It was touch and go for a while. But eventually most of the local food bloggers managed to creep away from the safety of the computer glow to gather in Edworthy Park on Sunday afternoon. With big forest fire clouds looming overhead it was hard to tell if the BBQ would get rained out. But [...]
Posts under ‘with a fork’
rad hot, hot-rod radishes
There’s a fiery bunch of nostril-flaring demons cruisin’ into town for the summer. They come in all shapes and sizes from white-hot icicles to deceptively burnsome watermelon colours. The one thing these radical roots all have in common is their ability to melt your face with their peppery bite. Behind their firey front, there’s some [...]
Polenta board party!
Polenta board with braised red wine chicken, ratatouille, roasted garlic, grilled orange and gremolata linkscolor = “000000″; highlightscolor = “888888″; backgroundcolor = “FFFFFF”; channel = “none”;
Flora’s Pasta Primavera
When Flora, the ancient goddess of growing greenery, shows up this spring you know she’ll be looking vivacious. She’s spring-loaded to deliver all the greenery to life with a healthy dose of invigorating chlorophyll. When was the last time you enjoyed a dose of chlorophyll? linkscolor = “000000″; highlightscolor = “888888″; backgroundcolor = “FFFFFF”; channel [...]
les beans et les wieners
Beans, beans, like a piece of fine art, the more you eat, the more you… get a wider appreciation for finer things. The more you broaden your palate, the better you feel, so let’s have beans for every meal. These beans are as at home on the range as they are in a fancy-pants restaurant. [...]
Sultan’s Delight
Sultan’s always get the best stuff. The most wicked-awesome pets, the cushiest cushions and the most scrumptious chow. So what delights the Sultan more than his cuddly kitty or his favourite goose down cushion… it’s Imam Bayildi, also know as the Sultan’s Delight. A delightful dish of big chunks of eggplant, slowly anointed in emerald [...]
Julie/Julia dinner party
Last week Julie (from Dinner with Julie) decided to host a Julie/Julia Dinner party for a handful of local food bloggers. We each brought something from Mastering the Art of French Cooking that we had prepared earlier. While we feasted Julia Child tutted about her kitchen as The French Chef reruns played in the background. linkscolor [...]
Adam’s Apple Ribs
The sweet innocence of Summer is over and we are now banished from our lovely outdoor gardens and forced to cover up our twigs and berries with more respectable coverings. To keep even warmer during the chilly winter try something that will stick to your ribs and make some sticky apple ribs. Sweet blushing apples [...]
The Tale of Mr B.Russel Sprout
The following is an excerpt from Kitchen Scraps: a Humorous Illustrated Cookbook Once upon a time there was a gentleman named Mr. B. Russell Sprout who lived in a red-brick townhouse on a cobblestone lane near the bank where he worked. Even the other bankers thought Mr. Sprout was an old fuddy-duddy because he always [...]
Hot under the collard greens
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