May I present … the colours of Italy in a simple, filling, super-tasty, creamy bake! This lovely recipe is a riff off tuna mornay. Same deal — ingredients in béchamel (white) sauce (butter, flour, milk), with a quick, browning bake…
Memories, History and a Poem
I’ve written elsewhere about my mother, and her relationship to food growing up during hard times in Eastern Europe. I wrote this poem quite some time ago in honour of her memory, and memories. I think it sits well on…
Let-Them-Eat-Chocolate-Cake Cake
If Marie Antoinette indeed said, “Let [the peasants] eat cake,” she probably meant a kind of brioche, as what we understand as cake, and definitely chocolate cake, wasn’t around yet. However Marie Antoinette did love drinking hot chocolate. I love…
Once, a Challenge – A Poem
(UPDATE: Speaking of Magritte, was fascinated to see one of his paintings “L’empire des lumières” sold for a record $US121 million in November, 2024. Was also fascinated to see that it was part of a PRIVATE collection.) It seems to…
Laid-Back Chicken and Pea Risotto
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” pan-fried 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…
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…
