Buzzing with Kazaar – Nespresso’s super strong limited edition coffee blend!

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January 18, 2012
Nespresso kazaar coffee

I received Nespresso’s strongest blend, Kazaar (intensity level 12 – the usual range has a max intensity of 10) to test out in my new dragon ritual cups this week. If you’ve read my Year of the Dragon Coffee Machine post, you would have gathered I’m a low to mid strength coffee drinker (my favourite Nespresso pods are the cosi...
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The sauces were a stand out at Shiro Izakaya

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January 14, 2012
75g Wagyu Beef at Shiro

I had received an email from Daniel, one of the owners of Shiro Izakaya inviting us to go try out their new Japanese restaurant in November via Urbanspoon but hadn’t seen the message until the Christmas break. So earlier this week we went for an early dinner after work to see what Shiro had...
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Enjoying Nespresso’s Year of the Dragon Coffee Machine – way too much!

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January 6, 2012
Nespresso Year of the Dragon Coffee Machine

For those of you who have read my Nespresso Perth Boutique launch event post, you’ll know that my first experience of Nespresso was whilst shopping with burger boy’s nanna so anything Nespresso always reminds me of her. So when Nespresso offered to loan me their limited edition year of the dragon coffee machine to...
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Surprising burger boy with a birthday dinner at Nobu

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January 2, 2012
Happy birthday burger boy!

burger boy & I have had some amazing Japanese both here in Perth, over east and in Japan so when we heard Nobu was coming to Perth we were pretty excited. So I thought what better birthday surprise than a dinner at Nobu  I tried a bit of a decoy by driving the long way to Burswood…for a...
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Christmas with the family – 12 hours of eating!

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January 1, 2012
Pull Pork Sandwich

I love Christmas for all the joys it brings…quality time with the family, amazing food all day long and I get super excited both watching and opening presents. This year we started with lunch at burger boy’s Italian family’s place…burger boy’s bro mugsy brought home a couple of cartons of Gypsy Pear Cider (soon to hit...
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foodie cravings turns 1

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December 28, 2011
foodie cravings food blog turns 1!

It was this time last year on the drive down to burger boy’s family beach house in Mandurah that foodie cravings was created and burger boy got his name. It wasn’t until burger boy’s family and friends named our honeymoon photobook the cookbook that I realised how much we really love our food. We...
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Win one of two $25 Crust pizza vouchers!

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December 22, 2011
Crust Wagyu Prawn & Pork Belly Uppercrust Pizza

We’ve reached 200 facebook fans on our Crust Mount Lawley page so as promised, burger boy and I are giving away two $25 vouchers to use at our Crust Mount Lawley when we open. This competition is open to anyone living in the Perth area who is happy to pickup or accept free delicious gourmet pizza deliveries Visit our crust...
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Urban Locavore – not just a box of locally WA produced food!

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December 20, 2011
Urban Locavore tasting box

I had the pleasure of receiving one of the very first Urban Locavore tasting boxes, personally hand-made and delivered by Paul Kilmurray, the passionate WA foodie behind this new Perth business which supports locally made food and the environment. Paul said that Urban Locavore is about discovering and sharing the best of WA’s local foods...
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burger boy goes mad for Mad Mex

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December 15, 2011
Mad Mex at Hillary's Boat Harbour

burger boy is a huge fan of mad mex – it’s almost taken over Oporto as his first place to visit when we travel to the east coast. He was that into it that he had Mad Mex almost every second day on our recent trip to Sydney. Note this mad burrito eating business...
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