Occasional stories, food and travel inspiration
I had just dropped my son at childcare and was driving my daughter to school. "Book Week is coming up again," my 7YO told me. "This year I want to dress as Sleeping Beauty." "Sleeping Beauty?
Smoked salmon and I have had a long and regular love affair. I like it with scrambled or soft boiled eggs and freshly steamed asparagus spears, in a bagel with cream cheese, capers and cornichons, or
I'm still in semi-holiday mode at the moment, hence my recent lack of posting, commenting and interaction on social media. Between the hot weather, making the most of the school holidays, and my curre
I've previously blogged about my love for oysters. In my eyes, they are a perfect food. Eaten natural (raw) they need only a spritz of lemon to bring out their gorgeous, briny taste. The ot
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 had this argument with my husband a few years ago. “There are so many things about you that just drive me crazy,” he began. “For instance, you never shut the refrigerator door properly;
I'm a sucker for good seafood. Luckily, living in South Australia, I'm able to regularly indulge myself with seafood of exceptional quality. When I was a kid my dad regularly went crabbing for blue
My brother recently did some sorting out in my parent's garage. Over the years it had become both a repository and a dumping ground - it was a place for all those odds and ends that were important eno
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 Asian
Happy New Year everyone! We spent the last day of 2012 cockling at Goolwa Beach and it reminded me of this story I wrote three years ago about my childhood cockling trips. So I thought I'd share i
Sometime last year I came across another Adelaide blog called A Kitchen for Friends, as it's publisher -- one Justin Chai -- had written a post in which he said some nice things about this blog. La
Hello! I'm typing this from the rather fabulous Jumeirah Creekside Hotel in Dubai. I've just arrived for a week's famil (media trip) hosted by Emirates and Dubai Tourism. I'm a little tired but not
It's good to be back. Regular readers will know that I've been blogging only occasionally lately, rather than my usual 2-3 posts a week. I had been unwittingly hijacked by a number of work projec
Fish and eggplant may sound like a bizarre combination, but trust me, this curry is fantastic. When our daughter was due to arrive my mother came to stay with us in Shanghai. Every day she did the
My brother likes buying things. Like most males, he doesn't buy a lot of things but when he does shop, he buys big-ticket items. A windsurfer. A vintage electric keyboard or guitar. A top-of-the-ra
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
One thing I love about Mr Hungry Australian is that he's a great cook. When we first started dating he was working as a consultant. So some days he'd be super-busy and other days I'd go over to his
Fresh picked crab is an absolute luxury. Picking the crab meat out of its shell is both time consuming and finicky work so it's a real labour of love. I am extremely fortunate because it's a labour
I've never cooked with baby octopus before. And truthfully, I still haven't. You see this dish was created by Mr Hungry Australian. Sunday morning we were down at the Torrens Island Markets when
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.
When my husband and I first started dating, he made this for me one night. It worked. Enough said. INGREDIENTS 1 jar of caviar, chilled 1 whole lemon, sliced into eights Half a red onion
Fish and eggplant may sound like a bizarre combination, but trust me, it really works. I love this curry of my mother's. She made a big pot of it for me when my daughter was a newborn. I was consta
As a working mother our mum was always time-poor. So when I was a young girl learning ballet she used to attach the silver sequins to my tutu by stapling them on. Those of you nifty with a needle may
