Seed and Water Crackers – Mad Max Fury Road

 

The Dish:

The Reason:

In the post apocalyptic future of George Miller’s Fury Road, two things are particularly prized; seeds and water. You may not possess the bravery of Furiosa (Charlize Theron), or the anguish of Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) but if you can salvage enough seeds and a cup of water, you can have these.  The edges of these crackers are as jagged as the sides of the canyons and the surface as dry as the salt flats that now lie where the Green Place once was. They are ideally baked over a few hours in a low oven, though the blazing dry heat of the ochre dessert (or on top …

Cranberry Bear Claws – The Revenant

It’s that time of year again. Please excuse the brief departure from the merits of the slow carbohydrate life. Warning, what follows may possibly involve wheat, gluten, refined sugars etc. I say it’s in the name of art. And sometimes, you just need a full palate/palette.  Here is this year’s OscarsFeast, with a dish inspired by each of the best picture nominees for the Academy Awards. First up; The Revenant.

The Film

The Dish:

The Reason:

To get into the spirit of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s survival epic ‘The Revenant’ you could have your throat mauled by a bear, cauterize your own wounds and crawl across half of South Dakota during brutal winter in order …

Apricot Oat Cookies and Six Nut Free Lunchbox Snacks

 There are a consort of complicated things about navigating life with a small side kick. If what is currently plaguing you is the quest to find some easy nut-free, refined sugar, gluten free, earnest snacks that you can feel smug about stocking your children’s lunchboxes with, skip straight to the bottom.

In this house there are a couple of things blurbling on. For one, Will is threatening to abandon his midday nap. This is frankly, unacceptable. That oasis of unfettered time in the middle of the day, to tidy, to work, to regroup, to thumb through cookbooks and fritter away time on Instagram is worth its weight in saffron. Will’s ability …