Category: Food
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Easy (small quantity) Berry Jam and the Wine Trip Surprise
It’s summer in Australia and that means lots of fresh berries. At Victoria Markets there were punnets of strawberries, blackberries, raspberries and blueberries, cheap and in abundance. I’d walked to the market and, unfortunately, my backpack was now straining at the seams. There was no room or no way I could safely carry the delicate…
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Cruising solo (pt5)…Espiritu Santo and Farewell.
Yesterday really had been one of far too much food. Why I was bothering to go to breakfast was beyond me, but I was awake and it was something to occupy my morning.
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Cruising Solo (pt4)…Vanuatu and Port Vila.
Port Vila, Vanuatu and the ship had docked at a container port a few kilometres out of town. There was no need to scrabble into little boats to get to shore, we were already there, free to step off and explore at our leisure.
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Orange Ricotta and Berry Tart
So it was the 23rd of December, nearly Christmas, when I first started this post. My parents had flown in from interstate and the last of the frenzied shopping trips were over.
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Twas the night before Christmas…and the bloody fridge broke down!
I got up at 6 am, Christmas eve, couldn’t sleep and thought I may as well start the day. Coffee on, grab the milk and something just isn’t right.
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Easy Pork Crackling
For some of you Christmas dinner will mean roast pork…traditions vary across the world. I’ve been cooking since I was a little kid. Decades in fact. But after all this time making the perfect pork crackling has eluded me. That is until I had a lightbulb moment earlier this year. Separate, salty and slow would…
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Missing the ‘Pop’ shot…the food bloggers nightmare! The Turducken incident of 2009.
I am relatively new to blogging. It started because I wanted to use photos to illustrate things in my novels that were unfamiliar to readers. And then it changed and I began to put in food references and recipes. For those of you who are food bloggers you will understand the work that goes…
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Pesto…ish.
It’s the first week of summer here in Melbourne, Australia. We had a very mild winter and the roof deck potted garden was thriving, almost too much…
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Dear Debbie I feel your pastry pain!
Have you thought about making the perfect pie or tart only to be put off by the laborious task of making pastry. The rubbing-in of butter and flour, letting the dough rest, rolling the dough, refrigerating the pastry shell, blind baking, removing the baking beads, baking some more blah, blah, blah….I HAVE DISCOVERED THE EASIEST…
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I love these ugly rejects.
Since giving up work, and attempting to make a living out of writing, I’ve had to be very careful about spending. This week a few fresh vegie staples seemed to jump dramatically in price. A trip to the Queen Victoria Market on the fringe of Melbournes CBD was in order.
Anna Buckley 