cooking with truffles. It’s the season, and it’s a very good season, too, in Western Australia (where most of Australia’s truffles are grown) and also in Victoria. Enough rain, enough cold weather, and lots of excellent truffles. It’s a hard... Read More

baking cakes. Specifically cheesecakes, and even more specifically, ricotta cheesecakes. I had an idea, some flavours in my mind, and went searching for recipes. Most of them involved flavours I didn’t want – mixing the ricotta with cream cheese, for... Read More

Like so many others more or less isolated at home, I am cooking, for many reasons. We have to eat. Eating is a pleasurable activity, and cooking is a purposeful activity with a pleasurable outcome. Of course everyone is cooking... Read More