I like Asahi. Jackie prefers James Boags premium Light to all other light beers. I suppose it’s the best of a bad bunch. And…
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November 2005
Over at Kalyns Kitchen it’s the first weekend herb blog – a sane alternative to weekend dog and cat blogging. Well here is our contribution in close-up, planted in our old pasta pan. Didn’t I tell you what hapened to the pan? the handle fell off. I won’t tell you why or who threw it [...]
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New camera. Fifth shot. No touch-ups. Fast Company recently noted that what makes Google so great is that it is simple. Just one box on a page without the pretensions of being a portal. Simple is what I like. Simple food. Simple gadgets like the Apple Macintosh and the Ipod. A camera should be simple [...]
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Shot with the old camera. I’m a bit of a purest when it comes to certain recipes. I do sometimes, however, break the rules and surprise myself. So it was with surpise that I found myself ordering a Caesar Salad with chicken at Langtons (annoying music) 61 Flinders Lane, Melbourne (03 9663 0222). I like [...]
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Okay, I’ve gone offline with an email to try and get this food blog night together. It looks like we could be aiming for Wednesday or Saturday next week at the new Wagamama in Flinders Lane. If you haven’t received an email it means I couldn’t find your email address on your blog – just [...]
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The Red Hill Brewery is about one hour from Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula. It’s been open a few months now and is producing some tasty drops in a country where beer is traditionally sweet and/or bland. Yes, that’s Australia for you. There are three main beers for Red Hill, which in bang smack in [...]
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This is a favourite, perhaps because I’m crazy on both Worcester Sauce (Lea & Perrins, of course) and creamy mashed potato made with loads of butter. You can make this with lamb mince or beef. The latter is really a cottage pie and reminds me of some pretty nasty examples at school ( as well [...]
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Image pinched from Williams-Sonoma I’m not sure about the kind of people Jennifer has coming round to her Entertain MeMe meme. Whenever I get wind of a band of firneds/strangers coming round I lie awake at night dreaming of the sound of smashing glass. There again I tend to mix with journalists and Australians, so [...]
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Stephen Shelmerdine: prices influenced by the tangible and the intangible I’d link to this story I wrote for The Australian but can’t find one. So here is the unedited version: Take two wines from the same region, a few kilometres apart. Both are top-notch drops. One costs $30; the other nearer $50. Stephen Shelmerdine, managing [...]
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My breakfast lifehack: Trouble spreading hard butter from the fridge? A cheese slice produces thin sheets that can be easily spread. Banal but effective.
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If you go down to the Yarra Valley today… Well a couple of months ago you may have seen this Frenchman stark bollock naked jumping out of a vat full of Shiraz. He was cherry red. As he described this to a lunch of wine journalists, plus flamboyant society hairdresser Lillian Frank, nobody flinched. That [...]
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Regulars to Food Blog S’cool will know Clare from east Stuff in Sydney is in hospital after a freak accident with her cat. I thought a pick-me-up might be in order. According to Elizabeth David, Italian doctors recommend Zabaione as a restorative. And what’s even better is that it tastes delish. For each person allow [...]
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