http://www.corridorkitchen.com Necessity is the mother of invention. Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:46:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/01/cafe-review-allpress-espresso-ponsonby-auckland/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/01/cafe-review-allpress-espresso-ponsonby-auckland/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:35:34 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=2766 So add this to the list of things for Aussies and Kiwis to fight over - the flat white. Along with lamingtons and pavlova we both lay claim this antipodean beverage, something I always took for granted as the most boring of the espresso-based creations. I never realised the flat white’s controversial origins, nor the fact that it would one day become the coffee of choice for hipsters from New York to London. But the flat white is not the reason I decided to visit Allpress’s flagship store in trendy Ponsonby, Auckland; frankly, I couldn’t care less about flat whites, miniscule coffees are more my scene. I’d been a fan of Allpress ever since I came accross it’s Sydney Roasterie in Zetland. When I first bloogged about them, I cited them as the Kiwi export I’d most like to call my own. So I was excited to check out their teensy Ponsonby store and see what’s what.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/01/cafe-review-allpress-espresso-ponsonby-auckland/feed/ 5 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/11/pavbloghop/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/11/pavbloghop/#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:40:38 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=2599 I have to admit that I’m a little bit surprised by my own cooking these days. There are times when it is just so damn...traditional. I find myself saying things like ‘the classics are classics for a reason.’ The cookbooks I’m collecting are published by the Australian Women’s Weekly. I find myself craving things like a sausage. On white bread. With tomato sauce. Could this be my palate’s backlash against the multicultural Australian table? Will I be reduced to eating meat and three boiled veg the rest of my days?!]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/11/pavbloghop/feed/ 26 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/04/cafe-review%e2%80%93allpress-espresso-zetland/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/04/cafe-review%e2%80%93allpress-espresso-zetland/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:38:08 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1247 Allpress Espresso started in New Zealand, now has a roastery in Zetland, Sydney, has opened a café in London and is slowly spreading its brand to cafés all over Sydney. They even have an iphone app to help you track down their brews.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/04/cafe-review%e2%80%93allpress-espresso-zetland/feed/ 10 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/fairy-bread/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/fairy-bread/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:51:17 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1062 Yesterday Lorraine over at Not Quite Nigella described the special treat of being given 20 cents to buy something at the school fete and tossing up between honey joys, pikelets, toffees and other assorted goodies, eventually choosing whichever was the biggest. This reminded me of another nostalgic gastronomic occasion – kids’ parties, where the unfettered appetites of small children are allowed to run wild. When I was a child, my parents would let me and my brothers have a party with our friends every second year, and we’d always get to choose a cake out of the Australian Women’s Weekly Kids’ Birthday Cake Cookbook, which, incidentally is one of The Age’s most influential Australian Cookbooks. The cake, be it a train, a Disney character, a doll or a swimming pool filled with green jelly (this was way back in the olden days before blue jelly was invented) would take centre stage amongst the mini frankfurts, party pies, sausage rolls, butterfly cakes and fairy bread on the table. This was one of my favourites, I think I had it for my 5th birthday.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/fairy-bread/feed/ 18