Author: Catherine

Recipe: Lemon Drink with Orange Flower Water

This is based on the recipe from Abla’s Lebanese Kitchen (speaking of Lebanese restaurants which I really must visit), but it’s inspired by the amazing lemon drink we had at Sabas on Saturday.  It’s quite quick to make, and an…

Farmers’ Market Dinner…

Tonight’s menu: Sorrel and silverbeet soup, with leeks, carrots, coriander and wild fennel Home made barley bread rolls, with lavender salt on top and smoked garlic butter Rhubarb crumble cake (made with a goose egg!!) Tomorrow’s breakfast: Home made barley…

Eating out: Sabas Lebanese Restaurant

We met up with Andrew’s parents for lunch today.  They live in Glen Waverley, which is not terribly close to Coburg, and given Andrew’s current homework load, and my current tiredness load, I suggested meeting somewhere between the two suburbs…

Recipe: Quick Rhubarb Crumble for Spring

I really want to write about – and cook – asparagus, because it’s Spring now, and I’m absolutely itching to get to the market on Sunday and see if they have asparagus yet.  I won’t buy asparagus until I find…

Recipe: Not Really Moussaka

So I had this idea about making vegetarian moussaka with some of the leftovers and veggies I had in the house.  And I looked at the Delia vegetarian moussaka, and liked the look of it, so I thought I’d give…

Just some domestic cooking…

I’m feeling very virtuous today, cooking-wise.  I have a big pot of vegetarian chilli simmering, which will be tonight’s dinner as well as being numerous dinners to come.  My freezer has been getting a bit depleted of late, but this…

Recipe: Primary Colour Marble Cake

The local garden shop has mutated into a local garden shop that also sells really interesting obscure organic ingredients.  Excellent.  One of their interesting obscure ingredients was strawberry powder, which is freeze-dried strawberries ground into a powder.  It’s lovely –…