Mango jelly and coconut panna cotta

People are funny. Melbourne was pretty hot during the first couple of days of 2012. Admittedly, 40°C is fairly warm, but… it’s Melbourne. Summers get hot. Anyone who lives here knows that several 40°C days occur each summer – it’s not a new occurrence or anything unusual. Yet when they happen, it’s all anyone can [...]

Lemon and coconut friands

I’m trying to get rid of my bad freezer habits. In the past, the poor freezer has been a dumping ground for bits and bobs – leftovers, citrus rinds, unidentifiable meat, and other random items. But with some discipline, I’m slowly getting it under control. All new things that enter the freezer are now labelled [...]

Cookbook Challenge 2011: Fortnight 9, Crunchy

Theme: Crunchy Recipe: Oat and cherry biscuits aka Big Fat Thin Anzac Biscuits Adapted from: Bourke Street Bakery The Easter holiday this year has been fantastic! For any non-Australians, the Easter weekend coincided with Anzac Day, which meant a five day weekend for most people (or a 10 day weekend for me, because I took [...]

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 9, Berry

Recipe: Blueberry and coconut muffinsFrom: Australian Women’s Weekly “Kitchen” So guess what the theme is this week for the Cookbook Challenge? Berry. And guess who did berry pancakes LAST week? Yep, genius over here! Obviously I don’t plan my weekly recipes in advance. If I had been clever, I would’ve done the pancakes this week [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 3, Hor d’oeuvres

Recipe: Coconut Prawns From Australian Women’s Weekly – Food We Love The weeks are going past so quickly – we’re on to Week 3 of the Cookbook Challenge already! For this week’s theme, hor d’oeuvres, I made coconut prawns. There is a little blurb about this recipe in the cookbook that says, “My friends are [...]

Vietnamese Coconut Waffles

After Alastair and I rolled out of bed one Sunday, we wandered into the kitchen in search of food. Alastair started making coffees, while I stared blankly into the fridge and tried to think of what we could eat. Suddenly – bing! Waffles! I went online and started searching for a waffle recipe. I found [...]

Cherry coconut mud cake

As mentioned previously, it was my birthday last weekend. It rained allllll day but despite the rain, I had a pretty good day. It started off with brunch at Plum (which was great, as always), and then afterwards Alastair took me shoe shopping as part of my birthday present. Those who know me in real [...]

Dinner at ours: Twice baked cheese soufflé, spinach stuffed chicken roulade and coconut panna cotta

The other weekend, we invited Benisa, Dany and Dany’s father over for some food and a catch up. We started with a twice baked cheese soufflé, taken from this month’s issue of Delicious. In the magazine, it’s a goat’s cheese soufflé and served as a main (with salad), but as I’m still unsure about goat’s [...]

Lime coconut syrup cake

A few years ago we lived in Fitzroy, in a little house with a little courtyard. There wasn’t much to the courtyard out back: a few bushes, brick paving, and a lime tree. We never looked after the tree – didn’t even water it – but it seemed to thrive on neglect. When it fruited, [...]

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