For those who may be interested, here are the places I’m singing over the next few weeks: April 7 (i.e. tomorrow) 11am: Service at Wesley (148 Lonsdale St, Melbourne). I’m singing Ich will dir mein Herz schenken, by JS Bach,…
Recipe: Romanian polenta and Sicilian Cauliflower
Oh, my poor neglected food blog! Which is about to be even more neglected, as with an election approaching (timed, by the look of it, to clash most vilely with the grant application high season at work), and more than…
Recipe: Chocolate Banana Friendship Cake
I’ve made this cake twice in the last week. Well, technically, I’ve made it three times, but the first time it was the Women’s Weekly Banana Passionfruit Cake, which I must have made a dozen times in the last six…
Recipe: Vegan Choc-Mint Checkerboard Cake
I have wanted to try my hand at a checkerboard cake for ages, but have never quite gotten around to it. But every March, Andrew’s birthday comes around, which means that the search begins for a new variation on chocolate…
Recipe: Blackberry and Ricotta Cheesecake with lavender and candied Yuzu
Oh, I made such a big mistake when I was on leave. I went to Toorak to visit the Xocoalatl store, and on the way back I found the Prahran Market, which turns out to be a Catherine trap of…
Recipe: Vegetable Pikelets
I visited my best friend in Darwin last week. It wasn’t the most successful visit we’ve had – my friend has a toddler, and he was sick, and then he gave his lurgy to his dad, and then his mum.…