I have a very random approach to food and go off on tangents. Sometimes I'm into cooking, other times I'm into a particular country's food, recently it has been Vietnamese food. Other times I'm into food markets or grocery shops. I want to enjoy the fact that my food interests are varied and eclectic. It's my food and eating journey and I can only write about what lights my fire.
Funnily enough, the blog drought has been broken by fire. A bakery to be exact.
As I walk along Victoria Street in Seddon every day to get the train to the city, I have been passing a shop undergoing a refurb. There seemed to be some fridges and counters going in so I figured it was going to be food place of some sort. One day as I passed I saw huge bags of flour being carried in....maybe a pizza place? A hand-written sign appeared on the window one day, 'Sourdough Bakery'. Now I was getting excited. I then began seeing loaves of bread on a table or people walking out with a loaf under their arm. Lucky friends!
This morning I walked past and saw people tidying and cleaning. Each day I have been waiting for it to open. As I was getting ready to leave work this afternoon, I received a text message from The Bloke, 'the bakery is open.' When I got home from work, the bakery was still open, yay!!
The bakery is called 'Sourdough Kitchen' but there is no sign yet. I chatted to the owner (the baker) and his wife. There were two kids sitting in the doorway munching on some bread, 'they're Quality Control' I was informed. Well, someone has to do it.
Sourdough Kitchen is open from 7am 6 days a week. They do coffee, so I am going to test that out. They had about 6 or 8 types of bread in the window and plain bread rolls and fruit rolls. I figured if I bought a loaf of bread I would probably demolish it, so I got a fruit roll instead, much less temptation! They are going to bake cakes eventually too.
The photo gives you a rough (very rough) idea of the place. I'll get a better photo soon.
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| A delicious light roll with just the right amount of fruit, thank goodness I only bought one! |
Hopefully our two fabulous bakeries in Seddon will co-exist for many years to come!
Waldies bakery
168 Victoria Road
Seddon 3011
Open 6 days a week from 6.30am
Sourdough Kitchen
172 Victoria Street
Seddon 3011
Open 6 days a week from 7am
Yes, sometimes it can feel a little challenging when the words just don't come out of you.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking about baking, I'm making kueh bangkit for CNY tomorrow, they're coconut biscuits that are supposed to melt in your mouth. Now that I've returned from Singapore, I have this silly urge to attempt all those Nyonya dessert kuehs. :p
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ReplyDeleteThanks Bryan. I had a look at a pic and some recipes for the biscuits you are making, they look delicious, I might try and make those i think. Hope your biscuits turned out okay!
ReplyDeleteKenny it is very cool. When I walked past on my way home from the station, they had closed for the day but had a sign on the door saying you could buy their bread across the road at Seddon Wine Store...bread that just keeps giving!
Had a look through the window last night on my way home from Dosa Hut. Its looks grand - I love that minimalist look just waiting to be cluttered up with coffee, eats, newspapers and kids. The wine shop was doing quite good business, too; methinks their platters will have to be roadtested soon. Any excuse to use a semi-colon!
ReplyDeleteI love your honesty Deb, I feel very much the same, although i'm very very new to the whole blogging thing. I hold off on posting because I want it to be perfect. But then my blog is mine and for me and Im not perfect. So put it out there I say.....for all of us to enjoy :)
ReplyDeleteKenny, Wine Stores platters are really quite good, I roadtested a couple of platters when they first began serving food. Glad you got to highlight your grammar skills!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Courtney. That perfection thing is so unhelpful isn't it. We write for ourselves, but we have an audience, a bit of a paradox we have to navigate.
Dear Deb
ReplyDeleteThank you for the fantastic news I love bread especially sourdough. I have been buying loaves from a stall at Footscray Market but still not hitting the mark. Really enjoy your blog so just keep going...perfection is simply not necessary. Cheers Melissa
Hi melissa, thanks for stopping by and your encouraging words. Hope you get to try the bread. I've since found out the bakery is open both days of the weekend, and shut monday or tuesday, but i forget which! must check again, bad blogger!!
ReplyDeleteI like this post, Deb. I felt the same every now and then, sometimes I have to push myself to blog, and sometimes after a blogging drought ideas flow out like crazy. Sometimes it just takes a comment or, like in your case, a fruit roll, to get it going again. :-) Don't give up on blogging, the less perfect it is the more real it is, and that sets you apart. :-)
ReplyDeleteMai, thanks so much for your kind words. It's helpful knowing others are dealing with the same things as me.
ReplyDeleteWe've had a number of good coffees here now. We had scrolls for at-home breakfast yesterday - heavy but very good. And last week I had a large slice of pizza there for lunch that was super for $4.50: zucchini, eggplant, some capsicum, olives, fresh rosemary, olive oil. Delicious and chewy!
ReplyDeleteKenny, I haven't had a chance to go back with work etc, but will be there very soon, the pizza sounds really good!
ReplyDeleteI love the Sourdough Kitchen. The apple cinnamon scrolls are the best I've had - real chunky apple pieces - amazing! It is worth going back there and trying everything :)
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