Category Archives: recipe
White peach and honey parfait
The Korean countryside, where I live, is nothing like Australia. Firstly, as in all of South Korea, there are seasons. Desolate winter, fecund summer as opposed to the lush year-round greenness that I’m used to. Secondly, I live surrounded by rice paddies, fruit trees and vegetable gardens planted on any and all available patches of [...]
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Discovering a love for omelettes
It’s sad-o’clock on Sunday afternoon, I’m drinking iced coffee and thinking about omelettes. In fact, omelettes have been on my mind since Friday lunchtime, when the thought popped up unsought and baseless and unshakeable. I cancelled my plans and instead had a divine Elizabeth David style evening, on omelette and a glass of wine. Korean [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Dinner, lunch, vegetarian
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Salmon tarator, coriander, walnuts + tahini sauce
I made this dish two months ago. I started writing this post three weeks ago but I only one line remained “I am a terrible creature of habit.” I have no idea where I was going to go with that. Maybe I would have spoken about how rarely I cook fish at home. But there [...]
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A challenge – sugarcane granita, jelly, cream.
When I arrived in Hanoi last year I was beaten. Exhausted by some recent hard travelling and more broken than I realised from the unpleasantness that came before. Life was clouded with uncertainty and nothing felt new. Everything was a challenge. As much fun as you can have visiting a city it is a totally [...]
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Peaches poached in Prosecco
Tomatoes, coriander, tortillas, a return to the com binh dan-style school lunch. Raging out at the injustice of work, teetering on the edge of saying too much of what I feel. Alone, but only marginally lonely. Tied to my computer (it was a very happy reunion). That is what my week looked like. Friday afternoon [...]
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