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Cooking Down Under - The Blog
http://cookingdownunderblog.blogspot.com
Blog spin-off from Pat Churchill's Cooking Down Under website. Food, drink, cooking, vintage cookbooks, doing the hunter-gatherer thing, this and that.
- Author: Pat Churchill
- Listed in: Food & Drink
- Tags: recipes cookbooks advertisements supermarket food processor vintage cookbooks
Recent Posts
What a pearler!
I had a minor moment of trepidation last week. I received a letter from the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service. It was an OMG moment as I pondered what I'd done wrong. I've had dealings with these people when shifting countries four years ...
Cabs rank poorly
Victoria's taxi industry is in the headlights again with the Department of Transport's annual report showing the customer satisfaction index at 60.3 out of 100 for 2008-09 and falling short of the 64.4 target. At least it's a slight improvement on...
Julia\'s omelet
I was flicking through Twitter and noticed @stickifingers had posted a YouTube link to a video showing Julia Child making an omelet. It was just on lunchtime so I headed for the kitchen, grabbed a couple of eggs laid by a chook living the good...
Saucy surprise
I was browsing through an old cookbook this morning - Lady Maclean's Book of Sauces and Surprises. The book failed to survive a purge at Wellington Library about 10 years ago and I picked it up, along with a few others, for a mere dollar. It emer...
In Julia\'s kitchen
As last I’ve joined the rest of the food-writing world and seen Julie and Julia, an enjoyable two-hour journey that made me remember what an influence she had on my own cooking. I first became acquainted with Julia Child in the 1970s when her TV p...
Fusion, profusion, confusion
Last weekend I had a very surreal food experience. So surreal I’m still wondering if it really happened. A group of us were staying at Mercure’s Balgownie Estate Vineyard Resort in the Yarra Valley for the annual Opera in the Vineyards. Friday ...
