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Lemon poppy seed pound cake

2022-09-04T11:47:49+02:00

Cutting the lemon the knife leaves a little cathedral — from ‘Ode to a Lemon’, Pablo Neruda It’s been so … More

Kale, cauliflower and preserved lemon salad

2021-02-25T07:58:31+01:00

in love you have loosened yourself like sea water: I can scarcely measure the sky’s most spacious eyes and I … More

February Favorites

2019-02-28T07:38:24+01:00

Food is essential to culture, and should never be reduced to a simple to-do list. – Adam Liaw in The Guardian I vacillate between thinking food blogging is a (...)

Black rice and passionfruit salad

2019-02-19T03:55:10+01:00

Morning finds her curled like a prawn Around a stuffed blue Pegasus, or the smallest Prawn-pink lion. Or else she’s barging Into my room, and leaning in close (...)

Blistered Summer Salad

2019-01-24T02:59:20+01:00

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Do you remember how great summer holidays were as a kid? A seemingly endless expanse of time when the daily routine of (...)

Red Fruit Salad

2019-01-08T03:34:37+01:00

islands parting tides as meteors burn the air. Oysters powder to chalk in my hands. – from ‘The River’ by Robert Adamson It’s been raining for days.* Heavy (...)

Pistachio Butter Birthday Cake

2018-12-10T00:40:17+01:00

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. – from The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare The waratah flower, native to the south-east coast of Australia, is a (...)

Charred Broccolini

2018-12-03T23:51:45+01:00

I’m still asleep but you know I will wake if you need – from ‘Wangal Morning’, Evelyn Araluen It’s been a wet spring here in Narrm/Melbourne. The sound of the (...)

Roasted cauliflower and beetroot salad with rosewater dressing

2018-07-18T03:37:53+02:00

I bend to it willingly, this patch of earth and its green things, in their own world (though I hold the title to it) hungry for life…” – from ‘After’ by David (...)

Rhubarb Pound Cake

2018-06-12T04:38:30+02:00

There’s a wild sunset brewing up over the Pacific. The water is glowing turquoise, the sky is turning crazy pink, the lights of the Santa Monica Ferris wheel (...)