This post feels a bit like a daisy chain, because on the one hand I am pointing you at a post with a recipe I absolutely loved when I made it last week, and on the other hand I am…
Category: Writing about cooking
How not to follow a recipe…
I’m slightly overwhelmed by other projects today, so here’s an old post from my other online journal that I ran across while looking for something else and found amusing. Hopefully, you’ll find it amusing too. Fontina, Cima di Rape and…
Meat!
I always feel faintly guilty writing about meat on this blog. It’s not that I pretend to be vegetarian or to write a vegetarian blog (though I admit, having this blog is influencing me to make more vegetarian food, because…
Farmers’ Market Dinner…
Tonight’s menu: Sorrel and silverbeet soup, with leeks, carrots, coriander and wild fennel Home made barley bread rolls, with lavender salt on top and smoked garlic butter Rhubarb crumble cake (made with a goose egg!!) Tomorrow’s breakfast: Home made barley…
Just some domestic cooking…
I’m feeling very virtuous today, cooking-wise. I have a big pot of vegetarian chilli simmering, which will be tonight’s dinner as well as being numerous dinners to come. My freezer has been getting a bit depleted of late, but this…
Mmmm….
Someone in my workplace has been pruning their rosemary bush, so there were big branches of rosemary stacked on the bench of the Tea Room, dark green and aromatic, a gift to the hopeful cook. I grabbed four big branches. …
Being domestic
I’m afraid my food thoughts aren’t very inspiring this weekend. I’ve been pottering around being domestic and organised, getting things together for the week ahead at work.
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I *have* to do this…
I’ve been trying not to go on and on and on about MasterChef Australia on this blog, partly because I think one has to be very, very good to make talking about reality TV entertaining, and I’m not that good,…
Who are you and what have you done with Catherine?
It’s been a little quiet around here, which wasn’t my intention. Several of you have asked me for particular recipes – which I will get to, I promise! – but work has just gone into grant-writing mode again, and I…