Belle & Sebastian’s Plum & Feta Salad
ARGGGHHHH…. I can’t believe it is almost time to go back to work. Where did the summer holidays go? Actually, the whole of summer was M.I A. I wore winter boots the other day. We’re living in crazy...
View ArticleRaising the (Salad) Bar Part 1: Cuban Aguacate Salad and Dressing
One of the reasons I love old cookbooks is sometimes you get a little insight in to the lives of the people who owned them previously. My latest favourite vintage find, Salads For All Seasons is no...
View ArticleHayman Island Chicken Salad
Don’tcha just love it when bits of your life just seem to fit together? This Hayman Island Chicken Salad pretty much joined all the dots for me last week. If last week my life was a movie, this week...
View ArticleGiddy-Up, It’s a Melbourne Cup Pineapple Double
In which I celebrate Melbourne Cup Day with a Vintage Crab and Pineapple Salad and an inspired by me pineapple based cocktail. The post Giddy-Up, It’s a Melbourne Cup Pineapple Double appeared first on...
View ArticleSportsman’s Saturday Salad
Great name huh? It just kinda rolls off the tongue. Sportsman’s Saturday Salad. I have no idea why it is called that; but the name instils visions of mad hungry footballers coming home after a match...
View ArticleCranberry Party Salad
If Christmas has an official fruit, to my mind it would have to be the cranberry. We smother our turkey in it, serve it up with some brie for an oh so yummy canapé and knock it back by the bucketful...
View ArticleFavourite Tomato Salad
As we approach the day of sickening oversentimentality love, it seems fitting to devote a post to the love apple aka the tomato. And just to further add to my bah humbug disdain of the day, I...
View ArticleRocking The Casbah – The Food Of Morocco
The selection for March and April over at The Cookbook Guru was The Food Of Morocco by Paula Wolfert which really fits in with my explorations into Middle Eastern Food via Persiana and MENA. First,...
View ArticleOeufs A La Cantalienne & Greens with Horseradish Dressing
What do you do when, you are about 30 seconds away from your front door and realise that you have left two essential ingredients for your planned dinner in the fridge at work? First, swear. A lot....
View ArticleThe Dishiest Dish – Chicken Tortilla Soup
What a week it’s been! It was so much fun cooking for the Vincent Price cookalong but there were also many other meals to make. My meal plan also got thrown out of whack because there was more...
View ArticleAmerican Salad
I feel like I have been neglecting the The A-Z of Cooking recently and like a typical errant parent, I’m back and about to smother my booky child with a level of attention bordering on overkill....
View ArticlePear and Blue Cheese Salad: 1977 v 2015
Last time we spoke I was making a mad mix of ginger beer pickled pears for my Christmas Day Pear and Blue Cheese Salad. If you follow my Instagram, you would already know how this turned out. If not,...
View ArticleCowboys, Caviar, Casseroles and Cocktails
Dear readers I had such high hopes for this post. Then they were totally dashed by a twist of fate that…well…I guess if I’d seen it coming it wouldn’t be a twist would it? But I’m jumping ahead of...
View ArticleWalnut and Avocado Salad, Seeing Double & Mysteries Solved
When is a salad not a salad? When it comes from The A-Z of Cooking. There is no way in the world that I would call this a salad. It’s much more of a dip. But The A-Z calls it a salad so, Walnut and...
View ArticleCattle Country Salad for Cowboy Day
Go west they said. I took their advice and not only went west but a whole heap north as well to end up in the UK for this year’s Cowboy Day. I will be spending the actual day in the most haunted...
View ArticleTiny Waldorf Salads
Is there a salad both more famous (and more mangled) than the Waldorf Salad? I doubt it. And because, pretty much since it’s inception, people have been mucking around with it, I thought I would put...
View ArticleAlfalfa-Romaino Salad
Start your engines….Regular readers would know how much I adore a pun. So, with the Melbourne Grand Prix on this weekend, it seemed like the perfect time to post my version of a salad with a car pun...
View ArticleCevapcici with Sopska Salata and Random Facts about David Bowie
Поздрав из Србије! Or, to my non-Serbian friends, Greetings from Serbia. Today we are continuing to explore the former Yugoslavian regions with a side step from Croatia to Serbia. On the menu today...
View ArticleTime Poor Plum Salad and A Supposedly Fun Thing….
Hello, people of the world! I’m back from my travels through England, France, and Russia…actually I’ve been back nearly four weeks now but things being…well things…have not had the time to put...
View ArticleSportsman’s Saturday Salad
Great name huh? It just kinda rolls off the tongue. Sportsman’s Saturday Salad. I have no idea why it is called that; but the name instils visions of mad hungry footballers coming home after a match...
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