Tired of plain old porridge"We loved our breakfast so much this morning I had to post this so that everyone could have some mid winter joy first thing. No fancy ingredients, hearty and sustaining. Just what you need to get you going on these cold...

Spring is a great time for dips and salads, so today in celebration of the warm weather we had a salad. Roquette, cos lettuce, cherry tomatoes, red capsicum and tuna with lashings of babaganoush on top.The best thing about cooking babaganoush is you...

Cold clear days in early Winter take me back to my childhood when we would spend entire days tramping across the paddocks of my Auntie\'s farm collecting field mushrooms. We would each have our own bucket and it wouldn\'t take all that long to...

I saw this recipe in The Age Epicure last week and had wanted to prepare it for the family. Alas no-one seemed too thrilled about the idea of a savoury steamed custard except me (and I had my doubts as well) So tonight everyone else is sick, getting...

Persimmon and Vanilla Bean SorbetI just bought forty really ripe and squashy persimmons at the Vic market today for two dollars, that\'s five cents each! Looks like sorbet is on the menu again Of course I could never use forty persimmons...

I have been promising to post this really special steamed nori roll for a few weeks now. This dish was one of the many gorgeous offerings at the Melbourne restaurant, Madam Fang when it still existed. I don\'t go out to dinner much these days and...

Neil Perry says that "the art of stir frying is the art of organisation". Yep that would be right and there\'s my problem. Why do so many things in life have to revolve around being organised" I think I would be much happier if the art of mild...

It has been a little while since my last post, and I think these grissini are the perfect way to break the drought. This recipe is from Made in Italy: Food and Stories, the quite lovely book by Giorgio Locatelli. For me, Italian breadsticks are a...

There\'s a book called the Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet where the author Gabriel Cousens says that you should try to eat all the colors of the rainbow every day. Activate your base chakra with red food, the solar plexus with yellow,...

They say you recognise soulmates from past lives by their smell. A hint of something familiar, alluring, attractive or comfortable caresses your nostrils, the earth moves and you remember. For the past week I had the flu and my sense of smell (and...

Chestnut and Fennel Soup with Sherry. Oh and Duck if you wantSo wasn\'t I the one who said I was too impatient to wait for persimmons to thaw out" Hmm I\'m not sure how I ended up spending the better part of a half hour getting the...

Make up a batch of chermoula and you\'ll find a million ways to use it. This paste of middle eastern herbs and spices is wonderfully fragrant and goes well in a variety of dishes whether they be roasted, baked, steamed pan fried or barbecued. Use...

Persimmon and Passionfruit SorbetPersimmons are an Autumn fruit almost past their best now that Winter is here. You can pick up a tray of really squashy persimmons for a few dollars at the market right now and these are perfect for making sorbet. I...

What should you do if a loved one has a poppy seed prominently caught between their teeth in public" I have always thought it best to let the person displaying the offending poppy seed keep talking until a natural pause in the conversation, then...

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