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Chocolate Oat Cookies

08:20 AM, July 14, 2015 |

There are cookies for different occasions. These ones are for the days when you’re just not sure what to say.

If that’s what your facing – if you have a pressing need for a pliant, intensely chocolate flavoured cookie, made with unrefined brown sugar and ground oats instead of flour, skip straight to the bottom for the recipe. If you have a little time on your side, read on.

Celebratory cookies are an easy fix. They’re ebullient and silly, sticky with sweetness and mottled with mix ins. I’m talking about cookies like these indulgent white chocolate and raspberry ones. (Recipe here).

Functional cookies are a simple matter. They’re designed to address the issue …

Szechuan Braised Pork with Star Anise and Mandarin

03:59 PM, July 7, 2015 |

Chinese, paleo, pork, slow carb

Stocking the freezer. This is serious business. If, in fact, your need is is so acute you have no energy for idle chat, scroll straight to the bottom for an excellent alternative to the cornucopia of bolognaise, moussaka and beef cheeks you have huddling next to your ice trays and vodka.

If not, read on.

I know about the importance of stocking a freezer. I’m not talking about randomly lobbing two stray sausages into a frosty tundra because you’re not sure what else to do with them. I’m talking about strategy. It was an insurance policy that I purchased in full before Will was born. It was how I channeled most of …

Flourless Black Forest Roulade

01:27 PM, June 30, 2015 |

baking, chocolate, gluten free

I could spin an extended metaphor about why a roulade was the perfect cake for this occasion; about centrifugal force and how the more we spin, the more we feel glued together. (Nb, if you have no patience for things like this and just want the recipe stat, scroll to the bottom).

It could be about how when I think about the birthdays I’ve celebrated with my husband (there have been twelve of them now) the memories twirl over the globe; from Palm Beach, and the Gold Coast to LA, Lisbon, London, Dubrovnik, Baden Baden and back to Sydney. There have been platters of charcuterie consumed next to B grade celebrities, …