Blogging will be a little slower for the next month while I am travelling, though I do have a lot of great recipes saved up from a last minute New York cooking binge that I will try to post when I get a chance. I started writing this post in the lounge in Edinburgh airport … Continue reading »
I am really not a fan of boiled vegetables. Broccoli I can take with a little bit of blanching, but brussels sprouts just don’t taste that good when you have boiled them (and they go a little slimy), whereas when they are fried or roasted they are wonderful. I have to admit, however, while I … Continue reading »
This is a recipe I got from my aunt. Estelle originally found something like it in a newspaper or magazine, lost the copy, reconstructed it from memory, and then roughly wrote down a recipe for me (which I have also modified a little), so I attribute it to her. This was one of my absolute … Continue reading »
Last night we had our first ever dinner guests in our new apartment, which I felt was a perfect opportunity for more food making and blogging. We had salmon pie with salad (recipe to come), followed by a maple-nectarine marzipan tart. I had an idea of what I wanted to make for dessert, but couldn’t … Continue reading »
Well, this is hardly a difficult thing to make, and pretty much any variation will probably end well. I have been craving a banana smoothie ever since the warm weather began, and upon acquiring a blender for our new apartment, I thought I would try it out on one of the most delicious drinks there … Continue reading »
It has taken many months, but we are finally in our new Brooklyn apartment with a wonderful new kitchen that I have been putting to good use, as promised. As Nick and I started our relationship cooking from recipes from the Australian chef Bill Granger, I decided to look through Granger’s book Bill’s Sydney Food … Continue reading »
