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: vegetarian
Recipe: Eurovision Random Fridge Brownies
Tonight is the first Eurovision Semifinal (or rather, it is when they broadcast the first semi-final in Australia), and it is our tradition to watch both semi-finals each year, for the simple reason that so often the true gems don’t…
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: Linzer Torte, Traditional and Sydney Road Style
Mothers’ Day has never been something we’ve really celebrated in our family (Mum just wasn’t into it. Maybe because I would have quite liked to do breakfast in bed when I was little, and she feared what I would do…
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: Pudding Brownies with Cream Cheese and Cherries
I had such grandiose plans for this anniversary post! I was going to make macarons! I was going to make a gluten-free *and* vegan number 1 cake in best Women’s Weekly style! I was going to have a party and…
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…