This is the first in a series of posts, which apart from being useful, will also act as something of an apology. Full confession; It all started with cocktails. Then wine. Too much wine. It was then that I climbed onto my high horse. I think anyone who’s more than a passing visitor to this […]
In the kitchen
Ah, plane food. Such a constellation of delights. This is a story about one of them. Granted, I wasn’t in the greatest of moods when we started our 28 hour commute from Sydney to London. We travel lots, but I’m yet to master being charming all the time while being squeezed into a metal tube […]
There’s nothing glamorous about gnawing on a mango while juices trail down to the inside of your elbow. And while scraping the flesh out with your teeth while standing in dripping wet swimmers may have been fine for the seven year old me, these days I’m in search of a better way. For years […]
This is less of a recipe and more of an edible postcard. Greetings from here. If the adage says that you should start a year the way you wish it to go on, this is not a bad way to do it. I’m sitting at the solid blonde table in our friends’ place at Avoca […]
This is a dish for special occasions. If you were to overhear the start of a conversation about why, it has all the hallmarks of an appetising one. ‘Coffee, dark, aura, chilli,’… there’s every chance these will be muddled in the first sentences. It’s only afterwards if you catch the references to vomiting, pain and […]