The odd thing is I remember it all. How novel! T and I decamped to J & K’s place as K was kind enough to let us use her kitchen. On a 40 degree day we toiled in the stifling heat to cook like the housewives we are at all (yes, all three of us. [...]
Tagged cooking, cooking with beer, craft beer, dinner party, friends, molecular gastronomy, New Year's Eve, NorthSouth EaterySlowly, the culinary hi-jinks in the kitchen are getting more advanced! This last week I’ve not been able to cook much because I’ve been sick and not home much, but just before that, had managed to really get my cook on. My personal favourite from the last batch of homemade meals has been Yotam Ottolenghi’s [...]
Tagged aubergine, cooking, couscous, Meatless Monday, risotto, vegetarian cooking, Yotam OttolenghiRefusing (good) beer when offered. Reducing meat to the point of non-consumption. In love and happily so. But worse, I’ve started to cook. At first it was merely incidental, but after the third Monday in a row, I’ve been giving Meatless Mondays a go. Last Monday’s recipe was Yotam Ottolenghi’s cauliflower cake. Parents (the hardest [...]
Tagged confidence, cooking, lifestyle changes, meat consumption, Meatless Monday, reduction, vegetarian cookingAnd that’s if you bother to read the interview! James Smith, from The Crafty Pint asked me if I wanted eat, drink, stagger to feature as Blog of the Month for October. Happily, I said yes, and so he sent some interview questions my way. I know I downplay it a lot, but writing for [...]
Tagged beer blogging, craft beer, creativity, Eat Drink Stagger, food blogging, Melbourne, poetry, The Crafty PintMost of you probably don’t know but I’ve been off work due to illness for the last two months and it’s been rough. I think my good friends must get sick of me or just don’t like it when I try to talk to them about it, which hurts. However, I returned to work this [...]
Tagged BrewDog Tokyo, Stilton cheese, surprises, workAfter drinking so much of former housemate’s homebrew, it was about bloody time I tried my hand at brewing my own beer. Nothing ridiculously special or fancy at this stage. First brew was Cascade chocolate mahogany porter kit, which has now been bottled. Apparently in another week it’ll be at its taste peak (other better [...]
Tagged beer, homebrew, porter, steam aleI’m not big on cooking. It isn’t that I don’t like to, but I rarely get the kitchen to myself (read: mother is always at home). An initial scrounging in the fridge and pantry revealed the following available ingredients that we chose to use: two salmon fillets mushroom soy sauce (seriously, what Asian household doesn’t [...]
Tagged cooking, salmonI love poverty. Okay, I don’t really, but I’m glad it’s forcing me to be…resourceful. Two consecutive days of me scrounging in the kitchen. I thought I’d try to honour Dad by making cheese and bacon omelette. No, Dad’s not dead (thankfully), but he’s out of the country and it feels like he’s been gone [...]
Tagged cooking, kitchen sink omelette, making do, quick foodThis morning, I read food writer Phil Lees’ blog post on the nature of food blogging and I have to say, it’s really inspired me to consider the question seriously. I should actually get around to explaining this on eat, drink, stagger sometime, but for the time being, my ruminations will be housed here. I [...]
Tagged food bloggingEver since I listened to a New Yorker podcast about poutine, I’d been craving it something chronic. I know it sounds disgusting – chips with gravy on top and mixed with cheese curds! Apparently it’s something of a favourite amongst Canadians after a bit of a good ol’ binge drinking session, bit of a craved [...]
Tagged fast food, French Canadian snacks, poutineI have an odd comfort food dish, and it’s fairly guilt-free. Just decided to drum it up for myself and the partner for a very late lunch. You’ll need: soy sauce (I recommend Kikkoman’s salt-reduced one, as it’s also not thick and overpowering in flavour) rice wine vinegar sesame oil soba noodles (Hakubaku brand is [...]
Tagged Japanese food, quick food, recipe, soba noodlesI love cheese. I love pastis. So when I saw a recipe in a French cookbook that not even I could fuck up involving the marriage of the two, the angels sang, rah rah rah. Take a circle of camembert (I actually used brie and it tasted just fine). Unwrap, put on larger piece of [...]
Tagged cheese, cooking, del.icio.us, pastis, quickAgain, cannot claim any credit whatsoever for the brilliantly alliterative post title – that goes to my dearest dining companion. It’s winter. I was low. The initial plan was to check out some delicious vegetarian fare but sometimes the good ol’ fatty stuff hits spots when you’re down and out. So a second trip (for [...]
Tagged American food, Melbourne, Misty's Diner, retro dinerThough I am partial to the usage and application of alliteration, alas, I cannot claim credit (ha!) for the post title – it was the invention of my dining companion. I’m not one for stereotypes, but I have to say…it seems like every girl has at least one gay boyfriend like this: the one who [...]
Tagged Chinese food, Chinese tea, dining, dumplings, Melbourne, Oriental Tea HouseA few weeks ago, a friend of mine met me for dinner in Box Hill which has quite a good number of Chinese eateries. He took me to a place called First Taste which serves hearty soups and humble claypot dishes. It was freezing that evening and soup was definitely called for. I chose the [...]
Tagged Box Hill, Chinese food, First Taste Restaurant, Melbourne, restaurant, review