Food. Wine. Melbourne.
My grandma died of Alzheimer’s disease in November. Actually, no, I’m lying to you. Technically my grandma – all that she was, believed in, and stood for – died quite a while before November 2014. The last time I really saw her was in February 2011. I took her out for lunch just before I […] Read more…
I love hot cross buns. I love them smeared with butter or dobbled (new word meaning ‘so thickly spread that the only way to do it is with a spoon’) with lemon curd, slathered with peanut butter or Nutella, or both at once. I always buy too many hot cross buns and end up with […] Read more…
This year Easter has arrived under a veil of controversy. It seems that Cadbury had the audacity to change the chocolate in its Creme Eggs to Cadbury milk chocolate, from Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate. No longer do we get our glass and a half of full cream milk (in every 200g block) wrapped around the gooey, […] Read more…
You have eaten well all week: avoided sugar, drunk sludgy odd-coloured smoothies for breakfast, lunched on salads and even cut back on the booze; but it’s Sunday night and you are just hankering for something sweet. There’s a packet of Tim Tams in the cupboard, but you know that if you open it you will […] Read more…
It was a disaster. I had quickly etched out a shopping list as I ran out of the house but forgot to note the quantities. As I stood in front of the cream cheese, I couldn’t remember how many blocks the recipe called for. At $4 a block I decided that $12 worth of cream […] Read more…