I'm no stranger to waking up to the intoxicating smell of coffee. Growing up, the coffee pot was burbling away each morning before anyone was even out of bed, and both my parents drank it by the bucket. I however, other than a brief dalliance in collage involving late-night study-driven coffee consumption tarted up with copious amounts of milk and sugar, never joined club-coffee. Of course there has always been an affinity for coffee ice cream and tiramisu (seeing a trend?) -- but when … [Read more...]
End of Summer Sandwich & the Union Square Green Market – NYC
I don't do winter well. I'd take sweltering over cold any day -- and the fact that the lowest Sydney winter temps are still significantly higher than the north-east America-land ones I grew up with matters little when I have to get out of bed each morning to an un-heated apartment. Now Sydney has been gracing us with well above average late-autumn temps this year, but even so we are looking straight into three months of cold before things begin to look up again. It's about this time … [Read more...]
Preserved Limes and Kaffir Limes – Plus 3 Spice Blend Options
I've never been particularly good at the whole hostess gift thing. It's not that I don't have good intentions -- I see gorgeous ideas all the time -- but somehow anything remotely appropriate hides away in the recesses of my brain until the last moment when in a fit of oh-damn-I-forgot-again I simply grab a bottle of wine on the way out the door. However this past Easter we had plans with friends for a lazy Sunday lunch and for once I came up with an idea in advance. I had committed to … [Read more...]
Pink Princess Rice Porridge
Remember how I said I was going to work my way through drafts and archives? This is one of those, made in Feb 2013 then edited, labeled and uploaded in August in the naive hope I'd post it during our trip last year. The pics are on a different computer, or perhaps a backup drive, and leaving the font on them as-is is infinitely easier than the chain of events required to change it, or re-edit or re-shoot. In other news, pink porridge! ------ I had grand plans for a pink cake. I ended up … [Read more...]
Sourdough Apple & Fig Bread
The point at which life completely gets away from you? That. You see, the more balls you juggle the higher you have to toss them in the air, but that means they take longer to reach you again and by that time who knows what you've missed regarding the red striped one while you were busy making sure the blue spotted one and the one with the yellow stars and the solid green one didn't hit the ground. The good news is that I managed to finish a new little cookbook in time to help out a … [Read more...]
Skillet Baked Eggs – Kale, Tomato Beans & Dukkah
By the looks of my posts these days you'd think all we eat is dessert. My Instagram feed however is quite a different story, a bit more of a social media smoke and mirrors filtered within an inch of its life realistic view of what makes it to the table. Working from home and being a big fan of using-leftovers-until-there-is-nothing-left-over can make for some interesting combinations, but the results are (generally) wholesome and filling. Now as much as I tend to just sautee a whole … [Read more...]
Apple & Cinnamon Breakfast Cookies {GF, DF}
My husband has this thing about breakfast. He has to eat something that by his definition is breakfast-y, before diving into anything remotely lunch related. Even on days when we laze in bed until the clock shows double digits and don't make it to a cafe until well after mid-day, he always orders eggs or another Western-style breakfast food. In the same vein, breakfast for dinner was a difficult sell for many years too -- although these days French Toast and various egg creations appear more … [Read more...]
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