Marmalade: A life story.
Marmalade features in the popular children’s fiction that I grew up with. Australia in the 1970s was steeped in Britishness. Our membership of the crumbling empire was never in doubt in my childhood mind.
Marmalade features in the popular children’s fiction that I grew up with. Australia in the 1970s was steeped in Britishness. Our membership of the crumbling empire was never in doubt in my childhood mind.
Friends, I must tell you about this surprisingly good sandwich I just made with a combination of mediocre and excellent ingredients. I was supposed to be taking a day trip to the coast today...
Today is my younger child’s 12th birthday, so a perfect opportunity for cooking massive quantities of very good bacon. Unlike Jim, I don’t have the skill-set, equipment, or space to smoke/cure my own, but...
Hi, my name is Crit, and I have a problem with bread. It’s true. Fresh, thickly sliced white bread is like a drug to me, I can easily eat a whole loaf without really...
Having eaten our toasties, I revealed that I’d been making dessert earlier in the afternoon. Given that one of this month’s featured sandwiches was ice cream, and it’s the middle of summer here, it...
Today, as I write this, it’s Boxing Day. Traditionally meals on this day consist of left-over Christmas food: cold ham; cold turkey; salads. It was also 30,000,000 degrees here today (well, maybe only really...
So I went to a small folk festival last weekend, in my capacity as a Morris Dancer. I prepared well, camping next to an Irishman with a full kitchen. I’d brought the bacon. First...
Wikipedia’s list of sandwiches says this about the schnitzel sandwich, “A sandwich of crumbed, pan-fried chicken fillet, on buttered bread, with shredded iceberg lettuce and mayonnaise” marking it as Australian. Perhaps I’m un-Australian then, because...
Because I live in Australia, I didn’t eat this sourdough toast with butter, honey and a thick layer of hemp seeds. I only put it on my skin. But I can tell you...
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