{"id":689,"date":"2012-12-23T18:52:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T08:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/?p=689"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:46:50","slug":"living-the-radelaide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/23\/living-the-radelaide\/","title":{"rendered":"Living the radelaide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So work has called me to Adelaide, to like, do things and stuff, including eat, cook and explore. Oh, and actually work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But during non work hours it turns out I really don’t have time to work on the story that will never end. Instead I’m constantly debating where and what to eat, which cafes to go to, and whether I can find enough food to cook up something and somehow save money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So my experiment has been living without “sugar” (have honey and agave syrup instead), making wholemeal spelt pancakes and messing with other things, such as undercooking fish \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some of the things I’ve done. I wish I had a nice picture of some food from a cafe called A Mothers Milk – they make some amazing baked eggs mmmmmmmmm but instead all I’ve got is a very bad shot from the outside:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And Coffee Branch was a little espresso shop, which features a single and a house. I tried both, their single was a yirgacheffe natural, but that was so Sydney months ago! Not my normal preference, but when I had the two side by side, I preferred the single.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During my first week there Bar 9 also had a “twilight supper” where they were screening Spirited Away <\/em> – it was in English but it was still awesome because I got loads of coffee and some truffled popcorn! By the time I finished work to get there, they were actually all out of the truffled stuff so they charged me a couple of dollars less, but there were still remnants of truffle oil in it!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When my brother came over to visit, there was also lemon curd, orange, vanilla bean mascarpone, macerated strawberries on english muffin to be had!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also visited the Coffee Barun, who did an awesome “Barun breakfast”. They had a huge variety of espresso roast beans for sale, but alas, only yirg natural for their filter so this made me sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And what do I order at a place called Argo Espresso? A filter, of course!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also went to First Pour and Paddy’s Lantern, but no pictures of that. First Pour is interesting because they don’t really do food; just pastries. Paddy’s Lantern is cute (love their logo) and the one thing that I learned was that cold brew is something different from cold drip! I tried some and realised that it was different, so then I asked them how they made it, as when I was drinking it I noticed it had that liqueur tone so it was definitely brewed via a cold water method for a long time, but they just chucked grinds in water and let it sit rather than going through a drip, which explained the colour and sediment. It’s a nice easy way to make something like cold drip!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also managed to stumble upon Nic & Rocco’s dessert shop (from My Kitchen Rules) <\/em>bought some macarons and tiramisu etc. They were cute and nice, but sadly, I think Zumbo and Cre-Asion are both better, and more true to the flavours that the macarons are (e.g. real strawberry instead of tasting strawberry flavoured).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And now to home cooking 101! And how I miserably fail at it. Actually, I’m probably better than I think, but at the same time nowhere near as fantastic or genius as I think. A general rule is that I only do savoury, not sweet, as sweet has too many rules and measurements. However my spelt pancakes are pretty good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, so I finally got to try my hand at ceviche! I’ve always wanted to make it, and turns out the only mistake was that I chickened out and didn’t buy any chilli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My recipe was basically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Snapper marinated in lime juice for about 45min (cause I only had a little bit)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Cucumber<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Heirloom tomatoes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Coriander<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Red onion<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And some salt and pepper. Here are pics! It turned out quite tasty, just needed more heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Don’t mind the knife, it was there for something else. I used a new knife that cut the fish quite nicely!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With this being the final result:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then I used the rest of the fillet for a hot cooked dish! I bought some seaweed and had to use it somehow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next night I made the leftover vegetables into a quinoa salad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And here is a picture of Bubbles\/Butters\/Ruby\/Harry the Eclectus Parrot my boyfriend got! She’s super young and still being trained \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MERRY CHRISTMAS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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