Category Archives: Food

Making your own pizza – especially with a group of friends who all bring ingredients – is so much fun. Every so often I come across an awesomeness that is so easy, so cheap, and so good. Don’t forget to play along at home. One had mars bars on top:

CJ and I said we’d have Cold Rock Ice Cream when I wasn’t pregnant. . . and I’m not. That’s excuse enough 🙂 You select an ice cream flavour, then select fillings (basically, a wide variety of lollies – mostly mini chocolate bars – and some fruit). The staff member puts them on a cooledContinue reading “Cold Rock Baby”

See this? It’s bok choy with butter and basil. Delicious AND intellectually satisfying.

On our final full day in Beijing, CJ and I sought out a restaurant we’d liked on our first visit to Beijing back in 2010. We took the subway, and cunningly got off one station early due to a subconscious desire to make the day more epic. For future reference, this is what the restaurantContinue reading “One last adventure”

Beijing has an enormous variety of delicious international food. The only sad part is that unusual food tends to require a certain amount of careful questioning (“It’s a pickled WHAT?!?”) and attention, and a little bit of extra labour (rice with chopsticks, for example) which really makes things difficult while also attempting to feed anContinue reading “Brillig Beijing: The Food”

Even without those odd little multilingual/cultural moments (eg asking a concierge to call a taxi then waiting in consternation for twenty minutes as he vanished out the front door) hotel life would be a fascinating and exotic experience for me. The best part, inevitably, is the breakfast buffet (fairly necessary when one carts an infantContinue reading “Brillig Beijing: Buffet Style”

PS: Oops, I posted tomorrow’s entry today. Welcome to the future. Regular readers will know I’m a fan of home-made lemonade – and that I have a stolen mint plant. I wasn’t able to eat either during pregnancy, but I certainly can now! Plus it’s totally a serve of fruit. Hey, I don’t wanna getContinue reading “Reunite with a food friend”

Welcome back to your regular programming: Daily Awesomenesses on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I happen to have several saved up, but I’m sure Louisette will feature once or twice too (and of course she’ll be the focus on Wednesdays until she’s old enough to ask me to stop). —————————————————————- Food is awesome. Here is (from roughlyContinue reading “Turkish Feast”

We went to lunch at a friend’s place and came home with two tomato plants and this lettuce plant. You gotta love a plant where, if you want some greens, you just pick off a leaf and eat it.

In over two and a half years of marriage, CJ and I have never once eaten tofu. Every so often I make a dodgy fried rice with whatever is in the fridge – usually ham and eggs, with sugar and soy sauce for flavouring. This week I tried something new. I cooked coconut-flavoured rice byContinue reading “Experimentation”

This is what I call a snickers sandwich – it’s crunchy peanut butter and nutella, combined: You’re welcome, people of the world. What are your strangely delicious sandwich combinations?

Some people reckon triple chocolate desserts are impressive – to which I say HAH! Triple chocolate is merely the canvas. I began with triple chocolate Cadbury ice cream – chocolate ice cream with real chocolate chips and ribbons of chocolate sauce throughout. I added choc mint ice magic (a brilliant invention that turns hard when drizzledContinue reading “Quintuple Chocolate”

It’s a pretty, pretty Italian place in Woden (Canberra). CJ and I ate there last week in an effort to entice my body to take on more food. It worked well at the time. I love all the wood, glass, and brick – with highlights of marble and steel. One of our friends did theContinue reading “Belucci’s Restaurant”

Pay attention, and I’ll tell you the secret to the most awesome home parties: Know the weaknesses of your guests. Here’s some examples from my own life: Parental units: They no longer have children at home sucking them dry, they have actual real jobs, and their mortgage is almost paid off. This means they have aContinue reading “I haz discovered cheese!”

My family has two feasts each year: Christmas and Passover. Both are hugely significant. In some ways Passover is more special because I’ve never knowingly met another family that celebrates it – so there’s absolutely no commercialisation (not even presents – not even *gasp* chocolate!) I blogged about our Christian passover ritual last year, andContinue reading “Hosting Christian Passover”