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Sydney

Bankstown, Food and Culture

July 1, 2020 by Tania 8 Comments

Bahn Cuon Kim Thanh bankstown

A day trip to Bankstown in Sydney is an eyeful of fresh ingredients and a whole lot of culture. Even a quick trip for lunch opens up a new world. Bankstown, past and present Although Bankstown is only 16 kilometres south-west of the Sydney CBD it feels like it could be several continents away. The…

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Filed Under: Holiday, Travel Tagged With: bankstown, food tours, kanefeh, manouche, Spices, suburbs of sydney, Sydney, travelling at home

Merrylands Sydney. Food and Culture

June 15, 2020 by Tania 8 Comments

mantu dumplings in Merrylands

Merrylands Sydney is a great place to visit. Sydney’s suburbs are the trips you can take while travel overseas is still out of the question. Merrylands culture Merrylands is about 40 minutes by rail west of central station. It’s an old suburb with a new face today. It was one of the earliest sites in…

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Filed Under: RECIPES, Travel Tagged With: Sydney, Sydney Restaurants, sydney resturaunts, sydney suburbs, sydney travel, things to do in sydney, travel during covid 19, visiting merrylands

Sydney Cheese Festival 2017

August 29, 2017 by Tania 3 Comments

Cheese festival

Sydney Cheese Festival. Free tastings talks and all the smelling you can handle! Yes I said cheese festival. Sydney Cheese Festival. BON FROMAGE. October 14-15th Sydney Carriageworks 11-6pm If you are a bit of a cheese monster then pencil in these dates because Sydney is finally getting it’s own cheese festival and its free entry. Yes…

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Filed Under: Cheese, News and New Things, RECIPES Tagged With: bon fromage, carriageworks, cheese, cheese for free, cheese of europe, cheese tasting, european cheese, french cheese, Sydney, sydney food, washed rind cheese, whats on

10 Unusual Things to do in Sydney

November 15, 2015 by Tania 8 Comments

Whether you are a local or just planning a visit to Sydney here are 10 unusual fun things to do in Sydney that don’t involve a museum or the opera house. This may just surprise you. There are no shortage of beachside offerings in Sydney. Let’s start with a view of Bondi Beach below. Beautiful…

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Filed Under: News and New Things, reviews, Travel Tagged With: 10 things to do in Sydney, 10 unusual things to do in Sydney, cronulla beach, Culture Scouts, dave's Brewery Tours, foodi.com.au, Fruit bats in Sydney, Hipsters and Hops, Luna Park, Maniax, Nepean River Belle, Petal met Sugar, Sydney, Sydney Fish markets, the Goods Line, Travel Sydney, Wooloomooloo Pubs

Chocolate Fondue: Come and see the Chocolate Festival Sydney 2015

September 6, 2015 by Tania 15 Comments

In just two weeks’ time it is my son Skater’s 21 st birthday. How time flies. He is a chocoholic and all he wants is to get immersed in chocolate. Lucky for him that is going to be easy because on the 12th and 13th of September there is a whole weekend devoted to chocolate…

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Filed Under: Chocolate, Desserts, How to:, RECIPES, Small Bites/ Party Food Tagged With: Chocolate, chocolate festival, chocolate fondue, Dessert, eating chocolate, fondue, how to make chocolate fondue, small bites, Sydney, Sydney 2015, The Rocks, what's on in Sydney

Culinary Tales, helping refugees

January 18, 2015 by Tania 18 Comments

On the odd occasion that I am not rushing from work to home and cooking till the wee hours, I stop to consider that I do nothing to help others. I am not happy that this is the case and I would like to be able to contribute more, especially to refugees who more often…

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Filed Under: reviews Tagged With: cooking, cooking classes, cooking classes sydney, culinary classes, culinary tales, refugee cooking classes, Sydney, sydney cooking classes

Oysters Spicy Maple Dressing. Sydney Fish Market

August 11, 2014 by Tania 14 Comments

Oysters Spicy Maple dressing , oysters on the 1/2 shell

Try these Oysters Spicy Maple Dressing for an extra treat. And did you know you can do a special tour of The Sydney Fish Market? I had a very interesting morning last week. I pulled into a parking space in the dark at the Sydney Fish market. At 6am the carpark is full of vans…

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Filed Under: Dressings, RECIPES, reviews, Seafood Tagged With: Fish, markets, oyster dressing, oyster sauce, Oysters with maple and lemon, Recipes, spicy maple dressing, sustainable seafood, Sydney, Sydney Fish Market

Jones the Grocer, Sydney

April 9, 2014 by Tania 12 Comments

It’s a long time  since I have been to Jones the Grocer. It’s a place where we all used to buy cheese and pastries and salads to take to parties. That’s when it was in Woollahra.  It’s back, in a rather large corner of Westfield CBD right in the place that Justin North or Becasse…

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Filed Under: reviews Tagged With: Jones cheese store, Masterclass at Jones the Grocer, Review of Jones the Grocer, Sydney, Westfield restaurants

Organic Bread Bar

March 29, 2012 by Tania 17 Comments

Bread is one of the things that I find very hard to resist. The homely smell of the browning crust and the crack and crackle of the knife sawing through it to the soft interior. There are few better things in life than cutting into a warm loaf and slathering it with a salty creamy…

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Filed Under: Chefs at Work, reviews, Travel Tagged With: Handmade bread, Organic Bread, Pretzels, Sydney, Sydney's bread

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Tania Cusack Hi, I'm Tania and this is My Kitchen Stories. I share all kinds of recipes here. Most recipes are quick and easy, just perfect for families. BUT, you could also find vegan, cakes and desserts too. Come and have a look around Read More
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