nic cooks

I love fine dining, I am starting to develop an unhealthy obsession with chef’s hats and tasting menus but unfortunately my speech pathology salary doesn’t really match my fine dining habit. This has lead me to be a little creative, seeking out such experiences in a more affordable fashion: presenting Bentley Restaurant and Bar.  Yes [...]

I’ve been waiting six years for this. Six years ago next month I had my first experience of a Michelin starred dinner. We were celebrating our fifth wedding anniversary, which felt like a good enough reason to celebrate, and as I was a student when we got married, it was about the first time in [...]

A Macaron update. Although the last batch were edible, they were not the perfect round, smooth Macarons I had in mind. Once I discovered the error of my ways, I foolishly thought that the baking of a perfect Macaron would be easy. How wrong I was (again). I followed the recipe to the letter, including [...]

It’s one whole year since I wrote my first dedicated food blog post.  Inspired by the film Julie and Julia, I decided I would cook my way through my Jamie Oliver cook book collection and write about it on our blog.  It quickly became bigger than just Jamie.  I realised that blogging about other peoples [...]