Occasional stories, food and travel inspiration
We have this amazing smallgoods producer in South Australia called Standom, who make all kinds of smoked and preserved meat products. How good are they? Well, put it this way: my Bavarian-born, Ham
My dear friend Eli once cooked me a delicious rice salad when we were both living in London in the early 2000s. As an Australian-born Chinese, I've eaten a lot of rice. I've had it steamed, fried,
My dad's friend, Barry, is an amazing gardener, growing all kinds of vegetables, fruits and flowers. He is generous with his crop, too, always giving away bags of lemons, tomatoes and whatever else is
Posting a recipe for guacamole seems odd in a way. It's a bit like posting a recipe for making a ham and cheese toastie - it seems like such a simple thing to that no recipe is required. However, I
If you're a chilli addict like me, you'll love this dish. For this is no ordinary cucumber salad. This dish was inspired by the 'hot salad' we used to buy from the Xinjiang restaurant opposite our
If this isn't a perfect example of fusion food, I don't know what is. I came home yesterday to find that Mr Hungry Australian had made this Italian-Chinese pizza. I was quietly appalled. It just
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
Sometimes the simplest things in life are the best. A ripe peach. A perfectly soft boiled egg. Bread fresh out of the oven. I'd also put garlic mushrooms in this category. True, it's a dish that re
I cooked this a couple of years ago for my cousin May when she visited us in Melbourne. She took one mouthful and said, “this is your mum’s soup”, even though she hadn’t tasted it in 20 years.
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
When my husband took me to Germany for the first time, mushrooms were in season. For lunch one day his mother cooked us pancakes with a creamy mushroom sauce using fresh pfifferlinge and dried steinpi
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
