Archive | Food

RSS feed for this section

Festivals with kids

Having scored a few tickets to a Melbourne Food and Wine Festival event, I made the dubious decision to attend with my kids. Despite the event offering activities that catered to children, you just never know quite what you’re going to get with these things. Will there be toilets? Enough room for my kids to [...]

Melbourne Food & Wine Festival Giveaway

The Melbourne Food & Wine Festival kicks off this Friday and to celebrate I’m giving away a double pass to one of the festival highlights Put Victoria On Your Table (PVOYT) Cellar Door and Artisan Market. Held at the Como House and Gardens in South Yarra and sponsored by IGA Victoria, there will be some [...]

Food, glorious food

After a whirlwind two days in Bright involving some of the most sensational regional produce in Australia, I have officially made the descent into domestic reality.  Somehow a megaphone that auto-tunes a small child’s voice into 80 decibels of T-Pain has entered my house and I am possibly developing a nose bleed, but that’s okay.  [...]

Mango pudding with condensed milk chantilly

I have no idea why I started a food blog. I haven’t updated the blog since July and there’s a badge widget sitting on my side bar mocking me, reminding me of a cooking mojo gone missing. There has been so much cucumber and so many sausages because quite frankly that is all my son [...]

Cooking with fennel

I haven’t always cooked with fennel.  Growing up in a Caucasian household, it wasn’t a regular feature at the dinner table but I knew of its existence.  It wasn’t until I became friends with an Italian/Australian friend in high school that fennel’s connection with Mediterranean cuisine revealed itself.  I’d like to tell you about the [...]

Spice is Nice

Today I’m blogging over at The Melbourne Savage and showing you how simple it is to make your own spices.  Later in the week I’ll be using these spices to make some delicious curries such as the thigh lovin’ Butter Chicken.     Do you have a favourite spice that you’d like to know how [...]