Category: Cooking

  • Dessert

    My pumpkin pie ice cream turned out really well! Much more suitable on a hot day than trying to bake.

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  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    It’s way too hot to cook a traditional Thanksgiving dinner in Sydney this week, so I decided to spin it into a classic American picnic: chicken salad rolls and potato salad. Yum. 🦃 Recipes: The Best Classic Chicken Salad Recipe Classic Potato Salad

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  • Thanksgiving

    It’s 35C/95F out; all of Sydney is under extreme heat warning; and all I want is a goddamn can of pumpkin so I can make pumpkin pie ice cream. But alas, none to be found, not even for ready money. I will be roasting butternut this evening once the sun goes down… Oh, and I…

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  • Dinner

    My turn to cook! Fusilli with sausage, kale, and tomato. The recipe used to be on Serious Eats, but looks like they’ve taken it down. 😒

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  • Greek-inspired dinner

    Lamb meatballs with feta and lemon (from Smitten Kitchen) and orzo salad (from Recipe Tin Eats), all cooked by the Snook. Very tasty!

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  • If you have a coffee machine, you probably want to watch this video, even if you think you already know how to do the required maintenance. In totally unrelated news, Rodd has spent the last hour cleaning his coffee machine. 😜

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  • My new ceramic grater

    I’ve seen these ceramic graters being sold at every market and festival in Germany for the past year, and yesterday I finally got one. It mushified a clove of garlic nicely, though getting it out again took some finessing. Rodd worked it out – you have to hold the grater on an angle and use…

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  • Brussels Sprouts

    I never ate Brussels Sprouts growing up; they were just never a thing that my Mom cooked. It may well be that the first time I ever had them was ten years ago at Porteño in Sydney. (They were were charred and tossed with bacon and they were the most delicious thing I’d ever had.)…

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  • Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals #37: Broccoli OrecchietteThis was our 37th cooking/blogging experiment from Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals. I’m still catching up on the backlog! For this one, we made “Broccoli Orecchiette, Courgette & Bocconcini Salad, Prosciutto & Melon Salad.” We picked it because we knew we were getting rockmelon (cantaloupe) in our weekly veggie box,…

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  • Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals #36: British PicnicThis was our 36th cooking/blogging experiment from Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals, and I’ve now got a backlog of THREE meals, so get ready for a flood of posts! The weather has finally gotten appropriately “summery” here in Sydney, so we chose to make the “British Picnic” for this one:…

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