Our Uncle Graham writes a beautiful grace. He’s so good at it he regularly gets the gig at family nuptials. He said grace at our wedding. It was thoughtful and considered as always. Years later I ...
recipes
Australian Women’s Weekly Birthday Cake Book
Not a single day goes by in Casa de Cooker where we don't hear something from the Big Sister about her birthday party. It's a source of consternation for me. She brings it up at the most inconvenient ...
hodge podge and the heebie jeebies
The pioneering women of Dalby would not have been proud of me this week. A weird bloke accosted me while I loaded the groceries in the car and I left my copy of Pioneering Recipes of Dalby and ...
time-worn tucker and corned beef fritters
It's no secret I love heritage cookbooks. Mum bought me a gem this week - Pioneering Recipes of Dalby and District. Published by Northern Downs News in 1984, it's brimming with old recipes and tips ...
birthdays, bobcats and baba ghanoush
Tomorrow is my thirty-fourth birthday. Some blokes say it with flowers. Some blokes say it with chocolates. This year Bearhands said it with a bobcat. This is not the first out- of-the-ordinary ...
Maltese sandwiches and fairy tales
In Malta, great importance is placed on fecundity. The Maltese consider children so important that their fairy tales don't end with "and they lived happily ever after". Instead the Maltese say "u ...