I had a brainwave the other day. Why do I cook a whole roast chicken if we only ever eat half? I realise that for most normal people, this is just a regular thought process, but it really was a lightbulb moment, at least in my head. With only two of us at home, the…
Do you have a favourite food, something you could eat your own weight in? Mine is mango sticky rice, but my partner Nick, says his is gnocchi. He’s maintained this position for years – and I’ve watched him do it. If I make a kilo of gnocchi, very rarely does any make it to the…
If its first event was anything to go by, it seems to me that dinner at Terra is one of the hottest tickets in town. The new kid on the block at No Name Lane dished up an eight course dinner that proves it is here to shake up the Canberra casual dining scene –…
I have always focused on the fun stuff here – and that’s been writing and photographing food. Five years on, I have hardly any knowledge of web design, but a recent blog post from Feast really got my attention. Titled ‘Why you should (and shouldn’t) speed up your WordPress food blog’ it said that 40% of…
Crispy pork belly. If there are three words that make me stop umm-ing and ahh-ing between all the choices on a restaurant menu, those would be the ones. At the best restaurants, the pork belly is tender, almost melt-in-your-mouth with a good ratio of meat to fat and topped off with that all important crunchy…
I love Asian food. I love the bold flavours, the art of balancing tastes and textures and the fact that many Asian dishes can be cooked in a flash with just a wok. When I can’t think of anything else to cook, I reach for my wok to cook up some chicken with Thai basil…
