I saw a punnet of dried cherries at the Middle Eastern grocery store near me the other day. Never having had dried cherries before, I thought I’d give them a try, especially as the owner of the store waxed positively…
Author: Catherine
In which I am famous, and also have yummy cheese
Post-choir dinner tonight: Lentils with peppers, good bread, and the feta and gourmet feta I made on Sunday. I’m really looking forward to it, actually.
Recipe: Lemon Meringue Sponge Cake
This is the aforementioned six-hour cake. It might take less time if I were truly and reliably competent at either Genoise sponge, meringue, or lemon curd (and actually, these days, I have it down to about five hours, assuming nothing…
Learning Petits Fours
I’m beginning to realise the flaw in this food blogging gig: I can’t actually cook and blog at the same time. The days when I’m cooking like a maniac, or having people around for dinner, or going to cooking classes…
Worth a thousand words?
What I did today. You’ll have to wait until tomorrow for the full story…
Making Cheese while the Sun Shines
Well, it shone a bit. Or didn’t actively rain. Something like that, anyway. Today, I attended a one-day workshop on making feta cheese. Actually, we made four kinds of cheesestuff – Greek-style feta, gourmet feta, yoghurt and ricotta – and…
Truffles again, and a little gloat
I have cooked my first truffle! Or rather, I have prepared my first truffle – I didn’t actually cook it. I shaved thin slices off it for my meal and put the rest of it in a container full of…
Chocolate Rush Festival
Today, I decided to check out the Chocolate Rush Festival, which is running in Melbourne this weekend. I wasn’t originally planning to blog about it (I’ve read not one, but *two* food-infested novels in the last two days which I…
Recipe: One step up from takeaway
Today is the first day of my holidays, which means that I am exhausted to the point that I spent about ten minutes wandering around the kitchen at lunchtime today dithering about how to make a salad and continually opening…
Recipe: Bulgur Wheat and Mushroom Burgers
I’ve been meaning for a while to post a recipe from Vegetarian Suppers from Deborah Madison’s Kitchen, to go with the review I wrote. It’s actually very hard to choose just one, but these burgers are are a recipe I…