It’s bitterly cold in Melbourne at the moment. We don’t usually get seriously cold here in June (and I’m sure you Europeans and Americans reading this would laugh at my definition of seriously cold, since it doesn’t involve snow, or…
Category: dairy-free
Recipe: Chicken in a Pot with Artichoke and Aioli
This recipe fills me with delight. Really, the reason I bought a slow cooker was to be able to have something cooking all afternoon that would make the house smell wonderful. Well, I had to go out to the shops…
Recipe: Friendly Raspberry, Coconut and Lemon Marble Cakes
Tomorrow, my workplace is hosting Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea, a fundraiser for the Cancer Council. Since a lot of my postdocs and PhD students are supported by the Cancer Council in one way or another (and because we are all…
Recipe: Fruity Macarons
I seem to be on a roll with gluten-free recipes at present. I’m not sure why that is, but there you have it. I’m going to start by acknowledging that these macarons lack something in looks. One might say they…
Recipe: Gluten-Free Sponge Cake
My mother asked me to make a couple of ‘lemony sponge cakes’ for my parents’ 40th wedding anniversary party last Saturday (Happy Anniversary, Mum and Dad!). I immediately suggested the insane lemon meringue cake that I like to make for…
Recipe: Fudgy Chocolate and Beetroot Cake (Vegan)
Chocolate and beetroot cake sounds like such a bad idea, but it really isn’t. It turns out I own several recipes for it, in fact, though they use tinned beetroot, which doesn’t sound like a winning strategy to me. Also,…
Recipe: Moroccan Snake Cake
This recipe is adapted from a Claudia Roden recipe (which I think turns up in different forms in several of her books). It’s fairly heavily adapted, actually. For one thing, my version is vegan, though yours doesn’t have to be. …
Recipe: Preserved Kumquats (an unfinished tale)
My brother has a kumquat tree. It’s quite an enthusiastic tree – apparently it bears fruit all year round, relentlessly. Since kumquats are not, on the whole, a fruit you can just eat off the tree, he has been looking…
Recipe: I Just Felt Like Playing In The Pantry Biscuity Slicy Thing
This recipe started off with me deciding that what I really needed in life was a nice, chewy, oaty biscuit with chocolate and dried cherries and almonds in it. I didn’t have a recipe for that, but I did have…
Recipe: Fresh Ginger Cake (Vegan!)
(First post on my new computer, finding new programs and functionalities as I go… let’s hope for the best…) We had friends to dinner tonight, and I thought it would be nice to make David Lebovitz’s fresh ginger cake and…