Recipes

Red Knot

If you have a spare tenner, you cannot get a better return on your money than the return a bottle of Red Knot by Shingleback 2010 McLaren Vale Shiraz provides. Normally, I dry wretch and convulse when presented with bottles of wine under $20, let alone $10, but seriously you […]

Fresh Bread

Having recently made a focaccia, I thought I’d try my hand at a traditional white loaf of bread. There are fewer things greater than eating freshly baked warm bread, and if you’ve baked it yourself, it’s even greater. Why not try this simple recipe when you have a couple of […]

Kung Pao Chicken

Balance and Harmony is a beautiful, grand encyclopaedia of Asian food by famous Aussie chef, Neil Perry. It has sat in majesty on my shelf, almost too good to touch. I finally skinned its plastic cover off and got stuck into it. It’s one of those books where you start […]

Raspberry White Chocolate Cookies

Having read this recipe on the fabulous blog Eatori, I simply had to make these cookies immediately. A cinch to make, these babies don’t take mounds of ingredients, which is always convenient. They are a chewy delight where best friends raspberry and white chocolate have a merry old time frolicking across your […]

Rosemary Foccacia

Focaccia. Last seen 1995, no doubt laden with those curly, oily devils: sun-dried tomatoes. Remember how in it was?! My teenage self thought we were all so haute-cuisine with our focaccia. But then we wised up to this dry, choky, overly old-cupboard-herbed mattress of a sandwich and traded it in […]

Red Velvet Cupcakes

My only previous experience, or incident, if you will, with a red velvet cupcake was when I spat one into the garbage bin outside Magnolia Bakery, Greenwich Village. Despite its coming highly recommended, I found the cake to taste like a combination of old cupboard and cold fat. I have […]