For the love of food
This time in three weeks, Will and I will be on a plane heading over to New York City! We’re more than a little excited. The planning is well and truly underway and we’ve gone so overboard as to plot every place we want to go on a map. Restaurants have their own colour so [...]
Dinner this week has been through bursts of cook-a-fab-new-recipe to whatever’s-in-the-freezer. I managed to pick up a bit of a bug in Melbourne and have either felt like I couldn’t be bothered lifting myself off the couch or like I really wanted to cook something super healthy and yummy to make myself feel better. Tuesday [...]
Have you every paid $5 for a potato? No? I thought it was pretty insane too but that’s the price people were prepared to pay for a fancy potato spiral on a stick at the Racecourse Road carnival yesterday. The potatoes are cut using one of those spiral apple corer/peelers, threaded onto a stick and [...]
I have decided to retire the bread maker. It has served me well over the last few years but I’ve also discovered that I can make bread just as well, if not better, without it. I don’t particularly like the shape of loaf it makes and my mix master can do all the kneading for [...]
I have developed a little bit of a habit – a banana-buying habit. It seems every Sunday when I go to the markets, I come home with a small bunch of them in my grandma trolley. Usually I make them into delicious creamy smoothies but the idea of an icy-cold breakfast is a little unappealing [...]
Whenever I think of party food my brain always goes straight to sausage rolls. It’s really not a party here in Australia unless you have them. Years ago, party sausage rolls used to mean the frozen variety that come in a box and have little indents down the log so you can snap off however [...]
I’m always coming up with strange things that I think should exist but London Foodie In New York has come up with something I would pay good money for. She and her man are constantly debating the number of items she needs in the kitchen and appliances on the kitchen bench. I too have a [...]
My sugar brain seems to have developed into a functioning brain in the last 24 hours. Actually it’s probably Christmas excitement now there are just two sleeps until the big day, but after yesterday’s blonde moment I remembered I can do one better than playing you my favourite song, I can show the film clip. [...]
When I was in primary school my sister and I were allowed tuckshop for lunch on Fridays. I used to love writing out my order on a brown paper bag and adding the money to it. It was also a serious privilege to be on ‘tuckshop duty’ where you got to take your class’s box [...]
The other day I mentioned that I’m not really big on sleeping in anymore. Since I wrote that, my body has decided to prove the point and has woken me up at 5am nearly every morning this week. I really see why everyone wants daylight saving here so badly. At 5am the sun is [...]
As much as we all hate to admit it (well I don’t hate it I love Christmas), the party season is upon us. There are just 22 sleeps until it’s time to put up the Christmas tree and start busting out my new Michael Buble Christmas CD. To me, the festive season also means lots [...]
Did you have a win on the Melbourne Cup yesterday? I didn’t. I thought that between all the sweeps and $1 bets I had that I might have won something but sadly no. I did see a lady who might have had too big a celebration yesterday. She was walking down Racecourse Road (next to [...]
I am Claire & I love food. Here you'll find my favourite recipes, tips, tricks, restaurants & plates full of frivolity with the odd crafty post. New inspiration posted daily.
