I’ve been churning out the soups this winter. I make a huge pot on the weekend and take it for lunch pretty much every day for the next week. Sometimes I have it with bread, other times I stir through a handful of beans or some cooked quinoa or brown rice. This soup is...
When I met RJ he used to eat at least 4 slices of white bread a day. Not necessarily as part of a meal mind you, but just because. Toast for breakfast, toast before dinner , bread with dinner. Sliced, white, from a plastic bag, every time. It...
Sydney is rapidly sinking in a big’ol vat of the flu. Everywhere you look people are sick and as per acceptable and encouraged practice, they are all being-strong-and-pushing-through which translates literally to coming-to-work-when-they-should-be-home-in-bed-sharing-germs-with-their-cats-instead-of-with-me. Needless to say after weeks of public transport with strangers coughing everywhere and meetings with workmates sniffling away, I woke up...
I claimed a while back that I don’t like Pie Crust. Apparently I’ve been on a mission to change my own mind ever since. This brilliant creation has been percolating for quite some time – ever since I made the crunchy chocolatey wafers for my Vegan Chocolate Ice Cream Sandwiches as a matter of...
I don’t do normal particularly well – especially when it comes to recipes. I always have to go slightly left of centre, or right, whatever, but rarely straight down the middle. I make pies with beetroot or purple carrots, I make ice cream with avocados, I make sandwiches with fruit. So when we chose...
I had never eaten a Rice Paper Roll before moving to Sydney, for that matter I had never eaten Pawpaw or Papaya before going to the Cook Islands. It’s not that I grew up sheltered, it’s just that I grew up in the suburbs of America-land in the 80′s and 90′s – Chinese Food...
I love Pie, it’s as simple as that. Crust I can take or leave – unless it’s chocolate or graham cracker and attached to Cheesecake but that is another dream for another day – but Pie filling, yes please. Custard, cream, fruit, whatever, they’re all fair game. Needless to say, I was quite happy...
In Sydney, winter is officially here, and it is cold. Sleeping in jumpers, two blankets on the bed, heater on in the lounge room, cold. Last night the city nearly blew away. It is Custard Apple season – it is not ice cream season. In America-land, summer is just beginning and ice cream abounds....
I knew that I was receiving some Custard Apples – what I didn’t expect was a box of four enormous, perfect ones. I was so excited when they arrived that I unwrapped them, grabbed one out, and discovered that they were as hard as rocks. Damn. But it made sense, as a perfectly ripe...
When I decided to make Macha Green Tea Cupcakes for this month’s Sweet Adventures Blog Hop I was at a loss on what to frost them with. The cupcakes themselves are pretty healthy – enough so to be perfectly acceptable for breakfast – and I didn’t want to ruin a good thing with mounds...
