Old recipes, in case you didn’t get the memo, are the bomb. While I still haven’t really gotten my head around shrimp cocktail (iceberg lettuce and thousand island dressing may have scarred me for life), I am falling in love all over again with things like Beef Wellington, Crepes Suzettes and one of my all-time favourite retro nibbles, Caesar salad. [...]
The thing about carbs, is something truly marvelous happens when you combine them with fat and heat. Take the humble potato. Slice and deep-fry it and they turn a golden crunchy on the outside and pillowy soft awesomeness on the inside. My ideal nibble is probably home-made mayonnaise and a bowl of French fries, or as we call them here [...]
I’m pretty sure I can’t be the only one, but I’m the kind of person who peeks in other peoples’ baskets when I’m in a supermarket queue. Surreptitiously of course, I wouldn’t want to appear weird. You can’t blame me. After all, it’s not like there’s much else to do. One can tell a lot about people from their baskets. [...]
When women get depressed, they shop – generally for shoes. Given that A) I already have about 40 pairs; B) I actually wear only maybe five of them and C) I would need to move house if I bought just one more pair, I decided to give this up. Not the practice of shopping to get my head screwed on [...]
They may have become completely passé in a world that embraces fascinating new words like apols, derp, jorts and phablet (I kid you not, Google it), but I’m just nuts about charming old idioms. Take my tendency of not wanting to deal with a roasting tray after a huge lunch or dinner. I stick it in the oven with the [...]
Many of my friends fear soufflé. Not the eating of it. The making. They fear it the way I fear SARS, or being caught DUI and locked up for the night with a bunch of dudes with bad haircuts and worse attitudes. I reckon that anybody with half an active brain cell has good cause to fear the last [...]