Author: Catherine

Ancient Roman Inferiority Complex

This blog will probably be on the quiet side for the next couple of days.  I do, however, have the best possible reason for not writing much about food – I’m going to be far too busy cooking it. One…

Recipe: Red Cabbage, German style

This recipe comes from Dr Oetker’s German Cooking Today, with a few little tweaks by me.  I don’t know how to describe it, because to me it’s the thing you do with red cabbage.  (Apparently, there is no other thing…

What’s for dinner?

What do you cook on those nights when you really don’t feel like cooking?  For me, nine times out of ten it’s pasta.  Generally baked with something, though my old friend, pasta bolognese, the first dish I ever cooked by…

Recipe: Chocolate, Coconut and Raspberry Cupcakes

Today my workplace is holding the Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea, a cancer research fundraiser which is very popular with hungry scientists!  Since I work in a medical research institute looking after a couple of cancer research Divisions, we take this…

Farmers’ Market

Today was our Farmers’ Market Day! There’s something very special about Farmers’ markets.  We  go to the one at the Showgrounds, which is on every Sunday morning, and we go there most fortnights, before choir. One of the fun things…

Recipe: Chocolate for Breakfast

The official name for this recipe, which comes from Less Meat, More Veg, is ‘Chocolate, Coconut and Raspberry Spread’, but I like to think of it as Chocolate for Breakfast, as that is basically the point.  You can say all…