Bread and cheese? Yes, please! For these open cheese melts, I’ve used smoked ham, tomato and mozzarella. But, basically, if you can put it on a pizza, you can put it on a melt. It’s also a great way to…
Super Easy Smoked Salmon Pasta with Sour Cream
This is kind of a prosecco dish, in that it’s both sparkling white and also a cheeky rosé. Easy smoked salmon pasta with sour cream is also the simplest impress-your-friends-with-your-nonchalance-in-the-kitchen recipe I can think of. Plus, pasta. If you can/want…
Smell and Taste of Things Waiting for Their Moment
So, as I’m writing out these recipes, or sorting through photos on my phone, I’m getting all these memories bubbling up, sometimes childhood ones, a little bit like Monsieur Proust. This has to be one of the best paragraphs about…
Lazy Dessert – Puff Pastry Lemon Curd Tartlets
These are a huge step up from Bridget Jones’s dessert of marmalade, while hinting at the lemon pie you could make if only you *languid sigh* had the time. All while using only two ingredients. Simple, quick and adaptable? Yes,…
Weeknight Chicken Stir-Fry For When You Can’t Be Bothered
Ugh, you only have one carrot, a capsicum and some lonely looking snow peas in the crisper. Here is your stir fry. I always have soy sauce and oyster sauce on hand, as well as some kind of noodle, and…
That’s How the Light Gets In
There’s a universal truth: most of us are really just trying the best we can, the best we know how. It’s easy to be critical. It’s hard to let go. One of the main things I’ve learned over years in…
