Category: Food
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The Curse Of The Middle-Aged Baby Belly: Can Women Have It All – Both Wine And Food?
A common thread of conversation among my middle-aged friends is “weight gain”. We usually begin to moan about how little we can eat these days somewhere between dessert and cheese and then wash away our concerns with wine. I have to admit that having never suffered from serious weight gain issues before – apart from…
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Teens Eating Salad, Working Ovens and Medals for Outstanding Parenting Achievement
There’s major cause for celebration in the new house this week, firstly because the oven is still working after Kurt cremated a pizza in it at 4am on Sunday morning, forgot about it, went to bed and if not for the old man’s remarkable sense of smell, (or weak bladder), none of us might be…
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Vintage Cooking: Could Devilled Eggs Really Be Making A Come Back?
Friends came around to dinner this weekend. Since we moved to the apartment we entertain less and to be honest I was feeling out of practice when it comes to cooking for the masses from our matchbox of kitchen. When I researched what to cook on the Internet – keywords being “easy” and “quick” –…
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The Idiot’s Guide To Homemade Muesli
Who’d have thought that one day I would be smug enough to make my own Muesli? And brave enough to brag about it? But in these days of health madness, it’s not just Pete Evans who can be radical in the kitchen; you can be too. You might even get a modicum of respect for…
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Why I’ll Never Be A Good Cook
I always won the ‘progress’ prize at school – never the ‘outrageously gifted’ or abundance of academic and sports prizes that the beautiful head girl with the double-barrelled name won – the girl that all of us boarders had a secret crush on, because she was not only gifted, but surprisingly nice. No, mine was…
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14 Ways To Achieve Fuck All On A Rainy Day
You might have gathered from the news that it’s been raining kangaroos and funnel web spiders here in Australia over the past few days. There’s this giant myth around the rest of the world that it’s sunny all year around here, and if you live in states of the country fortunate to have crocs and…
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The Idiot’s Guide To Baking Macaroons
I know you’re impressed! Frankly, I can’t imagine anything worse than a cooking class but I suspected that if my sister and I didn’t organise something to keep us busy for at least part of the day we met in London, we would spend eight hours in a pub somewhere getting shit-faced. The apple doesn’t…
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And Now For Some Food Porn From London
The old man lost weight while we were away – which is obviously grounds for divorce – and as far as I can see there can be no biological culprit of this inequality, other than my old friend menopause. Because we ate mostly the same quantity of food while we were away – if you…
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Entitled Gen Y And ‘No Dinner For Me, Thanks!’
It’s such a relief to reach Friday night and know that it’s take-out tonight. We’re going through this stage with Kurt and NC at the moment, as they transition between wanting to live at home and us wanting them to fly the nest, where we’re never quite sure how many we’re cooking for. All we…
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Dining Out When You’re Trying To Eat Healthily
I’ve learned a lot about those sneaky hidden calories with my latest healthy-eating plan, and while I can manage to restrain myself – most of the time – on home territory, (apart from when it comes to homemade banana bread, which tests me on every level), it can be a very different story, when I eat…
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When You Can’t Be Fucked To Cook Quinoa…Keep It Simple
I giggled evilly behind my laptop screen last night as I listened to the old man have a domestic melt down in the kitchen over cooking. Apparently, he finds cooking stressful. I’ve already got that tee-shirt, so felt little empathy. Admittedly, we’re not the easiest family to plan meals for. I’m always on the latest…
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Shooting From Both Ends And Not Taking life For Granted
In a week that has seen the sad and untimely deaths of two British entertainment legends, I’m still here. But only just – I’ve been holed-up in bed for the past few days, sick and feeling very sorry for myself. two toilet paper rolls on brown wooden background I rarely get genuinely sick, so I’d…
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