Pulling pork
One Sunday a few years ago my Aro Valley flatmate Edward cooked pork all day — eight hours in the oven. I wondered if he was slightly mad. If nothing […]
One Sunday a few years ago my Aro Valley flatmate Edward cooked pork all day — eight hours in the oven. I wondered if he was slightly mad. If nothing […]
There’s something extremely satisfying about baking bread from scratch — playing around with the yeast, getting your hands into a completely sticky mess kneading the dough, and ending up covered […]
Food trends may come and go, but one constant will always be in favour: chocolate. What is it about this ingredient that makes people weak at the knees? […]
I first discovered the virtues of roast broccoli a few years ago. I could roast an entire head of it and be pretty satisfied that that was dinner. A very […]
First there were cupcakes. Then there were macarons. Earlier this year people overseas were predicting glorious cream-filled éclairs to be the baked good to watch in 2014. In any event, […]
I love the silly season. I love dedicating December days to Christmas-themed baking and playing terribly cheesy Christmas music. Everyone seems in a better mood, and there are parties galore. […]
Summer is tantalisingly close, and aside from the season’s first barbecue parties it’s a great time of year for fish and chips. If, like me, you have been comforting yourself […]
On my first night in Singapore a couple of months ago I had dinner at a long plastic table at a hawker centre – rather like a large outdoor food […]
Spring fills me with a renewed sense of joy and excitement, and not only because it means the silly season is approaching. After a winter of slow cooking and roasted […]