I love mascarpone, but considering its base ingredient is triple cream cheese, I’ve had to wean myself off it, one day at a time.
So, when I saw that Aquabar, a cute café in North Bondi, had leek and potato pancakes topped with mascarpone, smoked salmon and rocket on the menu, I reluctantly turned the other cheek.
Bondi Curmudgeon, though, who regularly eats sausage rolls for breakfast, ordered it for himself and swore he wasn’t taunting me as he gushed over every mouthful.
I begged for a tiny teeny taste – although Joey doesn’t share food – and it was so good that my tastebuds went into an instant sulk and refused to eat any more of the baked eggs with spinach I’d ordered in the name of being ‘healthy’.
So, we returned a week later, sitting in the empty spare room of the café, while everyone was crammed into the main dining room or bracing the cold and wind outside.
The cheery waiter took our coffee orders and warned us there had been changes to the menu.
“It’d better not be the mascarpone pancakes,” I said, in a tone harsher than I’d intended.
Luckily it wasn’t - he can completely change the rest of the menu if he wants as I’ve found my dish and I’m sticking to it.
Unless it’s lunchtime and then I’ll be forced to have the smoked-salmon angel hair pasta with caramelised lemon which is my other Aquabar favourite.
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