Why They’re Called Potato Scallops
Melburnians insist scallops are seafood. The dictionary has other ideas. A short rant about potato scallops, French, Italian, and checking before correcting.
Posts about food. Recipes I’ve invented, or am keeping for archival purposes. Or just other stuff about the theory of food, coffee, and more.

Melburnians insist scallops are seafood. The dictionary has other ideas. A short rant about potato scallops, French, Italian, and checking before correcting.

My recipe for a pistachio-forward but still very authentic sohan, a Persian candy.

Recipe for raspberry chocolate and walnut muffins, a slightly modified recipe from one a friend gave me.

My recipe for a lemon ricotta cake with a lemon and cream cheese frosting

A pretty easy Persian casserole to make that’s very aromatic and impressive, plus delicious.

My partner regularly complains that it’s impossible to get good chocolate chip cookies in Australia. Crisp on the outside, chewy on the inside. Well, no more.

My recipe for an impressive but really easy to make two-layer chocolate cake. Based on some common recipes but with a few modifications.
![Slightly Healthier [Drake's] Coffee Cake Recipe 8 Coffee cake slice](https://hooshmand.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Coffee-cake-slice-1-768x629.jpeg)
A slightly healthier (well, less intensely sweet and buttery) coffee cake recipe, just like in Seinfeld’s episode where they mention “Drake’s” coffee cake.

My recipe for chocolate babka. Another babka? I think not.

My recipe for a kick-ass family-sized Australian-style meat pie.
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