This is my favourite cake ever. No really, I’ve baked many a cake in my day, but this one… this one I have baked once a fortnight over the past year. It’s made it to morning teas, dinner parties, brunch get togethers and sometimes just because I needed a cake to get me through the…
If you’ve never had taralli, you’re missing out. I first encountered these in Rome; though they’re actually from the Puglia region. They can be flavoured with anything from olive oil, pepper to fennel seeds and are tiny bites of crunchy deliciousness. Kind of like a tiny, crunchy bagel that’s a perfect one size bite. They’re…
Steve Feletti has one rule. Do not pre-shuck oysters. Oysters should be alive at the point, he says. That’s the law in France – in Australia though, there’s no such law, something he laments. I head down the South Coast to chat with Steve about oysters, but also to see how the area is recovering…
I am a little embarrassed to admit that I have turned to YouTube to teach myself to make curry. Despite having Sri Lankan-Indian heritage, I’ve always been more comfortable with Western recipes than I have with South Asian ones – largely because I’ve found Western cooking much more approachable with easy to follow step-by-step recipes….
We’ve been trying to eat less meat lately. It’s not that we don’t love a good steak or a chicken schnitzel, or that my all time weakness isn’t Korean Fried Chicken, it’s just that we’ve come to the realisation that we don’t need to eat quite as much meat as we were buying. Weeknight meals…
Everyone should have a good dahl recipe in their repertoire. Healthy and intolerance-friendly (vegan, gluten and dairy-free), it’s one of those dishes that is as great at a dinner party as it is at a packed lunch. In current times of pandemic and pantry staples, dahl is your friend. Things like lentils, curry powders are…
With a couple of kitchen shortcuts, I’ve managed to pin one of my favourite Malaysian street eats down to a 30 minute weeknight dinner. Even if you’ve never tried Chilli Pan Mee before, there’s something very comforting about a bowl of noodles and soy-based minced pork, all tied together with the richness of a perfectly…
It’s hard to believe that I haven’t written on here for over a year! Oh how time flies. I started full time work a bit over a year ago and between work, friends and life, blogging took a bit of a backseat. These are unprecedented times, and I can’t help thinking that most of us…