Archive for the ‘at another’s place’ Category

being in sydney again has me sometimes wishing i was back on the island where there are only so many things to do/people to see/places to be. but i am here, and enjoying what is on offer (trips to newcastle! babies! plans for the next year! super 8 movie marathons!) the trip back to my [...]


(thanks to mila for the superb title for this post. morning breakfasts are her most creative times) i got invited to a byo curry dinner to celebrate the ageing of tim, a man about town in port vila, vanuatu. i turned up early, tired, and with empty hands, and proceeded to fall asleep on the [...]


birthday pie

24Nov08

an afternoon birthday picnic moved indoors because of this extremely odd end-of-spring weather. i used this recipe as a base and worked with what i did and didn’t have on hand. which mainly meant leaving out the ricotta and using mozzarella instead (no soft cheese for the pregnant one), and i think i used a [...]


i migrated to newcastle for nearly a week… it was hectic and busy and fun and hung over and stimulating and rainy and hot. my home for the week was at mark’s – which saw people come and go day in day out, and was full of life and excitement. on thursday night (the calm [...]


in regional new zealand the local fish and chip shop is also the local chinese takeaway. the signs would read ‘fish and chips chinese takeaway’ as if it were a logical combination. i was pretty tempted to try it out (imagining deep fried dim sims and a chicken and cashew nut stirfry i’d say) and [...]


western style

06Jul08

i went to western australia and came back with about 5 extra kilos of body weight. a lot of eating was done there. i’ll try and succinctly capture some of the eating highlights here… first up: breakfast on the train from perth to bunbury. rather than catch the (easier) 4 hour bus direct to the [...]


great minds

22Jun08

i made my stock standard vegan chocolate cake as my contribution to a night of knitting and crochet in the cross. no icing even, just a plain and simple cake. lisa made a chocolate ripple cake (it felt like there was more dessert than main course)… of all of us there none bar lisa had [...]


a couple of weekends ago i was tipsy by 6pm and stumbled into amy’s house for an interlude between outings (the beauty of a cousin living next to the train station…). one outcome of this tipsy-ness was demands on the boys for a dinner invitation for us all. i demand, they provide it seems, and [...]


at the beginning of may elena came to sydney and we drank some lemonade in a bar. for some reason she also gave me a biodynamic butternut pumpkin, which i happily received and took home to cook. the pumpkin had been sitting on the kitchen bench for almost a month, and i finally decided it [...]


but we can still sit in the kitchen and eat good food and drink together. marian’s ‘made to last for days’ dahl with rice, yoghurt, coriander and super tasty cabbage with caraway seeds. what more do you need to do to cabbage than steam it with caraway seeds and apple cider vinegar?



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