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.…
Recipe: Vegetable Pikelets
Category: everyday cooking
Recipe: Jacket Sweet Potatoes with Vegetarian Chilli and Guacamole
I have no idea when I will escape this food blog hiatus! Even when I make and photograph food, there never seems to be time to write about it – and most of the food I’ve been making this year…
Recipe: Lamb and Chickpea Stew with Tomato, Lemon, Chilli and Oregano
I keep popping my head up for air and then making big promises of a return to regular blogging. And then I get swallowed up by work again, or come down with the plague, or both, and I disappear underwater…
Pantry pantry pantry pantry pantry! And a challenge!
Oh God, that pantry. I really have to do this whole pantry sorting thing more often, because the shelves are wide and deep and all sorts of things lurk up the back. It’s scary. And big. And, currently, empty and…
Recipe: Tired One-Pot Pasta with Lentils and Sausages
So it’s Saturday evening, the day before Farmers’ Market day, and the fridge is a bit bare. Also, you were out all day and are now somewhat exhausted. You really don’t want to go to the supermarket. And the dishes…
Recipe: Roast Zucchini and Tomato Pasta
This is such a lovely easy dinner – very fresh and full of flavour. It’s also an excellent way to use up zucchini or tomatoes that are abundant but a bit watery – roasting concentrates the flavour, the balsamic vinegar…
Recipe: Half-baked Fruity Muesli
I just couldn’t resist the pun in that title. Sorry. But it really is half baked, because I did toast about half of what went into this muesli while leaving the rest untoasted. The reason for this is that we…
Recipe: Eggplant with Tomatoes and Yoghurt
This recipe is inspired by our local Turkish restaurants, which we don’t go to nearly often enough, actually. They all have some variation of eggplant ‘yogurtlu’, eggplant that has been fried in oil until it is sweet and caramelised, and…
Recipe: Pasta with Ricotta, Herbs and Spring Vegetables
This is the revised version of a recipe I noted down here a while back, because I never really put in any quantities, just typed in the ingredients as I remembered them, because it was late and I was tired!…
Recipe: Tuna Salad
We’re getting into the really hot days now, when any recipe that doesn’t involve switching on the stove, oven, or even toaster, is a recipe to be valued. And in these post-Christmas weeks, there is a certain urge towards salad,…