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The Weekend #3: Sunday

“In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace…”

And on the third, He rose again.

This last dish is a representation of the glorious and victorious event that happened on that day – the rebirth of Christ. It was a day that led to a new life, making it an obvious choice to use a white element as the centrepiece of the dish as a symbol of purity and wholeness. Clean flavours are maintained throughout the dish to cleanse the palate after a heavy and textural second course. A light coconut panna cotta combined with citrusy passionfruit gel and crisp fresh mint brings a clean finish with every spoonful.

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The Weekend #2: Saturday

“…and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.”

The day after Jesus died was the day He lay in the tomb. What a day it must have been for the many who believed in Him to be the Son of God. This second dish is built upon this idea, with bitter and sour tastes representing the feelings of the disciples on Easter Saturday.

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The Weekend #1: Friday

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” John 3:16 is the promise in which all Christians believe in. But for this to have happened, Jesus gave His life on the cross. The first dish, Friday, is our interpretation of the events that took place on that day.

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Healthy Orange Poppyseed Cake GF DF

“Healthy” is a really ambiguous term. People have different definitions of healthy. For some it means going back to the caveman diet – paleo, and for others it might just mean cutting out sugar or gluten. Now look. This cake is a gem. Whatever diet you follow, you can make changes to it so that it can suit you (ha yes you can say this for every recipe but whatever just let it go).

After a few weeks of ‘crappy’ meals a.k.a throwing everything into a pot to steam/boil food (yes thats how I normally cook lol), I/we decided to make something good today, even though its 2 weeks to our finals. Great choice. (I really think it is).

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(VERY) Matcha soufflé cheesecake

Our exams are in fifteen days and we have a separate assignment deadline coming up pretty soon.

Yep.

This cake wasn’t in the plan. It wasn’t supposed to happen. We’re second year med students and we are supposed to be busy with work.

But guess what? We (ok just 1/2 of we so its just me guess who) had a craving for cake. Cheese cake to be exact, and it didn’t matter what type or whatever. We(again, just I to be honest) just wanted to stuff some cheesecake into our mouths . So in our plans we were supposed to make this cheesecake “soon”. But this “soon” became almost immediately and … Cheesecake happened.

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Garlic herb butter rolls

Why hello, hello. Welcome to the very first post of 2016 – yes it’s already March. As you can probably tell by scrolling through the archives, we aren’t very good at maintaining this space during our offseasons (read: exam periods + holiday periods out of Melbourne, especially) In February we made some pretty good Chinese New Year goodies, and these might or might not be up on this site, depending on how lazy our bums get, and/or how busy MED2031 makes us :/

Anyhow, who doesn’t enjoy fresh, warm and soft buns coming straight outta the oven for breakfast?  I mean…. THE SMELLS of freshly baked bread IS JUST SIMPLY AMAZING??????

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Mushroom Carbonara (NO CREAM!!!)

We’ve just finished our mid-semester test a couple of days back – and well, we were studying pretty hard (I guess haha) for it and that’s why we’ve haven’t updated this blog in awhile (we’ve got more posts drafted out, they’ll be up soon) well, we didn’t do our groceries for a couple of weeks leading up the the exam so basically we couldn’t do anything nice in the kitchen haha but we are back (for now at least, till the end-of-sem exams come…)!!

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Sage-Rubbed Crispy Pork Belly

Crackling maketh pork belly.

Cooking for a crowd can be difficult, and having cooked for crowds of over 40 on several occasions we can empathise with the dilemma over which dishes to cook and the timing of their preparation to deliver excellent food in good time. We had some friends over for dinner recently and once again we were faced with the challenge of deciding on dishes that we could easily produce on a large scale…

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