FINGER LICKIN' FRIDAY

Crumpets with honey butter

What a busy time! My many months of job searching have paid off as I've got a new job with Spring Food + Wine. It's pretty wonderful to be part of Brisbane's ever-growing and increasingly impressive food scene. Since I work right in the city and feel all grown up, here's a nostalgic breakfast post… 

Crumpets were a bit of a weekend breakfast treat when I was growing up. They were always savoured, too, but over the last few years, the crumpets we've bought in the supermarket have gone mouldy so quickly! It's disappointing, but last weekend, (before a trip to the zoo) I woke up to find that Mum and Dad had made crumpets! I whipped up the honey butter to accompany them, and we all enjoyed the deliciously crispy, holey, buttery crumpets. As my Mum said, you really cannot have enough honey butter on them! This recipe makes at least 16 crumpets, so there will be plenty there for you to reheat for weekday breakfasts too.

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Black Pearl Epicure
36 Baxter St, Fortitude Valley
(07) 3257 2144

Black Pearl is one of those places that you walk in to and immediately know it's down to business. Expertise and a passion for the fine ingredients wafts throughout the whole place. As a foodie, my mind is immediately set racing as I try to register every jar, can, utensil and packet. It's quite exotic and, soon, my mind floods with recipe ideas.

Shelves abound with truffle oil, salsa verde, preserved lemon, snails in brine, fregola, elderflower cordial, sherry vinegar and  Lescure butter. All sounds very posh, doesn't it? I suppose it is a little, but it's intriguing and new. Sometimes we all need something like that.