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- 1 day ago
Stephanie at lunch in WA
"Each ingredient had been created, harvested or grown by someone with passion for and a commitment to quality. This is what good food...
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- Jun 13
Ottolenghi's tomato tarts
"The best thing to do to overcome feeling downcast and gloomy is to eat tomatoes a few times a week, say researchers." The Health Site I...
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- Apr 24
Specks
"Speck - a tiny patch or spot" Vocabulary.com Speck So these are not really specks - they are too big, but it is Speck with a capital S...
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- Mar 7
Summer's end
"Moods, like seasons, change and the anticipation of something new and different is what gives life an edge." Delia Smith It's my guru...
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- Jan 20
A 46 year-old bottle of wine
"Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of...
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- Nov 15, 2022
Game on - well not in Australia
"See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound,...
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- Oct 16, 2022
What was it all about?
Was it about the wine, the view, the company or the food, maybe even the cookbooks? We had a really good day yesterday, theoretically a...
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- Sep 15, 2022
Sugar cane
"reeds that produce honey without bees" Yesterday we journeyed to the beautiful Mossman Gorge in the Daintree. As any of you have been...
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- Jun 16, 2022
Bees like purple and it will save them
"If technology can play a role in protecting this amazing species then we need to embrace it before it's too late." Ian Cane - Beekeeper...
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- Jun 4, 2022
Duxelles - a first recipe
"A few spoonfuls can be used to cut out the early stages of those many recipes which begin with onion and mushrooms sweated slowly...
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- Apr 25, 2022
Grains in a salad - ancient or new?
"The vast array of grains marketed as ancient—from quinoa to millet to spelt—are, yes, old. Maybe 3,000 years. Maybe 8,000. Who knows?...
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- Mar 3, 2022
Humpty Doo barramundi
Well actually, as always, this is going to be about more than Humpty Doo. But I will start there. The actual starting point for this was...
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- Jan 12, 2022
Strawberries - Manet, Renoir, Jane Grigson and Snow White
"When Chardin lived, wild strawberries were the only ones. His contemporary, Diderot, described them as being like 'the tip of a...
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- Nov 19, 2021
A climatarian diet? Too hard
“It boils down to people buying what they need, and using what they buy." Andrew Parry - Wrap Does it though? I think it's much more...
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- Nov 10, 2021
Titbits
"TITBIT - a choice morsel of food; a small and particularly interesting item of gossip or information." I have book group here tonight,...
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- Oct 25, 2021
Cheese bits
"Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love." M. F. K. Fisher I have used that particular quote as my...
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- Oct 22, 2021
What about smoked salmon?
"it is almost guaranteed that at some point this Christmas, you will eat smoked salmon." Tony Naylor - The Guardian We always have some...
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- Oct 21, 2021
Do I stop eating salmon?
“It’s the pink fish finger of the 21st century." Richard Flanagan I have had salmon on my to do list for some time now but have felt a...
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- Oct 8, 2021
Soy - miracle health food or destroyer of the planet?
"Whether you know it or not, you'll probably be eating soya today. It's in 60% of all processed food, from cheese to ice cream, baby...
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- Aug 31, 2021
The importance of poo
"1% of wastewater is waste. The rest is wasted water." I can't remember why now that poo got on to my list of potential blog topics, but...
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