Two weeks ago, I held giveaway contest for Jason Black’s new cookbook (which is now available in PageOne and Dymocks (and most other large bookstores, by the way!), Cow Pig Chicken. And a great big thank you, once again, to everyone who took part – it was really fun to read all of your entries, […]
As part of a household of two (well, two humans anyway), I pretty frequently plan my cooking around meals whose leftovers can be recycled or reused with a little tweak to last me for the next couple of lunches or dinners later in the week. For example, I love roasting a big fat chicken for […]
I MISS MY STOVE. AND I MISS MY BALCONY. MY HOUSE IS FALLING APART AND IT’S DRIVING ME CRAZY. YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD FIX THE CRAZY? PANCAKES. BLUEBERRY PANCAKES. BUT I DON’T HAVE A STOVE SO I CAN’T MAKE PANCAKES, AND THESE PANCAKES ARE SO YUMMY THAT I DON’T WANT TO SETTLE FOR CRAPPY PANCAKES […]
One of my favourite vegetables in the world is broccoli. I love it best steamed or quickly stir-fried, the way my mum used to do, with thin slivers of ginger and lightly bathed in sesame oil and oyster sauce, or Cantonese-style with a slightly thickened sauce of minced garlic and a little stock. Baked with […]
Unless I’m throwing a dinner party (where, more often than not, one of the guests has made a request for what I’ll be cooking that evening) or have some intense craving for some dish or other that I’m attempting to satisfy, I’m the sort of person who wanders into supermarkets, markets, grocers and the suchlike […]
