This is the dish to cook when people are milling in the kitchen, the TV is on in the background, and someone has been thoughtful enough to open a nice bottle of sauvignon blanc. A lot of the cooking shows…
The Moon and A Poem
While the primary purpose of the website’s about recipes, I have put “writing and life” in the description. That’s also part of what I’m hoping to pass on to my daughter. So, here’s some writing — a haiku. I enjoy…
The Road Less Traveled
What got me thinking about Robert Lee Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” was a reunion with old friends. I was the least successful amongst a group of strong individuals. That shouldn’t bother me, but … I always thought Frost’s poem…
All Your Tinned Fruit & Peach Cobbler
Growing up the child of working class migrant parents in the ’70s, a bowl of tinned peaches with vanilla ice-cream seemed like the height of sophistication. I still love tinned peaches. The beauty with this cobbler recipe is that it’s…
Beauty Of An Old Faded Recipe
The Japanese term wabi-sabi explains what I love about the old, faded recipe in the photo below. Wabi is about the beauty of “less is more”, including of having less, and of being grateful for a simpler life. It’s about…
Good Old Pan-Fried Fish and Roasted Vegetables
A meal of “plain”, “simple” fish and vegetables is like a breath of fresh [sea] air! We’re lucky to be able to access and eat a wide variety of different cuisines. Our palates get used to the exotic and spicy….
Vanilla Cake with Sassy Vanilla Syrup
Why is this vanilla cake sassy? Because in a world of “flavour innovation”, “consumer-driven brand line extension”, and “multisensory taste narratives”, it’s radical to market a single flavour hero. Vanilla on vanilla? Come on. But the simplicity of this is…
Seeking Eternal [youth] Online (SEO)
Maybe you, too, have tried to launch a website from scratch? I’ve a notebook by the side of my keyboard. In it are handwritten notes like: “navigation menus how?”, “recaptcha on forms!!”, “core value”, “focus keywords”, “excluded by noindex tag…
Déjà Vu Slow-Cook Beef Ragu
Why déjà vu? Because somewhere in your memory lurks a delicious home cooked stew you’ve never forgotten, or an idealised image of what one would be like, and when you smell this slow-cook ragu cooking, you get a strange sense…
Something As Simple As An Apple
Back in the days of Covid lockdowns, like everybody, I came to better appreciate how the smallest, simplest thing could make a big difference to a day. We even made it a point to look for things to appreciate while…
Back to the Future Tuna Mornay
Bell bottoms, beads, The Beatles, back to the future tuna mornay! Actually, creamy tuna mornay (tuna casserole in the US) dates back even further than the sixties. A version was around before WWII, but it came into its own afterwards,…
What Happens in Vegas Tomato (Napoli) Sauce
YEARS ago, I saw TV domestic goddess Nigella Lawson say to use sugar in all tomato dishes to balance out the acidity. It’s definitely NOT traditional to use sugar in a tomato Napoli sauce. But as far as I’m concerned,…
