The title says it all: eating, drinking, cooking, friendship and family.
Posted in Casual & great, Lunch, Melbourne CBD, Review: cafes on May 10th, 2010
I love the theatre of eating at a sushi train – all that gorgeous, perfectly presented food, parading in front of you. I also love the little thrill when something takes your fancy from afar and none of the other diners nab it before it reaches you. It’s like you get a little victory with [...]
Posted in Desserts, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on May 5th, 2010
I read somewhere recently that one third of all food is thrown out.* This really worries me. I’ve been picturing big wide fields full of lovely vegetables and imagining how one in every three doesn’t even get eaten. It seems like such a waste of water, time, transport costs, petrol etc. etc… Anyway, for this [...]
Posted in Cakes and tarts, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on May 4th, 2010
So as an Australian, pumpkin pie isn’t really part of my repertoire. In fact, the first time I had pumpkin pie was about 3 years ago, when an American colleague, J brought it into work. I absolutely loved the texture and mildly spiced caramel flavour. When pressed for the recipe, she explained that she had [...]
Posted in Meat, Recipe: savoury, Recipes on May 3rd, 2010
Over the long weekend, Mr M and I headed to Lorne. As is generally the case, we spent the majority of the weekend cooking and drinking red wine. There was a bit of a cold snap so we also had our first open fire of the year, nice. We invited our friends A & M [...]
