A quick peek on what's been happening and what's coming up. I hope to get a few 'Around Town' posts up shortly but for now: Bread, Berries & Books. Don't forget, even when things are a bit quiet around here there is plenty happening over on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest. Make sure to subscribe to 84th & 3rd by email too - no spam, just new posts straight to your inbox! Bread When a box with Pyrex shows up at my door who am I to argue? Although a wonderful surprise and … [Read more...]
Baked Citrus Custard
I tried, I really did. I wanted to make the Blood Orange Baked Custards from Kate Bracks 'The Sweet Life' as she intended them to be. They looked and sounded lovely. Then I shivered at the white sugar and the cream and, surprise, surprise, changed it up. What I ended up with however was lovely and light enough for breakfast [yeah, I went there] but special enough for after dinner too. You can always see the original recipe here if you want to go full fat and full … [Read more...]
An interview with Kate Bracks & ‘The Sweet Life’ giveaway!
Kate Bracks was 15 minutes late for our interview. Ok, ok, Kate Bracks was 15 minutes late for our interview because fans kept coming up to her as she walked through the grounds of the Noosa International Food & Wine festival, and she didn't want to be dismissive so she stopped to chat, just a bit, to each of them, then apologised profusely to me once she arrived. Yeah, she really is that nice. A while back I was sent a copy of 2011 MasterChef Australia Winner Kate Brack's first … [Read more...]
Turkish Bread!
I am a bit of a horror when it comes to testing. I'll find the link that doesn't work on a website, the scene that doesn't match in a movie, the overlooked typo in an article. I don't look for them, it just happens. And when I am looking for it, oh dear. I used to do a fair amount of website testing, the stuff I would find more often than not would insight a 'what on earth did you do to get that?'. I also have an un-canny ability to choose the most expensive item out of a group but that is a … [Read more...]
Turkish Baked Beans
We go out for brunch quite a bit. If you haven't worked it out yet, it is easily my favourite meal of the day. My preferred lazy Saturday afternoon cafe has amazing vegetarian baked beans, and I get them probably 80% of the time. When perusing the Turkish Flavours cookbook I happened on this Turkish Baked Beans recipe and knew it would be one of the items I'd make as part of our testing the cookbook feast. Have you entered the giveaway yet? If you can believe it I'd never cooked with … [Read more...]
Zucchini Fritters from Turkish Flavours
Happy St Paddy's Day, Internets! In honour of the day everyone becomes a little bit Irish - or if you live in most places along the eastern seaboard of America-land everyone becomes a lot bit Irish - I present to you a recipe from a Turkish cookbook. Wait, that doesn't sound quite right. I present to you brilliant green fritters that just so happen to come from a Turkish cookbook. That's a bit better. St Paddy's Day is a pretty important day to me - especially this year - but more on that … [Read more...]
Cookbook: Turkish Flavours
A smell that brings back a long forgotten friend, an image that makes you unconsciously smile, a song that transports you to another time and place. Experiences we have in life embed themselves in our memories, painting our future expectations in broad brushstrokes of those past experiences, grouping them into categories, filing them away under comfortable headings. RJ and I used to go quite frequently to a Turkish restaurant near our apartment in NYC. It was relatively posh, popular with the … [Read more...]
