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Chris Gordon's self-isolation cooking diary: Week 5
Chris Gordon is our events and programming manager extraordinaire, as well as our monthly food and gardening columnist. Here is the latest instalment of her self-isolation cooking diary.
I’ve learned a little more about myself over the last few weeks, and reading Jaclyn Crupi’s excellent book, Nonna Knows Best (available 28 April) has helped me to reaffirm a few of these self-discoveries. Most significantly – it does seem that, despite a very strong British heritage, I am in fact more…
Chris Gordon's self-isolation cooking diary: Week 4
Chris Gordon is our events and programming manager extraordinaire, as well as our monthly food and gardening columnist. Here is the latest instalment of her self-isolation cooking diary.
As part of the great experiment of having our adult kids cook for us on a regular basis, I would like to share with you some observations…
Please do note that these observations should not be construed as advice. Certainly one of the big lessons I have learned after being in isolation…
Chris Gordon's self-isolation cooking diary: Week 3
Chris Gordon is our events and programming manager extraordinaire, as well as our monthly food and gardening columnist. Here is the latest instalment of her self-isolation cooking diary.
I want to begin this record by describing my recent odyssey to purchase ingredients to bake my very own hot cross buns.
First, I travelled by foot and with great cheer to my local independent supermarket, only to find bare shelves. I then travelled by bike to markets further afield and yet…
At Home with Chris Gordon, April 2020
Our food and gardening columnist recommends three food and gardening books to enjoy this month.
An Australian Garden by Philip Cox
We should all understand the importance of maintaining indigenous Australian landscapes and gardens. Renowned architect Philip Cox always considered this vital and so some forty years ago purchased eighty hectares on the south coast of NSW as a private retreat and a conservation exercise. Applying his own aesthetic principles of vista, light, texture, colour and mass, Philip worked with…
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These are all cookbooks that our booksellers and customers love – the ones we always keep on the shelves of our shops because we are always recommending. There’s something for every home cook here.
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Chris Gordon's self-isolation cooking diary: Week 2
Chris Gordon is our events and programming manager extraordinaire, as well as our monthly food and gardening columnist. Here is the latest instalment of her self-isolation cooking diary.
One bright sunny afternoon with a little time on my hands I emptied the pantry, wiped those shelves down with pure disgust at my family’s filth, and popped everything back in wonderfully themed allotments. So satisfying, even more so than reorganising the Tupperware cupboard.
I learnt that we hoard walnuts and own…
Chris Gordon's self-isolation cooking diary: Week 1
Chris Gordon is our events and programming manager extraordinaire, as well as our monthly food and gardening columnist. Here, she sends us some missives from her home office (and kitchen!), and shares some advice on what foods to make during this period of quiet.
Experiment with pickling.
We’ve all heard about the ravished supermarkets. In my own local, the vegetable section was stripped of everything except cucumbers and brussels sprouts. My friends, this is the perfect time to grab those…
Five cookbooks to inspire you in the kitchen in March
Our monthly food and gardening columnist selects five new cookbooks to inspire you at home this month.
Beatrix Bakes by Natalie Paull
Yes, yes, I know how much you love a light, fluffy sponge and marshmallows dipped in pure chocolate. The importance of sweet food in our daily grind should never, ever be underestimated. Beatrix Bakes is a beautifully presented guide, not for the faint-hearted, to the very best baking from North Melbourne institution Beatrix.
We test out recipes from Beatrix Bakes
Today we tested out a selection of recipes from Beatrix Bakes, the first cookbook from Natalie Paull, owner and chef of Melbourne’s iconic Beatrix cafe and cake shop! And Natalie herself came in to select the best one. Below are the results…
Bronte Coates made ‘Espresso Mashmallow’ (pg. 156):
I was recently (and very generously) gifted a stand mixer and so I wanted to pick a recipe where I got to try it out, hence the Espresso Mashmallow. This…
At Home with Chris Gordon, February 2020
Our monthly food and gardening columnist looks to the year of cookbooks ahead and makes some predictions for what foods will be trending in 2020…
Guess what the vegetable for 2020 is? Be still my heart, it’s brussels sprout! And the drink for the year is oat milk, which I believe is basically porridge.
A new decade brings so many promises for a better and kinder life, with or without sprouts. Certainly the rush of cookbooks coming our way in…
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