Things are moderately okay right now, and I am alive ( Read more... )

...but I knew that.

I was just reminded anew this morning.

I made my current staple breakfast (low carb, high protein) of a two egg omelette with spring onions, and decided to throw in some sea urchin roe* I happened to have thawed in the fridge ( Read more... )

Never thought I'd ever get to say that. But it's true. They only last so long. So last night's dinner was a Trufflegasm. Let's just say I finally have a partner I love cooking with; I don't even mind being sous-and-plongeur!

Seared wild venison rump from Onkaparinga Valley (headshot-culled feral Sika deer for human consumption), served medium-rare ( Read more... )

Again I have made More Soup Than I Expected. Which I really should expect now after almost ten years of doing it. :P ( Read more... )

It is now Winter, and it is time for sturdy vegetables like roots and brassicas.

So I have made borscht. Or at least a loose version thereof ( Read more... )

Today I bought one of these - a Bodum insulated jug that holds a litre. The RRP is $99, the shop I got it from usually charges $69, but it was on sale for $39.95. I scored myself a purple one ( Read more... )

I just made a Green Soup.

Ingredients comprise the following: one entire head of garlic, half a kilo of chopped onion, a handful of random stock cubes (maybe four or five), a kilo of spinach leaves (believe me, that's a LOT), the leaves from a bunch of beetroot, a quarter kilo of french beans, and half a kilo of leaves, flowers and buds from the ( Read more... )

Savoury baking.

Cheddar stars in oven now.

Fear my lactic astronomy.

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I know I'm stressed when I get home late at night from work and choose to wind down by making a batch of shortcrust pastry and doing a spot of editing.

:P

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What is it about Italian gardeners and their ability to grow the most amazing beefsteak tomatoes? Even when I was ambitious and putting heaps of time into the garden, I would be lucky to get a tomato barely larger than a tennis ball. And a couple of weekends ago I bought four tomatoes at the farmer's market. Together, they weighed about four and a ( Read more... )