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Farmers’ Market: Getting warmer…
Author: Catherine
Recipe: Pistachio and Cardamom Kourabiedes
I intended to go to the Food Bloggers’ picnic in Melbourne today, but just couldn’t drag myself out of bed again today. And then I spent the day alternating between lurching, zombie-like around the house, and feverishly baking because I…
Adventures with Ingredients: La Latteria and Gewürzhaus
I had the day off today, which meant it was a day to go exploring interesting food shops! After I went to that cheesemaking workshop, my father mentioned that his grandfathers both used to make cheese (and that, in fact,…
Recipe: Too Tired To Cook Veggies and Cheese on Toast
Tomorrow is my RDO, and I have every intention of spending it sleeping, because the last few weeks have been brutal. It isn’t that I don’t enjoy socialising, but it has been pretty relentless, both at home and at work.…
Recipe: Rosy Berries with Mascarpone and Yoghurt
Apparently, raspberries, blackberries and roses are all part of the same botanical family. You can sort of tell, if you are paying attention – they bicker over who started it, embarrass each other in front of boyfriends by loudly anticipating…
Recipe: Chocolate and Raspberry Truffle Cake
I know, I know, it’s chocolate and raspberries again. I have no imagination. But it’s such a delicious flavour combination! This cake was made on the rather flimsy excuse of the recent Rugby World Cup. We had a tipping competition,…
Organisational Cooking
Those of you who read this journal on a regular basis may have noticed that I am rather fond of cooking. And of course I am. What I am less fond of, I must confess, is the boring days when…
Grandiose Gardening Plans
Another week with very little blogging, this time because I’ve barely been home – since last Sunday, I’ve either had dinner guests or been out myself every single evening (including this evening, in fact – yay, paid singing gig!), and…
Leftovers…
Remember that evil jelly from Pericles? And how I planned to have it with berries and cream and meringues for dessert when we had people to dinner the next day? Well, I did. And it was fabulous. Also, beautiful. I…
Recipe: Chocolate, Apricot and Rosemary Cupcakes
I woke up on Sunday morning with this recipe in my head – not, I am glad to say, being dictated by my subconscious in a dream, but more a natural progression of the fact that I hadn’t slept well…