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Is it a cookie? brownie? double chocolate dog bones?
I have been on a roll with this oversized cookie thing. First there was a giant cookie, now we have a cookie slab. A double chocolate cookie-brownie slab. Come to think of it, a gluten-free double...
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Dinner with friends, orange blossom water, saffron, mouhammara
We had twelve people around our dinner table on Saturday night, with a menu – below – built around Paula Wolfert recipes. It was all about orange blossom water, cinnamon, saffron, mysterious peppers,...
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Giving thanks (and a few travel photos)
I have been tempted, intrigued, frankly amazed by Thanksgiving in the US, and Thanksgiving related recipes in the blogosphere. So many ways with turkey, marshmallows as a main course, green bean...
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Life in the popcorn lane: popcorn, chocolate chip, brown butter cookies
As you would have seen on many blogs, it’s December, Christmas is on its way. A period of holiday cheer, seasonal madness, and a kitchen covered in sticky flour-y patches. I have started planning for...
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Tuesdays with…Peter? Making Peter Reinhart’s challah
When I bake with a recipe, I like to think about little ways to tweak it, play with it, personalise it. But today, I’ve gone completely rogue on the TWD group. Sorry guys. Instead of Julia Child /...
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Far away and in my kitchen
Christmas and summer is well and truly upon us. Where did 2013 go?? Last week, it was still a teensy bit cool in the morning. Over the weekend, it became gloriously sunny, summery, and humid – like we...
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A Sicilian Christmas: buccellato
I was walking through the maze-like backstreets of Newtown, and stopped in my tracks. In the air was a scent that was heady, sweet, fresh and just dive in and luxuriate. I think, am almost sure, it was...
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Sicilian mince pie in a tart, frolicking with pasta frolla
Wednesday was a sweltering day. Not just sunny, not just hot, the air felt like hot porridge when I step out of the air conditioned office. Aussie summer arrived with a vengeance, just in time for our...
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A beachside Christmas, a recipe for spicy cranberries and raisins
Christmas lunch has come and gone. Once again, I didn’t take photos during lunch, as I didn’t want to interrupt the festivities. This morning, I sat in a garden looking out over the ocean, in a white...
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Poems for New Year’s Eve
New Year’s Eve. A time for introspection, anticipation and good resolutions. Like breaking open a fortune cookie, who knows what the new year will bring? To usher in the new year, here are a few photos...
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Accidental healthiness: bird seed loaf
While I was making this loaf, Mr Gander looked over my shoulder and made really helpful comments like ‘that’s not bread, it’s just a bowl of seeds’. And at Christmas lunch, he passed slices of the loaf...
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A kitchen in January, mindful eating, a recipe for steamed egg custard
New Years Eve January began with a quiet evening among friends, with blini, pizza bites, haloumi salad, ratatouille, and an Aussie barbecue, welcoming the new year. Do you like the view from our...
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Sunny-lemony ricotta cookies, because we cannot live on bread alone
January came with an avalanche of green juice blogging. Even this wee blog, untrendy as it is, got with the zeitgeist and talked about bird seed bread, kale, Burmese salads, and accidental trendiness...
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A tale about kale: kale salad with raisins, walnuts and pecorino
Here I am, on a Monday night, trying to think of a witty, captivating way to introduce a kale salad. I could wax lyrical about its impressive pedigree: from Barbuto in NY via Deb Perelman’s kitchen to...
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It must be Australia Day: not-quite-poutine meets vegemite
Update (26 Jan): added link to this month’s “Cheese please!” challenge, hosted by Fromage Homage. Check out the post about tasting Colin, the home-made cheddar. I’ve resurfaced! Mid-January was a time...
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Wanted: one egg, for an almond plum tart
The egg went AWOL while I made a plum almond tart. The egg rolled under a bunch of herbs, apparently under the impression we were playing hide and seek. It didn’t make a sound while I whizzed the...
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Yam (no churn) ice cream–yes, yam!
“What’s this?” “Yam ice cream” “Yam?” “Yes” “You mean, like, yam?” “Yes” “As in, real yam?” “Yes” … … “What’s in it?” “Well, there’s yam…” This was the conversation at dinner last night with Mr...
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Bialys, and a cow-herding robot called Shrimp
I have something that I want to tell you about: a robot herding cows. I knew some engineering students at uni, and one of them has been telling me about our university’s robotics research. Basically...
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When cheese pastry meets pineapple jam meets dumplings
14 February is a super-happy day. It’s the 15th day of the Chinese new year (based on the lunar calendar), and Valentines day. It’s an all-red, all-pink, all-red lantern and tanyuan, all-roses, teddy...
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Last morning, summer at the beach house
Before summer officially ends in the Antipodes, I’m sneaking in some photos of a beach side garden. It was the end of Christmas at the holiday beach house. All week, we were waking up to the morning...
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