Occasional stories, food and travel inspiration
It's always nice cooking for someone who really appreciates your food. My 5YO niece, Leela, is beautiful inside and out. She's generous, kind, strong-willed and intelligent. She's also, a
It's crazy hot in Adelaide, South Australia, at the moment. This week it's going to hit 40+ degrees Celsius (104+ degrees Fahrenheit) five days in a row. That's five days of sweltering sun, plants cr
I don't make a habit of re-visiting blogged recipes -- it'd be a bit like re-visiting an ex boyfriend -- but there are always exceptions to every rule. In this case, I've been itching to redo my Grand
I'm sick. My throat is sore, my ears hurt, my chest is tight and my head aches. I can't get enough sleep at the moment but when I do sleep I frequently wake myself up coughing. In my home Winter is
Last year my husband and I decided to separate. We'd been together for nine years and married for seven. Older The Hungry Australian readers may remember him popping up in various posts like this, thi
One thing I love about working as a recipe developer is the chance to share my recipes -- and my family's recipes -- with a much wider audience. I'm always thrilled when someone emails me or comments
In my family, my dad is the Noodle King. Born in Penang, home to the mighty Asam Laksa, my dad came out to Australia in the 60s as a high school student. Back then, there was only one or two AsianÂ
When we were recently in Malaysia we ate the most amazing sui gao (dumplings) at my Grandmother's house, bought from the local hawker stall. So this is my attempt to recreate them back home in Austral
Char Kway Teow (Fried Noodles) is one of the ultimate Malaysian hawker dishes. When I was holidaying in Malaysia in August, I ate Char Kway Teow nearly every day, mostly for supper at 10pm. I'd wan
I have my Dad to thank for a lot of things. For my love of reading. For forcing us to go with him to see Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October, in which a much younger Alec Baldwin proves indisputa
We've been cooking a lot of stir fries lately - they're easy and quick to prepare, you can use whatever you have in the fridge, you only need one cooking pan and dinner is on the table within minutes.
UPDATE: this recipe has been simplified and re-blogged here. And I've changed the photo above to the new version. But please do read on for a story about my grandmother and how this recipe came to be.
Brrrrr! I find this cold weather very tiresome. Winter in Adelaide is nothing extreme but I'm a summer girl and I don't cope well with it. All I want to do is huddle close to a heater, wrapped in l
Adapted from a Gourmet Traveller recipe, these dumplings are perfect as a quick after work supper or as the first course for a dinner party. Moreover, if you’re feeling stressed out, making the dump
I love the convenience of two minute noodles, literally 'convenient noodles' in Chinese. With some veggies and a beaten egg thrown in, a snack is never more than a couple of minutes away. However, t
