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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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- Oct 13, 2022
Serve with?
I said I would, and tonight is the night that I am going to cook Ottolenghi's Double lemon chicken with cheat's preserved lemon. It's...
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- Sep 22, 2022
Normality - a Coles shop
This is our second day back in Melbourne and today we did a biggish shop. Yesterday we shopped but only for what we immediately needed -...
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- Jan 22, 2022
Is your freezer your friend or enemy?
"much insight can be gained when having a rummage through a person's freezer." Shelf Love Which is a bit of a worry if you rummaged...
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- Dec 1, 2021
My pissaladière story
"just add spring sunshine and a glass of wine" Andrew McConnell Tonight my local book group is meeting to choose our books for next year....
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- Aug 27, 2021
What's for dinner?
"We have to stop seeing cooking as a problem when it's actually a solution." Adam Liaw I have to say that I am totally uninspired today....
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- May 15, 2021
Delia to the rescue
"Formal dinners are over, but casual cooking for friends throws up a new set of dilemmas." Tony Naylor My mind is currently preoccupied...
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- Apr 12, 2021
Is your fridge big enough?
"The appliance they illustrated the rule with was so comically clean and colour-coordinated, you wonder who can live – and shop and cook...
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- Mar 30, 2021
Bring a plate
"Yes, bring a plate is an Aussie thing, but what does it mean? According to the Australian National University’s ‘Meanings and origins of...
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- Feb 28, 2021
Deciding on dinner
"A meal plan should not dictate your life." Tony Naylor Every day everyone has to confront the issue of what to cook for dinner. Well...
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