Author: Ed

Cooking

Simplicity is the best

I have planned a debate on good vs bad ingredients, my position being that the secret is knowing what to do with the bad ones. This entry is the opposite because the better the ingredients, the better this dish. First the tomatoes, handpicked off the vine warmed to blood temperature by the sun. Tear some leaves from a nearby basil bush (tomatoes and basil thrive together). Slice buffalo Mozarella into soft creamy discs. Assemble alternate layers of tomato, basil and […]

journalism

The Sheet: Adelaide bank results

Change of tack for Adelaide in the mortgage market By Ed Charles Adelaide bank has emphasised its commitment to achieving a five per cent share of the home loan market through the introduction of innovative products while increasing its margins through better use of technology.

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 […]

Drinks

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 […]

Drinks

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 […]