What sort of word is Snickerdoodle, anyway? A silly one, that’s what. And these are silly biscuits. No, actually, they aren’t all that silly. In fact, as biscuits go, they are quite responsible. They are not too sweet, a little…
I think we all knew it wouldn’t take long before I felt compelled to create a recipe modelled on those fantastic vegetable-based cakes from Red Velvet and Chocolate Heartache (also known as My Favourite Cookbook Ever Ever Ever). Of course,…
Last weekend, I was invited to a Yule celebration at the home of one of my friends from work. It was an amazingly fun evening (I think I could become addicted to the werewolf card game, even though I’m fairly…
Being sick is very boring. I spent most of today asleep or dozing as I tried to muster the energy to actually do something. I’m not very good at using sick days to actually rest. Somehow, my sick days always…
This recipe came out of a happy conjunction of two things. The first was the presence of black plums at the Farmers’ Market today, just crying out to be stewed and eaten with love and nostalgia. The second was, of…
This is a very simple recipe that can either be served as a side dish or over cous-cous or rice as a meal (though in that case, I’d probably stir in a tin or two of chickpeas ten minutes before…
I was going to call this ‘Middle Eastern-inspired Breakfast Granola’, but let’s face it, the closest I’ve been to the Middle East is in fact the local Turkish shops (of which, admittedly, there are quite a few). On the other…
I can’t tell you how much I love April in Melbourne. By April, we are finally – finally! – past any final vestiges of Summer and into Autumn proper. And I love Autumn. I love nights when it’s cold enough…
So I got these tomatilloes at the market, and a whole big box of peppers and chillis and then I had this black chocolate and I had pumpkin seed meal, and all of this pretty much said ‘Mexican’ to me,…
This recipe is a riff on my favourite choc-chip cookie recipe, with nods to Tessa Kiros’s recipe for choc-chip cranberry cookies and to the cranberry oatmeal cookie mix I get at the markets sometimes. (It works even better if you…
