My favourite foodie finds and restaurant reviews – what and where I love dining out…
Red Claw Crayfish Bisque
If you have possession of a bunch of red clay crays, you will no doubt find yourself also in possession of the shells. It is a shame to waste them when you can make this [...]
The Various Flavours of Coffee
Coffee is a magical brew to many. Made from the roasted beans of the coffee plant, coffee, and the various flavours of it, would appear to be inspiring enough for Anthony Capella to write an [...]
Black Rice in Bamboo with Dragonfruit
Cooking rice in bamboo pots is quite common in Asia and quite the novelty although it tastes just as great if simmered in a small saucepan if you don’t have easy access to bamboo. [...]
Smoked Duck Breast with Cinnamon Pears
The combination of the cinnamon pears with the smokiness of the duck makes for strange bedfellows but is just delicious. Ingredients: 6 cooking pears 2 tablespoons cinnamon powder 1 sheet paperbark* 30cm square 4 [...]
The Real Foodies…
Food plays such an important part of our lives, it is often hard to pin point at which point an individual goes from simply part taking in food, to becoming a foodie, in the sense [...]
STROM Cured Salmon
This is a recipe developed by Jamie Milverton from Jamie’s Gourmet. I think it is spectacular, reason being it has my favourite two ingredients for the moment; the locally produced STROM and salmon. [divider] Ingredients [...]
Bunya Nut Falafels
This is a great recipe by Peter Wolfe from Cedar Creek Farm, and a great use of bunya nuts for when they are in season... love... Peter made these to go with his Red Claw [...]
The colour purple…
If you are drawn to a particular fruit or vegetable because of its magnificent colour, now there is even more of a reason to pick out the prettiest one to take centre stage in your [...]
Midsummer Day’s Feast…
With a combination of good food and perfect setting, Belli Bamboo Parkland provided the ultimate backdrop for our midsummer day lunch. There is something quite magical about a bamboo grove. While they are quite common [...]
Cooking with Conscience…
Many cooking styles and trends have emerged over the years to fire up our passions in the kitchen. But for me, the one that stands out most strongly — for all the right reasons — [...]
Once upon a cooking school…
Once upon a time cooking schools were something of a serious discipline. They were either the precursor to a career in the food industry or the introduction to dinner party etiquette and dining basics for [...]
Meet Tonya Jennings…
I met Tonya Jennings a number of years ago when she was first setting up her cooking school ‘On the Ridge’ in Dulong. There is something about people involved in the food industry, they are [...]
A foodie’s paradise… Phillip Island…
I recently went on a road trip from Melbourne to Phillip Island. It was more of an excuse to catch up with my bestie, but whenever we catch up it always involves lots of laughter, [...]
Japan’s cherry blossom magic…
I love Japan, it a land of unsurpassable beauty. Everywhere you go, streets and laneways are lined with antique trees. Blossoming arches extend over entrances, courtyards are filled with solitary specimens gnarled and knotted by [...]
A rosé by any other name…
What’s in a name? Roses, rosés; how a little slip of the pen above the ‘e’ can make so much of a difference in both pronunciation and meaning, yet while roses are intoxicatingly fragrant, rosés [...]
Like Water for Chocolate
There is something about food in literature that we seem to devour with as much gusto as what we would an actual meal. We digest descriptive passages with passion and ardour and we greedily consume [...]
A Foodie’s Tale
Have you ever wondered how childhood passions become adult indulgences? I have, and this is what I have come up with... It is no secret I love food. And no one who knows me would [...]