Without wanting to come off as sounding slack I’ve not blogged my recipe challenge recipes for the past few weeks because… well… I guess I was too slack. But I have been keeping up with the task. Week Six: was this Chicken and Spinach Lasagne from Taste. Week Seven: is this week, and I’ve scraped…
This recipe is a recent-ish discovery from the August 2011 Super Food Ideas magazine. I don’t like peanuts by themselves all that much but, by god, a packet of peanut M&Ms needs protecting with every ounce of strength if I happen to come past one. They are wonderful. As are those Christmas mix of chocolate…
In the wise words of Billy Bob Thornton from Bad Santa, “They can’t all be winners”, and such is the case with today’s one recipe a week meal. I was given Adam Liaw’s Two Asian Kitchens cookbook back at the beginning of the Malaysia Kitchen Campaign and have been wanting to give many recipes a…
I remember big family parties with tables full of food back when I was a child. At dessert – if we were lucky – there might be a chocolate mousse. I always hoped for mousse; I’d dollop that soft, spongy ooze on to my plate and wolf it down. This wasn’t very often though…
I know what you’re thinking. I know, but I’ll say it anyway. “What – you’ve never roasted a chicken before?” That’s right. I can honestly say that up until this week the only times I have eaten one have either been when someone else has cooked it or I’ve gone up to the deli counter,…
Many things come to mind when I think about the movie Steel Magnolias: first learning about diabetes, friendship, Sally Field cracking umpteen eggs in a bowl in that confrontation scene with Julia Roberts. What intrigued me most was the red velvet groom’s cake at the start. As a child I wondered how red velvet cake…
Growing up in warm, rural northern New South Wales meant that snakes were always going to be part of my reality, as indeed they are for many of us, especially out in the scrub or even in the suburbs. When we visited my grandparents’ farm red-bellied and brown snakes were most common, although there were…
You might remember when I blogged about the piano we hired back in July. Well, our mandatory lease period is almost up and we need to decide what we’re going to do next. Send it back? Extend the lease? Buy it outright? To make the decision a little easier, the answer is ‘no’ on the…
