Potato bake paradise

I love a good potato bake. I love the layered one with sliced potatoes, lashings of cream (and garlic, I add lots of garlic) and topped with grated cheese that is then baked in the oven until it’s done and there are lovely browned bits around the edges to scrape out of the dish later…

Cooking mojo

One of the side effects of the past few months has been losing my interest in just about everything, including (very sadly for me) cooking. My gorgeous girlfriends helped out by providing a wonderful meal delivery service so no one actually starved during this time, but I lost one of my favourite pastimes. I’m happy…

Italian sausages

My lovely Italian colleague brought me some of her homemade pork & fennel sausages during the week – along with amazing photos of the sausage making extravaganza that had occurred at her home over the weekend. Amazing scenes! Anyway, inspired by her generous gift and by another post from Stonesoup, I made this for dinner:…

Eggs for dinner

I follow a number of food blogs and Stonesoup is one of my favourites. One night this week, in an attempt to put off having to think about what to make for dinner, I was flicking through email and a notification for Stonesoup’s latest post came up.   An awesome baked egg dish called Cumulus…

In which I make macarons..

On Mothers Day this year, Bookworm organised to get me a book about macarons. We love macarons in Chez FamilyLibrarian and I must have said at some time or other than I would like to have a go at making them. Anyway, this lovely book turned up on Mothers Day (with awesome wrapping too, wouldn’t…

Whirligig Buns

There’s nothing quite like deciding that today is a good day to get some study done to bring out the inner procrastibaker in me.  Procrastibaking is a term coined by Bookworm last year while she was doing the HSC – we ate lots of cakes, biscuits and muffins last year!  I feel some pressure to…

Rocket pesto, pumpkin & ricotta fettucini

In my post about meal planning I promised this recipe. I don’t know where it originally came from – a foodie magazine of some sort, possible Australian Good Taste…. Anyway, now it lives in my card file – which is a story for another post. We’ve eaten this a few times in the past couple…

Chocolate, date & almond torte

Today is Australia Day, so depending on your politics it’s either a celebration of the white settlement of Australia, or it’s a reminder of the invasion of a land already occupied by Aboriginal tribes. It’s not the purpose of this blog to have a political position, so instead, I’m going to write about what we…