I updated my list of Australian food bloggers and in my post-work statistical analysis haze, I pulled out Excel. There are 176 blogs in my list, broken down as follows: State No. of Blogs WA 12 NSW 43 SA 7 VIC 82 QLD 16 ACT 11 Tas 5 NT 0 As percentages, the results seem… Continue reading One Food Blogger per 120,000 Australians
Rotisserie = home
I’ve moved into the house of an expatriate Slovenian bootlegger and as soon as I’ve set up a rotisserie, it feels like home again. If there is a single item of cookware that I could be trapped with on a desert island, it would be the rotisserie, although only if there was an indigenous chicken… Continue reading Rotisserie = home
Guerrilla Garden Bounty
The best part of growing a garden is harvesting more than you can eat in a single sitting. It’s easy to see how harvest festivals started with a seemingly endless bounty of food in a few scant weeks of ripeness. The bucket of “Tommy Toe” heirloom tomatoes is hardly endless but the tomatoes have completely… Continue reading Guerrilla Garden Bounty
Gong Xi Fa Cai, Rendang
Another year, another chance for lion dancers to molest the unwary. The risk of a lion dancer catching aflame grows each year. The hanging iceberg lettuce attracts them. Welcome to the Chinese New Year. I had a vague plan to hit up some dumpling joints but was derailed by a newish Malaysian place: Old Town… Continue reading Gong Xi Fa Cai, Rendang
Limca
I miss the threat posed by random drinks especially one in a bottle that has been reused until it develops a thick ring of scratched glass. Sadly, this one isn’t alcoholic. Limca tastes like stale lemonade that someone has attempted to revive with a teaspoon of powdered ginger. There is no saving it. The cap… Continue reading Limca
Backyard Pizza
Happy New Year. The great Australian side effect of Baby Boomers with too much time on their hands is the backyard pizza oven. I’m certainly not complaining. For all that grief that has been caused by Gen-X being locked out of the managerial class is now being repaid in hot, crusty pizza. Who else has… Continue reading Backyard Pizza
Great moments in octopus food styling
Making any recipe that involves gluing fake eyelashes onto spaghetti is never a good idea. From Woman’s Day’s 250 Quick & Easy Recipes.
Menu for Hope 5: 100 hours left
Food bloggers’ annual raffle, Menu for Hope, is on again and with 100 hours left to run, chances are good that you’ll win prizes aplenty. Get over to Chez Pim to check out the full list or to Tomato for the South East Asian edition. I’m not offering a prize this year because I doubt… Continue reading Menu for Hope 5: 100 hours left