A couple of Thursdays ago, I read an article in the paper lamenting the fact that many Australians would be letting down their employers by taking a sickie on the Monday before Australia Day. (The article did, at least, point…
This is the time of year when bloggers do their retrospectives, but I don’t feel like doing a blog retrospective for 2015. For one thing, I did hardly any blogging, and barely kept up with reading other blogs. For another,…
As you might have discerned, I have no idea what to call this recipe. It’s sort of technically a main course salad, though a salad with absolutely nothing green in it doesn’t seem quite salad-y to me. I know that…
Look! It’s a slightly different (but still dead easy) biscuit recipe! This time, it’s vegan! I love the idea of two ingredient cookies, where you get a sweetened nut butter and some flour – or chocolate tahini and rice flour…
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…
Still with the biscuits. I made a lot of biscuits last weekend. Can you tell? I’m also still swimming in brownie mix, which is completely awesome, though I’m glad I chose the route of sanity with regard to mixing up…
I haven’t been doing much cooking recently, or at least, not much that is creative, but this little salad has been a nice change from the usual lettuce-cucumber-tomato-capsicum deal, and is a nice, fresh, crisp-tasting side-dish for spring. Today’s version…
A couple of weeks ago, I had a message on my Facebook page from Shu, the owner and chef at Shu Restaurant. Shu Restaurant is a relatively new (three years old?) restaurant in Collingwood specialising in Sichuan fusion cuisine, and…
So, I think everyone on the internet is now aware that you can make meringues out of chickpea cooking water, right? You take the water from a can of chickpeas, or just the water from cooking chickpeas from scratch, and…
I only discovered popping candy a couple of years ago, when I made the Masterchef Lolly Bag cake, and I have been looking for it in the shops ever since, because it is my new favourite thing. Well, around about…
