that it would be too hard, too time consuming and unrealistic? Up until last week this is was where I was at but then I met  the team at Bee Sustainable in Brunswick East. Paul and I were invited by WeTeachMe to attend a cheese-making workshop run by Jacqueline Bender. At the workshop we learned how to make ricotta and mozzarella from scratch. Below is Jaqueline’s really simple (and forgiving!) recipe to make ricotta at home. The beauty of this recipe is that you can use anything from full cream cow’s to skim goat’s to soy milk and the recipe will just work.

how to make ricotta at home recipe

Waiting Time: 55 minutes          /          Cooking Time: 30 minutes        /          Makes: Around 350g of ricotta

Ingredients

  • 2L milk (any milk will work)
  • 1 tsp citric acid
  • 60ml water
  • 5g salt

Method

  1. Pour the milk into a pot and add the salt.
  2. Heat the milk to 95°C, while stirring constantly.
  3. Remove from the heat and allow the milk to cool to 88° C.
  4. Dissolve the citric acid in the water.
  5. Add the dissolved citric acid into the milk and stir gently.
  6. Once the curds start forming leave the ricotta to cool, uncovered for 20 minutes.
  7. After the 20 minutes ladle the ricotta into a ricotta basket and drain for 30 minutes.
  8. Tip the ricotta upside down to remove from the ricotta basket.
  9. Refrigerate in an airtight container for up to a week.

 

Notes

If you don’t have a ricotta basket you can use a muslin cloth over a colander. It wont produce a ricotta with the classic shape however it will still drain the whey.

Eat your ricotta fresh on bread with a little honey or try using it in a recipe like our Roasted Beetroot and Ricotta Tagliatelle.

For more details about cheese making check out Bee Sustainable’s website for upcoming workshops.

All Day Donuts, Brunswick

Chris
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All Day Donuts, Brunswick

MELBOURNE | With the rise to prominence of ‘gourmet’ donuts throughout Melbourne, it is sometimes hard to believe that donuts were once the domain of bumbling police officers and Homer Simpson. And one of the leaders of that game changer is All Day Donuts Brunswick.

Located on Edward Street, just a few steps from Sydney Road and an alleyway from Barkly Square, All Day Donuts is one of the those great and welcome anomalies that has found a happy home within Melbourne’s wider food culture. Whether it is a sly sweet after a long journey through Savers (yes, it’s close by), a way to satisfy that ill-fated hangover craving, or just simply because your favourite bar hasn’t opened yet, it seems it fills all of these voids and more.

all day donuts brunswick review

all day donuts brunswick review

And onto the donuts, but before you raise your hand and ask if they do your favourite flavour, let me just pre-warn you, we’ve been there a few times, and friends have been there a few times, and in every instance, I don’t think I’ve seen the same flavour of donut. Here are a few of the selections that were available when we were there most recently.

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Chocolate Icing With 100s & 1,000s ($4.50)

This was a donut, a great one, but a donut nonetheless. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, because in comparison to your supermarket variety donut that may satisfy a need for a short period, this thing will probably last your food needs for the day. It’s dense, simple, not at all greasy and how you imagine a donut should be. It’s also incredibly tasty.

all day donuts brunswick review

Jaffa upon Deck ($4.50)

This one has oranges, chocolate (on top) and a jaffa custard centre and like it’s other donut brethren, it’s dense, non-greasy, and incredibly more-ish. If it makes you giddy just looking at it, the sugar levels in this thing will probably push you over the edge. But again, I’m not saying this is a bad thing, but it’s certainly something you should be aware of.

all day donuts brunswick review

There’s also beer, did I mention that earlier? Perhaps I should have. As well as being a fine establishment for donuts, All Day Donuts also boasts several craft beers. Again, there’s no way you should need this combination, and there’s likely no doctor that would ever prescribe anything that would vaguely resemble this combination, but as a mild-mannered food blogger, I can wholeheartedly recommend this as the way forward … even if considered holistically, it would probably seem more like a backward step for mankind.

Moving outside of the realm of donuts, All Day Donuts also shares its kitchen with Juanita Peaches, a fried chicken and burritos outlet. Owing to all I’ve said previously, our sense of reason outweighed our need for amazingly-brilliant-food-that’s-also-terribly-bad-for-you, and we didn’t partake of the fried chicken this time around. But rest assured, we will definitely return to try it.

In the end, you should most certainly go to All Day Donuts. I’m not saying it would be great for your health, because it wont be, but if you are hankering for a situation where all of your food demons are in the same room, then this is the room for you. So get down there and indulge in what will surely be your darker side – with donuts!

all day donuts brunswick review

all day donuts brunswick review

All Day Donuts

421 Rathdowne Street
Brunswick
Victoria 3056
Australia

Telephone: (03) 8060 6664
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://www.alldaydonuts.com/

Fr: 8:00am to 3:00pm
Sat: 8:00am to 4:00pm
Sun: 9:00am to 4:00pm

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London Street Food: E8, Street Feast Dalston Yard

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London Street Food: E8, Street Feast Dalston Yard

In our next instalment of the Street Food Series, we travel to Street Feast Dalston Yard, a London night time food destination and self proclaimed “nomadic street food circus”. Corralled into a single space, one can access food trucks, rooftop bars and food shacks. The brains behind Street Feast have created a festival-like atmosphere – it’s street food on steroids.

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Street Feast features 20 traders and 12 bars. From vin to gin, Asian buns to burgers, there’s no end to what’s on offer at Street Feast. We were impressed at how Street Feast has taken a once derelict space and transformed it into a lively food market that brings people together. We arrived on a Saturday evening just after 7 and the place was teeming with a mix of families and groups of friends. A few stalls have queues but thankfully due to the sheer volume of choices available if you don’t fancy a queue you can just pop over to another stall.

street feast dalston yard

Everything looked tempting, but we opted for a culinary slider tour that took us on a journey from the classic American slider in original, bacon and jalapno versions to Indian inspired naan sliders.

Slider Bar offers sliders for £4.00 each or 3 for £10.00. On the day we visited they offered three types of delicious mini-burgers: classic, bacon, and jalapeno. Why have one burger when you can have three minis! For those looking for a Mexican option, Slider Bar’s neighbour is Breddos Tacos, with whom it used to share a residency with at The Player in Soho.

street feast dalston yard

Rola Wala, Twisted Indian Street Food offers 3 sliders inspired from all parts of India for £9.00. Options include Keralan Paneer Dal, Kashmiri Chicken Tikka, Goan Pork Roast, and a spicy beef. An Australian inspired by his travels in India to do his take on street food in London. Twisted indeed!

The success of Street Feast in Dalston has prompted the creation of two more night time markets elsewhere in London, Model Market in Lewisham and Dinerama in Shoreditch. In fact, the group behind Street Feast, London Union, have big plans for the London Street Food scene. In addition to offering winter versions of the existing markets, they plan to open 15 more local, day and night markets, as well as one flagship market in a permanent location in central London.

street feast dalston yard

London Union is backed by some of the biggest names in British food – including Russell Norman from the Polpo Group, Soho House’s Nick Jones, Yotam Ottolenghi and some of the UK’s best known food writers and broadcasters. We can see why some of Britain’s most successful restaurateurs, food writers and entrepreneurs have made an investment in Street Feast.

street feast dalston yard

Street Feast is easily accessed from the Dalston Kingsland and Dalston Junction overground stations and is open every Friday and Saturday until the end of September. Entry is free before 7:00pm, £3.00 after. After September, keep your eye out on their website for news on the winter markets and more. We know we’ll be checking them out!

Street Feast Dalston Yard

Hartwell Street
Dalston
London E8 3DU
United Kingdom

Telephone: n/a
Email: n/a
Website: http://www.streetfeastlondon.com/

Open
Fri – Sat: 5:00pm to 12:00pm

Meet Our Newest Contributors

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Meet Our Newest Contributors

The City Lane is committed to bringing you great content and we only bring on new contributors when we are sure that they’ll be able to add something special to the team. Today we want to introduce you to our newest contributors Fiona and Mike, who I’m sure you’ll agree once you start reading their content, are very much in tune with what The City Lane is all about. Here’s a little bit about each of them.

Fiona Allen (Contributor, Geelong)

fiona profileFiona has travelled and lived throughout Australia and fair bit of the world, so it came as quite a surprise to many that she decided to settle in Geelong. A major draw card for her was the natural beauty of the Surf Coast region, and the exciting growth of small businesses having a go in a city once so heavily reliant on industry.

Fiona enjoys exploring both the old and the new that Geelong has to offer. In her spare time she tries not to take life to serious or get into trouble, although she struggles with the latter.

 

Mike Edgar (Contributor, Melbourne)

mikeedgarprofileMike loves to convey his stories through two great passions, street photography and cycling. These passions stoke Mike’s creativity and provide him with a unique insight into his quest to explore new cultures and communities through food travel and music. Mike often sees the world through his lens, and as well as expressing himself here he can be found working on his solo project, Lunchbox Pictures.

You will always find Mike quietly chasing the city vibe with an espresso, craft beer or vino in his hand He adores food and fitness and he loves sharing his stories and adventures with you.

S02E06 – Season 2, Episode 6

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S02E06 – Season 2, Episode 6

PODCAST | In this incredibly special event we come to you almost-live from Wellington’s fabled beer event, Beervana. In this episode, Chris’ microphone gets x-rayed, no double-meaning intended; Jeff complains about a wishlist that keeps forgetting his wishes; and Paul draws endless circles on his Beervana guide. We also pass the broadcast setup for NZ radio that looks so much better than ours.

But more importantly, we drink not one, not two, but three beers, the likes of which we have never seen before, and if we cock this up, may never see again.

Featured beers: Dark Matta – PKB Remix 2015 by Yeastie Boys, Berry Brownie by Baylands Brewery, and Chocolate Coconut Rum Stout by Virginia Boroughs (for the Occasional Brewer).

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Coburg Drive-In Food Truck Festival: August Edition

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Coburg Drive-In Food Truck Festival: August Edition

MELBOURNE | Like movies? Like food trucks? Then do we have the event for you.

Returning for two nights on Wednesday the 19th and Thursday the 20th of August is the Coburg Drive-In Food Truck Festival, a seemingly perfect combination to help people survive the last of Melbourne’s winter.

Held at the Coburg Drive-In (yes, they do still exist), you will be joined by food trucks including: Brazilian Bites, Mamma Van, Nem N’ Nem, Greek Street Food, Dos Diablos, Trailer Made, White Guy Cooks Thai & Manny’s Donut Café. We’ve tried a fair few of these food trucks, and are particularly fond of Greek Street Food, White Guy Cooks Thai and Mamma Van.

On the cinema bill is: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., the new film by Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels director Guy Ritchie based on the TV series of the same name and starring none other than Superman himself, Henry Cavill; and Vacation, the reboot/sequel of the classic National Lampoons Chevy Chase-helmed series, starring The Hangover and The Daily Show’s Ed Helms as the grown-up Rusty Griswold. Both are getting solid reviews, but if you need to know more convincing, check out the trailers below.

Both evenings promise to be something special, perhaps in different ways, and are a very good reason to visit Coburg. We suggest you rumble your way down to the ticket booth before they sell out. You can find full details and purchase tickets here.

Coburg Drive-In Food Truck Festival: August Edition

When: Wed 19 August to Thu 20 August, gates open at 5:00pm

Entry: Cost of the cinema ticket ($17.50 adult/$14.50 concession) + food.

Where: Village Cinemas Coburg Drive-In. 155 Newlands Road, Coburg

The Winding Maze Of Tehran’s Grand Bazaar

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The Winding Maze Of Tehran’s Grand Bazaar

TEHRAN | Tehran’s Grand Bazaar is one of the oldest shopping malls in the world, and easily one of the largest. Spread out over 20 square kilometres, the Grand Bazaar’s winding maze of corridors, alleyways, stairwells and hidden passages run for over 10 kilometres in length. Everything, and I mean everything you could possibly want to buy can be found here. I’d suggest that the saying “everything but the kitchen sink” would be apt were it not for the fact that you can buy kitchen sinks here.

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Hungry? There’s food here. Lots of it, and it’s good. The line you see below is for Moslem restaurant, which serves between 4000-5000 people a day and is famous for its delicious 4,000 – 5,000 tahchin, an Iranian rice cake made from rice, yoghurt, saffron, egg, and chicken fillets.

tehran's grand bazaar iran travel

There are a wide variety of architectural styles on display at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, owing to that fact that it’s not just one building that was built at the one time. Nobody knows just how old the bazaar is however there is evidence to suggest that there has been commerce and trade occurring in this part of Tehran since at least 1660BCE. The oldest physical structure standing today however, is a relatively young 400 years old. One moment you’ll be walking through a passageway that dates back to the 1700s then you’ll turn a corner and be walking through a corridor that was built in the 1970s.

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Many have described Tehran’s Grand Bazaar as a “city within a city”and it’s easy to see why. You could easily spend several days exploring in here. In fact, there’s even a hotel inside. It’s a fascinating place to walk through and watch life go by, in some cases unchanged from the way it’s been for centuries. Traditionally, each section of the bazaar specialised in different types of goods – a section for copper, a section for spices, a section for carpets etc. Many of the traditional traders still run stores in the traditional manner but it’s not uncommon to see more modern stores like computer shops and electronics stores too.

tehran's grand bazaar iran travel

These hand pulled carts are by far the most common method of transporting good within the bazaar.

tehran's grand bazaar iran travel

tehran's grand bazaar iran travel

However who needs a cart when you have a… back?

tehran's grand bazaar iran travel

tehran's grand bazaar iran travel

These teenage workers may or may not be illegal Afghani immigrants, and they may or may not hang out in one of the bazaar’s many hidden spots that only they know about.

tehran's grand bazaar iran travel

tehran's grand bazaar iran travel

Want cheap copper? Yeah, this might just be the place you’re looking for. The Turkish coffee pots were a fraction of the price we saw them selling for in Istanbul. Unlike Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, Tehran’s Grand Bazaar is still focused on locals, not tourists.

tehran's grand bazaar iran travel

This guy ran a tea and spice shop and spoke excellent English. We discussed, amongst other things, the finer points of saffron.

tehran's grand bazaar iran travel

We bumped into this guy quite early on during our visit to the Grand Bazaar and he took it upon himself to be our guide in the market. Thankkfully one of our group was Iranian and was able to act as a translator. This guy knew every part of the market like the back of his hand. If we asked where we could find somewhere, he knew just the spot. There’s not a chance I would have found the leather maker who made my camera strap were it not for this man. In true Iranian fashion, he wanted nothing in return for his services and was simply happy to have met and helped us.

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Speaking of leather makers, this guy custom made a camera strap for me for the grand sum of around USD$5.00. When our self appointed guide heard that I was looking for a leather maker, he took us down some corridors, around a few corners, up a flight of stairs, around a few more passageways, and up another flight of stairs to this place. Nothing beats local knowledge. Next door was an artisan making buttons, one by one. In the West people are making a shift towards hand crafted, artisan pieces but in Iran, hand-crafted pieces have always been appreciated.

tehran's grand bazaar iran travel

tehran's grand bazaar iran travel

It’s hard to go anywhere in Iran without finding someone selling tea or offering you tea. If you didn’t know that it was the national drink of Iran before you arrived you will by the time you leave.

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Tehran’s Grand Bazaar is a truly fascinating place to explore, and is where you can see old and new both clash and harmonise.  If you find yourself in Tehran, a visit is a must.

Glow Winter Arts Festival Returns In 2015

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Glow Winter Arts Festival Returns In 2015

MELBOURNE | After experiencing huge success last year, the Glow Winter Arts Festival returns to Melbourne for a second year. From 13 to 23 August 2015, the streets, laneways and car parks of Stonnington will light up and be transformed into a fun, creative playground with a diverse and contemporary after dark line-up of comedy, cinema, installations, roving performances and live music.

A variety of free and ticketed events will be held across the suburbs of Prahran, Malvern, Armadale, Toorak, Windsor and South Yarra, with something for all age groups on offer. Think projections on Greville Street, street parades, and a range of free concerts, exhibitions and events all over town.

In the words of Stonnington Council’s manager of economic and cultural development Francesca Valmorbida:

…the Glow Winter Arts Festival is an opportunity for residents and visitors to gather and celebrate the idea of art in unusual places.

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As regards the ticked events, of particular interest to us is Flicks + Feasts, a collaboration between Time Out Melbourne and Prahran Market which is a popup cinema which will be located at one of the Prahran Market’s laneways.  Over 4 of the festival’s nights, Flicks + Feasts will be pairing cinema classics with food served by some of Melbourne’s top food trucks.

On Saturday 22 August for example, you can watch the Italian Job and enjoy Italian food from Pasta Face, Popstic Ice Cream, Toasta and Pizza Be With You.  There will also be a popup bar on each of the night serving up wine, beer, mulled wine and matched cocktails.

stonnington glow winter arts festival 2015

stonnington glow winter arts festival 2015

Another event that sounds like it will be too good to pass up is having a go on the Open-Air Ice Staking Rink, which will see the Cato Street Car Park in Prahran transformed beyond recognition into a winter wonderland.

stonnington glow winter arts festival 2015

For those who enjoy a good laugh, the comedy events on offer look like they’ll be well worth checking out too. The Glow Comedy Club will be led by comedian and MC Justin Hamilton who will host a rotating line-up of leading Australian talent including Anne Edmonds, Dave Thornton, Michael Workman, Tommy Little, Michael Chamberlain and Cal Wilson.

It’s been a really cold winter this year but we all know it takes more than some cold weather to stop Melburnians from getting out and enjoying their city, so embrace the cold and check out Glow Winter Arts Festival.

For more information, and to download the full program of events, visit the official site.

Glow Winter Arts Festival

When: Thu 13 August to Sun 23 August

Entry: Most events are free, but some are ticketed. See the full program of events for more details.

Where: Multiple locations in the City of Stonnington

Electrolux Appetite for Excellence 2015 Winners Announced

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Electrolux Appetite for Excellence 2015 Winners Announced

The Electrolux Appetite for Excellence 2015 winners were announced tonight in Sydney at a gala celebration held at Salt Meats Cheese. Now in its 10th year, Electrolux Appetite for Excellence was founded as a way of recognising and supporting the next generation of chefs in Australia. It began with Young Chef of the Year and has evolved to include Young Waiter of the Year (in 2007) and Young Restaurateur of the Year (in 2009). Program alumni include Victor Liong, Massimo Mele, Jake Nicolson, James Viles and Leanne Altmann.

This year, the awards were presided over by journalist and television presenter Magdalena Roze and presented by Australian hospitality greats David Thompson, Danielle Gjestland and Lucy Allon. Judges this year included Luke Mangan, Ross Lusted, Nick Hildebrandt, James Viles, Simon Denton and Lyndey Milan. Winners included:

Electrolux Australian Young Waiter 2015

Winner: Brooke Adey – Bentley Restaurant & Bar, New South Wales

Runner Up: Louise Naimo – Estelle Bistro, Victoria

Highly Commended: Nikki Friedli – Africola, South Australia

Electrolux People’s Choice: Elizabeth Thomas – Supernormal, Victoria

Electrolux Australian Young Chef 2015

Winner: Jake Kellie – Estelle Bistro, Victoria

Runner Up: Aaron Starling – Bistro Guillaume, Victoria

Highly Commended: Matt Binney – Merricote, Victoria

Electrolux People’s Choice 2015

Matt Binney – Merricote, Victoria

Electrolux Australian Young Restaurateur 2015

Dual winners: Bianca Welsh – Stillwater Restaurant & Black Cow Bistro, Tasmania; Chris Thornton – Restaurant Mason, New South Wales

We think that these awards are a great initiative in that they recognise new talent that can often be forgotten amongst the big names. Congratulations to all of the winners and runner ups and here’s to big things from them in the future.

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