I am such a lunatic right now. I’m bouncing off the walls and giggling madly at the completely insane set of tasks ahead of me this month. And then someone sends me an email mentioning shiny metallic food paint and…
Category: gluten-free
A foray into the world of business…
Clearly, I don’t have the commercial mind, because I’ve just spent ten minutes drafting and re-drafting the beginning of this post and deleting everything again. So maybe I should just cut to the chase. I’m trying to earn a little…
Recipe: Coburg Garden Cake
Brunswick and Coburg, the suburbs in which I have lived most of my adult life, were both settled from the 1950s onward by working class immigrants from Italy, Greece, Turkey and other parts of the Mediterranean. The proof of this…
Recipe: Warm Sweet Potato and Pumpkin Salad
So I was minding my own business at work this Friday (and I apologise once again for the dearth of posts here, but work has been *crazy*) when I got an SMS from Andrew: “Do you have a recipe for…
Recipe: Farfalle with Asparagus, Broad Beans and Quail Eggs
I feel so pretentious even writing ‘quail eggs’ in the title of this. Suddenly, it’s like I’m on Posh Nosh and I should be writing a recipe which says things like ‘mellifluously confuse the quail eggs until they are a…
Recipe: Too Tired To Cook Veggies and Cheese on Toast
Tomorrow is my RDO, and I have every intention of spending it sleeping, because the last few weeks have been brutal. It isn’t that I don’t enjoy socialising, but it has been pretty relentless, both at home and at work.…
Recipe: Rosy Berries with Mascarpone and Yoghurt
Apparently, raspberries, blackberries and roses are all part of the same botanical family. You can sort of tell, if you are paying attention – they bicker over who started it, embarrass each other in front of boyfriends by loudly anticipating…
Recipe: Chocolate and Raspberry Truffle Cake
I know, I know, it’s chocolate and raspberries again. I have no imagination. But it’s such a delicious flavour combination! This cake was made on the rather flimsy excuse of the recent Rugby World Cup. We had a tipping competition,…
Recipe: Chocolate, Apricot and Rosemary Cupcakes
I woke up on Sunday morning with this recipe in my head – not, I am glad to say, being dictated by my subconscious in a dream, but more a natural progression of the fact that I hadn’t slept well…
Recipe: Apricot and Orange Sweetmeats
We’re doing Pericles tomorrow, which means I am cooking like a maniac to prepare a middle-eastern themed feast, and my head is full of lists of things to make, things to decorate, things that need to be set out, things…