Posted in Culinary adventures, tagged Apollo Bay, biodynamic, herbs, Otway herbs on 25 January, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today we have a guest post from Saskia’s dad, Mr J:
We first heard of the Otway Herb Farm on George Biron’s Sunnybrae blog.
We are always looking for specialty herbs as a change from the industrially produced herbs supplied around Melbourne. So we headed off to discover the Otway Herb Farm at Biddles Road. The farm is a [...]
Posted in Culinary adventures, tagged pimientos de padron, spanish food, tapas on 4 January, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Regular readers of this blog (!) may remember my post in which I reminisced about a meal eaten in Spain a five years ago. I studied the photo that I had of barbequed vegetables and decided that there were some Pimientos de Padrón in there. I’d been perusing Melbourne Gastronome a time before and recognised [...]
Posted in Culinary adventures on 25 December, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We wish you a very happy and enjoyable Christmas with your family and friends.
We will be having a little break over the Christmas period and posting a little less frequently than usual. Some upcoming posts over the next couple of weeks include – Emily’s encounter with a flavourless macaron, Saskia’s continued efforts at healthy vegetarian [...]
Posted in Culinary adventures, Lessons learned, tagged nutrition, vegetarian on 22 December, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A few weeks ago, my chiropractor did this crazy test on me called a bioimpedance analysis. Apparently, I need to eat more protein and put on two kilograms of muscle. Otherwise, I’m fine.
It got me thinking about healthy eating on a quasi-vegetarian diet. Frankly, I sometimes think that we should focus on healthy cooking just [...]
Posted in Culinary adventures, tagged Abbotsford, Farmers' Market, Nettles, Prunes on 3 December, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On Saturday morning at 7.18am, I was woken by the beep-beep of a text message. It was my friend, U.
The message read: “Come to abbotsford market! Me on the cake stand.”
Two hours later, awake and dressed, I went to visit U. at the Slow Food Farmers’ Market at the Abbotsford Convent.
U. was dressed in a [...]
Posted in Culinary adventures, tagged Birthdays, Cutler & Co., Fitzroy, Melbourne restaurants on 9 November, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is a very special day: my birthday!
Last night we had a beautiful and relaxed Sunday night dinner at our all time favourite haunt, Cutler & Co. No review today but I will give you a rundown of my practically perfect meal for your gastronomical imagination. I have non-blog related work to do today so [...]
Posted in Culinary adventures, tagged Daring Kitchen, Macarons on 29 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome. My name is Saskia. This is my/our first blog post. I feel a little self-conscious, but here we go…
Yesterday my sister-in-law (of 40 days), Emily, sent me an email. Subject: Baking – macarons and more. It had clearly been a slow day at work because her email contained several links to various blogs that [...]
