Month: January 2006

Drinks

Weekend zucchini emergency. Urgent help needed

I’m in trouble. Three Zucchini plants all survived this year and there are just two of us. We are in urgent need of help. As each day passes the massed forces of the Zucchini threaten to take over. At first there was just one or two a week. Now its one or two a day. Three days ago I blinked and when my eyes opened I was confronted by a vegetable the size of a pot bellied pig. We need […]

Eat streets

Hop on the Krispy Kreme media bandwagon

Picture pinched from Il Fornaio. Yuk! Over at Espresso in The Age the editors are already licking their lips at the prospect of a drive through Krispy Kreme doughnut outlet in Melbourne. I’ve had the misfortune to eat these dubious sugar coated bits of dough. Double yuk! At first bite they have a pleasant crispy sugar coating but underneath is dough that does a disservice to the worst kind of white bread you can buy. Triple yuk! Soon we can […]

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Five food challenges for 2006 (and koala)

Lucas (aka Crazy Gaijin) has tagged me to come up with my five food challenges for 2006. 1. Bake loads of different cakes and biscuits Especially a sponge cake, probably a traditional one using no fat but also a Genoese (made with butter) one filled with strawberries and cream. I’ll probably make a couple of each and gorge myself. I may share some with friends and neighbours. Or perhaps I’ll hide them and scoff both. There may be a small […]

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Land of the giants

Steve walks down the street and over the road to an ofice carpark to harvest giant rosemary for our whole baked snapper. Then he reachedd over the first floor balcony to his house-sized bay tree. Brisbane in Queensland is land of the giants. My own Bay tree is barely 30 cm tall. Steve’s is more like 30m. Okay, 10m. These pics were taken on the 30th and we’ve only got back home and got the broadband firedd-up again today. A […]