I’ve made a bunch of fun things over the last few months that I haven’t posted about here because they weren’t new recipes, or because they were someone else’s recipe. But sometimes, it’s just fun to post pretty pictures of…
Category: Special occasions
Recipe: Festive Capsicums Stuffed with Jewelled Rice
I co-hosted Christmas with my brother last year for both our sets of families and in-laws. Dietary requirements included one person with celiac disease, one vegan, one very picky vegetarian, several very picky carnivores, and allergies to seafood, hazelnuts, and…
Recipe: Vegan Almond Butter Biscuits and a Fancy Rolling Pin
Facebook has some very strange ideas about what I like. For a while there, it decided that I was a lesbian and wanted to have IVF babies with my girlfriend, and I got So. Many. Ads. for this. Then it…
Show-off Post: A Castle Cake for a 4th Birthday
My niece turned four last week, which means that she is of a suitable age for Women’s Weekly-style birthday cakes. Alas, however, my niece is also at a stage in her life when she is kind of opposed to eating…
Recipe: Fierce Strawberries (and tentacle cake)
A while back, one of my Professors welcomed me back from long service leave with a copy of Deceptive Desserts: A Lady’s Guide to Baking Bad, by Christine McConnell. I was particularly taken by her recipe for Screamberries, and my…
Show Off Post: Hamlet!
Squeezing in one last post before I go, in between madly writing about tiny political parties and finishing my last Paris story before I actually go there… As I think I mentioned earlier, I recently turned 40, and also Shakespeare…
Brief update, with Eurovision and Blogiversary
Hello! I’m not really back, but since Eurovision was this morning (so early this morning), and Eurovision has always counted as a Food Blog Anniversary for me, it seemed timely to give you an update. I’m actually feeling a lot…
Recipe: Fruits in Liqueur
A couple of years ago, Diana Henry put out a book called Salt Sugar Smoke, which is all about preserving things. I’m terrified of preserving things, because my kitchen is always full of dirty dishes and I’m convinced that no…
Catherine Day and High Tea at the NGV
It lives! Once again, I am emerging briefly from the insanity that is my work this year to give this whole blogging thing another try. I suspect that this will be a one-off again, as my next event is only…
The Statutory New Year’s Eve Post
Well, 2014 certainly got away from me. There’s no doubt about that. Not that it wasn’t an excellent year in many respects, but I certainly felt as though I was holding it by the tail of its shirt and running…