We made a special trip to Eveleigh markets this weekend to see a demo of butter-making by Pierre Issa of Pepe Saya. Like most city-folk, I’d largely assumed that butter just comes in a packet, and it’s all much the same, but if you try their butter, you’ll be able to taste the difference. They …
Category Archives: cooking
creating a maze cake with the dragon
When Kel was asked to make a cake for a 21st birthday party with an Alice in Wonderland theme, there was a lot of musing: should a “Mad Hatter” cake be made? Something more abstract? In the end, a maze was suggested. A quick google image search for maze cake showed that there was no …
scrambled eggs with a coffee machine
I don’t know if I’d be prepared to do this, but here’s how to make scrambled eggs with a coffee machine.
how to boil eggs
[ nathan ] Far too much information on how to cook the Perfect Boiled Eggs. With very few exceptions, the temperature of a given spot in the food is proportional to the inverse square of its distance from the surface exposed to the heat source. A word on imperial to metric conversion: a quart of …
pantry organised
pantry organised It’s taken me years to get around to this, but we finally have a pantry whose organisation makes sense to both myself and my wife. And in the end, it was a matter of thinking about what little I know about cooking, and working out how to group everything together so that the …
toast – a simple pleasure
toast There’s something about a well-toasted piece of bread: one of life’s simple pleasures. When I was working on recipes for a cooking website, the first one I made (complete with photos) was for Vegemite Toast. Sure, it may seem a simple thing, but in my travels, I’ve seen even such a simple recipe butchered… …
honey mustard chicken
honey mustard chicken I’d volunteered to cook dinner tonight, but had no idea what to cook. First-time reader Cass left a comment on an old post about cooking with chicken, and I thought “why not”? Behold, honey mustard chicken. Two brown onions, a generous amount of garlic, small amount of olive oil. About half a …
Pink Peppercorns
We had friends stay with us last weekend, and so kel prepared a recipe – slow cooked beef – that called for pink peppercorns. In fact, we couldn’t find them for sale in the supermarket, so we settled for a tin of Green peppercorns. I’d never heard of either before. You’ve probably never thought about …
my approach to cooking
dinner – eye of sauron I tend to improvise when I cook. As much as I’d like to find a good recipe, and just follow it, I really struggle to find something that I’m keen enough to try, and so I often end up trying to think through what ingredients would "go together", and to …
lamb with watermelon salad
dinner – lamb with watermelon salad It’s been a while since I’ve cooked something worthy of photographing, but last night’s dinner made the grade. I spotted a recipe in this month’s Delicious magazine that just sounded odd. Lamb with watermelon salad. How does that work, I thought, and so last night I made it. It’s …