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Cabbage Salad
The first time I ever came to Vietnam, incidentally also the first time I ever left Australia, I followed all the rules for eating in the developing world. You know, If you can’t boil it, fry it or peel it, don’t eat it, otherwise known as the first commandment of travel. I’m haunted by images of [...]
Passion fruit curd cake
What came first? Oh the horrid poultry question that endless drunken nightmare conversations have failed to answer. But I can tell you that the idea of the cake came first, after the purchase and subsequent wrinkling of the passion fruit, but before the making of the curd. I could draw you a timeline, like an [...]
Passionfruit Curd
Chúc mừng năm mới! Happy lunar new year! I am still learning what this means and how it is celebrated here in Hanoi, but I now know that it involves precarious transportation of plants, chưng cake and human chess at the temple of literature. For me it meant forced hibernation, cups of tea, icy strolls [...]
Carrots, Moroccan Style
Grocery shopping in Hanoi requires determination, smarts and discipline. Meat, fruits and vegetables are best bought fresh at markets that dot the city. Unfortunately I have to cross a highway to get to my closest market (insane traffic) but in a side street near my school a ladies set stalls up morning and night. Eggs, [...]
Tropical custard and jelly, almost trifle.
A few months ago when I was floored by the scent of passionfruit the cubic megatonne I bought made me think of tart jelly. They sat in wrinkling in the fruit bowl mocking me every time I passed. So jelly it was.
Actually jelly it always is these days. I seem to have an all out jelly obsession, [...]
