happy halloween 1 Nov 2010 | 06:38 am

raviules 26 Oct 2010 | 10:43 am

I'm not going to pretend I had any idea what raviules were before I saw them in an issue of Australian Gourmet Traveller, but as soon as I saw the photo of them, I knew they had to be mine. They are, ...

strawberry jam ice cream 17 Oct 2010 | 03:37 am

Strawberry jam ice cream: pretty pretty pretty. And sweet in just the right subdued kind of way. It's lovely as a scoop on its own, and amazing mixed with meringue and raspberries. You MUST use homema...

mustard & fontina macaroni cheese 11 Oct 2010 | 09:58 am

Nigel Slater, in his 'Kitchen Diaries', cooks the way I'd like to: seasonally, spontaneously, depending on what he finds at the market or in his back garden. It always sounds so lovely and grown-up, a...

chocolate layer cake with vanilla cream frosting 8 Oct 2010 | 09:22 am

I love making birthday cakes for other people, and this was for one of the sweetest people I know. I knew I wanted a classic cake that would look simple and beautiful, and taste incredible. So I turne...

roasted banana ice cream with dulce de leche 3 Oct 2010 | 02:59 am

Two weeks ago, in a moment of midnight weakness, I ordered an ice cream machine, mainly because I'd just found this recipe for roasted banana ice cream. Bananas roasted with brown sugar and butter unt...

sun-dried tomato & almond pesto 28 Sep 2010 | 03:33 pm

Today was the first day it's felt like autumn in Austin, and if I've ever felt like falling to my knees and kissing the now-less-infernal earth, it was this morning. This sun-dried tomato and almond p...

honeydew popsicles; or, how to survive August in Texas 31 Aug 2010 | 03:19 pm

A steady diet of popsicles is the only way to survive August in Austin, and I speak with great authority, since it's now the end of August and I've survived. I love anything melon flavoured; I love th...

golden eggs 1 Apr 2010 | 03:41 pm

So yes, the food item in the above photograph looks nothing like an egg. It's not even egg shaped. But these tasty little cakes - so simple, but so good, flavoured with nutmeg and topped with butter, ...

lamington cupcakes 8 Mar 2010 | 02:15 am

I should say right away that real lamingtons don't look like these - they're cubes of sponge cake, sometimes with jam in the middle, coated in chocolate and sprinkled with coconut. Like this.* Accordi...