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recipes

Kids take over the kitchen

August 31, 2010

Tiny pencil-width fingers press into the floury pizza dough and brothers Tom, 7, and Henry, 9, jokingly jostle as to who gets to tear up the salami. Their older sister, Charlie, 11, watches patiently, letting the boys complete this simple task – the other night she cooked Greek-style roast chicken by herself. Children in the [...]

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Farmgate Cheese

August 17, 2010

Incredible cheese, all from Farmgate Cheese. The selection changes regularly, not that you’d need it to. The melty Woodside Charlestone Jersey Brie, when ripe, is just about the softest and earthiest thing you can imagine eating. And the best part is you can order the cheese online, ready to be stored away for your next [...]

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Food fashion friends, Fleur Wood

August 10, 2010

I have a little slip dress. It’s black with a pearly trim detail at the top, and the straps are barely there. Nor is the dress really, and I have to either be wearing too much underwear, that won’t show any lines, or virtually none at all, that won’t show any lines. But I have [...]

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Blumenthal’s sherry fondu

July 23, 2010

The wonderful Heston Blumenthal pairs sherry with fondu in this little video. Fondu might not be such a bad idea this weekend, apparently the weather will be miserable. But we won’t be with this recipe up our sleeves… ShareTweet

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Fast-food vegetable salad

July 21, 2010

This is my good-intentions, use-everything-up-in-the-fridge, vegetable salad. Just feel terrible terrible when I have gorgeous organic vegetables going all overdue in the crisper, so this morning I whipped out everything I could find, all wintery seasonal, and made this… There was enough for lunch, and I packed the rest away for lunch tomorrow. I had [...]

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Strawberry & apple jam

July 7, 2010

One of my favourite people is leaving Sydney for Norway today. Kristin Hove, who I’ve spent the last 6 months exploring Sydney, talking recipes, talking publishing, and generally hanging out with, is heading home to Oslo with her darling chap Arnie. Oh sigh. Some people just inspire you to do things, reminding you to try [...]

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Apple schnapps gravlax

July 2, 2010

This pink and green Scandanavian cured fish is, to me, Christmas. The smell of the dill and the sugary cured trout (which I find less strong in flavour to salmon), with that hint of vodka, is what comes out with Champagne for breakfast on Christmas morning in the Gibbs house. It’s may not be Christmas [...]

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Bird Cow Fish at Eveleigh Markets

June 24, 2010

Alex Herbert, of Bird Cow Fish in Surry Hills fame, cooked me an omelette while I was standing right there in front of her. She used heirloom tomatoes tossed with the cherry variety, finely sliced Spanish onion and lots of parsley, all marinated in their own juices. And using three eggs she pulled together a [...]

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Pilu for lunch

June 17, 2010

Don’t you love it when you drop in to your parents’ house to say hello and Giovanni Pilu (the Italian head-chef of Pilu) is making lunch, just by the by? That is truly hand-on-heart what happened the other day, by some extraordinary coincidence the very day after I went to his incredible Freshwater restaurant Pilu [...]

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Squid and chorizo salad

May 21, 2010

Fish, or seafood generally, goes extremely well with pork. I made coral trout, a white fish, and wrapped it in pancetta recently, for example. And so in a bid to prove my point, here is a recipe for squid and chorizo salad, which is lovely on a winter day  even though it’s easiest cooked on [...]

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Billy tea and citrus trees

May 17, 2010

In all seriousness, I’ve never in my life seen so many lemons and limes all in one place. At my sister’s property Melross, in Kangaroo Valley, this weekend, we picked boxes and boxes of citrus, and still at the end of the weekend the trees were heavy with fruit. To be honest my darling father did [...]

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Crab linguini with garlic and lemon breadcrumbs

May 7, 2010

I found freshly picked crab at this little place in Port Douglas – so perfect I wasn’t sure whether I should make a souffle or just a simple pasta. The votes were in for the latter, plus it’s much less fussy when you’re not cooking in your own kitchen. I used breadcrumbs to give it [...]

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Collected: A book by Kristin Hove

April 27, 2010

My dear friend Kristin Hove has just released her first cookbook. Just 200 copies are being printed, so be quick if you want to get one. The book is full of recipes from her friends, who contributed from all over the world. Her stunning photography is inspiring, and the food is simple, elegant and worth [...]

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Popcorn, pigs and ponderings

April 22, 2010

Right, as much as I love this dear blog, I am getting one of these as a kind of on-hand serviette for recipes I think up at odd hours. Today someone was telling me about bacon-fat popcorn. It’s for recipes like that. I might do a drawing of a popping pig to make it pretty. [...]

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