By the time I post this, the UEFA Soccer Cup will be over, and we will know whether Italy or Spain has won. I am not, in all probability, going to get up to watch it, even though I did…
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Recipe: Lemon and Kaffir Lime Delicious Pudding
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…
Recipe: Unnaturally Blue Curaçao Tart for Eurovision
Well, that was really rather a satisfactory Eurovision. I actually liked Sweden quite a bit, and while I still feel that Turkey and Iceland were robbed, there was a very pleasing mix of the truly bizarre (moonwalking bagpipe players?) with…
Recipe: Crêpes for pancake day
This blog is getting a bit Lent-themed at present, but what do you expect from someone who is involved in three separate church choirs? Anyway, Pancake Day (also known as Shrove Tuesday) could stand to be celebrated a bit more…
Recipe: Oma’s Gingerbread
No, I haven’t abandoned this blog! It just turns out that if you take one choir concert, two grant applications and a bunch of grant outcomes, stir in a couple of work events and add an upcoming Shakespeare Feast, you…
Recipe: Macaroni Cheese with chipotle pepper, leafy greens and cruciferous vegetables
Ah, cheesy pasta bake. The best comfort food in the world, not least because you can put practically anything in it successfully. Pasta bakes are my go-to dish when I have a lot of random vegetables in the fridge and…
Recipe: Lovely Rice Pudding For Dinner Again
After you all egged me on to make rice pudding the other day, I found myself compelled to give it a try. The difficulty was, my evil, chocolate-loving side wanted to make a completely decadent rice pudding with chocolate and…