I’m a pretty easy, cheap date. Sure, you can fly me to the other side of the globe and take me out to dinner. You can seat me at one of the best restaurants in the world- happily. Heck, if you even felt like you needed to make a list of the top ten restaurants […]
Archive for September, 2014
This is another edible postcard of a recipe, direct from my mother’s back garden in Berry, on the south coast of NSW. It’s essentially sunlight on a plate. Will and I went for a quick jaunt and some R&R last week. We went to check in on the horses; Stormy and Pancake. While we […]
Come for dinner Thursday night? I’ll make beef pie. Excellent. I’ll bring the wine. So was the text exchange between us and one of our oldest friends last week. Those who have been reading for long will know him as ‘Chef’ from our shared trip to El Bulli (five years on and it’s still one […]
New is addictive. Something shiny, something novel. But it can also be exhausting. Sometimes, staples are staples for a reason. They’re comforting. They work (she says after being bitterly disappointed with an experiment in triple coconut cakes yesterday, made with coconut flour and sunny with nuggets of mango. They were supposed to be the post […]
Cake is good for morale. Or, as Julia Child said; “a party without cake is just a meeting” (thank you to the lovely Loveyoubig for reminding me of that nugget of wisdom). I’m all for finding small reasons to celebrate. Here’s something that’s good for morale: libraries. In the local library last week, I picked […]