I keep writing menu lists for tomorrow and putting them down in silly places and not being able to find them. I won’t lose this one.
Author: Catherine
Another Shakespeare Feast…
We’re doing Henry VIII (which also goes by the highly inaccurate name of ‘All is True’) on Sunday, so it’s time to go hunting for appropriate recipes. (Is it just me, or do recipes disappear out of cookbooks when you…
Recipe: Coburg Garden Cake
Brunswick and Coburg, the suburbs in which I have lived most of my adult life, were both settled from the 1950s onward by working class immigrants from Italy, Greece, Turkey and other parts of the Mediterranean. The proof of this…
Rosemary!
Someone from work has been trimming his or her rosemary bushes again, so I’ve snagged another gorgeous branch of rosemary for my culinary needs. (The things I suffer…) I’m pretty well set for the next week of dinners, and I…
Farmers’ Market: Everything is better with garlic
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Respect the chicken!
(This is another one of those ‘I’m really not vegetarian’ posts.) I talk a fair bit here about respecting the chicken (or the lamb, or the beef, as the case may be), and being mindful of where meat comes from,…
Recipe: Christmas Pudding
I know, I know, it’s November and I’m talking about Christmas. But a traditional Christmas Pudding should be made well in advance, though mine is a fridge-dweller rather than the kind you hang off the clothes-horse to dry out. Also,…
Recipe: Warm Sweet Potato and Pumpkin Salad
So I was minding my own business at work this Friday (and I apologise once again for the dearth of posts here, but work has been *crazy*) when I got an SMS from Andrew: “Do you have a recipe for…
Harvest!
Look! I have grown vegetables! Aren’t they beautiful? Yes, I think so, too.
Recipe: Farfalle with Asparagus, Broad Beans and Quail Eggs
I feel so pretentious even writing ‘quail eggs’ in the title of this. Suddenly, it’s like I’m on Posh Nosh and I should be writing a recipe which says things like ‘mellifluously confuse the quail eggs until they are a…