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- Oct 1
Venice leeks and what's for dinner tonight?
"Perhaps no one ever gets to know Venice as much as they remember her, recall her from an episode in some other dream." Marlena de Blasi...
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- Sep 20
Cabbage rolls from long ago
Once upon a time I sat in this very spot and gazed upon the Mostar bridge. Well I am 90% certain it was in this spot - although, when I...
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- Sep 19
Cabbage, potatoes, Portugal, soup - basic
"I have written this book to introduce Portuguese dishes to cooks in this country, rather than to tell them what to eat in Portugal." ...
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- May 9
Half a jar of sauerkraut
“When life gives you cabbage, prepare sauerkraut.” popular saying Sauerkraut is extremely fashionable at the moment - all that...
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- May 2
Fashionable foraging
"If it's had something urinate on it, it's good to eat." Mike Eggert "The face of Mussel man, a.k.a Lance Wiffen from the Sea Bounty in...
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- Mar 6
Do as you're told
"Do what you're told and everything will be alright" Norman Jewison When it comes to cooking it's a dilemma. Do you do what you're...
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- Feb 27
German food - is it really that bad?
"During the last 50 years that nation has changed more than any other in Western Europe. Yet it has remained German, because everything...
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- Feb 16
Wedge salads
"America's silliest salad. It's built upon the back of the least flavorful and least nutrient-dense lettuce available and blanketed in...
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- Dec 16, 2022
So much lettuce
"Lettuce is not mere padding or blank backdrop for more exotic or shouty salad ingredients – it's a summer vegetable as worthy of...
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- Dec 15, 2022
Bubble and squeak
"As kitchen recycling goes, this is probably the most useful of all, neatly dispensing with those most difficult of leftovers." Nigel...
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- Dec 3, 2022
Sides
"Tasty enough on its own, but humble enough to not take away from the main event" OTK Extra Good Things Just to make clear, this is not...
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- Aug 6, 2022
Greens and bread
Ever since I got Ottolenghi's first Test Kitchen book - Shelf Love, I have been meaning to make this recipe. It's called Kale pesto...
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- Jul 28, 2022
A chicken and Brussels sprouts challenge
"Romans called these tender buttons bullata gemmifera (diamond-makers) because consumption was rumoured to enhance a diner's mental...
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- Jun 28, 2022
Which recipe would you choose?
"food writing is so cool, calm and collected that it’s nearly hypnotic" A Cookbook a Month So I have this big bag of silverbeet, some of...
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- May 21, 2022
Blasts from the past in the Dandenongs
Yesterday I wrote no post - the one I posted was really from the day before - because I spent the afternoon up in the Dandenongs meeting...
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- Mar 20, 2022
4 common leftovers - no. 3 - salad greens
"If you have any in the fridge, the time to use them is now." Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall I tend to think that the problem here is as...
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- Dec 15, 2021
Iceberg lettuce
"The boring football known as iceberg." Nigel Slater "Icebergs might be mostly water but it is not watery. Its thing is crunch." The...
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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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- Sep 1, 2021
Sorrel - a lucky dip
"this vibrant leaf with an inbuilt wow factor" Yotam Ottolenghi It's possible I have written about sorrel before, but my browsing of my...
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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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