Every day needs a good start. Christmas is no different. If there was one dish out of 2010 that made me swoon and say inappropriate things in a public place it was the egg dish at Momofuku Ko. It’s onions cooked so slowly and softly that they’re a sweet waifish puddle. It’s eggs, cooked for […]
Archive for December, 2010
It’s not really Christmas without some booze at breakfast. The first year The Hungry One came to Christmas breakfast at my Dad’s, he was stumped. At 8 am the first bottle of Moet was cracked. “We drink at breakfast…?” he whispered to me. Yes. Yes we do. Since then he’s got used to it. It’s […]
Most Christmases I get to do a nice line in sides. Back in Sydney the weather is usually hot and sticky enough to make you feel like you’ve just had a hug from a child that’s manhandled a honey sandwich. There’s a big crowd for Christmas eve. There are pink daiquiris. A ham branded with […]
Whatever happened to afternoon tea? That genteel time where you sat down with a steaming mug, moved away from your computer and had a chat or a flick through the paper? Like my good tights, the second button on my coat and a smug ability to say I’d never been sick from alcohol, I lost […]
Most of the time when I’m cooking for just myself dinner will look like this: There aren’t that many manners involved and I certainly don’t keep my elbows off the table. It’s usually eaten on the couch, while watching something inane. But on this particular night, I wasn’t really on my own. I had a […]