Partner In Crime

Beautiful food is even better when there's someone you love, equally keen to discover and share those secrets out there with you. The company, more important than the feast. A full week's of Jade's companionship for pure indulgence - shopping and feasting. Some of the highly decadent treats...

Kahlua and Dark Chocolate Cheesecake - Don Vincenzo

White Chocolate and Raspberry Cheesecake, perfectly scoop of vanilla ice cream
- Marysville

Sticky Date Pudding with cream and ice cream - Dandenong

Chocolate Pudding - Dandenong
soft, formed and highly sauced

Scones with plum and raspberry jam

At French Quarters, North Melbourne

Chocolate Tart
Macadamia and Pecan Tart

Rich thick truffle centre

Creamy New York Cheesecake

Chocolate cake and Belgian Chocolate Mousse - Koko Black
Mousse goes so well with cake instead of cream and so yummy on its own

Dracula's Signature Belgian Chocolate Tombstone encasing raspberry mascarpone
- to die for

Going Asian or fusion...

Breakfast

Sri Scrambled Eggs with cherry tomatoes, curry leaves and coriander accompanied with roti

- Tom Phat

Baked Eggs with tomato salsa and tamarind pork

Yum Cha Lunch, Red Emperor:
- hunger strikes and little was captured

crispy crab and avocado roll

Green Tea and Red Bean Pannacotta

Home-cooked dinner at our uncle and aunt's
- a spread of the characteristic authentic curries

Lamb Shank Briyani

Fish Curry

Chicken Curry

Lamb Curry

Tempura Banana with green tea ice cream - Matsumoto, Brunswick East

Slim Jim: Lovely toast with fresh ricotta spread, beautiful eggs, avocado and spice fig chutney
- El Mirage, Brunswick East







Mixed Berry and Almond Tart - Amici, Prahran

Dinner at JJ's, Crown was exceptional although the poor lighting of the restaurant made it difficult for memory opportunities

Mains - exceptional duck breast and kangaroo
Side - tasty herbed sauteed mix mushrooms

Desserts

Tasting Plate
Strawberry Mousse topped with strawberry coulis
Chocolate self saucing pudding
Apple and walnut crumble
Vanilla Creme Brulee
Coconut Sorbet
- such a beautiful combination of chocolate and fruit, rich creamy and light and delicate
All perfect


The Maison Papillon Roquefort French cheese with caramalised walnuts and mix fruits, lovely but unfortunately forgotten from our eager pick

Shopping everyday, most productive for Jade at Bridge Road and DFO, Essendon helped us to indulge but with this, our holiday comes to an end and we need to put in some real good work

Holiday Breakfasts

Breakfast is a luxury. Most of us are too sleep deprived, too much in a rush for work/school to have a real breakfast but the popular saying is that breakfast is the most important meal and so, in my time of leave, I've had the luxury of multiple opportunities of real breakfast.

Beetroot, Melbourne:
- very good coffee


- beautiful bircher muesli with poached fruits and mixed nuts



- good standard hot brekky of eggs, bacon, spinach and pesto mushroom

- decadent french toast of chocolate, banana and vanilla mascarpone



The European, Melbourne

- goats cheese omelette with the most beautiful roast mushroom


- the European breakfast


- sublime Valrhona chocolate tart made to order served with in house orange ice cream


Thom Phat, Brunswick East:

Roti Omelette: Cheap Eats Melbourne's breakfast dish of 2007
- Sheets of roti pratha with Chinese style omelette, encasing loads of bacon, protecting the fragrant flavours topped with tomato salsa, fried shallots and coriander

- beautiful mix of flavours and texture

Mart 130, Middle Park:

Beautiful scrambles

Homemade baked beans topped with goats cheese

cappuccino

Squisto, Melbourne:

Good scrambles, lovely herb baked mushrooms and crispy pancetta

Spoonfull, Prahran:

Smoked Salmon Omelette with Wild Flour Sourdough

Cafe Sweetheart, South Melbourne:

Blueberry Pancake with hazelnut butter, hash and grilled bacon with maple

Las Chicas, Balaclava:
- personal favourite

Big Mama - grilled bacon, omelette, tasty spinach, herbed mushrooms and sweet pistachio ricotta

Homemade fresh polenta, herb and pumkin loaf with homemade beans, wilted spinach, gem-like poached eggs and mushrooms

Warrnambool

Located on the shores of beautiful Lady Bay, Warrnambool, the largest city on the Great Ocean Road is an ideal place for exploring nature’s finest attractions. From the picturesque Lady Bay that offers protected swimming along with more challenging pursuits of surfing, yachting and windsurfing to the beautiful Stingray Bay, with rock pools; award winning Foreshore Promenade with a wonderful 5.7 kilometre track that stretches from the Breakwater along the coastline at the famous Southern Right Whale Nursery at Logans Beach to the fantastic Lake Pertobe Adventure Playground for an all year-round family attraction, Warrnambool offers plenty but the highlights are the wide range of exceptional cafes.

Time and Tide
- located just a few minutes from Port Fairy, this waterfront cafe is my favourite for the beautiful food and coffee and exceptional view of the sea.

Toasted focaccia with omelette, spinach, smoked bacon and chutney

Cappucino - with hazelnut cocoa dusting

Sticky Banana Pudding - served with caramel drizzle cinnamon dusted vanilla ice cream and double cream. This is a beautiful pudding, dense and flavourful of rich bananas

House-baked cheesecake with fresh passionfruit curd.

Chocolate brownie cake - mounted with rich truffle

Half serve, warmed

One would be overwhelmed if they had these desserts because it's actually pretty large a serving, the size that of a bowl but beautiful to share. The lovely thing is that it's individually made and not a slice cut out of a cake.

Rebecca's

Raspberry and Mascarpone Cake

Flourless Chocolate Hazelnut Cake
- so much hazelnut, whole and crushed with a rich thick nutty fugde center

Sticky Banana and Macadamia Cake with Butterscotch

Salt Marsh
- blow glass cafe

Baked Berry Cheesecake

Flourless Chocolate Pudding with Timboon Ice cream


Self saucing

Bojangles

Death by Chocolate - Housemade chocolate cheesecake

12 Apostles - Great Ocean Road