Category Archives: everything’s better with toast

After 18 months of photographing meals and a good deal of soul-searching, I decided to put the eatin’ project to bed (or at least on indefinite hold). So behold our very messy last meal (rather more what my desk regularly … Continue reading →

Am stellar at taking photos of every meal – actually posting them, not so much. Achaari-style chicken curry, paste from Island Curries. Interestingly, the last post before my unintended hiatus featured the same meal. This time I inadvertently added only … Continue reading →

Found an enormous smoked hock grocery shopping at Pyrmont Super IGA, so there was nothing for it, but … Cuban black bean soup from Women’s Weekly: The Weekend Cook (p.8) Can’t say enough good things about this soup, is even … Continue reading →

Pre-footy dinner, so obviously time to bust out something new. Enchiladas Verdes from the CIA These were really marvellous, particularly with fresh corn tortillas from The Essential Ingredient. Ricotta worked well as a substitute for the mysterious “farmers / pot … Continue reading →

2011: day 133 (f) shepherds pie [redux] | 130511 Whenever we make this dish we invariably have way too much filling and our pies were rapidly outgrowing our available cooking recepticles. Don had the super-cunning idea of freezing some filling … Continue reading →

Shopping night and uninspired for post-shopping nourishment. I’m a sucker for any sort of artisany curry paste and invariably disappointed. But, still I persist, for reasons only known to my sub-conscious. Achaari-style chicken curry, paste from Island Curries. Really wonderful! … Continue reading →

Revisiting the meal that started off the whole blogging our meals thang. Cheong Liew’s braised pork belly from Jennifer McLagan: Fat (p. unknown – transcribed the recipe from a library book) Still utterly wonderful, even when Don forgets to include … Continue reading →

We fully intended to have this on day 79 (sunday), but it required a little more slow-cooking than we had anticipated and we were starving and it was late, so we carried it forward. Slow-cooked lamb sugo from Adrian Richardson: … Continue reading →

This was so marvellous and simple that, for the longest time, we had it every second Friday night (babies collection evening). Then we tired of it, then Joe/Frank moved in with us and so babies collection was minimised. And so … Continue reading →

To celebrate Don’s arrival back from distant climes, we busted out an old favourite, even though it did mean that I had to visit DJs (for the cornichons) and take the long trek home on my pauvre, pauvre foot (for … Continue reading →