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(Update: For VDP No. 5, click here) Coronavirus Lockdown With most of us in self-isolation or even total lockdown, a VDP (virtual dinner party) is one way to catch up with friends and to continue to test your cooking skills. We have now had a few VDPs. Here is the link to the first of those: Virtual Dinner Party No. …
Some years ago I had what, for me, was the most perfect of desserts. It was at The Willows, in its period as a fine dining restaurant in a lovely old mansion in St Kilda Road, Melbourne. It was lunch time, a warm December day and there were five of us around the table. Looking out the bay windows we …
Updated Sept 12, 2021 In reading the contents of this post, also check: Food Safety Is Paramount Here we give three recipes for hot and spicy sauces. The last one is a chilli jam – full recipe details and photos are given below. First is an Indian-style fruit sauce-relish-chutney using plums or other stone fruit. Second is my own version …
Continued from Europe 2016 – Part 1. A German Style Plum Sheet Cake Our plum sheet cake experiment would happen, but at Chamonix in France, not in Bavaria. The key steps in our method are described below – follow them, or find a recipe for this type of cake in your cookbooks or on the Internet. It is a very …
German Plum Sheet Cake After 22 hours in the air from Melbourne, we arrived in Munich for an extended European visit. Our German friends – who had visited us in Australia one year earlier – were there to meet us at the airport. It was midday but we weren’t ready for lunch then. One and a half hours later we …
We love to cook with leftovers or with what’s in the fridge or freezer or on the pantry shelves. Last week we had friends coming for afternoon tea. We had an apple, two plums and some strawberries that needed using, along with some cream heading towards its use-by date. We also had a stock of frozen berries that needed using …
