Hello! It’s been a very long time, hasn’t it? There were several reasons for this – I got interested in fiction writing, which meant that I had less time to spare for food writing; my wrist kept getting worse, which…
Cake for a rainbow wedding
Category: food memories
Travel Post: Back in Mainz, and a Feast
Saturday was a massive cooking day. A couple of years ago, A showed her friend R my cooking blog, and he started following it. When he heard I was visiting, he asked if I could come to his house and…
Recipe: Apricot Mousse, or possibly cold soufflé – a reconstruction
Happy Easter! I have heard the words ‘Christ is Risen’ in at least twelve languages, and have learned how having faith in the Resurrection is quite a lot like barracking for the Melbourne Demons, except that one’s hopes are more…
2013 in Review
Peer group pressure is a terrible thing! Here I am reviewing 2013, and I don’t really know what to say about it, because it really was a very mixed year on many levels. (Sometimes, it’s just best to stick to…
Planning and Pizza
I was hoping to write more here while I was on holidays, but the combination of my usual December activities, plus confectionery, plus the funeral, all followed up with several days of drainingly hot weather have left me more exhausted…
The Australian Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book – An Illustrated and Nostalgic Review
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Recipe: Pasta Carbonara, my way
My father’s family is from the Basilicata region of Italy, and even after moving to Australia, my Nonna and Nonno would make their own sausage every year. I think one of my great-uncles kept pigs, or maybe just one pig…