Category: Recipe
My kid brother is a maniac. He’s an in-training bodybuilder who has shoulders broad enough to carry a house and seems to subsist with low-carb, low-fat, high protein meals nearly all the time (usually containing tuna or chicken). Now me, I can’t understand this obsession and I certainly …
Whilst I bake cakes fairly often (there is a new cake on the kitchen bench on average once a fortnight), I generally go for plain cakes that don’t require any fancing piping or icing – not as a personal choice, but because my family tend to prefer simple …
With China, Japan and Korea being in such close proximity to each other, it means that many dishes cross the short distances to each country, either in its existing form or being recreated into a new variation (such as Korea’s kimbap – a take on the Japanese sushi, …
So what do you get when you take a sponge cake, chop it into squares, smother them in thick glossy chocolate icing then give them a good dredging in dessicated coconut? Why, a wonderful treat known as the lamington cake, of course! Much like the humble pavlova, the …
Anyone who has read this blog for any number of time knows that I love spending hours in the kitchen. Baking, in particular – I love rolling up my sleeves and attacking an unfamiliar recipe with gusto, watching with nervous anticipation to see whether it turns out. Nearly …
My brother is a health nut. Almost every day for lunch he has a tuna salad (tuna in springwater, chopped vegetables with no dressing!) and he rarely if ever indulges in naughty things such as sweets, cookies, cakes or chocolate. In fact, I often have to cajole him …
I often joke with my friends that I live in the middle of Sticksville Suburbia – about a 20 minute drive from my home and you encounter paddocks of sleepy-eyed sheep and horses grazing side by side, and there’s an entire strip of road with small-scale farms all …
For those of you who read other food blogs, you’re probably well aware of the sudden increase in the number of ice cream and sorbet recipes appearing all over the place as our Northern neighbours hit the peak of their summer season with all the sweltering heat and …
It’s a blustery day, the cold Autumn wind chafing my cheeks and turning my fingers into frozen little fishsticks despite my gloves. School’s finished for the day, and arm in arm with my girlfriends, we go racing down the path from our school to a tiny little shopfront …
Sometimes you try a food or a recipe for the first time and it just lets you down. Pretty badly, in fact. That was my relationship with scones – I’d tried one when I was quite young at a little tea house in Olinda, but I was thoroughly …
