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Pasta fagioli

Pasta e fagioli - pasta and bean soup - is one of those simple Italian dishes that can be found the length and breadth of the country.

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Mushroom souffle

Mushroom souffle is one of my there’s-not-much-in-the-fridge dishes - apart from mushrooms, milk, butter, cheese. And a good bottle of chardonnay or pinot noir.

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Tomato chutney

It may be too late in the season to make it now, but the recipe will keep.

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Orange (or lemon) drizzle cake

Lemon drizzle cake usually has a icing as well, but I prefer a dusting of icing sugar.

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Potato Salad

Potato salad has many versions. This is my latest.

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Sauerkraut and dried mushroom soup

An unusual soup, surprisingly refreshing, from a 19th century cookbook

5/1/22 5/1/22

Catch up with my broadcasts on Travel Writers Radio 88FM

Travel Writers Radio goes to air on Wednesdays at 5pm - although not this week because we are moving studios.

2/12/21 2/12/21

This week I am

2/12/21 2/12/21

A trip to the Mornington Peninsula

When the sky and sea merge - the boats are Couta boats at Sorrento.

11/11/21 11/11/21

This week I have been making lokshen

29/9/21 29/9/21

No ordinary Pavlova

This is no ordinary pavlova, this is made by a queen. The Pav Queen.

29/9/21 29/9/21

Drinking Oban Malt Whiskey

I like malt whisky, but all not malt whiskies, as I discovered in Scotland.

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Not nicoise salad

This is my go-to salad, made with what’s in the house.

27/9/21 27/9/21

Food for Music

Laura Vaughan and Donald Nicolson gave a concert on October 7 in the wonderful Melbourne Digital Concert Hall streamed series.

20/9/21 20/9/21

Review: Sephardi, Cooking the History

Imagine if your cooking endangered your life. Not because of careless food handling, or food poisoning, or toxic ingredients, but because what you cooked identified you as an illegal person.

9/9/21 9/9/21

Carrot soup

In 2020, during an early lockdown, I was asked to devise recipes to suit the Thursday concerts on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall.

9/9/21 9/9/21

Spinach and ricotta gnocchi

One of my favourite dishes – to eat, and to cook. It’s a bit fiddly, which has made it perfect for lockdown cooking.

9/9/21 9/9/21

Seville Orange Marmalade

Years ago, when I first started making marmalade, I worried that the commercial crops of Seville oranges would disappear.

1/9/21 1/9/21

What I am reading: The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie

The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie, with an introduction by Geraldene Holt (Southover Press, 1994) has been claiming much of my attention.

4/6/21 4/6/21

I am thinking about restaurants - as I always do

In Melbourne, we're coming out of lockdown. It’s been a bleak time for restaurants, although many have managed by preparing food for pick-up of delivery.