You know when you meet someone for the first time, and you just immediately know you will be friends? With my current housemate K, I somehow just knew even before we had actually met. A strange set of circumstances led me to move in while she was overseas, and I wouldn’t actually meet her until a few days later. But … Read More
Simple Dinners 10 / Beef and Shiraz Pie
Winter and comfort food intrinsically go together. It can remind you of a different time and warm you up from the inside out, what could be better? For me personally, the best comfort food is anything meaty and cooked slowly for hours – or containing pasta and cheese, obviously! Recently I spent a wonderful relaxing Sunday just chopping, simmering and … Read More
Plum, Blueberry and Thyme Galette
Happy Friday! I’m thankful for a great week filled with work, but also some laughs, good food and exciting opportunities. There is the slightest chill in the air. With daylight savings ending, it’s starting to feel like autumn is truly setting in. Truth be told, autumn might be my favourite season in Sydney. Before I get into the Plum, Blueberry … Read More
Fig and Almond Tart
One evening, my Nanna came over for dinner and brought with her a whole plate of beautiful fresh figs, grown on her own backyard tree. It was absolutely the best kind of gift that ever! I think I even did a little happy dance. While I was a little tempted to just eat them all, I knew that I wanted … Read More
Simple Dinners 09 / Ottolenghi’s Herb Pie + 7 Ways to Use Leftover Herbs
Do you make a menu plan for your weekly dinners, or wing it every night depending on what you feel like eating? I’ll definitely admit to some last minute spontaneous dinner decisions, depending on what I found in season/on special at the market, or if something tasty has caught my eye on a food blog or Pinterest. I like doing … Read More
Pumpkin Pie with Caramel Pepitas
This post is sponsored by Nuffnang My mum has a huge recipe archive. But unfortunately it has got to be one of the least organised collections in history. I remember poring over it as a kid, in the days before food blogs, Pinterest boards and dedicated recipe websites, going through hundreds of scraps of paper, magazine cutouts, handwritten notes and … Read More
Chocolate Passionfruit Banoffee Pie
Change is in the air. Last week was our first taste of autumn with my favourite kind of crisp mornings, sunny warm days and slightly cooler evenings. I’ve always thought that Sydney does the change of seasons really well. In the past I’ve always had great bursts of inspiration around spring, but I must have been too busy to notice … Read More
Hazelnut Frangipane Tart with Semillon Vanilla Peaches
And just like that, we are almost halfway through January, and halfway through summer too. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know I can’t get enough summer stone fruit! As much as I love yellow peaches, nectarines and plums, I had never given much thought to baking with white peaches before. But I love their light, … Read More
Chocolate Baklava Fingers
I have had Greek food on the brain a lot lately, not least of all because one of our brand new venues at work is a heritage pub in Newtown downstairs and a Greek restaurant called The Animal upstairs. With all the menu revisions making me very very hungry, I was very much looking forward to going and checking it … Read More
Etch’s Caramel Date Tart
This post is sponsored by Nuffnang I used to think of myself as a strictly coffee-only kind of girl, but in the last few years that has definitely changed. Green tea in the morning, Earl Grey in the afternoon and Peppermint at night – but one thing that doesn’t change is that I love my tea hot, sweet and super … Read More