“WHO THE HELL MOVED MY ARBORIO RICE?!” I growled as I continued pawing through the endless stream of plastic packages in the pantry, searching for the elusive bag which contained these short, stumpy, pearly, carb-a-licious grains. After one heckuva long day where nothing seemed to go my way, I had dreamt of making risotto all [...]
“Urrrgh” I grunted as I carried the multiple shopping bags back into the house. My mother had been pestering me to try making Okonomiyaki for a few days, and I thought that today, with it’s 39 degree C heat would be the perfect day to stand over a hot stove and fry up one after [...]
When Jenjen of Milk & Cookies announced the theme for Hey Hey It’s Donna Hay #6 – F is for Fritter, I took it as a sign that yes, I had to take part! I love fritters of many kinds (except the deep fried mars bars as found at a certain fish’n’chip shop in Yarraville [...]
Methinks that perhaps Mr. Beauregard wouldn’t be quite so upset about his daughter Violet turning into a blueberry if she became part of these most delicious blueberry buttermilk pancakes. Am I suggesting cannibalism? Never! Not that it’d really be cannibalism as technically she did become fruit-i-fied! No oompa loompas here, but I did work some [...]
Well, mung bean’ed at any rate For the opening of my parent’s new business we had to prepare a whole lot of food, and this particular food was made in great quantity. Made with a base of pureed mung beans, it’s called ‘bin-dae-dduk’, it is another of those foods which appear at most feast day [...]