Quark Strudel

When you have an excess of quark on your hands you need to bake something. Quark is a German curd cheese, so to maintain the German theme a strudel seems an appropriated choice. The pastry surrounding a strudel is traditionally stretched until it’s papery thin. Obviously this requires elasticity in the dough, and without gluten…

Homemade Quark

Ask an English speaker about quark and they’re likely to tell you it’s a physics term that refers to some kind of subatomic particle. Murray Gell-Mann, who won a Nobel prize for his theory about quarks, chose the name because it was a nonsense word. He found it in James Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake, where…

Ziggy’s Cafe

Ziggy’s Cafe is just off the food court at Broadway Shopping Centre. We went there for a meal before a movie. We were cutting it fine to fit in dinner before our session, so it was lucky the service was fairly fast. The outstanding thing about this place is the size of the servings. In…

Gasparo

Gasparo in Burwood is a nice little restaraunt that we discovered by accident. My mother and I were intending to visit Bello, another Burwood restaurant I have been told is very good, but it was closed on Mondays so we wandered up the street and discovered Gasparo. This was our second visit to introduce the…