This tip sounds deceptively simple, but it is simple and there are no tricks! I tried this when I was roasting some chicken marylands (thighs with bone in and skin on) at my ...
When Life Gives You Shit Cookies...
Bad recipes happen. Sometimes because the end result is just not what you'd expected, or the combination of flavours really aren't your thing. Whatever the reason, you know it ...
Weekend Walkabout
Not a lot of words today, just a thought for the weekend and the week ahead.
The I Hate to Cook Book
So in case it wasn't clear from my past posts, I'm beginning to love old cookbooks. I don't know why I didn't discover this passion sooner because it only makes sense, especially now I'm writing a cookbook highlighting the secret...
City Guide: A Day in Melbourne
So as promised here's a round-up of where we ate and what we did in Melbourne. It's such a foodie-filled, walkable city...
Tip #58
Nana Tip #58: Rinse measuring cups with water before adding honey, molasses or similar substances needed for...
Even Melbourne's Doing It
We've just returned from a weekend break in Australasia's coffee capital (arguably), Melbourne. It was a food and wine filled few days "balanced" only by the fact we walked everywhere because it was spectacular...
Weekend Walkabout + Life Saving Tips
Bastille Day will forever be marred for the people of Nice. It's absolutely disgusting what happened there overnight, the news image showing the people who were mowed down and killed and still lying on the street is imprinted in my mind. If you haven't seen it, ...
How to Get a Man Salad
Yep. That's the title of a recipe in this cookbook I uncovered at an old book store last week, a recipe that was provided by a very 1980s-looking Susan Seaforth Hayes (I didn't know who she was until this quick Google search). And it turns out, ...
Recipe: Nana's Chocolate Fudge Cake
Cakes tend to sink in the middle. Well at least, many of mine do unfortunately. There are a myriad technical reasons for this but I'm going to be like the bad workman and blame my tools... bad recipes. I have only about five trusted cake recipes...
Tip #362
Apologies for my Monday blogging break, but believe me when I say it was desperately needed. I spent it mostly in solitude reading, cooking and fixing our damn modem router. All that "home" stuff we didn't get ...
Recipe: The Chameleon Cookie
So I teased earlier this week that I'd uncovered a shortbread recipe that could be recreated 4+ ways and now I have the time to teach you how to make it!...
French Music for a Fabulous Dinner Party
Does everyone else feel that buzz of excitement when stumbling across a cool, new band? It's the same feeling I imagine coursed through Captain Cook's veins when he bumped into Australia... Okay, maybe
Chameleon Recipe: One Biscuit, or Four?
So I've been doing some experimenting with a reliable Nana biscuit recipe and am excited to report I've discovered that, like a quality winter coat or pair of boots, it's a cookie that can be styled in multiple ways!...
Oh Édouard!
If Édouard de Pomiane was still alive he'd be a television cooking show star. I'm sure of this because of the way he writes his cookbooks; with directness, in great detail and with ...
Tip #1083
Nana Tip #1083: Put old newspaper down on the workbench before baking. It's kind of magical, you can...
Passionfruit Shortbread Creams: A Recipe
I am lucky to be surrounded by grandmas who love to cook. Three of them to be exact! Aged 26 I'm aware this is unusual, half my friends never had the chance to meet their grandparents...
Weekend Walkabout
Happy weekend!...almost. Pete and I are both wishing ourselves back to our Sri Lankan honeymoon. The people, the feasts (pictured above), the waves! It was paradise. In a small reprieve we're hoping to head up the coast to surf ...
Feed the Beast
A fictional cooking show about two young guys and their ups and downs in opening of a new restaurant? Why has nobody done this sooner? With the popularisation of "reality" food shows it seems...
Cooking with Lily Wallace
Cooking for a group is hard. Well it's more the "hostessing" part, juggling: tidying the house, with thinking through and pre-preparing meals, setting the table, cleaning glasses... I don't know how the women of the 50s...