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- Oct 28
My grandchildren didn't eat the sausages
"I live in fear of the phrase "just enough". I regard just enough as nowhere near enough. Just enough means too little. It means one...
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- Oct 7
The challenge of feeding families
"Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by...
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- Jul 26
French in Fitzroy
"the things Melbourne and France value in dining: character, charm, classics executed well and an atmosphere-charged place to take it all...
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- May 12
Kitchen satisfactions
"A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house." Michael Ruhlman This is my kitchen. I love it. It's one...
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- Apr 12
They say I'm a good cook - but ...
"You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking." Julia Child...
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- Apr 3
Cooking for your man
"To Reuben who married me before I learned to cook." Chairman Solomon I have recently set myself another goal - to cook something, every...
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- Feb 20
Lessons from a family feast
“If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a...
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- Sep 5, 2022
Why do we photograph food?
"Studies show that the connection between food photography and cravings is visceral. Eating with your eyes is more than a witty saying –...
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- Jan 26, 2022
A chicken breast on a hot day
"don’t subscribe to the fatalistic notion that people simply “run out of ideas.” There are infinitely more ideas than you could ever use...
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- Jan 13, 2022
2021 - a shrinking world of small delights and triumphs
"People don't like change. But make the change happen fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another." Terry Pratchett 2020...
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- Dec 8, 2021
A jug
"As cooks, we hang on to some implements for vast periods of time ... What starts out as a mere functional tool, through time becomes...
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- Aug 18, 2021
A dream tea on the terrace
"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."...
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- Jul 27, 2021
Learning from the grandchildren
I'm not sure that I can call my older grandchildren children anymore. The two oldest are technically teenagers anyway and the next two...
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- Jul 19, 2021
Zoom lessons
"a chatroom that has gone from almost no one having ever heard of it to being a central instrument in our jobs." Bored Panda More than...
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- Jul 1, 2021
OBE - over bloody eighty
"The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love." Jean Renoir My darling husband turned eighty yesterday. ...
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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 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 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 7, 2021
Home-made enchiladas
"An enchilada is a corn tortilla rolled around a filling and covered with a savory sauce." Wikipedia Lockdown has its advantages for...
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- May 23, 2021
Watch and learn - teaching kids to cook
"If I had one wish, I’d wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food. To inspire...
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