Azza Fried Chicken

I do some of my best thinking in the shower. I mentally draft blog posts, mull over problems and ponder recipes for upcoming feasts. The other day I had an “eureka!” moment while showering and thinking about fried chicken. A sudden flash came to me about how Thomas Keller’s fried chicken could be improved: PANKO [...]

Beet meatballs

Do you like beetroot? I love it any way – fresh, cooked, canned (yes, I know), in burgers, in cakes, in soup, in salads. And after being inspired to create this recipe by Nigel Slater, I now also love it in meatballs. Sure, beetroot can be a pain in the arse because it stains almost [...]

Shanghainese pearl balls

Hmmm this post has been sitting in my drafts for months. Remember when Celeste, Penny and I were doing Meal to Share? It seems to have fallen by the wayside – totally understandable because we’ve all had so much going on in our lives. But perhaps after things settle down next year we may resurrect [...]

Homemade beef jerky

What a surprise – beef jerky really doesn’t photograph well. So thank you dear instagram filters making shitty photos look still shitty but in a retro way. Did you know you can make beef jerky at home? And it’s REALLY easy?? I just about fell off my chair when I found out. It’s one of [...]

Cookbook Challenge 2011: Fortnight 5, Outdoors

Theme: Outdoors Recipe: Mini lamb pies From: Arabesque Oh no! I’m late for last fortnight’s Cookbook Challenge theme, which was “outdoors”. I cooked my dish, which we took to the Avalon Airshow, but ran out of time to write the post and edit photos. Still, here I am – better late than never. Because I [...]

Cooking the Books: Bill Granger’s Holiday

I’ve been struck down by man-flu this week (i.e. my pathetic-ness and whingieness about being sickness eclipses my actual illness). Instead of staying home in bed to recover, we’ve had a busy weekend of social events, so I’ve shared my pathetic self with friends (though hopefully I haven’t shared my cold!). One of the social [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 45, Raw

Recipe: Ceviche with coconut dressing From: Marie and Claire Food and Drink I really struggled with the theme for the Cookbook Challenge this week, which was “raw”. At first I thought I would do a salad, but none of the salads I found that were completely raw excited me. But if there’s one thing doing [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 21, Thai

Recipe: Chinese Chive CakesFrom: Thai Street Food Second recipe: Son in law eggsFrom: The Cook’s Companion It’s Thai week for the Cookbook Challenge! I received a copy of Thai Street Food for Christmas, and it is a rather large, but gorgeously presented tome. I read it cover to cover last night in preparation for the [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 6, Christmas

Recipe: Gourmet Rocky RoadAdapted from: The Australian Women’s Weekly Food We Love 2nd recipe: Pickled and spiced cherriesFrom: Danks Street Depot Well, that’s Christmas ticked off for another year. We had a great one, and this year it was our 6th annual Orphans’ Christmas spent with Dany and Scott. It was a super fun day [...]

Rich chocolate truffles + a fish tank story

From this….When we first arrived in Melbourne, we bought a fish that started off a small fish keeping obsession. Yogi was a beautiful, blue Siamese Fighter that came in a little plastic tank. We soon realised that although Siamese Fighters can survive in small unheated tanks, they’re actually much happier with more space. So we [...]

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