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Jun 30, 2021
Fruit curds
"I’d like to remind you that there is no reason why it can’t be eaten, as is, with a spoon." Lauren Joseph - Epicurious This is my...
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Jun 29, 2021
Ramen
"Life without ramen is sad and incomplete" Ramen is Life Back to food today - and back to Coles Magazine, which, this month had a recipe...
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Jun 28, 2021
A question
"What’s the one thing you did [in lockdown] that you won’t change?" Rachel Cooke - The Observer As Sydney plunges into lockdown and here...
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Jun 27, 2021
Random websites and prejudice
“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.” Edward R. Murrow I'm feeling a...
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Jun 26, 2021
Monkey bread - a return to the primitive?
"It’s basically a giant bundt pan of gooey cinnamon rolls! " Sally's Baking Addiction And to me this looks marginally repulsive, though I...
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Jun 25, 2021
A girly get-together - a first recipe
"From book club meetings to baby showers, Valli Little's light menu is perfect for girly get-togethers." delicious This is going to be a...
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Jun 24, 2021
Delivering food to you
"In recent years, the food delivery space has become one of the biggest and most lucrative in the tech world; in 2014, venture...
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Jun 23, 2021
Takeaway food - a brief history
"Since the dawn of time, the human race has always looked for ways to make their lives better. Most of these improvements revolve around...
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Jun 22, 2021
Pesto today
Somewhere on its path to global ubiquity, pesto became a catchall name for any random herby sauce thrown in a blender." Lesley Pariseau...
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Jun 21, 2021
A winter picnic
"Everything tastes better outdoors. There is something about fresh air and the liberating effects of nature which sharpens the appetite...
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Jun 20, 2021
Birthday fine dining
"What restaurants need to be focussing on is their own people, their neighbours, families and friends, and cooking for them simply and...
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Jun 19, 2021
Why not apple jam rather than jelly?
As you can probably tell I have recently acquired the latest Coles Magazine and am gradually working my way through the things that...
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Jun 18, 2021
Anatomy of a super trendy recipe
Vegan miso eggplant with tofu and sesame pumpkin - Coles Magazine June 2021. Recipe Amanda Lennon Photography Ben Dearnley Styling Emma...
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Jun 17, 2021
Those savoury prunes
I promised to write a second post on prunes in savoury dishes, and then I thought I wouldn't because you'd probably had enough of prunes,...
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Jun 16, 2021
Watercress
"Once you have become addicted to the peppery hit watercress provides, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it." Maggie Beer I have...
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Jun 15, 2021
Zoom food for the soul
“Happiness [is] only real when shared” - Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild Yesterday was our postponed Zoom cooking class - and here we all...
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Jun 14, 2021
An empty jar crisis
Apologies for these photos - not very good and also not very informative because both show just a section of my jar storage area in my...
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Jun 13, 2021
Lucky dip - other greens
"If you can imagine a buttery, meltingly soft, mustard-greens-flavoured polenta, this is it." Madhur Jaffrey There were a couple of...
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Jun 12, 2021
A special bargain
"Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny." Plutarch I'm trying to get back to the David's...
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Jun 11, 2021
Foodie blogs and one in particular
"Food blogs fall loosely into categories I call the six Rs: reviews, recipes, rants, raves, rumours and reflections." Paul Best - Sydney...
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