Once you have the recipe for crumb pie you can virtually put anything in the middle and make a fruit crumb pie or jam crumb pie. I got this one from anitalianinmykitchen.com and it’s a good recipe that I’ve used a couple of times now. What I like about crumbed pie is that it’s easy…
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It’s Pie Time in the Southern Highlands
Pie is what happens when pastry meets filling. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the first use of the word “pie” as it relates to food to 1303, noting the word was well-known and popular by 1362. My discovery of pies was much, much later than that when my father use to buy pies for my brother and…
Beer Battered Fish and Chips recipe
There is nothing like homemade fish and chips for lunch on a lazy Sunday. Sapporo beer battered fish and hand cut chips actually. Sounds fancy but it’s not that hard to make when you have fresh ingredients, particularly fresh flathead fillets which were sourced from Northside Seafood Suppliers, a supplier of seafood to the chefs…
Future of Fresh Produce: grow local, think global
I grew up in the 80s during a time where one of the fruit and vegetable markets was in Haymarket. I use to tag along with my mother to the markets on a Saturday to help her carry bags of apples and oranges back home. Here I remember the sellers at the markets sold produce…
Travel diary: Malolo at Macmasters :: Connecting with loved ones on the NSW Central Coast
“Happy New Year! Did you go away?” a work colleague asked me. “Yes I did. I was up on the Central Coast, on Macmasters Beach”, I replied. “Oh yes, Macmasters Beach, I’ve been there a few times … it’s a really nice remote part of the Central Coast, away from all the crowds”. During the…
Royal Botanical Gardens Sydney :: Longest Tomato Lunch
We indulged on everything with tomatoes over the weekend … Focaccias made with tomatoes and sea salt, Luca’s signature pasta with marinated heirloom tomatoes, tomato carpaccio, ricotta fritters with tomato jam at the Longest Tomato Lunch held at the Royal Botanical Garden in Sydney over the weekend set on the spectacular foreshore. This was a…
Four Brave Women at Carriageworks
“Our most memorable food experience back in Iraq was actually the people that we shared food with more than the food itself. We can make the same food here but we cannot share meals with the same people and some of our best memories are sitting around a table with family and friends eating a…
See.Taste.Do at West Hotel Sydney, Curio Collection by Hilton
The plant is not just a plant. It has a huge role in the whole of our way of looking at the world. The plant is a totem, the plant is a relation, the plant is a skin group, it fits into a system of relationships with humans. It occurs in a particular season, it…
Flying Fish relocated to The Star Sydney
“Where we are at is the heart of the action and I’m very excited where we are going in the next few years”, Executive Chef, Peter Robertson told us at the launch party of the newly relocated Flying Fish at The Star Sydney earlier this week. Flying Fish’s relocation is not simply moving across the…
Becoming a Canberran :: Design Canberra Festival 2018
Honestly, where has the time gone? I’ve been quiet on the website blog as I’ve temporarily moved to Canberra from beginning of October for 3 months for a work assignment (day job) and finding my feet in our nation’s capital. I hate to say it but Christmas is just a month away and soon I’ll…