There is a market post in the works, mostly speculating on why on earth it suddenly seems to be autumn in the marketplace – seriously, pumpkins, venison, kale, more pumpkins, carrots, pumpkins again, mushrooms – hasn’t Melbourne noticed that spring…
Author: Catherine
Recipe: Stuffed Pasta Shells with Ricotta, Mint and Feta
Aargh! Here I am, with the best intentions in the world about posting lots of exciting things, and I can’t, because I don’t have time, because I’m too busy cooking! Well, and singing. To give you a brief glimpse of…
Recipe: Chocolate Chilli Cupcakes that everyone can eat
Hello again! And hello new people who wandered over from Broadsheet Melbourne, which I gather wrote lovely things about me yesterday. I am ridiculously flattered and delighted by this! (So lovely not just to get a review, but a review…
Recipe: Getting My Goat
This entry was going to be a recipe for goat and cardoon tagine. I’m still going to include the recipe at the bottom of this post, because Andrew quite liked it, but I really, really didn’t. Instead I’m going to…
Farmer’s Market With Fairy-Tale Ingredients
Today was such a good market day! It was the 5th Sunday of the month, and it’s late July, so I wasn’t expecting great things – this tends to be a combination that leads to a smaller number of stalls…
Leftovers for dinner: Lamb with Vaguely Turkish Eggplants and Yoghurt
I had a couple of lamb mini-roasts from Koallah Farm, which I had planned for dinner when a friend was coming around… in the end, it was just me and Andrew that evening, so I had an entire mini roast,…
Eating Out: Zaatar, Coburg
For many years, there was a truckies’ café called Zorba’s on the corner of Sydney Rd and Munro St, which served cheap souvlaki, chips, hamburgers, and other food of that ilk until 2am weeknights (4am on weekends). In my more…
Recipe: Nearly Raw Truffles of Two Kinds!
Between work, singing and this allegedly-healthy global walking challenge, I seem to be in a constant state of exhaustion at present, which is not conducive to blog posts. It doesn’t help that I’m so tired I’m actually following recipes at…
Recipe: Early Morning Vegan Chocolate-Banana-Oat Cookies
I’m still playing with my Nigella Lawson app. And yes, it’s 7:30 in the morning, which is a stupid time to be baking, but I woke up at 6:00 when I realised we hadn’t put the bins out, and once…
Best recipe instruction ever…
This is a quick, promissory post, because I have been out basically all weekend with singing and visiting people, except for last night, when I was at home and might theoretically have been productive if I hadn’t had a very…