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The best stew for winter 17 Jul 2007 | 12:27 am
It's really cold. The coldest winter in a couple of years, at least. Certainly the coldest I've felt for a while, and I'm loving it...Most of the time I'm loving it. The times when I'm walking from th...
Fenix restaurant offer to readers! 8 Jun 2007 | 01:32 pm
I recently started a new job at a newspaper, along with my other part-time position, so I've been a bit distracted recently, but an email yesterday from Ray Capaldi, co-proprietor and chef at Fenix in...
Homemade peanut butter cups 24 Apr 2007 | 06:34 pm
These should come with a health warning. There is truly nothing nutritious contained inside, just peanut butter, sugar, butter & chocolate, but f%*@$ they're SO DAMN good!!! Like many people I'd eyed ...
Autumnal birthday cake for the autumn of my life.... 12 Apr 2007 | 07:51 pm
On the 30th March it was my 30th birthday, and so far it's been an extended one starting with this birthday cake at a rehearsal 4 days beforehand, and a ending with an afternoon drinks party for frien...
Desserts of the Future 28 Mar 2007 | 05:48 pm
On Monday night I turned up at Fenix demanding my just desserts. My friend had emailed me soon after the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival program came out asking if I'd be interested in going along to a...
Lemon Chicken...Italian style 28 Feb 2007 | 08:06 pm
How many times have you looked at that bottle of limoncello in the freezer and thought "My god, that must have been there for at least two years. What are we going to do with it?!" I know we're not th...
Mmmm...syrup 20 Feb 2007 | 11:02 am
Shrove Tuesday today, and for breakfast another batch of those excellent wholemeal buttermilk pancakes I made last year. Mmm - crispy edges from being fried in real butter. :-) This year my brother s...
Too Damn Hot chicken salad 17 Feb 2007 | 06:32 pm
This weekend it's damn hot...too hot! 3 days at the upper end of the 30s is not great incentive for doing much. Flicking half-heartedly through Nigella's Forever Summer a few weeks ago, when it was al...
Handmade foodie presents 17 Feb 2007 | 01:42 pm
Being time-rich and money-poor this Christmas, I decided to make foodie gifts for friends and fam, hoping that old maxim about homemade gifts meaning so much more blah blah etc. held true. The decisio...
Cherry Clafouti 17 Feb 2007 | 01:41 pm
It's cherry season here now, and incredibly, despite the crazy weather we've had in the past month, from frost and snow to 42 degree scorchers, the cherry harvest has managed to be a bumper one. My gr...
