Food

Yesterday M, Helen the Unbeliever and I dug up the potato bed and towers and unearthed the booty… Greek Helen has been very pessimistic about the fate of the potatoes. And apparently her husband’s friend has also been over, shaking his head at the slug-eaten leaves and absence of flowers and pronounced that no potatoes [...]

Are there more urban chooks? Is it something that’s on the rise as urban hippiedom grows and grows? After yesterday’s post I was chatting to someone about their garden and she told me she’d also built a chook palace. Wow! I have yet to snap the chook palace up at the Camperdown cemetary that’s been [...]

I’ve just signed up to receive Foodie News from Crave, the Sydney Food Festival on here in Sydney from October 1. I was inspired after reading about chef Rene Redzepi’s visit to Sydney to launch the festival, and his focus on local produce to create modern Nordic cuisine. (And apparently his restaurant Noma, has topped [...]

When my lovely partner M the homecook hero, began baking sourdough at home, I was delirious. (And from that point, our home was urban hippie central. They’re his hands on the left with the inaugural loaves.) Alas, when I began cracking the whip so that he’d being cranking up the work-pace – just because I [...]