Monthly Archives: April 2009
est. birthday dinner
Who doesn’t love a good celebration? For the last few years my birthday night has been spent with a bunch of friends at the pub. Cheap beer, good company and impromptu cake have really defined the birthdays of my early 20′s. This year my birthday fell on the easter long weekend and I felt that [...]
Roasted Cauliflower Salad with Spanish Goats Cheese
I no longer think of cauliflower as the unnecessary vegetable. It is subtly sweet and nutty and really just delightful. For our passover seder last week I was asked to bring a salad, so after buying an enormous and perfect head of cauliflower for $3 (and then lugging it home) I decided to roast it [...]
Salted Buttermilk Plum Cake
What can I say about this cake? I’m made it using plums, again. I know. I really like plums. I like that they can be tangy or sweet but they are always fragrant. I like that they are still in season now, even when you think that all delicious stone fruit hope is lost for [...]
Happy 100th* Post, Have a Pama Cocktail
It is my 100th* post! The celebrations for the birthday of P&P** recently were more than just sweet sweet caramel and chocolate cake, the lovely F presented a bottle of Pama Pomegranate Liqueur. What a great gift! At the recent Taste of Sydney Festival I was hanging around the Pama tent knocking back those free samples, [...]
Pork and Chinese Cabbage Dumplings, Jiaozi
Do you love dumplings as much as I do? Maybe, they seem to be pretty popular but do you know what? I love dumplings. I considered moving to Shanghai so I could eat these sheng dian mantou every day. During that China trip I put on a lot of weight. I think of it as my [...]
